(W Wayman , 1890. Mr Howes , no 23 . First Sergant and Line Marker ) . “Copy of the Articles of Enrolment, and the Rules and Regulations of the Downham Cavalry, composed of Gentlemen and Yeomen in the Hundred and Half of Clackclose, in the county of Norfolk . Downham , Printed by Robert […]
.WAR MEMORIAL IN ST EDMUND`S DOWNHAM MARKET WAR MEMORIAL DOWNHAM MARKET DOWNHAM`S FALLEN HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR ASHBY , ARTHUR JOHN . Born 1883 Rugby : in 1911 lodging with Mrs Elizabeth Canham in Bexwell Road ; builders clerk . Enlisted Downham , Machine Gun Corps . Killed in action in an air-raid on […]
300 YEARS OF CARING The Poor House to High Haven St Mark`s Gospel chapter 14 verse 7 in the King James version has ” For ye have the poor with you always , and whensoever ye will ye may do them good . “ For as long as the church of St Edmund has stood […]
copyright Eastern Daily Press : Images of Norfolk 1995. The Great Ouse Flood Protection Scheme was a massive undertaking . The river rises in Northamptonshire and runs 165 miles out to King`s Lynn. The first of the very bad flooding in living memory came in 1947 following the thaw of a record breakingly cold winter […]
At the end , on that hot August Saturday , on Norwich Castle hill , there was a delay. A rumour of a reprieve ” and the execution not taking place until half past one , gave strength to that rumour . ” But no urgent galloping horse, no urgent running man brought a reprieve […]
TOP NEWS ENGLISH HERITAGE HAVE LISTED AND SAVED THE SIGNAL BOX AT DOWNHAM AS OF JULY 2013. As early as 1824 , the dawn of the railway era, a prospectus of the Norfolk and Suffolk Rail Road company was being circulated in the newspapers of the day , in themselves a new form of communication […]
No doubt in the depths of the National Archives and in sources in the Norfolk Record Office like the Quarter Sessions , as yet un indexed, there would be more about crime and punishment in Downham and district . These are just a few of the problems which beset the authorities in the first half […]
Summary of the will of Henry Saffrey PROB 11/583 In the name of God , Amen. I Henry Saffery of Downham Market , gent , being indisposed in body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding praise be God for the same . Item I give and devise to my very loving brother […]