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Category: Schools, Societies, Charities

The Ellingham Comrades’ Football Club

Posted on September 1, 2019July 12, 2024 by Heather Etteridge

The formation of ‘The Ellingham Comrades’ Football Club’ for both parishes of Great and Little Ellingham was reported in Breckles Deanery & District Magazine of October 1921. Mr W J Eagling had “kindly consented to allow play on his meadow near the common”. Officers of the Club elected were: President: Mr W J EaglingVice Presidents:…

Primitive Methodist Sunday School Anniversary in 1877

Posted on September 1, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Great Ellingham. Postcard courtesy of Carol Ewin The edition of the Norfolk News dated 11th August 1877, reported on the anniversary celebrations at Great Ellingham of the Primitive Methodist Sunday School. The celebrations took place over two days – Sunday and Monday. On the Sunday morning, Mr Wade of Norwich preached a…

Great Ellingham Beneficent Society formed October 1876

Posted on September 1, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

A branch of the Universal Beneficent Society was formed in Great Ellingham on the 3rd October, 1876. The Patron was the Marquess Townshend. The object of the society is to relieve the poor and needy in the parish of Great Ellingham. With a membership fee payable, there would also be a one shilling entrance fee…

Men’s ‘Smoking Concert’ at the Crown Inn in 1902

Posted on August 10, 2019July 12, 2024 by Heather Etteridge

In the centre is the Crown Public House. Postcard courtesy of Attleborough Heritage Group The Eastern Daily Press of Saturday 26th April 1902 reported on a Smoking Concert held the previous Thursday at the Crown Inn which was endorsed by the Attleborough & District Unionist Association. Smoking Concerts were particularly popular during the Victoria era….

The Village of Great Ellingham Celebrates Jubilees

Posted on August 9, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

1887 Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee On the 20th June 1887, while Queen Victoria was breakfasting outdoors under the trees at Frogmore and, later, travelled to Buckingham Palace for a royal banquet, the inhabitants of Great Ellingham were getting ready to begin their Jubilee Celebrations on the following day, the 21st June. Jubilee Committee & Jubilee…

An Early Start for the Bell-Ringers of Great Ellingham

Posted on August 5, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Tower and Spire of Great Ellingham Church Celebrations for the King’s Coronation The Bell-ringers, led by Mr Wilkins, were at their post in the Church Tower at Great Ellingham soon after five o’clock on the morning of the 9th August 1902. The bells would be rung in celebration of the King’s Coronation. The Coronation of…

Series of ‘Penny Readings’ benefiting the British School

Posted on August 5, 2019February 23, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

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 Annual Tea and Social Evening of Great Ellingham Cricket Club

Posted on August 3, 2019July 12, 2024 by Heather Etteridge

Illustration by Christine Fuller The Norwich Mercury of 3rd December 1904, reported on the Cricket Club’s annual tea and social evening held in the Council School in Great Ellingham, on the previous Friday. It was reported that the club had played nine matches of which they had won six, lost two and drawn one. The…

1896 The New Board Schools with Headmaster Mr J A Field

Posted on August 3, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Great Ellingham Board Schools with the School House to the right of the photograph. Note the railings in the playground separating the Boys and Girls Schools Just Prior to 1896 Kelly’s Directory of 1896 mentions the existence of two mixed Board schools in the village: One erected in 1855, the former British School (in Long…

Church Choir and Bell Ringers’ Trip to Yarmouth in 1908

Posted on July 28, 2019February 18, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Wellington Pier Gardens, Great Yarmouth in the early 1900s The Church Choir and Bell Ringers of Great Ellingham had an enjoyable trip to Yarmouth in the July of 1908. The trip was organised by the Reverend E H Polehampton. No doubt everyone was excited to begin their trip by climbing aboard the waggons provided by…

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