Photograph taken February 2012 It has recently been announced that the village will benefit from an improved bus service. I wonder how many of us who have stood in the shelter waiting for a bus – or just passing by, have ever wondered when the bus shelter was erected? I found the answer in the…
Category: Attleborough Road
Great Ellingham Curate, the Rev. Avery Luckly Duncan
The Old Parsonage. The former home of Avery Luckly Duncan. Photograph taken December 2022 1920 The Parsonage The Electoral Register for 1920 lists Avery Luckly Duncan and Annie Robinson Duncan at The Parsonage, Great Ellingham. It was not until the following year, that the Reverend Roger M Boys became the Rector of Great and Little…
Villagers in Contravention of World War II Blackout Regulations
Emergency Powers Just days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 came into effect. This new legislation gave the government “special powers to take almost any action necessary to carry out the war successfully.” The new powers controlled many aspects of everyday life during the war – including…
Former Copyhold Medieval Manor Hall House becomes Freehold
We left Part II of the story of the former Medieval Manor Hall House in Church Street at the death of Daniel William Cocking Warren on the 17th July, 1908. F W Neeve’s Shop in Church Street. Courtesy Carol Ewin 63 years earlier, Daniel Warren (then a child) inherited the former manor hall house (and…
Pair of Cottages become Owner Occupied after 150 years
Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Author’s Collection For nearly 150 years, two clay and tiled semi-detached cottages standing along the Attleborough Road, Great Ellingham, were occupied by tenants and not by the owners. During this time, the cottages saw the comings and goings of several families. However, the Wenn…
Two Clay and Tiled Cottages adjoining the Churchyard in Great Ellingham
A family ownership spanning nearly 150 years came to an end at an auction at the Royal Hotel, Attleborough, on the 23rd June, 1910. Royal Hotel, Attleborough. Postcard courtesy Brian Vidler Following the death of Daniel William Cocking Warren, his daughter Annie Matthews Gladden, instructed auctioneers Salter, Simpson & Sons to sell her late father’s…
Prominent Footballer & Cricketer Plays for Great Ellingham Cricket Team
Curate to Little & Great Ellingham The Old Parsonage, once the home of George Barkley Raikes In the summer of 1905, Little and Great Ellingham had a new curate, the Reverend George Barkley Raikes. Given that the previous curate, the Reverend Harry Parker, lived at The Parsonage in Great Ellingham, it follows that the Parsonage…
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…
Sudden Death at the Parish Reading Room
Newspaper report of the Inquest The Norfolk Chronicle of January 27th, 1900 reported on the sudden death of 54 year old Alfred Brighton at the parish Reading Room in Great Ellingham on the previous Tuesday, the 23rd January. At the Inquest held on the following day, Alfred’s wife Sarah Ann Brighton told the County Coroner…