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Fred Sample was born on 27 January 1883 at Little Cressingham, Norfolk, one of 14 children of Henry and Elizabeth Sample.
In 1911 he married Harriet Tyas, their son Frederick was born in 1916.
Fred Sample was a private in the 8th Battalion East Riding Regiment, he enlisted in 1915.
His Battalion saw action in Belgium in early 1916 at the Bluff and St Eloi craters, then at the Somme. Fred was killed in the First Battle of the Scarpe (part of the Battle of Arras) near Wancourt and Guemappes sometime between the 9 and 13 April 1917.
Fred is buried at Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, France. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals and is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial in Beverley and on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster.
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Name: CONNELLY, HARRY IAN FORSYTH
Rank: .......................Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Service: ...................Royal New Zealand Air Force
Unit Text: ................149 (R.A.F.)
Sqdn. Age: .............23
Date of Death: .......10/10/1942
Service No: .............412887
Additional information: Son of Harry Forsyth Connelly and Doris Connelly, of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand.
Gravel Reference: .Row C. Grave 64.
Cemetery: ................WATTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2764532
Stirling BF348 Information
Type..........................Stirling
Serial Number.........BF348
Squadron..................149
X1D.............................OJ-P
Operation.................Gardening
Date 1.........................10th October 1942
Date 2........................11th October 1942
Further Information
Delivered to No.149 Sqdn 28Aug42.
Airborne 1852 10Oct42 from Lakenheath to lay mines off the mouth of the Gironde. Shortly after becoming airborne, a serious technical problem developed and the pilot tried to land at Watton. In the attempt the Stirling hit some trees and crashed 2015 at Great Cressingham, 5 miles SSE of Swaffham, Norfolk.
F/S H.J.Hart KIA
Sgt A.W.Corker KIA
Sgt L.J.Warren RNZAF KIA
Sgt H.C.Whitwell RNZAF KIA
Sgt K.G.McKenzie KIA
Sgt H.R.Batrick Inj
Sgt H.I.F.Connelly RNZAF KIA "
www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=6102
Connelly, McKenzie, Warren and Whitwell are all buried at St Mary.
Henry John Hart,..,,Pilot……aged 21.…..buried Dorchester
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2709188
Alfred Willie Corker….Flight Engineer….aged 21.….buried Sowerby Bridge
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2414013
www.oldhaltonians.co.uk/pages/rememb/ROH/34.htm
New Zealand Virtual Cenotaph entry
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/22389.detail?O...
In Loving Memory of
ALICE MAUD
Wife of
WILLIAM HENRY TOLMAN
Who died February 25th 1912
Aged 52 years
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On the resurrection morning
Soul and Body meet again.
_______________
Sleep on beloved sleep
And take thy rest,
Lay down thy head upon
Thy Saviours breast,
We loved thee well but
Jesus loves thee best.
Goodnight, Goodnight,
Goodnight.
________________
Also of JAMES, son of the above
Who was Killed in France
Dec 3rd 1917, Aged 22 years.
________________
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man
_______________
Also of
WILLIAM HENRY TOLMAN
Who passed away March 7th 1929
Aged 74 years
Peace Perfect Peace
TOLMAN, J
Rank:……………………Private
Service No:………………40723
Date of Death:…………..03/12/1917
Regiment:……………….Norfolk Regiment, 9th Bn.
Grave Reference:……….VIII. G. 8.
Cemetery:
FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
CWGC: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/337125/TOLMAN,%20J
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private 40723 James Tolman was Killed in Action on the 3rd December 1917 whilst serving with the 9th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. He was born North Pickenham, Norfolk and enlisted Swaffham. No place of residence is shown.
The Medal Index Card for Private 40123 James Tolman, Norfolk Regiment is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/20/48104
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5590134
There are Service Records for a James Tolman held at Ancestry and the National Archive.
There is no obvious Soldiers Will or Civil Probate for this man.
No match on Picture Norfolk.
James is also remembered on the North Pickenham War Memorial.
www.breckland-rollofhonour.org.uk/n_pick.html
www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=47...
1895 – Birth and baptism
The Birth of a James Tolman was recorded in the Swaffham District of Norfolk in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1895.
His brothers name was difficult to establish from the Censuses – the most likely match from the birth records is a William Percival J Tolman whose birth was recorded in the Swaffham District of Norfolk in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1893.
Swaffham Civil District included the village of North Pickenham.
The baptism of a James Tolman, no date of birth recorded, took place at St Andrew, North Pickenham on the 11th February 1895. His parents were William Henry, a Farmer, and Alice Maud. This was a Private Baptism, so may have taken place at the couples home in North Pickenham, rather than in the church.
freereg2.freereg.org.uk/search_records/56f29ff3f493fd6392...
Other family baptisms
St Andrew, North Pickenham
Louisa Matilda Tolman, no date of birth recorded, baptised 14th August 1889. Parents were William Henry, a Farmer, and Alice Maud Mary. The family lived at North Pickenham.
freereg2.freereg.org.uk/search_records/56f2a01bf493fd6392...
(The death of a Louisa Matilda Tolman, aged under 1 was recorded in the Swaffham District in the August to September quarter, (Q3), of 1889).
Mabel Ella Tolman, no date of birth recorded, baptised 2nd August 1891. Parents were William Henry, a Farmer, and Alice Maud. The family lived at North Pickenham.
freereg2.freereg.org.uk/search_records/56f2a01af493fd6392...
(The death of a Mabel Ella Tolman, aged under 1 was recorded in the Swaffham District in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1892)
William Percival John Tolman, no date of birth recorded, privately baptised 10th January 1894. Parents were William Henry, a Farmer, and Alice Maud. The family lived at North Pickenham.
freereg2.freereg.org.uk/search_records/56f29ff4f493fd6392...
1901 Census of England and Wales
The 6 year old James Tolman, born North Pickenham, Norfolk, was recorded living at Farm House, North Pickenham. (On the Census schedule its next door to the Coach + Horses Inn). This was the household of his parents, William H, (aged 47 and a Farmer from Ellingham, Norfolk) and Alice M, (aged 34 and from East Bradendham, Norfolk). As well as James they also have another son K.P.J, (aged 7 and born North Pickenham). Also in the household is their niece, Lilian M Tolman, aged 8 and from Lt Cressingham, Norfolk.
1911 Census of England and Wales
The Tolmans were still living at North Pickenham. Parents William Henry, (57), and Alice Maud, (45), have been married 23 years and have had 6 children, of which 2 were then still alive. These were their two sons, N.J.L, aged 17 and James, aged 16. The column for their personal occupation is left blank, but both are then said to work in the Farming Industry. I suspect they were was then a recognised job, “Farmers Son”. Still in the household is the niece Lilian Maud Tolman.
1912 – Death of Alice Maud
The 1912 Probate Calendar records that an Alice Maud Tolman, of North Pickenham, Norfolk, wife of William Henry Tolman, died 25th February 1912. Administration was granted at the Norwich Court on the 21st March to the “said William Henry Tolman, farmer”. Her effects were valued at £110 3s.
probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Tolman&...
The death of an Alice M Tolman, aged 52, was recorded in the Swaffham District of Norfolk in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1912.
On the day
FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
Location Information
Flesquieres is a village at the junction of the D92 and D89 roads, about 5 kilometres south-west of the main road from Cambrai to Bapaume.
Historical Information
Flesquieres village was attacked by the 51st (Highland) Division, with tanks, on the 20th November 1917, in the Battle of Cambrai, but held for a time by a German officer with a few men; it was captured on the 21st. It was lost in the later stages of the battle, and retaken on the 27th September 1918, by the 3rd Division.
Flesquieres Hill Cemetery was originally made by the 2nd Division, in 1918, behind a German cemetery ("Flesquieres Soldiers' Cemetery No.2"); but the German graves were removed after the Armistice to FLESQUIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (which in its turn was removed, with 583 graves, in 1924). Plots III-VIII were created on the site of the German cemetery and in them were reburied 688 British soldiers from the battlefields of Havrincourt, Flesquieres, Marcoing and Masnieres and from a few other burial grounds, including:-
ABANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (Nord), in which 38 British soldiers and four men of the Chinese Labour Corps were buried in 1917-18. (The four Chinese burials were re-buried in Ayette Indian and Chinese Cemetery).
HAVRINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, from which four British soldiers were taken to Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension and three to Flesquieres.
HAYNECOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, on the South side of the village, from which eight British graves were removed to Flesquieres and two to H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein, and 138 German to other cemeteries.
MASNIERES-CREVECOEUR ROAD CEMETERY, CREVECOEUR SUR-L'ESCAUT, where 13 New Zealand soldiers and seven of the Devons were buried in October, 1918.
MASNIERES GERMAN CEMETERY, South of Masnieres, used by the New Zealand Division for eleven burials in October, 1918.
RIBECOURT CHURCHYARD, in which four Canadian, one Australian and three British soldiers were buried in 1916-1917.
63RD DIVISION CEMETERY, between MARCOING and Villers-Plouich, made by the Royal Naval Division at the end of 1917, which contained 41 graves.
There are now over 900, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over one-third are unidentified and special memorials are erected to five officers and men from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand, known or believed to be buried among them.
CWGC: www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/35500/FLESQUIERES%2...
As part of the Centenary commemorations of the outbreak of the Great, the CWGC have been adding a number of original documents to their web-site. Particularly useful are the concentration reports – details of where individuals have been exhumed and re-interred elsewhere.
There is a concentration report for James. The bodies of 40723 Private J Tolman and 13406 Private A Kelmer of the 9th Norfolk Regiment were both found at map reference L.8.G.6.4. There was no cross on their graves but they were identified by their ID Discs. No other personal effects were recovered. The report was date-stamped March 1920. James was reburied in Grave VIII G.8, whilst Kelmer was reburied in VIII.G.6.
There is however no Private A Kelmer on CWGC, nor a soldier 13406 of the Norfolk Regiment.
A search for that serial number in the Medal Index Cards brings up only a Private 13406 George Cushing of the 8th Norfolk Regiment.
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2055467
In fact some diligent research work must have been done at the time – as the occupant of the other grave is now listed as Private 14396 Charles Calver, of Foulsham, Norfolk. Charles is recorded as having died on the 2nd December 1917.
www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/336678/
2nd December 1917 – Battalion War Diary
There was constant hostile shelling all day, and infantry actions took place to the North and South. The enemy appeared to be very strong in artillery.
3rd December 1917 – Battalion War Diary
The shelling was incessant all day. Late in the afternoon the dispositions of the Brigade was altered. NOYELLES was more lightly held and the right was drawn back to present a defensive flank towards MARCOING. Bn H.Q. moved to the PILL BOX in the SUNKEN Road at L.9.d.5.2 and one company was kept at hand in the sand-pits L.16.a.75 90 Everything pointed to an eventual withdrawal from NINEWOOD. Since Nov.30th it had been clear to all that we held on to NINEWOOD and NOYELLES at our peril. Capt.T.FREDERICK M.C. and Lieut.M.C.COLLER were wounded.
Appendix V of the War Diary has a detailed list of the Battalions casualties. Private 40723 J Tolman is listed as Killed on the 2nd December 1917.
Postscript
According to the 1929 Probate Calendar, a William Henry Tolman who died on the 7th March 1929 lived at 62 St George Street, Beccles, Suffolk. Administration was granted at the Ipswich Court on the 28th March 1929 to William Percival John Tolman, Farmer. His effects were valued at £1,711 12s 6d.
I saw St Nicholas from the main road, and with time enough for an unplanned stop.
You approach St Nicholas down a narrow lane, with enough space for a single car to park outside; maybe I missed the "official" car park, but I don't thin so.
