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1st March 1971 Cawston School celebrated the one hundredth birthday of our School. It was fitting to take this opportunity to look back into the past and this booklet is the result....

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Group Photo - Cawston School...

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A ring 6cm in diameter and 5mm thick was found....

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Early 1900's Mr Sam Pye was a Cawston Farmer who also had the slaughter house & butcher shop....

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The resource includes the brochure printed for the auction together with a map showing all the premises and land offered for sale. Click on the files to view in full screen.

Received by e-mail September 2011 - After looking at the interesting history of Cawston and reading ....

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The business was owned by Mr S.G.C. Lee, known as Seppe....

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General Store and much more in the Corner Shop - High Street....

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Mr Wilson had the slaughter house, Farmer and butcher shop in Chapel Street/Prince of Wales Road

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Wedding Presentations of Mugs July 1981....

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The Prince of Wales was guest of honour.... Click on file to view full screen....

Found in Garden about 1998....

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Badge found in Cawston....

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RAC 1960's Automobile Plastic Grille Badge....

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Rough Guide Map of Cawston and Location.

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Audio Interview of 100 year old Rose Tooke by Vic and Sally Purdy....

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A 2 pronged traditional rose fork for planting and aerating roses....

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ROMANS .
Julius Caesar led an expedition to Britain in 55 B.C. but it was 43 A.D. before the Romans came in strength.

The tribe of the Iceni, who lived in Norfolk, rose against the Roman. Led by their Queen, Boadicea, an army of 120,000…

A Roman road passed through Cawston. In the 1950's this ancient way was clearly visible on Cawston Heath and the neighbouring fields opposite Botany Bay Farm, running westwards towards the Holt-Norwich road. Aerial photographs show the road nearer…

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Vintage Roller Skates - Strap on Metal....

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Roll of Honour for those who gave their lives for our country & War Memorials.

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File 2/Roll of Honour WW2
File 3/Lieutenant Cecil Faulkner Cawston - Boer War 1899-1902
File 4/ War Horses and Dogs
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This was supplied with many thanks by Marg Keable and writes - I have my Williams family that was from Cawston....

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To see more photographs of the procession and blessing click on files to view full screenTo watch a short video in which Rev Andrew Whitehead talks about Plough Sunday/Monday click here

The Rev Thomas Bowman, the Vicar of Martham on his retirement in 1791 published a book called Caustoniana: or Twelve Discourses addressed to the inhabitants of the parish of Cawston which is not a easy read. Rev Bowman set up a mission in Cawston…

"I was asleep in my hammock before the torpedo hit Hecla. I remember the ship shuddering and coming to a halt. This was because the first torpedo hit in the boiler room and we lost all steam....

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Reepham Road: The Substation at Salle Beck was first installed around 1935 when electricity came to Cawston.

In 2009 work started on the new substation for the offshore wind farm off Weybourne on the Norfolk Coast which was completed in…

"Red Jungle" by John Cross, D.C.M which is a book about a tiny British party left behind in Malayato in 1942 to radio intellgence, they joined up with other British soldiers including Jim Wight....

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Cawston Red Cross WW2 photos.

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Reading through the memory lane pieces Cawston enjoyed reading rooms at various locations through the years, the photos are at the meeting room at the old Prince of Wales Public House in the Prince of Wales Road joining Chapel Street, the public…

Rations A Very Peculiar History With no added butter by David Arscott....

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Ration books and Buying Permit....

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RAF Personnel railway ticket....

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A large nail/spike with an offset head used to secure railway rails or base plate to wooden railroad ties/sleepers....

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Special Jubilee Train 1977 & Souvenir railway ticket 1980....

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Also called a sleeper screw, rail screw or lag bolt....

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Christma Card s as used by the RAF !940s

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It was a great pleasure for me last week (11/05/1992) to listen to your Radio programme about the village of Cawston, I just happened to be here on holiday.

I have been living in Germany for the last 20 years but was born in Cawston in 1949 where…

Royal Canadian Air Force Airmen's Canteen Cigarette & Confectionery Ration Book.

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The 20th century has seen the disappearance of most of the public houses, apart from two notable exceptions. In the old days there were "beer houses" at which home-brewed beer was sold....

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Properties up for auction at the Kings Head....

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Prince of Wales/Forge House by Trudie Wilkinson. This building was built in 1843, and had a thatched roof. In 1877 it was burnt down in a tremendous fire....

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Pottery classes were held in Cawston Village Hall, there were facilities to do almost anything....

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In this article John Kett points out that the bosses in St Agnes Cawston may well be portraits of men and women who supported the church in its early days. He goes on to talk about the gargoyles or water spouts that project from the gutters of…

The population of Cawston as we are given to understand was as following:- 1086---------------about---685 1332---------------about---4501603---------------At least-5301801------------------------840…

Pocket money by Sid Dack. In the last 1920s and early 1930s was hard come by....

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The Plough Guild was very important in Cawston, the Guild Hall was the Old Plough at Sygate....

More history can be found in the Cawston Archiv.e

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Plane Crash by the Woodrow Cross Roads....

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Club was ran from the Bell Inn Public House....

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