Ellingham and Kirby Cane photograph archive

Joy and Paul Hanlan (Sarah Hanlan)

Gail and Raffaele Trevola of The Olive Tree Restaurant (Simon Buck)

Frederick William Bale at The Nurseries, Yarmouth Road Ellingham (Ian Bale)

Frederick William Bale at The Nurseries, Yarmouth Road Ellingham. (Ian Bale)

Nigel Bale ran the floristry side of The Nurseries, Yarmouth Road, Ellingham (Ian Bale)

The Rev David Smith on the occasion of his Licensing as Priest-in-Charge of the new Raveningham and Waveney Benefices.4th March 2020, St Mary's, Ellingham. (Diana Wadley)

Jamie Napier at the Wedding of Edward and Hermione Crisp. Kirby Cane Church Warden.

James and Peggy Lawrence (superimposed) at The Old Post Office, Kirby Cane. 1983

(James Lawrence)

Mrs Peggy Lawrence wife of James died in February 2014, after 68 years of marriage. They moved to The Old Post office, Kirby Cane in 1983 and together they renovated the cottage, preserving many of the original features which dated back to 1885. The post Office closed in 1917. It was run by the same family (John Baker- Flowers followed by his wife Mary and daughter Lucy) all those years. Peggy Lawrence was a Commissioner for the Girl Guide Association for the district of Harlesden in Middlesex East. 

James has written many poems dedicated to Peggy. Here is an excerpt from one called 'Sweetheart'                                                                                                                 Peggy Primrose was her name                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Haberdashery was her game                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Standing in the window looking fair                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A boy nearby gives a friendly stare...….                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Next day they did meet                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As they collided in the street                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Fate had played a winning strand                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                             So he took her by the hand                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                    Now together they will be for eternity                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                 I was that boy.

(James provided the archive with pictures and information from his research on the post office.)

David Nobbs at the Memorial Hall (Deanna Saunders)

Dave Gladwell 

Beryl Axton, Doreen Letheren and Florrie Curtis (long serving caretaker/cleaner of the Memorial Hall) (Ron Letheren)

Queen's Golden Jubilee June 2002. Left to right: Kathy and David Arterton, Ron and Doreen Letheren, Roy Spall, Sheila Tomkinson, Sheila Spall, Ann Hood, Tony Tomkinson, ? Joyce and Frank Harms.

Doreen Letheren, Frank Harms, Hilda Wickenden Ron Letheren and Margaret Gillies. (Ron Letheren)

Joanne Mitchelle and Julie Hood (Ron Letheren)

Doreen and Ron Letheren on Ron's 70th Birthday August 1993. (Ron Letheren)

Ron cutting his 70th birthday cake Aug 1993 (Ron Letheren)

Ann Hood (Ron Letheren)

Frances Mitchelle, Derek Hood, Doreen Letheren. (Ron Letheren)

Back Row from left: Doreen Letheren, Derek Hood,Richard Sparham. Seated:

Frank Harms, Ann Hood, Joyce Harms. (Ron Letheren)

Lynne and Iain Wright (Ron Letheren)

Maureen Webbe (Ron Letheren)

Sheila and Tony Tomkinson (Ron Letheren)

Sheila Spall (Ron Letheren)

Ann and Derek Hood (Ron Letheren)

Francis and husband (Ron Letheren)

Kathy Arterton and Rhys Lloyd (Ron's brother-in-law) (Ron Letheren)

John Lowrey, Deborah Preston, Ann Barleycorn. (Ron Letheren)

Mrs Ann Chapman and John Lowrey (Ron Letheren)

Ron Letheren with Sarah Hanlan at Music in the Park September 2019 (Diana Wadley)

Gwennie Moore, Lily Brown, Nonie Doddington. ( Gwennie Moore)

Mr and Mrs Moore and children outside All Saints Cottage, Mill Road, Kirby Cane. Mr Moore in postman's uniform.

(Gwennie Moore)

Royal Arthur John Watson Page with Mrs Page and Mike. They lived at Heimat Yarmouth Road until Mike was two. (Mike Page)

Royal Arthur John Watson Page, skipper in the RNR, killed on HMS Fir while at sea, an accident where a shell exploded, Thursday 3rd December 1942 (Mike Page)

Mrs Minna Page (Mike Page)

Robert Bussingham, known as Charlie Bob, worked with horses and completed in ploughing and pulling matches when he retired. he won numerous trophies. pictured here with his two horses in a field in Newgate. (Sybil Bussingham)

Robert Bussingham, winner of the pulling contest at the Soham Show

Bob's Panxworth Dawn and Charlie Girl foal (Sybil Bussingham)

Charlie Bob at a ploughing match (Sybil Bussingham)

Charlie Bob with ploughing team (Sybil Bussingham)

Gordon was born in Kirby Cane in 1939 in the cottage behind Hastings House opposite The Bird In Hand. He was in the Merchant Navy for 40 years.