And walking through the churchyard, the thing you notice if the half tower at the west end of the church. Was this some kind of ancient abandoned Norman structure, with a Victorian rebuild bolted on?
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St Nicholas is visible off in the fields from the Wroxham road, but from this angle appears very odd; you need a second glance to reassure yourself that it really is a church. There is a truncated round tower which has all the appearance of a vast flower vase, and as you get closer you can see the clean lines and unknapped flint that suggests a considerable restoration.
In fact, nothing that you see is ancient, and virtually all of it is 20th century. The church was built in the 1930s, and the stump of tower comes from only a hundred years earlier. I'm not convinced that it has ever been any higher - I think the 'ruins' against the west wall were a folly. The medieval building was demolished in the 18th century and replaced with a new building. This appears to have been done on the cheap, and 19th century additions and elaborations, like the round tower, could not prolong its life. So, it was demolished and completely rebuilt, the stump retained as a baptistery.
When you know this, you can see at once the clean 1930s lines, the Gothic revival stripped of all Victorian neuroses. Inside and out, there is a modernistic simplicity to this articulate rendering of Norfolk vernacular; even the angel roof is understated. An American correspondent of mine, on seeing these pictures, said that it was like a college dining hall, and I think that is exactly right.
St Nicholas successfully combines this simplicity with an air of Anglo-catholic devotion. The stations of the cross are most unusual, large format photographs of what appear to be artist's dummies set in the positions of the way of the cross. Survivals from the old church include a medieval font and the organ, and a large piece of lead set in a wooden frame. It has a long Latin inscription on it, and with the limited resources I could drag up from school days I took it to be from the roof, since it seems to describe the demolition of the old west end and the building of the round tower in 1835.
As at Worstead, there are photographs of everyone on the war memorial, which is a lovely thing to do. And this is a lovely church, a simple yet splendid modern building set alone in the barley fields, well used, much loved, and open to pilgrims and strangers every day.
Simon Knott, April 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm
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Robert Lord Mallet was lord of the most considerable manor of this town, (fn. 1) of which Edric was deprived; there belonged to it one carucate of land, 9 borderers, one carucate in demean, and 6 acres of meadow, &c. 2 socmen, and the moiety of another held 50 acres, and 2 borderers, with 2 acres of meadow, valued then at 30s. at the survey at 35s. it was eleven furlongs long, and 6 broad, and paid 9d. gelt. (fn. 2)
The family of the Glanviles were enfeoft of it: William de Glanvile was lord in the reign of Henry I. and gave the church to the priory of Bromholm. After them the family of De Gyney held it.
Sir Roger Gyney, son of Sir William Gyney, was lord in the reign of Edward I. and his son Sir William in the 16th of Edward II. and the 21st of Edward III. as was Sir Roger, who by his will, here dated in 1376, requires to be buried in this church, and gives to John his son, this lordship, who by the name of Sir John Gyney, made his will, and gave this manor after the death of Alice his wife, to Sir Henry Inglos, and was proved in 1423, November 5: the said Henry Inglos was in the wars of France, and in the 3d of Henry V. then an esquire, preferred a libel in the court of the constable and Earl-Marshal of England, against Sir John Tiptoft, who had retained him with 16 lances, several archers, &c. and refused to pay him, and so he the said Henry declares that —"He was ready by the help of God and St. George, to prove against the said Sir John, body to body, as the law and custom of arms required in that behalf; (fn. 3) " and in 1421, being then a knight, was taken prisoner at the battle at Bengy in France, where the Duke of Clarence was slain; and in the 5th of Henry VI. he being proxy for Sir John Fastolf, was installed Knight of the Garter for him.
By his will, dated June 20, 1451, he requires to be buried in the presbytery of the priory of Horsham St. Faith's, by Ann his wife; gives to the prior and canons of Ingham 20s. Henry his son and heir, succeeded him, whose son, Edward Inglose, sold it by fine with 10 messuages, &c. to John Bozun, Esq.; after this it came to the Windhams, and Thomas Windham, Esq. was lord in 1570, and in this family it remains, William Windham, Esq. of Felbrig, the late lord dying in 176-.
St. Bennet Of Holm's Fee.
At the survey, the abbot of St. Bennet bad a socman, with 30 acres of land, a borderer, and one carucate valued at 6s. 8d. (fn. 4)
This, as I take it, was held of the abbot, by the lords abovementioned; Odo, the cross-bow man, is said to have held of the abbot, that which Reinberius had. (fn. 5)
Alan Earl of Richmond had in Dilham, and Panceford, a hamlet, probably, to Dilham, 50 acres of land, which a socman of Ralph Stalre was deprived of, 2 villains, and 2 borderers, &c. belonged to it, with one carucate and an acre of meadow, valued at 8s. but at the survey at 5s. (fn. 6)
Ralph, son of Ribald, gave to the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, all his lands in Dilham, and Panksford: Ribald was a brother of Earl Alan. Ralph, in his deed, (fn. 7) declares that he gave it for his own soul, that of Robert his son, and of his lord, Earl Alan, and in recompense of a benefaction, the monks of Norwich having paid for him 20 marks to Morell, a Jew, and so acquitted him of it; (the seal is round and the impress a cross flory) and it is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
Roger Bigot had also 60 acres of land, of which a freeman of Edric had been deprived; to it belonged 5 borderers, one carucate and an acre of meadow, and this was valued in Suffield. (fn. 8)
Pope Alexander III. in 1176, in the 17th year of his pontificate, granted to John, Bishop of Norwich, the land of Ralph, son of Ribald, which Richard, prior of Norwich, bought of Ralph, of the fee of Hugh Bigod. (fn. 9)
Ralph le Buteler of Heslington, by York, granted to the prior, &c. of Norwich, all his right in 40s. per ann. which William de Crostweyt used to pay him out of a tenement and lands here, in 1282.
The temporalities of this priory valued at 57s. 4d. in 1428, and is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
The tenths were 5l. 5s. 5d. ob.; Deducted 26s. 8d.—The temporalities of Bromholm priory 5s. 4d.
Henry Inglos, Esq. son of Sir Henry, died lord on September 15, Ao. 3, Henry VIII. and left by Anne his wife, Edward, aged 18.
The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas, granted to the priory of Bromholm, by William de Glanvile the founder, and appropriated to it, being valued at 20 marks per ann. a vicarage was ordained, valued at two marks, the present valor of which is 5l. 7s. 10d. and is discharged.—Peter-pence were 18d.
In the register of Bromholm, fol. 43, it appears that there was a controversy between Sir William de Gyney, and the prior, about the advowson of this church, and Sir William covenanted to release and levy a fine, the prior paying him 45 marks of silver, and to deliver a deed under seal.—Dated at Crostweyt, in the 2d of Edward I. reserving to himself the right to his chapel here, and the services of the prior's tenants.
Vicars.
Richard, occurs vicar in 1299,
1304, Clement de Wycton, instituted vicar, presented by the prior, &c. of Bromholm.
1320, Bartholomew de Wycton.
1323, Richard de Baketon.
1324, William de Folsham.
1348, John Waterden.
1360, John de Cressingham.
1360, John Aylwode.
1373, William Osmound.
1397, Jeff. Haldeyn.
1426, John Northgate.
1429, Sim. Dacke.
1434, John Bounde.
1435, Sim. Dacke.
1449, John Cowper, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1464, Thomas Skoles, by the prior, &c.
1468, Jeff. Ilberb; by his will in 1498, gives 6 marks for a vestment for a priest; 6 marks to repair a pane of peynting in the church, and the profits of 3 roods of land to the vicaryes here to sing onys in the yere for him, &c. Placebo and Dirige.
1498, Thomas Garton.
1517, Edm. Curtes.
1527, Ralph Lyster.
1535, Peter Ingham.
Thomas Milles, vicar.
On the Dissolution, the patronage of the vicarage, with the appropriated rectory, came to the Crown, and in the year 1600, John Osmond was collated by the Bishop, a lapse; in 1603, he returned 143 communicants.
1612, Arnold Suckerman, by the Bishop of Ely, being granted by Queen Elizabeth, to that see, on an exchange of land belonging to it. Mr. Matthew Stokes, fellow of Caius college, in Cambridge, held this rectory impropriate of that see, by lease; and gave about 1630, to that college for the stipend of one fellow, 3 scholars, &c. but the advowson remained in the see of Ely.
1671, Peter Boardman, by the Bishop of Ely.
1694, Noah Viales, by the Bishop of Ely.
1712, David Baldy. Ditto.
1730, Thomas Goddard. Ditto.
1732, William Williams. Ditto.
¶In the north isle, an old monument, or tomb, with the effigies of a man and woman, the arms and inscription defaced; this was in memory of an Inglose, or a Jenney, and had the arms of Gynney, paly of six, or and gules, a chief ermine, and gules, four bars gemelle, or, on a canton, argent, five billets saltier ways, sable, Inglose;—argent, 2 bars, and a canton, gules, over all a bend, sable, Boys;—also, quarterly, argent and azure, on a bend, sable, three martlets, or, Le Gross;— masculy, gules and ermin, Rokely;—azure, an escotcheon and orle of martlets, argent, Walcot;— Kerdeston; Stapleton; and ermin, on a chief gules, three fusils, ermin, Charles.
On the south side, Fastolf, with a label, argent, and Honing.
In a window, Inglose impaling Bois, and Inglose and Gynney, quarterly.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
Arthur was born in 1892 at Little Cressingham, Norfolk. He was one of 14 children of Henry and Elizabeth Sample.
During the war he was a Private in the Norfolk Regiment and embarked for France in December 1915. He was demobilised in May 1919 and was a Class Z reservist. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals and the 15 Star.
In 1921 he married Edna Gertrude Hargreaves. They had seven children, Vera, Ena, Frederick, Richard, Eric, Joyce and Allan.
In 1934 Arthur married to Ida Winifred Goulthorpe from Barton on Humber: they did not have any children but Ida died in 1936 at the age of 35.
Arthur married for a third time at the age of 47 in 1937 to Martha Gregory.
Arthur died in 1965 at the age of 75.
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Sydney was born in 1892 at Little Cressingham, Norfolk. He was one of 14 children of Henry and Elizabeth Sample.
Sydney served as a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery. He embarked for France in April 1915 and survived the conflict. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals and the 15 Star.
In 1946 he married Lilian Ethel Hunt. They lived at 18 Mill Lane, Beverley where Sydney died on 5 December 1962.
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The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.
Name: McKENZIE, KENNETH GEORGE
Rank: Sergeant (Obs./Bomb Aimer)
Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Unit Text: 149 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 10/10/1942
Service No: 404571
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Ester McKenzie; husband of Mary Ella McKenzie, of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row C. Grave 66. Cemetery: WATTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2764545
Stirling BF348 Information
Type.......................Stirling
Serial Number.........BF348
Squadron................149
X1D.........................OJ-P
Operation...............Gardening
Date 1....................10th October 1942
Date 2....................11th October 1942
Further Information
Delivered to No.149 Sqdn 28Aug42. Airborne 1852 10Oct42 from Lakenheath to lay mines off the mouth of the Gironde. Shortly after becoming airborne, a serious technical problem developed and the pilot tried to land at Watton. In the attempt the Stirling hit some trees and crashed 2015 at Great Cressingham, 5 miles SSE of Swaffham, Norfolk.
F/S H.J.Hart KIA
Sgt A.W.Corker KIA
Sgt L.J.Warren RNZAF KIA
Sgt H.C.Whitwell RNZAF KIA
Sgt K.G.McKenzie KIA
Sgt H.R.Batrick Inj
Sgt H.I.F.Connelly RNZAF KIA "
www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=6102
Connelly, McKenzie, Warren and Whitwell are all buried at St Mary.
