Photograph taken from Hingham Road across fields towards Bow Street (2019) Discovery of Human Remains The Norfolk Chronicle of May 4th, 1861, reported the discovery of a human skeleton in the parish of Great Ellingham. The revelation was made by men engaged in throwing down a bank. The skull showed signs of a fracture. The…
Samuel & Sarah Pygall
The headstone for Samuel Pygall and his wife Sarah in the Churchyard at Great Ellingham. Corresponding burial entries for this couple appear in the Great Ellingham Parish Registers. 57 year old Samuel Pygall was buried on December 13th, 1817. His wife Sarah survived him by thirty years and was buried on January 30th, 1848, aged…
Children of Great Ellingham Board School’s Annual Treat
Illustration by Christine Fuller The Eastern Daily Press of 19 August, 1903 reported on the Annual Treat for the children attending the Great Ellingham Board School, which took place on Friday the 14th August. 180 children were driven through the neighbouring villages of Little Ellingham, Scoulton and Rocklands in waggons lent by Mr H. Cobon…
Reuben & Jane Heasell and their Farmhouse with Barn and Cow House
This memorial to Reuben and Jane Heasell particularly caught my eye as it has stood in the churchyard of St James for nearly two hundred years. Marriage Reuben Heasell married Jane Beckaton in the parish church of Great Ellingham on the 5th April 1764 following the reading of the Banns. Both Reuben and Jane were…
Prince Frederick Duleep Singh opens ‘fairly successful’ Bazaar
Illustration by Christine Fuller The Norfolk Chronicle & Norwich Gazette of 23rd July, 1904 reported that a “fairly successful bazaar” took place in the rectory garden at Little Ellingham over two consecutive days. The bazaar, held to raise funds towards the repair of Great Ellingham Church, was opened by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh. The Prince…
Arthur J Pollard takes over Neeve’s Shop in Church Street
Arthur Pollard outside his shop Ye Olde Thatche Shoppe. Postcard Carol Ewin The Pollard Family arrive in Great Ellingham Arthur John Pollard and his wife Bessie (Ann Elizabeth) came to Great Ellingham with their 7 year old daughter Mary and son Cyril in 1926. They moved into the shop in Church Street from which Frederick…