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…
Category: Places and Buildings
Addition to the Churchyard of St James
Church of St James Great Ellingham Property deeds are an extremely useful source of information for local and family historians. Not least for providing details of the owners and occupiers of properties over the years. However, deeds can also provide other snippets of information, particularly with regard to adjoining or nearby land. In this particular…
Ownership of Land in the same Family for Generations
On the 5th June, 1837, Edward Wilkins purchased the former ‘Town House’ in Long Street. Since the erection of the Wayland Union Workhouse in nearby Rocklands, the ‘Town House’ was no longer needed to house the poor of Great Ellingham. Accordingly, it became surplus to requirements. I believe this property – or at least the…
Double Cottage in Long Street Built by Local Builder
‘Roselands’ Long Street Great Ellingham. Photograph taken September 2022 The delightful house with the name of ‘Roselands’ sits on the western side at the southern end of Long Street, Great Ellingham. It was built by a local builder during the mid-Victorian era. Over the last 160 years or so, the house will have seen the…
The Smith Family move into Fir Tree Farmhouse
Fir Tree Farm. Courtesy Fiona Rainbird Clarke Hubert Flatman buys Fir Tree Farm On the 30th March, 1967, the executors of the late Ida Jackson sold Fir Tree Farm, Long Street, Great Ellingham, to Hubert Flatman. The Jackson family had occupied the property since at least 1911, when William and Alice Jackson moved in with…
Moving Forward but with a Link to the Past
Extract from Painting by B Aldous c.2006. Courtesy Angela Crocker & the Aldous family Population Although Great Ellingham saw a decrease in the population during the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, the populace steadily increased from the 1920s. 1831-1921 Back in 1831, there were some 882 people living in the…
Ye Olde Thatche Shoppe from the 1950s
Until just after the turn of the 21st century, the fine Grade II listed house (near to the Crown Public House) in Church Street included one of the village stores. Photograph taken January 2019 Earlier History It is thought that the former copyhold building was once a medieval manor hall house. I have traced the…
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…
The Leech family return to Great Ellingham
Stalland Common Stalland Common is one of several commons in Great Ellingham at the turn of the 19th century. It lies to the north of the village, and is divided by the road to Hingham. Over the years, Stalland Common has been referred to by many variations including ‘Stolland’, ‘Strolling’ and Stolling. Extracts from an…
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…