Mrs Dorothy Wright outside the Airey House, Mill Lane. (Iain Wright)

The Read family and friends (Gordon Read)

Gordon's mother on the left. (Gordon Read)

Mr Read, Gordon's father. (Gordon Read)

Joe Pye (Joe Pye)

Joe Pye, Silver Jubilee George V. (Joe Pye)

Molly and Gwen Pye. Corner of Newgate. (Joe Pye)

Molly and Gwen and brothers (Joe Pye)

Molly and Gwen Pye on wall of house in Mill Road (Joe Pye)

Joe Pye's parents in a meadow off Newgate. (Joe Pye)

The Pye boys and dog. (Joe Pye)

Barbara Turner at Sheep Walk Farm, the future Mrs Joe Pye. (Joe Pye)

Gordon Webster of Sheep Walk Farm. (Jonny Peart)

Gordon Webster in later years pictured at Sheep Walk Farm (Jonny Peart)

Harry Webster, Gordon's father. (Jonny Peart)

David Pilgrim. A lay evangelist.Born 1863. Died in South Africa aged 28 The extension to the Methodist Chapel was built in memory of

him. (Jonny Peart)

David Webster and his father Henry took on Sheep Walk Farm and lived next door to the Turners, who owned the farm. (Jonny Peart)

Jonny with his sister and Uncle Gordon, at Sheep Walk farm. (Jonny Peart)

Jenny Webster with ? at the rear of Sheep  Walk Farm (Jonny Peart)

Sheep Walk Farm house with espalier pear tree. Jenny and her Grandad David Webster, who lived at the farm until he died in the early 90s (Jonny Peart)

The Snowlings. Will standing, Bertie on the right, Edward centre and Freddie seated on the left. Edward Snowling was a farmer, butcher and cattle dealer He farmed Hill Farm and Church Farm. He was Geoff's grandfather. (Geoff Appleton)

Mr Robert Burcham (Alma Harvey)

Winifred Mary Cossey, born 1889, married George Burcham. He died in 1967. Alma's parents (Alma Harvey)

Mr Robert Cossey senior (born 1850 died 1938.) He married Suzannah Anna Crowe (born 1874, died 1938) grandparents of Alma Harvey (Alma Harvey)

Mr George and Mrs Winifred Burcham outside The Red House Home Farm Road, Ellingham. Alma's parents (Alma Harvey)

Mr and Mrs Burcham with Zita and Julie (evacuees) and their mother. (Alma Harvey)

Julie died during a storm when descending K2

On the left: Mr and Mrs Burcham and Alma outside The Red House. On the right: Alma, Vivian Harvey, Zita and Julie. (Alma Harvey)

Alma with Vivian Harvey (Alma Harvey)

Mr and Mrs Burcham with Zita and Julie, evacuee girls, outside The Red House  (Alma Harvey)

Mrs Burcham on right, Alma standing, others unknown (Alma Harvey)

Alma Harvey and friend ? (Alma Harvey)

Mr and Mrs Bob Turner. (she nee Joan Harvey) (Alma Harvey)

The Webster family (three generations) of Sheep Walk Farm. Daisy Harvey seated right. (Alma Harvey)

George and Winifred Burcham. (Alma Harvey)

The family thought to have kept the grocery shop at Ellingham West (Alma Harvey)

Diana Burcham and family (nee Holden) She worked at Ellingham School. (Diana Burcham)

Left to right: Vivian Harvey, Rev Pert, Reg Harvey (Alma Harvey)

Grace Youngman (Alma Harvey)

The Rev Gentry on Reg Harvey's shoulders 

Pat Guilding ? ? (possibly Andrew) (Carol Jacobs)

The Rev Pert and Mrs Rosetta Pert with daughters Mary and Ruth (Ruth Aird)

Baby Sue, Ruth and Mary Pert. (Ruth Aird)

Alastair Aird with Mrs Pert outside Ellingham Church on the occasion of Ellingham Convention 50th Anniversary 1989. (Ruth Aird)

The Chapman children of Diary Farm. The Chapmans came to dairy Farm in 1909. Lawrence Christmas Chapman  and his wife Mary Jane Hume had eight children. Their son John Christian took over the tenancy when Lawrence died in 1936. John and his wife, Phyllis Myall had four children. He died in 1919 and his son Alan runs the farm now with his wife Pat and son Jonathan (Hannah Westgarth) Hannah is Alan Chapman's daughter.

