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Rosemary Brown - Tuesday 25 January 2022 14:40
Subsequent note from Gillian Beckett;
Photo of The Old Laundry, Bircham Road taken 1965.
Building demolished 1970.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 29 November 2021 16:32
Gillian Beckett says that this image is thought to have been taken in the reign of George V, and to be in the early 1930’s.
The man with the water buckets could perhaps be Mr Gibson who carted water for sale at 1d a bucketful.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 29 November 2021 16:21
The WI Hall , or The WI Hut, as it was referred to, was built in 1926 on a small piece of land in the Bircham Road , owned by Mrs Seymour the president .The cost of the build was met partly by the proceeds from a garden fete and partly by the president. It had no facilities for washing up until 1948, and no electricity until 1952, when mains water and electricity supplies came to the village.
It consisted of a meeting room, with a stage at one end, and a caretakers cottage at the end of the building. The room was heated by a large cast iron stove , and eventually a small kitchen was partitioned off at the end, and in 1961 a flushing toilet was built.
The WI Hut was used for WI meetings, and was hired out for many village events including the children’s Christmas Party, the weekly village cinema, the village pantomimes which residents ran, and for jumble sales, wedding receptions , and other family events.
However by 1978 the fabric of the building had deteriorated and the cost of the upkeep had become prohibitive, and the building was closed, and it was demolished in 1979 with the site sold for housing.
The WI resumed their meetings at The Reading Room in Cross Lane which was enlarged and refurbished and became the Village Hall.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 29 November 2021 15:41
The Well was used by villagers to collect drinking water until 1948 when a mains water supply was connected to Stanhoe . It was situated in the Docking Road outside the gate at the house next to The Grange, called Moray Cottage.
Mrs Blackburn talks about water and electricity supplies being connected to the village in the recordings section of the website.
Many houses had old fashioned water carts which could be pulled by a horse in the shafts, living outside the village itself at Mill House my family did.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 22 November 2021 17:17
Gillian Beckett says that this is Blacksmith’s Pond Cottage, next to the Blacksmiths pond and opposite The Blacksmith’s Shop in the Bircham Road. Maybe it was previously called Newport Cottage.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 22 November 2021 17:10
Actually a photo of Mrs Wright’s Cottage which stood in the garden behind Arline.
RosemaryBrown - Monday 22 November 2021 17:04
Arline, the prefab bungalow built in front of Mrs Wright’s cottage, in the Docking Road and next to The Old Stores, was demolished in 2020 and in 2021 a spaceous residence now called Field View was built in its place.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 22 November 2021 16:20
Gillian Beckett suggests that this phot was taken in the early 1920’s.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 22 November 2021 16:16
Gillian Beckett says that The Norfolk Hero was formerly known as The Cock and Breeches.
Rosemary Brown - Monday 22 November 2021 16:04
Derek Scales and his sisters Ivy, Mary and Barbara, lived at The Hero in the 1950’s and 1960’s when their father Claude Scales was the licensee. There are recordings in our Archive where Derek Scales, and Ivy Scales reminisce about living in The Hero.

After they moved to a house on The Green, opposite The Pond, The Hero became a private house, lived in firstly by Dr and Mrs Bamford from Ely, and later by Dr and Mrs Hargreaves for many years until 2020.