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   Contents Home Guard Voting Road Rage Cats & Dogs Village identity Bad weather |
Home Guard A meeting of the Home Guard at Tannery House. Was it in 1944 when the Home Guard was disbanded? There are two RAF officers present, perhaps from Swanton Morley.  Only a few names of those present are known. Can you identify anyone else? Voting  Going to vote in May 1955. The poster says 'Vote Bullard' (Conservative), but he lost to Dye (Labour), by 193 votes. Driving the horse, Duke, is Herbert Owen, who worked for Fred Mayes at Home Farm. Also in the picture are (seated at the left front) Doris Hardy, behind her (seated) Mrs Bendsley and (standing) Mr Bendsley, the Hardy's neighbours. Also standing at the back is Herbert Hardy, whose daughter Rose Marie gave this photograph to the archive. Seated in the centre are (left) Mary Owen and (right) Fred Mayes' secretary. Next to the driver is Mrs Owen and at the far right Mrs Crisp, who also worked for Fred Mayes.The event made it into the local newspaper, where the photo shows the wagon in the yard at Home Farm.  Road Rage Not the leisurely progress of the election party above!  May 1890  April 1904  1933 – cats!  November 1937, and a cat makes the news again.   August 1951. Jill and the postman. The letterbox is Victorian, of the type stolen from Hoe in 2016.  Quite why the report
describes the Parish Meeting as reconstituted is unclear, as it had been held annually for years past. But in 1987 there was a renewed interest in it as a result of Barker Bros' controversial application for an extension to their gravel pit at Roostinghill. The two parishes had been combined in 1935 as a result of the County of Norfolk Review. (Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1937) Bad weather   Flooding at Worthing bridge.  A gale on the night of 18th January 2018 snapped off this big old oak in Chris Barber's garden. It brought down power and telephone lines. The electricity was reconnected the afternoon of the following day. |