by Andrew Macdonald | Nov 30, 2017 | News
Beatrice Watling was born at the City Maternity Home, North Heigham in Norwich in 1882. She grew up in Fritton in South Norfolk, one of five daughters and two sons of Thomas and Emma Watling. In 1901 she was working as a nurse domestic in Norwich. Ten years later she...
by Andrew Macdonald | Aug 4, 2016 | News
Gordon Muriel Flowerdew was born near Scole in South Norfolk on January 2nd 1885, the son of Arthur and Hannah Flowerdew of Billingford Hall. One of ten sons and four daughters, he, like all his brothers, was sent to Framlingahm College which he attended from 1894 to...
by Andrew Macdonald | Sep 10, 2015 | News
Herbert Garnham was born in Burston early in 1891, one of twelve children of Henry and Sarah Garnham. There are a lot of gaps in Herbert’s story. With luck we’ll be able to fill some of them in in time. The 1911 census found Herbert, then aged 20, living...
by Andrew Macdonald | May 19, 2015 | News
St Michael South Elmham church stands on the edge of a large green about one mile north of Rumburgh in Suffolk. Inside the church on a wall behind the font there is a simple plaque. This simple plaque marks out the village as having a very rare distinction, one shared...
by Andrew Macdonald | Feb 19, 2015 | News
Henry Allen, born in Berkshire, served in the Shropshire Yeomanry, buried in a Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave in a rural Suffolk churchyard. Henry or Harry Allen was a private in the Shropshire Yeomanry based in Flixton Park, one of many Territorial units...