Henry John Hart,..,,Pilot……aged 21.…..buried Dorchester
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2709188
Alfred Willie Corker….Flight Engineer….aged 21.….buried Sowerby Bridge
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2414013
www.oldhaltonians.co.uk/pages/rememb/ROH/34.htm
There is a picture of Kenneth McKenzie on the Auckland Virtual Cenotaph
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/29514.detail?O...
I saw St Nicholas from the main road, and with time enough for an unplanned stop.
You approach St Nicholas down a narrow lane, with enough space for a single car to park outside; maybe I missed the "official" car park, but I don't thin so.
And walking through the churchyard, the thing you notice if the half tower at the west end of the church. Was this some kind of ancient abandoned Norman structure, with a Victorian rebuild bolted on?
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St Nicholas is visible off in the fields from the Wroxham road, but from this angle appears very odd; you need a second glance to reassure yourself that it really is a church. There is a truncated round tower which has all the appearance of a vast flower vase, and as you get closer you can see the clean lines and unknapped flint that suggests a considerable restoration.
In fact, nothing that you see is ancient, and virtually all of it is 20th century. The church was built in the 1930s, and the stump of tower comes from only a hundred years earlier. I'm not convinced that it has ever been any higher - I think the 'ruins' against the west wall were a folly. The medieval building was demolished in the 18th century and replaced with a new building. This appears to have been done on the cheap, and 19th century additions and elaborations, like the round tower, could not prolong its life. So, it was demolished and completely rebuilt, the stump retained as a baptistery.
When you know this, you can see at once the clean 1930s lines, the Gothic revival stripped of all Victorian neuroses. Inside and out, there is a modernistic simplicity to this articulate rendering of Norfolk vernacular; even the angel roof is understated. An American correspondent of mine, on seeing these pictures, said that it was like a college dining hall, and I think that is exactly right.
St Nicholas successfully combines this simplicity with an air of Anglo-catholic devotion. The stations of the cross are most unusual, large format photographs of what appear to be artist's dummies set in the positions of the way of the cross. Survivals from the old church include a medieval font and the organ, and a large piece of lead set in a wooden frame. It has a long Latin inscription on it, and with the limited resources I could drag up from school days I took it to be from the roof, since it seems to describe the demolition of the old west end and the building of the round tower in 1835.
As at Worstead, there are photographs of everyone on the war memorial, which is a lovely thing to do. And this is a lovely church, a simple yet splendid modern building set alone in the barley fields, well used, much loved, and open to pilgrims and strangers every day.
Simon Knott, April 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm
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Robert Lord Mallet was lord of the most considerable manor of this town, (fn. 1) of which Edric was deprived; there belonged to it one carucate of land, 9 borderers, one carucate in demean, and 6 acres of meadow, &c. 2 socmen, and the moiety of another held 50 acres, and 2 borderers, with 2 acres of meadow, valued then at 30s. at the survey at 35s. it was eleven furlongs long, and 6 broad, and paid 9d. gelt. (fn. 2)
The family of the Glanviles were enfeoft of it: William de Glanvile was lord in the reign of Henry I. and gave the church to the priory of Bromholm. After them the family of De Gyney held it.
Sir Roger Gyney, son of Sir William Gyney, was lord in the reign of Edward I. and his son Sir William in the 16th of Edward II. and the 21st of Edward III. as was Sir Roger, who by his will, here dated in 1376, requires to be buried in this church, and gives to John his son, this lordship, who by the name of Sir John Gyney, made his will, and gave this manor after the death of Alice his wife, to Sir Henry Inglos, and was proved in 1423, November 5: the said Henry Inglos was in the wars of France, and in the 3d of Henry V. then an esquire, preferred a libel in the court of the constable and Earl-Marshal of England, against Sir John Tiptoft, who had retained him with 16 lances, several archers, &c. and refused to pay him, and so he the said Henry declares that —"He was ready by the help of God and St. George, to prove against the said Sir John, body to body, as the law and custom of arms required in that behalf; (fn. 3) " and in 1421, being then a knight, was taken prisoner at the battle at Bengy in France, where the Duke of Clarence was slain; and in the 5th of Henry VI. he being proxy for Sir John Fastolf, was installed Knight of the Garter for him.
By his will, dated June 20, 1451, he requires to be buried in the presbytery of the priory of Horsham St. Faith's, by Ann his wife; gives to the prior and canons of Ingham 20s. Henry his son and heir, succeeded him, whose son, Edward Inglose, sold it by fine with 10 messuages, &c. to John Bozun, Esq.; after this it came to the Windhams, and Thomas Windham, Esq. was lord in 1570, and in this family it remains, William Windham, Esq. of Felbrig, the late lord dying in 176-.
St. Bennet Of Holm's Fee.
At the survey, the abbot of St. Bennet bad a socman, with 30 acres of land, a borderer, and one carucate valued at 6s. 8d. (fn. 4)
This, as I take it, was held of the abbot, by the lords abovementioned; Odo, the cross-bow man, is said to have held of the abbot, that which Reinberius had. (fn. 5)
Alan Earl of Richmond had in Dilham, and Panceford, a hamlet, probably, to Dilham, 50 acres of land, which a socman of Ralph Stalre was deprived of, 2 villains, and 2 borderers, &c. belonged to it, with one carucate and an acre of meadow, valued at 8s. but at the survey at 5s. (fn. 6)
Ralph, son of Ribald, gave to the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, all his lands in Dilham, and Panksford: Ribald was a brother of Earl Alan. Ralph, in his deed, (fn. 7) declares that he gave it for his own soul, that of Robert his son, and of his lord, Earl Alan, and in recompense of a benefaction, the monks of Norwich having paid for him 20 marks to Morell, a Jew, and so acquitted him of it; (the seal is round and the impress a cross flory) and it is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
Roger Bigot had also 60 acres of land, of which a freeman of Edric had been deprived; to it belonged 5 borderers, one carucate and an acre of meadow, and this was valued in Suffield. (fn. 8)
Pope Alexander III. in 1176, in the 17th year of his pontificate, granted to John, Bishop of Norwich, the land of Ralph, son of Ribald, which Richard, prior of Norwich, bought of Ralph, of the fee of Hugh Bigod. (fn. 9)
Ralph le Buteler of Heslington, by York, granted to the prior, &c. of Norwich, all his right in 40s. per ann. which William de Crostweyt used to pay him out of a tenement and lands here, in 1282.
The temporalities of this priory valued at 57s. 4d. in 1428, and is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
The tenths were 5l. 5s. 5d. ob.; Deducted 26s. 8d.—The temporalities of Bromholm priory 5s. 4d.
Henry Inglos, Esq. son of Sir Henry, died lord on September 15, Ao. 3, Henry VIII. and left by Anne his wife, Edward, aged 18.
The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas, granted to the priory of Bromholm, by William de Glanvile the founder, and appropriated to it, being valued at 20 marks per ann. a vicarage was ordained, valued at two marks, the present valor of which is 5l. 7s. 10d. and is discharged.—Peter-pence were 18d.
In the register of Bromholm, fol. 43, it appears that there was a controversy between Sir William de Gyney, and the prior, about the advowson of this church, and Sir William covenanted to release and levy a fine, the prior paying him 45 marks of silver, and to deliver a deed under seal.—Dated at Crostweyt, in the 2d of Edward I. reserving to himself the right to his chapel here, and the services of the prior's tenants.
Vicars.
Richard, occurs vicar in 1299,
1304, Clement de Wycton, instituted vicar, presented by the prior, &c. of Bromholm.
1320, Bartholomew de Wycton.
1323, Richard de Baketon.
1324, William de Folsham.
1348, John Waterden.
1360, John de Cressingham.
1360, John Aylwode.
1373, William Osmound.
1397, Jeff. Haldeyn.
1426, John Northgate.
1429, Sim. Dacke.
1434, John Bounde.
1435, Sim. Dacke.
1449, John Cowper, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1464, Thomas Skoles, by the prior, &c.
1468, Jeff. Ilberb; by his will in 1498, gives 6 marks for a vestment for a priest; 6 marks to repair a pane of peynting in the church, and the profits of 3 roods of land to the vicaryes here to sing onys in the yere for him, &c. Placebo and Dirige.
1498, Thomas Garton.
1517, Edm. Curtes.
1527, Ralph Lyster.
1535, Peter Ingham.
Thomas Milles, vicar.
On the Dissolution, the patronage of the vicarage, with the appropriated rectory, came to the Crown, and in the year 1600, John Osmond was collated by the Bishop, a lapse; in 1603, he returned 143 communicants.
1612, Arnold Suckerman, by the Bishop of Ely, being granted by Queen Elizabeth, to that see, on an exchange of land belonging to it. Mr. Matthew Stokes, fellow of Caius college, in Cambridge, held this rectory impropriate of that see, by lease; and gave about 1630, to that college for the stipend of one fellow, 3 scholars, &c. but the advowson remained in the see of Ely.
1671, Peter Boardman, by the Bishop of Ely.
1694, Noah Viales, by the Bishop of Ely.
1712, David Baldy. Ditto.
1730, Thomas Goddard. Ditto.
1732, William Williams. Ditto.
¶In the north isle, an old monument, or tomb, with the effigies of a man and woman, the arms and inscription defaced; this was in memory of an Inglose, or a Jenney, and had the arms of Gynney, paly of six, or and gules, a chief ermine, and gules, four bars gemelle, or, on a canton, argent, five billets saltier ways, sable, Inglose;—argent, 2 bars, and a canton, gules, over all a bend, sable, Boys;—also, quarterly, argent and azure, on a bend, sable, three martlets, or, Le Gross;— masculy, gules and ermin, Rokely;—azure, an escotcheon and orle of martlets, argent, Walcot;— Kerdeston; Stapleton; and ermin, on a chief gules, three fusils, ermin, Charles.
On the south side, Fastolf, with a label, argent, and Honing.
In a window, Inglose impaling Bois, and Inglose and Gynney, quarterly.
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In loving memory of
SAMUEL & ELIZABETH
GODDARD
Who died
From suffocation
Decbr 25th 1890
Aged 36 & 37 years.
Eastern Daily Press Thursday, January 1 1891
LITTLE CRESSINGHAM
Deaths from Suffocation.- A shocking occurrence has just happened at this village. On Wednesday evening last week (Christmas eve) Mr Goddard, who has recently taken the Mill Farm and the milling business, went home in his usual health. The night being very cold, he and his wife placed a large quantity of live coal, which they appear to have taken out of the kitchen fireplace, and put them into an old zinc pail, and placed them in the bedroom before retiring to bed. On the following morning (Christmas Day) it was noticed by the horse-keeper when he came to feed the horses that no one was up. In the evening when he came again, he found the house just as it was in the morning. He tried the door, but found it locked; but thinking his master and mistress had gone out to keep Christmas with their friends, he did not feel alarmed. When he came on the Friday morning he again found everything just as he had left on the two previous days. He now became alarmed, and informed Police-constable Goldsmith, who broke into the house, and found Mr and Mrs Goddard both dead in bed. An inquest was held on Saturday before A.B Elwin, Esq., Deputy-Coroner, at the White Horse Inn, when the jury found as their verdict that death was caused by suffocation from the poisonous fumes arising from the burning coke which had been placed in the bedroom. Great sympathy is felt for the deceased’s friends, they being well known and very industrious people. No indoor servant was kept. Mr Goddard had for several years occupied the Carbrook Mill. He was thirty-six years of age and his wife thirty-seven. They had been married about twelve years, but had no family.
