Baptist Chapel Long Street Great Ellingham. Attleborough Heritage Group Marriage The Norfolk Chronicle of 7th October 1848, reported that ‘on Sunday last’ the marriage took place at the Baptist Chapel, Great Ellingham between Robert Savage, the second son of Mr T Savag(e) a butcher of Neatishead and Miss Charlotte Lee Grice (Le Grice), the second…
Category: Baptist Church
An ‘Interesting Lecture’ delivered at the Baptist Chapel in 1898
Forth Bridge. Photograph taken April 2012 (Author’s Collection) The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette of 19th February 1898, reported that at Great Ellingham, “The Construction of the Forth Bridge” was the title of “an interesting lecture delivered at the Baptist Church” on the previous Tuesday evening by the Reverend J Miller Hamilton of Lowestoft. Mr…
Series of ‘Penny Readings’ benefiting the British School
Illustration by Christine Fuller What were Penny Readings? According to Wikipedia, “The penny reading was a form of popular public entertainment that arose in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 19th century, consisting of readings and other performances, for which the admission charged was one penny.” Penny Readings with Entertainment in Great Ellingham…
The Sudden Death of Pastor James Cragg
The Manse, Long Street, Great Ellingham The Norfolk Chronicle & Norwich Gazette of Saturday October 4th, 1856 referred to an Inquest held on the body of the Baptist Minister of Great Ellingham, forty-year old James Cragg. It was reported that the Reverend James Cragg had been “perfectly well in the course of the morning visiting…