A Chapman family gathering (Hannah Westgarth)

The Chapman lads: John George and Robert at Dairy Farm (Hannah Westgarth)

Chapman family gathering (Hannah Westgarth)

The Chapman ladies (Hannah Westgarth)

Chapman's horse and cart (Hannah Westgarth)

Mr Hinsley, Mrs Minns, Headmistress of Ellingham School and Janet Crane

McMillan Coffee morning Sept 2013. Left to right: Mike Price, Mary Price, Maureen Webb, Brian Fookes, Margaret Smith, Jo Lines, Ann Chapman, Elizabeth Ward, Ann Barleycorn. (Diana Wadley)

Mary and Eric Zeichner, founder members of the Computer Club (Diana Wadley)

Bill and Val Jenner at a soup lunch January 2019 (Diana Wadley)

Yvonne and Stuart Philips (Diana Wadley)

Diana and John Lowrey 1st January 2019 at The Memorial Hall Lunch. John is a reader in the Waveney Benefice (now including Raveningham) He was initially in the Merchant Navy and trained in radar communications, finally working for Decca at Lowestoft Marine Communications, servicing equipment. He later worked for Harvey's undertakers where he stayed for 11 years becoming second in command. Diana has a wonderful singing voice and has been singing since she was eleven in choirs and solo. She was a founder member of The Waveney Light Opera. She was in Jo Gooderham's Christmas plays at Kirby Cane Memorial Hall.

(Diana Wadley)

Mr and Mrs Ben Hinsley with presentation clock for 50 years service to The Methodist Chapel as Sunday School Superintendant (Derek Hinsley)

Joseph (born 1865 died 1926) and Agnes Harvey (nee Brown) (born 1870c died 1940) parents of Jack, Hilda, Charles, Celia, Gladys and Reginald. Reginald married Winifred Daisy Clerk but died aged 37. (Alma Harvey)

John (born about 1832, died 1921) and Celia (born about 1841) Harvey. They had eleven children, all still living in 1911. (Their son, Joseph was grandfather to Reg Harvey.) They lived for some time at Mud Hall, School Road, Kirby Cane, now called Thatched Cottage.(Alma Harvey)

Joe and Reg Harvey rear of The Nest, Mill Road. (Lorna Neale)

Hazel Rachel Girling (born 1927, died 1999) Married Reginald Darwin Harvey) (Andrew Harvey)

Charles and May Harvey with Lorna, Muriel, Joe and Reg (Andrew Harvey)

Parents Charles and May Harvey with Reg in Boys' Brigade uniform. Little girl unknown.(Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey (Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey on an outing, Winona Doddington behind them. (Andrew Harvey)

Janet, Marilyn, Andrew and Susan Harvey (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey with the Rev Fred Gentry (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey in the old workshop at the undertakers. Reg wearing his Chairman's badge of the Norwich and Norfolk local Association of the National Association of Funeral Directors. (NAFD) (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey,as President and his son Andrew as Chairman of the Norwich and Norfolk NAFD, at Newgate undertakers. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg's Ordination at Norwich Cathedral: Bishop Maurice Wood, Andrew anf Louise with baby  Gemma, Susan and Paul on the left and Hazel behind. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey with Bishop Maurice Wood - reg's ordination at Norwich Cathedral (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey with the Revd. Bob Fillery, Revd. Jim Armour and Muriel Guilding. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg composing one of his many sermons (Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey outside the old Mission Church, Yarmouth Road, Kirby Cane. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey with mother-in-law, Florence Girling (Andrew Harvey)

May Harvey at the rear of The Nest, Mill Road. (Andrew Harvey)

Charles Harvey with two young Harveys (Andrew Harvey)

Mrs Dorothy Wright outside the Airey House Mill Lane (Iain Wright)

Frederick Wright (Fredie) House in background were in Mill Close, now demolished. (Iain Wright)

Family outside cottage in Mill Close, now demolished. (Iain Wright)

Bob Spinks, the Blacksmith.(Rosemary Crisp)

Jeanne Coran with her prize winning dog (Terry Coran)

Jeanne Coran with her prize winning dogs (Terry Coran)

Lily Scruton from Kirby Cane has eaten Parravani's ice cream all her life and aged 100 Dominic presents her with free ice cream for the rest of her life. The inset shows her and a friend aged 17 with Augie Parravani, Dominic's great uncle, on his horse-drawn  ice cream cart. The same rounds are done today that were done 112 years ago.

