This memorial to Reuben and Jane Heasell particularly caught my eye as it has stood in the churchyard of St James for nearly two hundred years. Marriage Reuben Heasell married Jane Beckaton in the parish church of Great Ellingham on the 5th April 1764 following the reading of the Banns. Both Reuben and Jane were…
Author: Heather Etteridge
Prince Frederick Duleep Singh opens ‘fairly successful’ Bazaar
Illustration by Christine Fuller The Norfolk Chronicle & Norwich Gazette of 23rd July, 1904 reported that a “fairly successful bazaar” took place in the rectory garden at Little Ellingham over two consecutive days. The bazaar, held to raise funds towards the repair of Great Ellingham Church, was opened by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh. The Prince…
Arthur J Pollard takes over Neeve’s Shop in Church Street
Arthur Pollard outside his shop Ye Olde Thatche Shoppe. Postcard Carol Ewin The Pollard Family arrive in Great Ellingham Arthur John Pollard and his wife Bessie (Ann Elizabeth) came to Great Ellingham with their 7 year old daughter Mary and son Cyril in 1926. They moved into the shop in Church Street from which Frederick…