1854/55 – birth of Samuel
At this time there was no enforcement of the requirement to register a birth with the civil authority, something which had only come into being in 1837. It would take until 1872 with the introduction of fines and criminal prosecutions that registration of birth became almost universal.
There is no obvious civil birth record for Samuel.
1861 Census of England and Wales
Samuel Goddard, aged 6 and from Breckles, was recorded living at a dwelling on Green Lane, Breckles, Norfolk. On the census schedule it is shown as next door to the Gate Public House. His father William, aged 66 was an Agricultural Labourer from Rockland, Norfolk. His Mother, Elizabeth, was aged 46 and was originally from Shropham, Norfolk. The census taker has indicated that she also is an Agricultural Labourer. In the household there is also another son, James Goddard, aged 27 and an Agricultural Labourer from Shropham.
There is an Elizabeth Eagling aged 6, born Hingham, Norfolk and an Elizabeth Eagling, aged 7, born Hingham, Norfolk. Either could be potentially his future wife – the 6 year old individual is recorded as 17 on the next census, while the 7 year old becomes 16.It is likely to be one of them as the other one can be tracked through to the 1881 census where she is recorded as a 26 year old unmarried Domestic Servant.
The older one is living at Dereham Road, Hingham. This was the household of her widowed father, “Thos” Eagling, aged 49 and a Shoemaker, (employing 1 man and 1 boy), originally from Southburgh, Norfolk. Other children in the household are:-
George…..aged 20…..born Hingham….Shoemaker
Emma……aged 15….born Hingham
Ellen……..aged 12….born Hingham
John……..aged 11…..born Hingham
Elizabeth…aged 7……born Hingham
Mary………aged 5…..born Hingham
Edward……aged 2…..born Hingham
James……..aged 6 months,,,born Hingham
Finally there is one more individual in the household, whose relationship to “Thos” is given as servant. This is the 31 year old Ann Eagling, unmarried and from Hingham – possibly a relative who had moved in following the recent death of his wife.
The younger one is living at Watton Road, Hingham. This was the household of her parents, Peregrine, aged 46 and a Farming Bailiff from Little Ellingham, Norfolk, and Mary A, aged 37 and from Hingham. Other children in the household are:-
George………aged 10….born Hingham
James……….aged 8……born Hingham
John…………aged 3……born Hingham
Hannah……...aged 1……born Hingham
They also have a widowed boarder living with them, a 61 year old Elizabeth Bird from Carbrooke, Norfolk.
(But note there is a marriage recorded in Norwich in 1879 of a Samuel Goddard to an Elizabeth Eagling, daughter of “Perrygrine”Eagling – see below)
1871 Census of England and Wales
Samuel Goddard, a 16 year old Agricultural Labourer from Breckles, Norfolk, was recorded living at Mere Road, Stow Bedon, Norfolk. This was the household of his parents, William, (aged 63* and a Farmer of 30 Acres but now from Stowbedon, Norfolk), and Elizabeth, (aged 55 and from Shropham, Norfolk). Samuel is the only person living with them.
*Note – this makes him younger than his stated age on the 1861 census.
The daughter of Thomas, aged16, was still recorded living with her widower father at Dereham Road, Hingham. He is a Shoemaker, (59), while she works as a Shoebinder. Also in the house are children John, (21, Shoemaker), Mary, (14), Edward, (11), James , (10) and William, (9, born Hingham)
The other Eagling family were now living at “Miney Hills”, Hingham where father Peregrine, (56), is a Farmer of 8 acres. He lives there with wife Mary Anne, (46), and children George, (20, Carpenter), James, (19, Agricultural Labourer), Elizabeth, (17), John, (12) and William, (7) and Hannah, (4) – both born Hingham.
1879 – Probable marriage for Samuel and Elizabeth
The marriage of a Samuel Goddard to an Elizabeth Eagling was recorded in the Norwich District in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1879.
The marriage of a Samuel Goddard, aged 24 and a Bachelor, to Elizabeth Eagling, aged 25 and a Spinster, took place at St Peter Parmentergate, Norwich on the 20th July 1879.His occupation is given as Miller. Both are stated to live on Prince of Wales Road, (presumably in Norwich), and the marriage followed the reading of the Banns. His father was William Goddard, Farmer. Hers was “Perrygrine” Eagling, Farmer. Witnesses were William and Maria Farrow.
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1881 Norfolk Register of Electors
A Samuel Goddard was entitled to vote in the parish of Carbrooke as a result of having a Mill and Land as occupier. It is noted that this is near the Caston Boundary.
1881 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HYQ-V1N
1881 Census of England and Wales
Samuel, aged 26 and from “Brecles”, Norfolk, was recorded as the married head of the household at Mill House, Mill Lane, Carbrooke, Norfolk. A Miller and Farmer of 25 acres, he employs 1 labourer. Living with him is his wife Elizabeth, aged 26 and from Hingham, Norfolk.
Samuels parents, the 74 year old William, (born Stowbedon) and Elizabeth, (64, born Shropham), were recorded living at the Street, Caston, Norfolk. William lives off a pension – he is described as an “Annuitant”.
1882, 1883, 1884,1885, 1885-6, 1887, 1888, 1889 and 1890 Norfolk Registers of Electors
A Samuel Goddard was entitled to vote in the parish of Carbrooke as a result of having a Mill and Land as occupier. It is noted that this is near the Caston Boundary (1882), near the Watton Road (1883).
1882 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HY7-6N7
1883 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HYW-4KY
1884 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HBR-KKV
1885 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HBT-XQ9
By 1885-6 this had become House, land and Mill by Watton Road, Carbrooke.
1885-6 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H1Z-JWM
1887 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H1D-TTT
1888 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HYC-3VY
By 1889 House and land by Watton Road, Carbrooke.
1889 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HBN-CFH
1890 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HYB-T8N
From a piece on the history of Carbrooke Mill, which includes photographs of the structure.
Samuel Goddard was miller between 1879-1890 and by 1888 was using a steam engine for a separate set of additional stones. He then moved on to Little Cressingham wind/watermill where he and his wife unfortunately died.
www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/carbrooke-mill-lane-towe...
The combined windmill and watermill at Little Cressingham.
www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/lt-cressingham.html
1890 – Death
The death of a Samuel Goodard, aged 36, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the district of Swaffham, Norfolk, in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1890. Elizabeth Goddard, aged 37, was registered in the same district and quarter.
The Burial of Samuel took place on the 29th December 1890 at Little Cressingham.
familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JZ37-P2K
The 1891 Probate Calendar has Administration granted at the Principal Registry on the 24th January for the Personal Estate of Samuel Goddard, late of Little Cressingham in the County of Norfolk, Miller and Farmer. He is however described as a Widower although he did die on the 25th December 1890 at Little Cressingham. The Administrator was a George Goddard of Northwold, Norfolk, a brother of Samuel. His Personal Estate was valued at £649 4s 5d.
I saw St Nicholas from the main road, and with time enough for an unplanned stop.
You approach St Nicholas down a narrow lane, with enough space for a single car to park outside; maybe I missed the "official" car park, but I don't thin so.
And walking through the churchyard, the thing you notice if the half tower at the west end of the church. Was this some kind of ancient abandoned Norman structure, with a Victorian rebuild bolted on?
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St Nicholas is visible off in the fields from the Wroxham road, but from this angle appears very odd; you need a second glance to reassure yourself that it really is a church. There is a truncated round tower which has all the appearance of a vast flower vase, and as you get closer you can see the clean lines and unknapped flint that suggests a considerable restoration.
In fact, nothing that you see is ancient, and virtually all of it is 20th century. The church was built in the 1930s, and the stump of tower comes from only a hundred years earlier. I'm not convinced that it has ever been any higher - I think the 'ruins' against the west wall were a folly. The medieval building was demolished in the 18th century and replaced with a new building. This appears to have been done on the cheap, and 19th century additions and elaborations, like the round tower, could not prolong its life. So, it was demolished and completely rebuilt, the stump retained as a baptistery.
When you know this, you can see at once the clean 1930s lines, the Gothic revival stripped of all Victorian neuroses. Inside and out, there is a modernistic simplicity to this articulate rendering of Norfolk vernacular; even the angel roof is understated. An American correspondent of mine, on seeing these pictures, said that it was like a college dining hall, and I think that is exactly right.
St Nicholas successfully combines this simplicity with an air of Anglo-catholic devotion. The stations of the cross are most unusual, large format photographs of what appear to be artist's dummies set in the positions of the way of the cross. Survivals from the old church include a medieval font and the organ, and a large piece of lead set in a wooden frame. It has a long Latin inscription on it, and with the limited resources I could drag up from school days I took it to be from the roof, since it seems to describe the demolition of the old west end and the building of the round tower in 1835.
As at Worstead, there are photographs of everyone on the war memorial, which is a lovely thing to do. And this is a lovely church, a simple yet splendid modern building set alone in the barley fields, well used, much loved, and open to pilgrims and strangers every day.
Simon Knott, April 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm
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Robert Lord Mallet was lord of the most considerable manor of this town, (fn. 1) of which Edric was deprived; there belonged to it one carucate of land, 9 borderers, one carucate in demean, and 6 acres of meadow, &c. 2 socmen, and the moiety of another held 50 acres, and 2 borderers, with 2 acres of meadow, valued then at 30s. at the survey at 35s. it was eleven furlongs long, and 6 broad, and paid 9d. gelt. (fn. 2)
The family of the Glanviles were enfeoft of it: William de Glanvile was lord in the reign of Henry I. and gave the church to the priory of Bromholm. After them the family of De Gyney held it.
Sir Roger Gyney, son of Sir William Gyney, was lord in the reign of Edward I. and his son Sir William in the 16th of Edward II. and the 21st of Edward III. as was Sir Roger, who by his will, here dated in 1376, requires to be buried in this church, and gives to John his son, this lordship, who by the name of Sir John Gyney, made his will, and gave this manor after the death of Alice his wife, to Sir Henry Inglos, and was proved in 1423, November 5: the said Henry Inglos was in the wars of France, and in the 3d of Henry V. then an esquire, preferred a libel in the court of the constable and Earl-Marshal of England, against Sir John Tiptoft, who had retained him with 16 lances, several archers, &c. and refused to pay him, and so he the said Henry declares that —"He was ready by the help of God and St. George, to prove against the said Sir John, body to body, as the law and custom of arms required in that behalf; (fn. 3) " and in 1421, being then a knight, was taken prisoner at the battle at Bengy in France, where the Duke of Clarence was slain; and in the 5th of Henry VI. he being proxy for Sir John Fastolf, was installed Knight of the Garter for him.
By his will, dated June 20, 1451, he requires to be buried in the presbytery of the priory of Horsham St. Faith's, by Ann his wife; gives to the prior and canons of Ingham 20s. Henry his son and heir, succeeded him, whose son, Edward Inglose, sold it by fine with 10 messuages, &c. to John Bozun, Esq.; after this it came to the Windhams, and Thomas Windham, Esq. was lord in 1570, and in this family it remains, William Windham, Esq. of Felbrig, the late lord dying in 176-.
St. Bennet Of Holm's Fee.