Lily Scruton, from Kirby Cane, aged 102, their oldest customer, celebrating the company's move to Beccles from Chedgrave, with Paul Parravani. 

Lily Scruton Xmas 1987 (Annetta Saunders)

Giuseppe and Caterina Parravani's wedding, Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral 1909. They moved their business from Bungay to Dull's Farm, Ellingham., where they kept a herd of cows.

Parravani's ice cream cart at Leet Hill Farm (John Cook)

Two horse drawn carts at Dull's farm

Early motor van converted from a car just before the war (Sharon Parravani)

Bungay 1910.Horse drawn cart with Giuseppi, Caterina and baby Anna.(Sharon Parravani)

Picture from Driftermen by David Butcher

Ernest Fiske MBE (for services to the fishing industry in1970) winner of the Prunier Trophy in 1964; a competition each year for the biggest herring catch brought in in one night. Know as 'Jumbo' he was born in Kirby Cane in 1905. He left the land aged 17 to go to sea. He died in 1977 by which time the Yarmouth and Lowestoft fishing industry had virtually ended. He is said to be the greatest herring skipper of the twentieth century. To quote from The Driftermen by David Butcher " Jumbo Fiske dominated the fishing industry for over 30 years.... His giant frame and matching exploits made him a legend in his own lifetime and stories told about him are legion" He fished all year round and went far afield. He was cousin to the journalist Robert Fiske.

Furture information from Iain Wright:

Ernie (Jumbo) Fiske was Iain Wright's uncle. Iain's brother sailed with him for a while on trawlers. There are several paintings of his boats at Lowestoft Maritime Museum, many of them by Joe Crowfoot, a cousin of Iain's. Iain can remember visiting Jumbo's wife, Aunt Edie, and listening on the radio to the returning fishing boats. Jumbo was a big man and incredibly dextrous and would magically move a sixpence between his thick fingers while Iain would try to guess where it was.

PC Hooper outside Rosebay, Church Road Kirby Cane (Iain Wright)

PC Hooper outside The Police House, Yarmouth Road, Austin 7 and Corgi (Iain Wright) PC Knights was Ellingham's first resident policeman. In 1938 PC Stevens took over the beat until 1940. Prior to 1930 the village was policed by the Ditchingham PC.

Rev Jarrold and Miss Smith (Lorna Neale)

Miss Margaret Thomas of Ellingham Mill with Alistair Aird.  Miss Thomas RBA NEAC died on Easter Day 2016 she would have been 100 on 26th September 2016. She moved to the Mill in 1984 from The Watch House at Orford Quay. She trained at Slade School of Fine Art and The Royal Academy Schools.  Most of all she is known for her personal style of still life- a 'momento mori' - dying flowers. She was a member of the New English Art Club and Royal Society of British Artists. She exhibited in many famous galleries. Many of her paintings are of her surroundings of the Mill and the River Waveney from where she sought inspiration. (Ruth Aird)

Miss Thomas was an arctophile, a collector of teddy bears. This is Lord  Bruin, dressed for Christmas and taken to her wake. Pictured here courtesy of Nicky Aubrey, Miss Thomas's successor at the Mill, who keeps Miss Thomas's studio on the top floor as it was when she died.

Miss Margaret Thomas at the official opening of the Jubilee gates at Ellingham Mill (Paul Farrow)

Vaughan Smith of Ellingham Hall. Vaughan was an Officer in the Grenadier Guards. He captained the Army shooting team and won the inter army rifle shooting championship. In the 1990s he worked as an indepedent cameraman and video journalist covering wars and conflict in Iraq, Afganistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo and elsewhere. When he failed to get press accreditation to cover the Gulf War he impersonated a British Army Officer and spent two months filming the conflict in 1991. During the 1990s he ran the Frontline News TV and won many awards. He has been shot twice, saved once by a bullet being lodged in his mobile phone. In 2003 he founded The Frontline Club in London as an institution to champion independent journalism and promote better understanding of international news. In 2010 he gave refuge to Julian Assange. Vaughan's first wife was Sanela Djono (1996-2001) and in 2005 he married his present wife Pranvera Shema.

