Thatched Cottage, School Road, Kirby Cane. (Formerly known as Mud Hall)
Ellingham and Kirby Cane photograph archive
The Milestone, Yarmouth Road, Ellingham, which once read Bungay 3 Yarmouth 15
Church Farm, Mill Lane Ellingham.
Church Farm, Mill Lane, Ellingham
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As above: Mud Hall, School Road, Kirby Cane, opposite the present Well Terrace, date and persons unknown but after 1879 - could possibly be John and Celia Harvey, Jack Harvey's Grandparents were known to have lived there and brought up 11 children.
The cottage consisted of two dwellings each with 3 rooms. The 1881 Census recorded 6 families living there: 15 adults and 12 children! The families were the Harveys, Laights, Prestons, Murtons, Falgates, and Parfitts. On 5th March 1920 it was auctioned at The King's Head and sold to Charles Tills (senior) Farmer. He died in 1927. His widow, Priscilla inherited the cottage and sold it to Ernest Aubrey Tills for £104 on 5th February 1932. He and his wife Gladys Elizabeth changed the name to Thatched House. Ernest died in the house on November 28th 1949. Gladys continued to live there for a total of 46 years. (Information from Valerie Peek and the Census)