At the survey, the abbot of St. Bennet bad a socman, with 30 acres of land, a borderer, and one carucate valued at 6s. 8d. (fn. 4)
This, as I take it, was held of the abbot, by the lords abovementioned; Odo, the cross-bow man, is said to have held of the abbot, that which Reinberius had. (fn. 5)
Alan Earl of Richmond had in Dilham, and Panceford, a hamlet, probably, to Dilham, 50 acres of land, which a socman of Ralph Stalre was deprived of, 2 villains, and 2 borderers, &c. belonged to it, with one carucate and an acre of meadow, valued at 8s. but at the survey at 5s. (fn. 6)
Ralph, son of Ribald, gave to the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, all his lands in Dilham, and Panksford: Ribald was a brother of Earl Alan. Ralph, in his deed, (fn. 7) declares that he gave it for his own soul, that of Robert his son, and of his lord, Earl Alan, and in recompense of a benefaction, the monks of Norwich having paid for him 20 marks to Morell, a Jew, and so acquitted him of it; (the seal is round and the impress a cross flory) and it is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
Roger Bigot had also 60 acres of land, of which a freeman of Edric had been deprived; to it belonged 5 borderers, one carucate and an acre of meadow, and this was valued in Suffield. (fn. 8)
Pope Alexander III. in 1176, in the 17th year of his pontificate, granted to John, Bishop of Norwich, the land of Ralph, son of Ribald, which Richard, prior of Norwich, bought of Ralph, of the fee of Hugh Bigod. (fn. 9)
Ralph le Buteler of Heslington, by York, granted to the prior, &c. of Norwich, all his right in 40s. per ann. which William de Crostweyt used to pay him out of a tenement and lands here, in 1282.
The temporalities of this priory valued at 57s. 4d. in 1428, and is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
The tenths were 5l. 5s. 5d. ob.; Deducted 26s. 8d.—The temporalities of Bromholm priory 5s. 4d.
Henry Inglos, Esq. son of Sir Henry, died lord on September 15, Ao. 3, Henry VIII. and left by Anne his wife, Edward, aged 18.
The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas, granted to the priory of Bromholm, by William de Glanvile the founder, and appropriated to it, being valued at 20 marks per ann. a vicarage was ordained, valued at two marks, the present valor of which is 5l. 7s. 10d. and is discharged.—Peter-pence were 18d.
In the register of Bromholm, fol. 43, it appears that there was a controversy between Sir William de Gyney, and the prior, about the advowson of this church, and Sir William covenanted to release and levy a fine, the prior paying him 45 marks of silver, and to deliver a deed under seal.—Dated at Crostweyt, in the 2d of Edward I. reserving to himself the right to his chapel here, and the services of the prior's tenants.
Vicars.
Richard, occurs vicar in 1299,
1304, Clement de Wycton, instituted vicar, presented by the prior, &c. of Bromholm.
1320, Bartholomew de Wycton.
1323, Richard de Baketon.
1324, William de Folsham.
1348, John Waterden.
1360, John de Cressingham.
1360, John Aylwode.
1373, William Osmound.
1397, Jeff. Haldeyn.
1426, John Northgate.
1429, Sim. Dacke.
1434, John Bounde.
1435, Sim. Dacke.
1449, John Cowper, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1464, Thomas Skoles, by the prior, &c.
1468, Jeff. Ilberb; by his will in 1498, gives 6 marks for a vestment for a priest; 6 marks to repair a pane of peynting in the church, and the profits of 3 roods of land to the vicaryes here to sing onys in the yere for him, &c. Placebo and Dirige.
1498, Thomas Garton.
1517, Edm. Curtes.
1527, Ralph Lyster.
1535, Peter Ingham.
Thomas Milles, vicar.
On the Dissolution, the patronage of the vicarage, with the appropriated rectory, came to the Crown, and in the year 1600, John Osmond was collated by the Bishop, a lapse; in 1603, he returned 143 communicants.
1612, Arnold Suckerman, by the Bishop of Ely, being granted by Queen Elizabeth, to that see, on an exchange of land belonging to it. Mr. Matthew Stokes, fellow of Caius college, in Cambridge, held this rectory impropriate of that see, by lease; and gave about 1630, to that college for the stipend of one fellow, 3 scholars, &c. but the advowson remained in the see of Ely.
1671, Peter Boardman, by the Bishop of Ely.
1694, Noah Viales, by the Bishop of Ely.
1712, David Baldy. Ditto.
1730, Thomas Goddard. Ditto.
1732, William Williams. Ditto.
¶In the north isle, an old monument, or tomb, with the effigies of a man and woman, the arms and inscription defaced; this was in memory of an Inglose, or a Jenney, and had the arms of Gynney, paly of six, or and gules, a chief ermine, and gules, four bars gemelle, or, on a canton, argent, five billets saltier ways, sable, Inglose;—argent, 2 bars, and a canton, gules, over all a bend, sable, Boys;—also, quarterly, argent and azure, on a bend, sable, three martlets, or, Le Gross;— masculy, gules and ermin, Rokely;—azure, an escotcheon and orle of martlets, argent, Walcot;— Kerdeston; Stapleton; and ermin, on a chief gules, three fusils, ermin, Charles.
On the south side, Fastolf, with a label, argent, and Honing.
In a window, Inglose impaling Bois, and Inglose and Gynney, quarterly.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
Nikon D90 + Nikon 18-105vr @ 18 mm
ISO 200 - f/8 - (1/400s)
Lee GND 0.6 SE
After purchasing some filters earlier this year i found regretting it until i got some proper ones imo. Now i have a set of Lee filters which are a lot better no colour cast. I guess you get what you pay for (as always). You can see why there is a 6 month wait for these filters at most photography retailers.
Thanks for all you comments and faves.
Below same shot taken earlier in the year with set of cokin filters hope the pc screen shows you the difference let me know?
I saw St Nicholas from the main road, and with time enough for an unplanned stop.
You approach St Nicholas down a narrow lane, with enough space for a single car to park outside; maybe I missed the "official" car park, but I don't thin so.
And walking through the churchyard, the thing you notice if the half tower at the west end of the church. Was this some kind of ancient abandoned Norman structure, with a Victorian rebuild bolted on?
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St Nicholas is visible off in the fields from the Wroxham road, but from this angle appears very odd; you need a second glance to reassure yourself that it really is a church. There is a truncated round tower which has all the appearance of a vast flower vase, and as you get closer you can see the clean lines and unknapped flint that suggests a considerable restoration.
In fact, nothing that you see is ancient, and virtually all of it is 20th century. The church was built in the 1930s, and the stump of tower comes from only a hundred years earlier. I'm not convinced that it has ever been any higher - I think the 'ruins' against the west wall were a folly. The medieval building was demolished in the 18th century and replaced with a new building. This appears to have been done on the cheap, and 19th century additions and elaborations, like the round tower, could not prolong its life. So, it was demolished and completely rebuilt, the stump retained as a baptistery.
When you know this, you can see at once the clean 1930s lines, the Gothic revival stripped of all Victorian neuroses. Inside and out, there is a modernistic simplicity to this articulate rendering of Norfolk vernacular; even the angel roof is understated. An American correspondent of mine, on seeing these pictures, said that it was like a college dining hall, and I think that is exactly right.
St Nicholas successfully combines this simplicity with an air of Anglo-catholic devotion. The stations of the cross are most unusual, large format photographs of what appear to be artist's dummies set in the positions of the way of the cross. Survivals from the old church include a medieval font and the organ, and a large piece of lead set in a wooden frame. It has a long Latin inscription on it, and with the limited resources I could drag up from school days I took it to be from the roof, since it seems to describe the demolition of the old west end and the building of the round tower in 1835.
As at Worstead, there are photographs of everyone on the war memorial, which is a lovely thing to do. And this is a lovely church, a simple yet splendid modern building set alone in the barley fields, well used, much loved, and open to pilgrims and strangers every day.
Simon Knott, April 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm
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Robert Lord Mallet was lord of the most considerable manor of this town, (fn. 1) of which Edric was deprived; there belonged to it one carucate of land, 9 borderers, one carucate in demean, and 6 acres of meadow, &c. 2 socmen, and the moiety of another held 50 acres, and 2 borderers, with 2 acres of meadow, valued then at 30s. at the survey at 35s. it was eleven furlongs long, and 6 broad, and paid 9d. gelt. (fn. 2)
The family of the Glanviles were enfeoft of it: William de Glanvile was lord in the reign of Henry I. and gave the church to the priory of Bromholm. After them the family of De Gyney held it.
Sir Roger Gyney, son of Sir William Gyney, was lord in the reign of Edward I. and his son Sir William in the 16th of Edward II. and the 21st of Edward III. as was Sir Roger, who by his will, here dated in 1376, requires to be buried in this church, and gives to John his son, this lordship, who by the name of Sir John Gyney, made his will, and gave this manor after the death of Alice his wife, to Sir Henry Inglos, and was proved in 1423, November 5: the said Henry Inglos was in the wars of France, and in the 3d of Henry V. then an esquire, preferred a libel in the court of the constable and Earl-Marshal of England, against Sir John Tiptoft, who had retained him with 16 lances, several archers, &c. and refused to pay him, and so he the said Henry declares that —"He was ready by the help of God and St. George, to prove against the said Sir John, body to body, as the law and custom of arms required in that behalf; (fn. 3) " and in 1421, being then a knight, was taken prisoner at the battle at Bengy in France, where the Duke of Clarence was slain; and in the 5th of Henry VI. he being proxy for Sir John Fastolf, was installed Knight of the Garter for him.
By his will, dated June 20, 1451, he requires to be buried in the presbytery of the priory of Horsham St. Faith's, by Ann his wife; gives to the prior and canons of Ingham 20s. Henry his son and heir, succeeded him, whose son, Edward Inglose, sold it by fine with 10 messuages, &c. to John Bozun, Esq.; after this it came to the Windhams, and Thomas Windham, Esq. was lord in 1570, and in this family it remains, William Windham, Esq. of Felbrig, the late lord dying in 176-.
St. Bennet Of Holm's Fee.
At the survey, the abbot of St. Bennet bad a socman, with 30 acres of land, a borderer, and one carucate valued at 6s. 8d. (fn. 4)
This, as I take it, was held of the abbot, by the lords abovementioned; Odo, the cross-bow man, is said to have held of the abbot, that which Reinberius had. (fn. 5)
Alan Earl of Richmond had in Dilham, and Panceford, a hamlet, probably, to Dilham, 50 acres of land, which a socman of Ralph Stalre was deprived of, 2 villains, and 2 borderers, &c. belonged to it, with one carucate and an acre of meadow, valued at 8s. but at the survey at 5s. (fn. 6)
Ralph, son of Ribald, gave to the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, all his lands in Dilham, and Panksford: Ribald was a brother of Earl Alan. Ralph, in his deed, (fn. 7) declares that he gave it for his own soul, that of Robert his son, and of his lord, Earl Alan, and in recompense of a benefaction, the monks of Norwich having paid for him 20 marks to Morell, a Jew, and so acquitted him of it; (the seal is round and the impress a cross flory) and it is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
Roger Bigot had also 60 acres of land, of which a freeman of Edric had been deprived; to it belonged 5 borderers, one carucate and an acre of meadow, and this was valued in Suffield. (fn. 8)
Pope Alexander III. in 1176, in the 17th year of his pontificate, granted to John, Bishop of Norwich, the land of Ralph, son of Ribald, which Richard, prior of Norwich, bought of Ralph, of the fee of Hugh Bigod. (fn. 9)
Ralph le Buteler of Heslington, by York, granted to the prior, &c. of Norwich, all his right in 40s. per ann. which William de Crostweyt used to pay him out of a tenement and lands here, in 1282.
The temporalities of this priory valued at 57s. 4d. in 1428, and is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
The tenths were 5l. 5s. 5d. ob.; Deducted 26s. 8d.—The temporalities of Bromholm priory 5s. 4d.
Henry Inglos, Esq. son of Sir Henry, died lord on September 15, Ao. 3, Henry VIII. and left by Anne his wife, Edward, aged 18.
