James Sadd Buys White House Farm James Sadd was already farming and living at White House Farm in Long Street, Great Ellingham, when he completed the purchase of the farm. On the 29th September, 1920, he bought the freehold farm for the sum of £750 from spinster Mary Fortune, of Poplar Grove, Scremerston, Berwick-on-Tweed. The…
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National School built upon Pound Close
Formerly the National School built in 1865. Later used as a Reading Room and Village Hall. During the nineteenth century, National Schools were set up by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education, for the furtherance of Christian Education and church schools. The Society was a body of the Church of England. Poster announcing the…
Marriage of the Relieving Officer, David Reeve
Great Ellingham Baptist Church. Photograph taken July 2019 Wedding Exactly one hundred and fifty years before this photograph was taken, a marriage took place at the Baptist Chapel in Long Street, Great Ellingham on the 7th July, 1864 between David Reeve and Adelaide Richardson. The wedding day may well have been as sunny as the…