Vaughan Smith at Ellingham Hall serving guests. (from his website)

A Church event. Guests including Bill Jenner, Ann Hood, Rev ? Michael Preston, Nonie Doddington. (Hilda Wickenden)

Margaret Gillies

Carol Jacobs' Aunt Winnie with Pat Guilding; Christening. (Carol Jacobs)

Sue and Jim Bearne at Leet Hill (Sue Bearne)

Val and Colin Tuthill at The Music in the Park Event (Diana Wadley)

Hilda Wickenden at home, Old Post Office Lane, Kirby Cane, 11th August 2015 (Diana Wadley)

Rodham Gooch. When drifters and trawlers ceased Rod skippered the CEFAS research vessel BOSTON DEEP SEA (Diana Wadley)

Richard Lees at Ellingham School Fete, showing the children's ideas for the village sign, which he later carved. (Diana Wadley)

Canoe Trip: Graham and Elizabeth Smith and Richard Lees (Paul Farrow)

Billy Baldry on his 100th birthday. He worked at Hall Farm Kirby Cane. Joe Pye seated next him. (Joe Pye)

Portrait of Billy Baldry by Hilda Wickenden 1989.

Chris East of Roseway, Church Road, fossil collector.(Diana Wadley)

Chris East, painstakingly, revealing an Ichthyosaur in his workshop. (Diana Wadley)

Karen East (and Chris) at their fossil stall, Memorial Hall Table Top sale (Diana Wadley) 

Carol Jacobs on the left and Betty Askew at The Forge, Yarmouth Road, Bob Spinks, The Blacksmith. (Carol Jacobs)

Mrs Hilda Violet Wickenden pictured here in Australia. Born at Earsham Sept 1922 died October 2016. (Mike Wickenden)

Roger Turner, Kirby Cane Shop and Post Office.

Julie Richardson at Ellingham School Fete. (Robin Richardson)

Julie Richardson and Santa 12/12/2014 (Diana Wadley)

Lyndon Pallett owner of Kirby Cane Quarry with his little dog, Kirby. (Diana Wadley)

Mrs Carol Day, 2014 Memorial Hall, Kirby Cane. (Diana Wadley)

Terry and Jeanne Coran and Peggy Docwra Table Top Sale 2014 (Diana Wadley)

Dorothy and Geoff Stevens, pictured here at a Computer Club Christmas party. (Diana Wadley)

Len and Frances Chirola on the left. They took over running the Bingo Club after Percy Wright and Ray Doddington. Len was involved with Jo Gooderham's Christmas Concerts and as Parish Clerk illustrated the hand written minutes. (Frances Chirola)

Sydna and Les Elliot, moved to 42 Yarmouth Road, Ellingham in 1957. They rented the house from Mrs Nursey and later bought it for £800. It was damp and had a well and cess pit. There were cows in the fields opposite and behind at Row Farm, where Harold and George Hinsley farmed. Sydna bought vegetables from Harold who lived at Belle View Cottage and cultivated the land where Applewood and The Bramleys stabd today. Sydna's dad paid for her to go on a short hand and typing course. Her first job was junior clerk at Moorlands in Beccles, then moved to the printing works and Co-op. She soon had her two daughters, Sarah and Helen. She took her daughters to work as home help to Mrs Richardson, who enjoyed playing with them. Sydna eventually became manager at a council run care home in Norwich. On retirement she and Les toured Britain in their camper van. Les had an extensive workshop where he did carpentry. (Information from Sydna, January 2015)

Valerie Rogers of Mill Road, Ellingham, January 2015. She writes under the name of V.A. Radcliff and after years of writing stories and poems she has seen her children's book, 'Let's Seek an Adventure' go into print. The book features three stories in one and is aimed at younger children. Her poodle and labradoodle, Katie and Nicky feature in the story. (Picture from The Beccles and Bungay Journal)

Mike Skipper, retired Farm Manager at Hall Farm Kirby Cane. The gentleman to the right is Ernest Sulivan, father of Julie Pickering. Julie was joint fundraiser for the new play equipment and Parish councillor. Mike is also a Parish Councillor and Memorial Hall Trustee. (Diana Wadley)

Deborah and Michael Preston at All Saints Kirby Cane on a Charity bike ride.