The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas, granted to the priory of Bromholm, by William de Glanvile the founder, and appropriated to it, being valued at 20 marks per ann. a vicarage was ordained, valued at two marks, the present valor of which is 5l. 7s. 10d. and is discharged.—Peter-pence were 18d.
In the register of Bromholm, fol. 43, it appears that there was a controversy between Sir William de Gyney, and the prior, about the advowson of this church, and Sir William covenanted to release and levy a fine, the prior paying him 45 marks of silver, and to deliver a deed under seal.—Dated at Crostweyt, in the 2d of Edward I. reserving to himself the right to his chapel here, and the services of the prior's tenants.
Vicars.
Richard, occurs vicar in 1299,
1304, Clement de Wycton, instituted vicar, presented by the prior, &c. of Bromholm.
1320, Bartholomew de Wycton.
1323, Richard de Baketon.
1324, William de Folsham.
1348, John Waterden.
1360, John de Cressingham.
1360, John Aylwode.
1373, William Osmound.
1397, Jeff. Haldeyn.
1426, John Northgate.
1429, Sim. Dacke.
1434, John Bounde.
1435, Sim. Dacke.
1449, John Cowper, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1464, Thomas Skoles, by the prior, &c.
1468, Jeff. Ilberb; by his will in 1498, gives 6 marks for a vestment for a priest; 6 marks to repair a pane of peynting in the church, and the profits of 3 roods of land to the vicaryes here to sing onys in the yere for him, &c. Placebo and Dirige.
1498, Thomas Garton.
1517, Edm. Curtes.
1527, Ralph Lyster.
1535, Peter Ingham.
Thomas Milles, vicar.
On the Dissolution, the patronage of the vicarage, with the appropriated rectory, came to the Crown, and in the year 1600, John Osmond was collated by the Bishop, a lapse; in 1603, he returned 143 communicants.
1612, Arnold Suckerman, by the Bishop of Ely, being granted by Queen Elizabeth, to that see, on an exchange of land belonging to it. Mr. Matthew Stokes, fellow of Caius college, in Cambridge, held this rectory impropriate of that see, by lease; and gave about 1630, to that college for the stipend of one fellow, 3 scholars, &c. but the advowson remained in the see of Ely.
1671, Peter Boardman, by the Bishop of Ely.
1694, Noah Viales, by the Bishop of Ely.
1712, David Baldy. Ditto.
1730, Thomas Goddard. Ditto.
1732, William Williams. Ditto.
¶In the north isle, an old monument, or tomb, with the effigies of a man and woman, the arms and inscription defaced; this was in memory of an Inglose, or a Jenney, and had the arms of Gynney, paly of six, or and gules, a chief ermine, and gules, four bars gemelle, or, on a canton, argent, five billets saltier ways, sable, Inglose;—argent, 2 bars, and a canton, gules, over all a bend, sable, Boys;—also, quarterly, argent and azure, on a bend, sable, three martlets, or, Le Gross;— masculy, gules and ermin, Rokely;—azure, an escotcheon and orle of martlets, argent, Walcot;— Kerdeston; Stapleton; and ermin, on a chief gules, three fusils, ermin, Charles.
On the south side, Fastolf, with a label, argent, and Honing.
In a window, Inglose impaling Bois, and Inglose and Gynney, quarterly.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
Name: WHITWELL, HUGH CLARENCE
Rank: Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.)
Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Unit Text: 149 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 10/10/1942
Service No: 412372
Additional information: Son of Bertram Francis and Janet Whitwell, of Tapapa, Auckland, New Zealand.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row C. Grave 65. Cemetery: WATTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2764555
Stirling BF348 Information
Type..........................Stirling
Serial Number...........BF348
Squadron...................149
X1D..........................OJ-P
Operation.................Gardening
Date 1......................10th October 1942
Date 2......................11th October 1942
Further Information
Delivered to No.149 Sqdn 28Aug42. Airborne 1852 10Oct42 from Lakenheath to lay mines off the mouth of the Gironde. Shortly after becoming airborne, a serious technical problem developed and the pilot tried to land at Watton. In the attempt the Stirling hit some trees and crashed 2015 at Great Cressingham, 5 miles SSE of Swaffham, Norfolk.
F/S H.J.Hart KIA
Sgt A.W.Corker KIA
Sgt L.J.Warren RNZAF KIA
Sgt H.C.Whitwell RNZAF KIA
Sgt K.G.McKenzie KIA
Sgt H.R.Batrick Inj
Sgt H.I.F.Connelly RNZAF KIA "
www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=6102
There is a picture of Sergeant Whitwell on the New Zealand online memorial
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/21825.detail?O...
Connelly, McKenzie, Warren and Whitwell are all buried at St Mary.
Henry John Hart,..,,Pilot……aged 21.…..buried Dorchester
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2709188
Alfred Willie Corker….Flight Engineer….aged 21.….buried Sowerby Bridge
Name: WARREN, LEWIS JOHN
Rank: Sergeant (Obs.)
Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Unit Text: 149 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 10/10/1942
Service No: 41632
Additional information: Son of Charles Henry Warren and of Mary Alice Warren (nee Taylor), of Waipukurau, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row C. Grave 67. Cemetery: WATTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2764554
Stirling BF348 Information
Type......................................Stirling
Serial Number.......................BF348
Squadron..............................149
X1D........................................OJ-P
Operation.............................Gardening
Date 1..................................10th October 1942
Date 2..................................11th October 1942
Further Information
Delivered to No.149 Sqdn 28Aug42. Airborne 1852 10Oct42 from Lakenheath to lay mines off the mouth of the Gironde. Shortly after becoming airborne, a serious technical problem developed and the pilot tried to land at Watton. In the attempt the Stirling hit some trees and crashed 2015 at Great Cressingham, 5 miles SSE of Swaffham, Norfolk.
F/S H.J.Hart KIA
Sgt A.W.Corker KIA
Sgt L.J.Warren RNZAF KIA
Sgt H.C.Whitwell RNZAF KIA
Sgt K.G.McKenzie KIA
Sgt H.R.Batrick Inj
Sgt H.I.F.Connelly RNZAF KIA "
www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=6102
Auckland National Cenotaph record
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/22902.detail?O...
Connelly, McKenzie, Warren and Whitwell are all buried at St Mary.
Henry John Hart,..,,Pilot……aged 21.…..buried Dorchester
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2709188
Alfred Willie Corker….Flight Engineer….aged 21.….buried Sowerby Bridge
I saw St Nicholas from the main road, and with time enough for an unplanned stop.
You approach St Nicholas down a narrow lane, with enough space for a single car to park outside; maybe I missed the "official" car park, but I don't thin so.
And walking through the churchyard, the thing you notice if the half tower at the west end of the church. Was this some kind of ancient abandoned Norman structure, with a Victorian rebuild bolted on?
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St Nicholas is visible off in the fields from the Wroxham road, but from this angle appears very odd; you need a second glance to reassure yourself that it really is a church. There is a truncated round tower which has all the appearance of a vast flower vase, and as you get closer you can see the clean lines and unknapped flint that suggests a considerable restoration.
In fact, nothing that you see is ancient, and virtually all of it is 20th century. The church was built in the 1930s, and the stump of tower comes from only a hundred years earlier. I'm not convinced that it has ever been any higher - I think the 'ruins' against the west wall were a folly. The medieval building was demolished in the 18th century and replaced with a new building. This appears to have been done on the cheap, and 19th century additions and elaborations, like the round tower, could not prolong its life. So, it was demolished and completely rebuilt, the stump retained as a baptistery.
When you know this, you can see at once the clean 1930s lines, the Gothic revival stripped of all Victorian neuroses. Inside and out, there is a modernistic simplicity to this articulate rendering of Norfolk vernacular; even the angel roof is understated. An American correspondent of mine, on seeing these pictures, said that it was like a college dining hall, and I think that is exactly right.
St Nicholas successfully combines this simplicity with an air of Anglo-catholic devotion. The stations of the cross are most unusual, large format photographs of what appear to be artist's dummies set in the positions of the way of the cross. Survivals from the old church include a medieval font and the organ, and a large piece of lead set in a wooden frame. It has a long Latin inscription on it, and with the limited resources I could drag up from school days I took it to be from the roof, since it seems to describe the demolition of the old west end and the building of the round tower in 1835.
As at Worstead, there are photographs of everyone on the war memorial, which is a lovely thing to do. And this is a lovely church, a simple yet splendid modern building set alone in the barley fields, well used, much loved, and open to pilgrims and strangers every day.
Simon Knott, April 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm
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Robert Lord Mallet was lord of the most considerable manor of this town, (fn. 1) of which Edric was deprived; there belonged to it one carucate of land, 9 borderers, one carucate in demean, and 6 acres of meadow, &c. 2 socmen, and the moiety of another held 50 acres, and 2 borderers, with 2 acres of meadow, valued then at 30s. at the survey at 35s. it was eleven furlongs long, and 6 broad, and paid 9d. gelt. (fn. 2)
The family of the Glanviles were enfeoft of it: William de Glanvile was lord in the reign of Henry I. and gave the church to the priory of Bromholm. After them the family of De Gyney held it.
Sir Roger Gyney, son of Sir William Gyney, was lord in the reign of Edward I. and his son Sir William in the 16th of Edward II. and the 21st of Edward III. as was Sir Roger, who by his will, here dated in 1376, requires to be buried in this church, and gives to John his son, this lordship, who by the name of Sir John Gyney, made his will, and gave this manor after the death of Alice his wife, to Sir Henry Inglos, and was proved in 1423, November 5: the said Henry Inglos was in the wars of France, and in the 3d of Henry V. then an esquire, preferred a libel in the court of the constable and Earl-Marshal of England, against Sir John Tiptoft, who had retained him with 16 lances, several archers, &c. and refused to pay him, and so he the said Henry declares that —"He was ready by the help of God and St. George, to prove against the said Sir John, body to body, as the law and custom of arms required in that behalf; (fn. 3) " and in 1421, being then a knight, was taken prisoner at the battle at Bengy in France, where the Duke of Clarence was slain; and in the 5th of Henry VI. he being proxy for Sir John Fastolf, was installed Knight of the Garter for him.
By his will, dated June 20, 1451, he requires to be buried in the presbytery of the priory of Horsham St. Faith's, by Ann his wife; gives to the prior and canons of Ingham 20s. Henry his son and heir, succeeded him, whose son, Edward Inglose, sold it by fine with 10 messuages, &c. to John Bozun, Esq.; after this it came to the Windhams, and Thomas Windham, Esq. was lord in 1570, and in this family it remains, William Windham, Esq. of Felbrig, the late lord dying in 176-.
St. Bennet Of Holm's Fee.
At the survey, the abbot of St. Bennet bad a socman, with 30 acres of land, a borderer, and one carucate valued at 6s. 8d. (fn. 4)
This, as I take it, was held of the abbot, by the lords abovementioned; Odo, the cross-bow man, is said to have held of the abbot, that which Reinberius had. (fn. 5)
Alan Earl of Richmond had in Dilham, and Panceford, a hamlet, probably, to Dilham, 50 acres of land, which a socman of Ralph Stalre was deprived of, 2 villains, and 2 borderers, &c. belonged to it, with one carucate and an acre of meadow, valued at 8s. but at the survey at 5s. (fn. 6)
Ralph, son of Ribald, gave to the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, all his lands in Dilham, and Panksford: Ribald was a brother of Earl Alan. Ralph, in his deed, (fn. 7) declares that he gave it for his own soul, that of Robert his son, and of his lord, Earl Alan, and in recompense of a benefaction, the monks of Norwich having paid for him 20 marks to Morell, a Jew, and so acquitted him of it; (the seal is round and the impress a cross flory) and it is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
Roger Bigot had also 60 acres of land, of which a freeman of Edric had been deprived; to it belonged 5 borderers, one carucate and an acre of meadow, and this was valued in Suffield. (fn. 8)
Pope Alexander III. in 1176, in the 17th year of his pontificate, granted to John, Bishop of Norwich, the land of Ralph, son of Ribald, which Richard, prior of Norwich, bought of Ralph, of the fee of Hugh Bigod. (fn. 9)
Ralph le Buteler of Heslington, by York, granted to the prior, &c. of Norwich, all his right in 40s. per ann. which William de Crostweyt used to pay him out of a tenement and lands here, in 1282.
