In the past, there were at least five pubs in Great Ellingham. Today, The Crown is the only pub remaining. The Crown Public House, the venue for the Heritage Open Days’ events in 2023 & 2024 There has been an inn or public house on either the exact same spot, or very near to, the…
Category: Church Street
Widow Eliza Rix marries her Lodger William Kerrison
Eliza Rix was 33 years old when her husband Thomas Rix died at the age of 76 in February, 1870. The couple had been married nearly 17 years during which time Eliza had given birth to 7 known children. Sadly, Thomas and Eliza’s youngest child (and only son), Benjamin Robert, died at just one year…
George Saunders makes an elm coffin for Jeremiah Edwards
George Saunders’ house & premises is in the centre of this postcard (the house side-ways) in Church Street, Great Ellingham Kelly’s Directories of 1908 and 1912 lists the name ‘George Saunders’ under Great Ellingham. Saunders is described as a carpenter, builder and undertaker, with the added words ‘joinery a speciality‘. Bill of G.Saunders for providing…
Magistrates order Nehemiah Carter to contribute towards his Wife’s Care
A Workhouse was intended to provide work and shelter for the most poverty stricken members of society. However, many of the Victorian Workhouses operated with prison-like conditions. Accordingly it was only the desperate who would seek the shelter of the workhouse. Nevertheless by the latter part of the Victorian era, workhouses became more of a…
Part IV – A History of the Cottage adjoining The Crown Public House
Charles Drake’s premises (cottages with shops) to the right of The Crown Public HousePostcard courtesy Carol Ewin Parts I, II and III of a series of blogs, take the history of the cottage from around 1749 to 1895, when Harry Warren sold the property to Charles Drake. In this blog, we pick up the story…
Part V – A History of the Cottage adjoining The Crown Public House
The Crown Public House with the Adjoining Cottage (on the right)Photograph taken October 2019 Anna Maria Wilkins’ Cottage and Shop to the right of the Crown Public House Courtesy Attleborough Heritage GroupDate Unknown This is one of a series of blogs which look at the history of the cottage which adjoins the Crown Public House…
Part VI – A History of the Cottage adjoining The Crown Public House
The above postcard shows the Crown Public House with the adjoining cottage (then two shops) to the rightPostcard courtesy Carol Ewin Parts I, II, III, IV and V of the history of the ‘The Cottage adjoining the Crown Public House’ looks at the history of this delightful cottage through nearly three centuries. We begin this…
Part III – A History of the Cottage adjoining The Crown Public House
The Cottage with adjoining shop to the right of the Crown Public House. Postcard courtesy Carol Ewin Parts I and II of a series of blogs, take the history of the cottage (with an adjoining shop), from around 1749 to 1868. Here, we go forward from 1868 when Joseph Warren purchased the premises at auction….
Joseph & Elizabeth Reeder, with roots firmly in Great Ellingham
Joseph Reeder 1862-1953 Courtesy Betty Reeder Above is a wonderful image of a true Great Ellingham man, Joseph (Joe) Reeder. In 1883, Joe (then 21) married 19 year old Elizabeth Reeder. Joseph and Elizabeth were both great grandchildren of Peter Reeder and his wife Hannah nèe Hewitt. This made them ‘second cousins’. However, this was…
Annie takes over from her Father, William Wilkins
Great Ellingham Village Stores and Post Office. April 2020. The Wilkins family is one of a few families who can trace their ancestors for several generations in Great Ellingham. In fact, the Wilkins family has been in the village far longer than the present Post Office building, where some of the Wilkins family lived and…