Mill House, Mill and Cottage at Great Ellingham. Photograph courtesy of Attleborough Heritage Group Purchase On the 12th October, 1854, Samuel Le Grice purchased a tower windmill and other premises at Great Ellingham from Jeremiah Fielding. Le Grice paid the sum of £825 for the mill, a nearby messuage with baking office, barns, stables, outbuildings,…
Category: Kemp
The Kemps of Dunromin’ in Long Street
Ernie Kemp with his mother and grandparents, Jonathan & Minnie Kemp, at ‘Dunromin’, Long Street. 1949-1950Photograph courtesy of Ernie Kemp The 1911 census captures 34 year old Norfolk born Jonathan Kemp with his wife, Minnie, living in Audenshaw, Lancashire. Jonathan, a bricklayer, was born in Scottow c.1876. Minnie (nee Paxton) was born c.1885 in Dunchurch,…
‘A Miller’s Account’
The Norwich Mercury of 26th November, 1902 reported on the case of Underwood -v- Wilkin which was heard at the County Court at Attleborough on the previous Saturday. The newspaper report’s heading was ‘A Miller’s Account‘. The parties in the action were the Plaintiff, James William Underwood, and J. Wilkin junior, the Defendant. James Underwood…
Three Cottages in the street late called Churchgate Street
Long Street with Mill in background. Postcard Carol Ewin 1897 James Houchen Buys Three Cottages By an Indenture (property deed) dated 11th October, 1897 three cottages with gardens and grounds were conveyed to James Houchen of Great Ellingham. An earlier deed of 1874 and a later deed of 1920, described the cottages as being ‘in…