The temporalities of this priory valued at 57s. 4d. in 1428, and is now in the dean and chapter of Norwich.
The tenths were 5l. 5s. 5d. ob.; Deducted 26s. 8d.—The temporalities of Bromholm priory 5s. 4d.
Henry Inglos, Esq. son of Sir Henry, died lord on September 15, Ao. 3, Henry VIII. and left by Anne his wife, Edward, aged 18.
The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas, granted to the priory of Bromholm, by William de Glanvile the founder, and appropriated to it, being valued at 20 marks per ann. a vicarage was ordained, valued at two marks, the present valor of which is 5l. 7s. 10d. and is discharged.—Peter-pence were 18d.
In the register of Bromholm, fol. 43, it appears that there was a controversy between Sir William de Gyney, and the prior, about the advowson of this church, and Sir William covenanted to release and levy a fine, the prior paying him 45 marks of silver, and to deliver a deed under seal.—Dated at Crostweyt, in the 2d of Edward I. reserving to himself the right to his chapel here, and the services of the prior's tenants.
Vicars.
Richard, occurs vicar in 1299,
1304, Clement de Wycton, instituted vicar, presented by the prior, &c. of Bromholm.
1320, Bartholomew de Wycton.
1323, Richard de Baketon.
1324, William de Folsham.
1348, John Waterden.
1360, John de Cressingham.
1360, John Aylwode.
1373, William Osmound.
1397, Jeff. Haldeyn.
1426, John Northgate.
1429, Sim. Dacke.
1434, John Bounde.
1435, Sim. Dacke.
1449, John Cowper, by the Bishop, a lapse.
1464, Thomas Skoles, by the prior, &c.
1468, Jeff. Ilberb; by his will in 1498, gives 6 marks for a vestment for a priest; 6 marks to repair a pane of peynting in the church, and the profits of 3 roods of land to the vicaryes here to sing onys in the yere for him, &c. Placebo and Dirige.
1498, Thomas Garton.
1517, Edm. Curtes.
1527, Ralph Lyster.
1535, Peter Ingham.
Thomas Milles, vicar.
On the Dissolution, the patronage of the vicarage, with the appropriated rectory, came to the Crown, and in the year 1600, John Osmond was collated by the Bishop, a lapse; in 1603, he returned 143 communicants.
1612, Arnold Suckerman, by the Bishop of Ely, being granted by Queen Elizabeth, to that see, on an exchange of land belonging to it. Mr. Matthew Stokes, fellow of Caius college, in Cambridge, held this rectory impropriate of that see, by lease; and gave about 1630, to that college for the stipend of one fellow, 3 scholars, &c. but the advowson remained in the see of Ely.
1671, Peter Boardman, by the Bishop of Ely.
1694, Noah Viales, by the Bishop of Ely.
1712, David Baldy. Ditto.
1730, Thomas Goddard. Ditto.
1732, William Williams. Ditto.
¶In the north isle, an old monument, or tomb, with the effigies of a man and woman, the arms and inscription defaced; this was in memory of an Inglose, or a Jenney, and had the arms of Gynney, paly of six, or and gules, a chief ermine, and gules, four bars gemelle, or, on a canton, argent, five billets saltier ways, sable, Inglose;—argent, 2 bars, and a canton, gules, over all a bend, sable, Boys;—also, quarterly, argent and azure, on a bend, sable, three martlets, or, Le Gross;— masculy, gules and ermin, Rokely;—azure, an escotcheon and orle of martlets, argent, Walcot;— Kerdeston; Stapleton; and ermin, on a chief gules, three fusils, ermin, Charles.
On the south side, Fastolf, with a label, argent, and Honing.
In a window, Inglose impaling Bois, and Inglose and Gynney, quarterly.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
I think this is a better view of the Night sky taken at the partly ruined church at Little Cressingham.
Routes 9 and 19 were revised in September 2017, as interlinked services connecting Central Reading and Whitley via Royal Berkshire Hospital and Lower Earley.
In the event those changes will be short-lived, as from Monday 19th February route 19 will be withdrawn altogether, being replaced by route 22 which is being extended across Central Reading to Lower Earley ASDA. The extended route will be rebranded "red 22" and one of the vehicles allocated will probably be Scania KUB270 / ADL Enviro 300SG 414, which was never repainted out of Scarlet 9 livery after the September changes. The 9 itself will revert to the more direct route via Shinfield Road and will operate in both directions via Cressingham Road and Northumberland Avenue, with peak hour journeys extended to Mereoak.
Seen at Reading Station on Friday 2th January is no. 134, the last of a quartet of ADL Enviro200s transferred from Newbury to Reading after being displaced from Vodafone contract work. Reading Buses must have had an inking that the new 9/19 setup would not be lasting long, as route branding was applied to three of the buses but on top of plain white (132 remains unbranded).
ADL Trident with ALX400 bodywork, ex-Stagecosch South. At Cressingham Road Church stop on Shinfield Road.
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
I went on a U3A walk around Angmering Village yesterday to look at the old buildings (of corse I didn't take my camera so I used my iPhone)
Image taken 14.07.2019 by David Moth .At Turweston Aerodrome Nr Towcester .Northamptonshire
Re-registered December 2022 as G-GTNA owned by Tony Abel of Little Cressingham ,Norfolk
The ruined west end makes this church rather interesting and leave an almost square nave and aisles.
La batalla del pont de Stirling va ser una batalla de la primera guerra de la Independència escocesa. L'11 de setembre de 1297, les forces d'Andrew Moray i William Wallace derrotaren les forces angleses combinades de John de Warenne i Hugh de Cressingham prop de Stirling, al riu Forth.
Amb aquesta batalla es va demostrar que sota determinades circumstàncies la infanteria podia ser superior a la cavalleria. A la batalla de Falkirk, l'estiu de 1298, les forces escoceses de Wallace van ser derrotades. Hi van morir uns 100 cavallers i uns 500 soldats d'infanteria.
La batalla del pont de Stirling va aparéixer a la pel·lícula de 1995 Braveheart, però no era un retrat fidel del que va passar i la tàctica que s'hi mostra sembla més aviat la de la batalla de Bannockburn.
El pont actual va ser construït al voltant de 1550.
El riu Forth (en gaèlic escocès, Uisge For o també Abhainn Dhubh, que significa aigües negres), és un curt riu del vessant del mar del Nord que discorre íntegrament per Escòcia. Neix al Loch Ard a la vall de Trossachs, a uns 30 quilòmetres a l'oest de la ciutat de Stirling. Corre en direcció est creuant la localitat de Aberfoyle. Poc després rep les aigües dels rius Duchray i Kelty i entra a la zona pantanosa coneguda com Flanders Moss, on rep els rius Teith i Allan abans de creuar la ciutat de Stirling. En aquesta ciutat el riu s'eixampla i comença a estar afectat per les marees marines. Creua les localitats de Cambus, on rep al riu Devon, Alloa, Fallin i Airth. En arribar a la localitat de Kinkardine, el riu s'eixampla i s'obre el fiord de Forth.
Durant l'Edat Mitjana, el riu era navegable fins Stirling, però, en l'actualitat, és molt rar el trànsit fluvial més enllà de Kinkardine, a causa de la colmatació del llit del riu i l'augment de la mida de les embarcacions.
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
In loving memory
Of
THOMAS WILLIAM
The dearly loved husband of
MAY GOODBODY
Served 5(?-tbc) years in the Great War
Died Augst 16th 1920
Aged 38 years
Peace, Perfect Peace
No entry on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web-site.
1882 – Birth and Baptism
The baptism of a Thomas William Goodbody, born 25th September 1882, took place at St John the Evangelist, Ovington, on the 12th November 1882. His parents were Charles, a Labourer, and Mary. The family live in Ovington.
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Other family baptisms
St John the Evangelist, Ovington.
Rose Goodbody, born 24th November 1884, baptised 6th September 1885. Parents Charles, a Labourer, and Mary. Family live at Ovington.
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Elizabeth Jubilee Goodbody, no date of birth recorded, baptised 7th August 1887. Parents Charles, a Labourer, and Mary. Family live at Ovington.
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Charles Goodbody, no date of birth recorded, baptised 27th October 1889. Parents Charles, a Labourer, and Mary. Family live at Ovington.
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Baptism of his future wife
The baptism of a Sarah May Hensley, no date of birth recorded, took place at St Mary, Watton, Norfolk on the 1st June 1884. Her parents were Charles, a Labourer, and Martha Ann. The family lived at Watton.
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1891 Census of England and Wales
The 8 year old Thomas W, born Ovington, Norfolk, was recorded living at a dwelling in the village of Ovington. This was the household of his widowed mother, Mary, (aged 32 and born Watton, Norfolk). As well as Thomas, her other children living with her are:-
Rosa…………aged 6…..born Ovington
Elizabeth J…..aged 3……born Ovington
Charles………aged 1…..born Ovington
A likely match for his future wife is the 7 year old Sarah Hensley, (mis-transcribed as “Hinsley” on the Genealogy site I use), who was born Watton, Norfolk. She was living at “Red Hill”, Watton. This was the household of his parents, Charles, (aged 33 and an Agricultural Labourer from Shropham, Norfolk) and Martha A, (aged 30 and from Watton) and 5 siblings.
1901 Census of England and Wales
Mary, (42), has remarried to a John Breeze, aged 28 and an Agricultural Labourer from Ovington. Her children, John’s step-children, who are living with them are Thomas W, (18, Agricultural Labourer), Elizabeth, (13) and Charles, (11). The couples own children are Emma, (3) and Walter, (7 months), - both born Ovington.
His future wife, Sarah M Hensley, aged 16 and born Watton was recorded as a live in servant at a dwelling on Thetford Road, Watton. This was the household of a Solicitor, Fred Robinson and his wife Kate.
1903 – Possible Marriage
According to the 1911 census, (see below), Thomas had been married 8 years by the time the census was taken at the start of April. So assuming that value is correct and they married in England or Wales, then we would be looking for a marriage circa 1902 \ Q1 1903.
A check of the General Registrars Office Index of Marriages for England and Wales looking at a period 1902 +/- 2 years produces only one marriage of a Thomas Goodbody in the whole of both countries. This was a Thomas Goodbody, (no middle initial), who married in the Wayland District of Norfolk in the April to June quarter of 1903.
For the period prior to 1911 the marriage index was not cross-referenced. Each page of the civil register usually contained at least two marriages, and sometimes more. As the index only gives page numbers it should be possible to identify the names of all those involved but not who married who. Thus the female names identified on the same page as Thomas are a Sarah Mary Hensley and an Eleanor Bertha Hall.
However as we have seen on the previous censuses, Sarah was of the right age and place of birth, and the first names tie up with the baptism details below of daughter May. May and Mary seemed to have been used interchangeably in the life of this woman, so even her appearance as “May”, the wife of Thomas, on the 1911 census is understandable.
Birth and baptism of daughter May
The baptism of a May Elizabeth Goodbody, no date of birth recorded, took place at St John the Evangelist, Ovington on the 14th February 1904. Parents were Thomas William, a Labourer, and Sarah May.
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1911 Census of England and Wales
The 28 year old Thomas Goodbody, a Cowman on Farm from Ovington, Norfolk, is recorded as the married head of household at a dwelling “Near the White House”, Little Cressingham, Norfolk. He lives there with his wife of 8 years, May, aged 26 and born Watton, Norfolk, and their two children. These are:-
May……….aged 7…….born Ovington
George……aged 4……..born Little Cressingham
Post August 1911 it became compulsory when registering a birth to also record the mothers maiden name. A check of the general Registrars Office Index of births for England and Wales does not have any match for a child registered with the surname Goodbody, mothers maiden name Hensley.
War Service
There is no match on CWGC for a T Goodbody so any individuals identified with that name are likely to have survived the war, (or died after discharge from non-war wounds causes).
The only medal index card for a Thomas Goodbody is that for a Driver 84792 Thomas W Goodbody, Royal Engineers, which is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/8/56336
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That soldier appears on the Service Rolls twice – a likely indicator that he qualified for both the British War Medal and Victory Medal, (one Roll) but also the 1914/15 star, (a separate Roll).
His Service records do not appear to have survived the Blitz.
There are no “T” Goodbodys with a Medal Index Card. (Note:, if Thomas served in the UK only then very unlikely he had a Medal Index Card).
No likely matches in the Royal Marines Other Ranks Service Records.
No match in Royal Naval Division service records.
There is a Thomas Goodbody who served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve but he was born 10th October 1897 and served 1915-1918.
There is a Thomas Goodbody who served in the Royal Navy but he was born Haggerston, London on the 3rd October 1882 and he enlisted in 1898.
On the day
The death of a Thomas W Goodbody, aged 38, was recorded in the Swaffham District of Norfolk in the July to September, (Q3), of 1920.
There is no obvious Civil Probate for this man.
Postscript
It may be a co-incidence but the marriage of a Sarah M Goodbody to a Horace Adcock was recorded in the Swaffham District of Norfolk in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1922.
This place has special memories for me. It always makes me think of that lovely poem by Hardy: When I set out for Lyonnesse.
As a young apprentice architect, Hardy visited St Juliot, Boscastle in Cornwall to supervise the restoration of its dilapidated church. Here he meet his future wife Emma Gifford (his 'West-of-Wessex-Girl').
On his return from the parish, people noticed two things about him — a new glow in his eyes and a crumpled piece of paper sticking out of his coat pocket. That paper, it is recorded in one of his biographies, contained the draft of a poem.
When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there
No prophet durst declare,
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes!
Thomas Hardy
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
Peddar's Way, Day Two: Great Cressingham to Castle Acre. This is a famously boring stretch of the walk, though I could always find interest in my feet, which hurt every step of the way. This pic was taken at North Pickenham, where a bench was thoughtfully bequested by previous people of Manor Farm. It's here.
At about this stage we started discussing my bailing out. I was understandably ambivalent, seeing as I've wanted to walk the route for years, and Jim had come down especially to join me on it. But when we reached the comfort of The Ostrich at Castle Acre, and I got a good look at my feet, I knew that was it. New, even larger blisters had formed in undressed areas - a couple were the largest I've ever seen. It was obvious that another day's walking would only make things worse.
As luck would have it, were were dining at the pub with a chap I work with and his wife, since they lived a few miles away. And he was kind enough to agree to pick me up the following morning and take me back to Norwich.
Leaving Jim to solo trek :(
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THE WALLACE SWORD.
The Wallace Sword is an antique two-handed sword purported to have belonged to William Wallace (1270–1305), a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English occupation of Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence. It is said to have been used by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 and the Battle of Falkirk (1298).
The sword is 5 feet 4 inches (163 cm).[1] long, of which the blade is 4 feet 4 inches (132 cm). The blade tapers from 2.25 inches (5.7 cm) wide at the guard to 0.75 inches (1.9 cm) before the point. The sword weighs 5.95 pounds (2.70 kg).[2]
The sword is currently on display in the National Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland.
History
It has been alleged [by whom?] that after William Wallace's execution in 1305, John de Menteith, governor of Dumbarton Castle, received the sword in August of that year, but there are no records to that effect. Two hundred years later, in 1505, accounts survive which state that at the command of King James IV of Scotland, the sum of 26 shillings was paid to an armourer for the "binding of Wallace's sword with cords of silk" and providing it with "a new hilt and plummet" and also with a "new scabbard and a new belt". This repair would have been necessary because, according to legend, Wallace's original scabbard, hilt, and belt were said to have been made from the dried skin of Hugh de Cressingham, who was killed at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.[3][additional citation(s) needed]
No
Augustine Steward 1491-1571 mercer, sheriff 1526, mayor 1534, 1546 & 1556, Burgess in Parliament 1547
He was the son of Geoffrey Steward a mercer and alderman, by Cecilia / Cecily daughter of Augustin Boyce / Boys / Boyes of Norwich (he was born in Tombland in a house opposite the Erpingham entrance to the cathedral www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4D6nvw www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8Xfou9
He m1 Elizabeth daughter of William Rede / Read of Beccles & Wickford by Margaret Towley
Children - 2 sons and 6 daughters.
1. Wllliam Steward, of Gaulthorp / Goldthorpe Hall, Swardeston & Welbourne m Elizabeth daughter of Christopher Jenny / Jenney by Elizabeth heiress of Sir William Eyre of Cressingham
1. Elizabeth 1520-1575 m Thomas Sotherton, Mayor of Norwich d1583 son of Nicholas Sotherton, Mayor of Norwich and Agnes Wright flic.kr/p/N4wjYr (St John Maddermarket)
2. Cecily m Ralph son of Sir Ralph Shelton 1534 & Mary daughter of Robert Brome by Olivia (?) widow of John Jenney: Ralph junior was the grandson of Sir Ralph Shelton 1597 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8i85W9 & Margaret Clere flic.kr/p/yHd46N
3. Barbara d1600 m of Christopher Layer, Mayor of Norwich d1610 of Chelsworth, son of John Layer and Elizabeth daughter of John Briggs of Marsham
4. Faith 1523-1580 m John Aldridge d1583 of St. Clement's, Norwich (mayor in 1558) son of John Aldrich, MP, Alderman & Mayor of Norwich (their daughter Ann m Francis Rugg 3 times mayor www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/jP4Qpw )
5. Anne m Robert Wood, Mayor of Norwich d1590
He m2 Alice daughter of Henry Repps of Marshland & West Walton
Children - a son and 2 daughters.
1. Edward
2. Alice m John Aldrich of Mangreen Hall, Swardeston son of Thomas (Mayor) Aldrich & Cicely daughter of Richard Bishop, of Yarmouth
The village of Threxton has mostly gone with the exception of the farm & a few cottages. I had been visiting Little Cressingham & I came across this Church quite by chance on seeing a round tower looming up in the countryside, so stopped to investigate as you do....
The Church is situated next to a farm & the first thing I noticed, apart from the very pretty Church, was a very strong farmyard smell in the air on a hot summer afternoon.
There is a barrier around part of the Church as restoration is underway; although most of it seems to be internal. The Medieval Church has a late 13th Century tower. The Church was unlocked, although the large heavy door, needed a bit of force to open it. The inside is beautiful with decorative wall arches. Part of the Church was sheeted with plastic sheeting from roof to floor, but it was a weekday & 4pm & no workmen about, so I ducked down under the sheeting to get a picture of one of the stained glass windows.
The Church of St Andrew
The tower collapsed in th 18thc and the west end of the nave is also in ruins.
I wus carryin’ my pack along the dusty Wymondham road,
When along came a tractor with a high and canvas-covered load.
“If you gorn to Wymondham, bor, with me you can ride.”
And so I climbed into the cab and then settled down inside.
He asked me if I’d seen a rud with so much dust and sand.
And I say, “Listen, I’ve travelled every rud in this hare land!”
I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.
I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.
Of travel, I’ve had my share man.
I’ve been everywhere.
I’ve been to:
Gimingham, Trimingham, Bressingham, Bessingham,
Banningham, Briningham, Cressingham, Lessingham,
Rudham, Ludham, Bodham, Bacton,
Thurton, Merton, Binham, Wacton,
Denver, Cranworth, Croxton, Cromer
North Creake and South Creake, I’m a loner.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.
I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.
Of travel, I’ve had my share man.
I’ve been everywhere.
I’ve been to:
Hemsby, Clippesby, Stokesby, Thrigby,
Filby, Billockby, Rollesby, Oby
Happisburgh, Tasburgh, Smallburgh, Narborough,
Trowse, Trunch, Attleborough, Oxborough,
East Winch, West Winch, Wiveton, Barton Broad,
Wroxham Broad, Ranworth Broad, Decoy Broad, good Lord.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.
I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.
Of trouble, I’ve had my share man.
I’ve been everywhere.
I’ve been to:
Upwell, Outwell, Brundall, Bradwell,
Ashill, How Hill, Snarehill, Bunwell,
Larling, Harling, Kelling, Blickling,
Haddiscoe, Saddlebow, Diss, Hickling,
Cranwich, Crostwight, Crostwick, Dumpling Green,
Pudding Norton, Quarles, see what I mean.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.
I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.
Of travel, I’ve had my share man.
I’ve been everywhere.
I’ve been to:
Sea Palling, Wood Dalling, Stanford, Barford,
Hainford, Horstead, Langford, Narford,
Walsingham, Weasenham, Watton, Woodbastwick,
Pentney, Potter, Pensthorpe, Postwick
Rockland, Ringland, Ringstead, Norwich City,
Deopham, Reepham, Dereham, what a pity.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.
I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.
Of travel, I’ve had my share man.
I’ve been everywhere.
On January 31, 2015, an estimated 5,000 people braved the rain and the cold to march on City Hall, on the 'March for Homes,' to tell London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, that drastic action is needed on housing; specifically, controls on the private rental market, protection for social housing, and, ideally, a massive, not-for-profit, social homebuilding programme. This photo is of residents from Cressingham Gardens Estate in Tulse Hill, a 1960s estate overlooking Brockwell park, which Lambeth Council wants to hand over to developers to demolish, rebuild and gentrify rather than repairing it; in the process, of course, pricing existing tenants out of the neighbourhood, and probably the borough.
Saturday's marchers came from the Elephant & Castle in south east London and Shoreditch in east London, and I was both surprised and impressed that so many people had refused to let the atrocious weather put them off. The protest had real passion and energy, which to be honest, was unsurprising given the extent of the housing crisis in London, with mortgages unaffordable for ordinary working people, rents spiralling out of control, unscrupulous landlords unfettered by any kind of legislation to protect tenants, and developers making more and more unaffordable new properties for a marketplace swimming with foreign investors, vying with rich Britons to fleece ordinary workers and to drive the unfortunately unemployed out of London altogether.
For further information, see my recent article: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2015/01/29/join-the-march-for-h...
For my archive of articles about the housing crisis, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/tag/housing-crisis/
Also see the March for Homes website: marchforhomes.org/
See the Guardian's report here: www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/31/hundreds-gather-l...
For an article in the Guardian by a resident of Cressingham Gardens, see: www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2014/oct/18/lambeth-c...
For the campaign website, see: www.savecressinghamgardens.co.uk/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
A disused wasps' nest in the window of St Andrew's, Little Cressingham, Norfolk. The nest is started in spring by the queen. It is the size of a golf ball and made from chewed wood fibre. The queen, having once established the nest, spends the rest of her life giving birth. Enlargement of the nest, and all else, is taken over by the worker wasps.