Gallery of Sprowston People

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Contained in this gallery are images that include people either in groups or as portraits who either lived, worked or had a connection with Sprowston. To date this is only a selection of what is contained within the archive. In many cases we do not know the names of the people within these images and frequently when they were taken or what the occasion was. If you can help fill in the missing information we would love to hear from you via the contact page. Contact Us

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  1958 - Sprowston Secondary Modern School. Football team.
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  Albert Ward, organist and member of the Church, poses here in the festive surroundings.
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  May Hardingham an undated photograph for more see Hardingham Family.
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  Michael Falcon in his cricket whites, more information in the Falcon Family article.
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  Rosa Graver married Charles S. Fowler.
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  L to R Betty Ashford, Ruby Ashford and Dorothy Ashford all three worked for the Florida Shoe Company on Salhouse Road
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road, Class 1A, 1954
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  Mrs. Hilda Breeze Landlady of the Royal Oak Public House on North Walsham Road.
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  Henry Yellop at Home Farm.
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  Miss Francis Edith Ellis was born in 1875, in 1905.
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  William Cozens-Hardy.
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  Caroline Cozens Hardy 1890.
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  A portrait of Mark Ivan Lusher of Lusher Builders.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School - Form Photograph 1961 – 1962
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School - Form Photograph Class 4B in 1955
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  Black Horse Public House - Fishing Club
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  Regulars of the Royal Oak Public House enjoying a 'mardle' and drink. From left to right: Mr Fred Quadling (80), Mr Bob Minter (89), Mr George Websdale (85), Mr George Henry (80), Mr Rueben Thacker (80), Mr Bert Savoury (72) and Mr Sid Turner (72). The combined ages of these fine fellows is 558 years
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  John Ellis shoe manufacturer.
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  John Ellis shoe manufacturer.
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  A group of Florida Shoe Company workers.
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  Local ARP wardens Janet & Sidney Grenville 1940s.
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  Inspecting the finished product at one of the Sprowston kilns.
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  Two unknown people standing in front of 3 of the local kilns.
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  Norwich City Electric Tramway personnel.
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  Portrait Ivan William Lusher of Lusher Builders.
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  Catherine Gurney second left? at Sprowston Hall.
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  Blyth family at their home – 1918.
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  Charles Samuel Fowler WW1 casualty.
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  Children of Rosa and Charles Fowler.
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  The Hardingham’s.
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  Hardingham family group.
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  Florida netball team in 1957.
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  Florida Shoe Company workers in 1961.
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  Sprowston Civil Defence volunteers 1940.
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  William Slaymaker Lusher photographed laying bricks.
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  William Hardingham in his garden on Sidney Row.
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  Joan Blyth`s grandmother, Church Row Cottages – 1901.
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  Anne and Henry Yellop at Home Farm.
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  Adelman Goodman founder of Florida Shoe Company.
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  Barnards Wireweavers at the Coslany site in 1910.
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  Arthur Clark born 1890, shown in uniform 1914.
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  Harrison Family at their home alongside the mill.
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  Norfolk British Legion, Horace (John) Harrison middle row 2nd left.
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  Wilks Farm barn and yard Alan Notley playing.
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  Wilks Farm semi det cottages with Notley family group.
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  Florida Shoe Company 21st anniversary dinner in 1957.
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  Goodman family at the 25th anniversary dinner in 1961.
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  Goodman family at the 25th anniversary dinner in 1961.
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  1945 - VE Day party in Rushmore Close.
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  1945 - VE Day party in Rushmore Close.
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  1945 - VE Day party in Rushmore Close.
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  1941 - David Best in the back garden looking towards Barkers Lane.
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  Official opening of Cottage Plantation on Blue Boar Lane .
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  Sprowston Tennis Club Tournament. More information on tennis clubs in Sprowston is required – can you help?
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  Sprowston Girls' Training Corps.
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  Bert Hardingham - World War 1.
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  William Hardingham Senior with Great Grandchildren.
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  White House Farm - Richard Gurney & Geof Buckingham.
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  The Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935 being celebrated in Hooper Lane.
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  Gurney family of Sprowston Hall on motorcycles.
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  Florida Shoe Factory Bowls Club.
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  Sprowston Minors Football Team 1949/50.
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  Coughtrey Close Residents get engaged.
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  Tennis Club Outing to Hemsby 1963.
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  Sprowston Girls' Training Corps 1943.
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  Alfred Douglas and Anna Hardingham Wedding.
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  Sprowston High School Annual prizegiving day.
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  St John Ambulance Brigade Centenary. 1980?
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  J.J.Dixon, milk delivery, prior to the van.1930s.
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  Simon Goodman, chairman and managing director of the Florida Shoe Company.
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  Royal Artillery Sergeant at Mousehold Barracks.
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  Sprowston High School. Crafts / Design Technology.
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  Mr. Reeve’s Form - 1998. Sprowston High School.
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  Coughtrey Close birthday party for three resident.
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  Pat. and Barbara working on the tapestry.
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  Sprowston High School hosts international gala: 1983.
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  Sprowston High School students Shelley, Chris and Leanne.
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  The Reverend John Peters (Methodist) and granddaughter Chloe.
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  Dr Rudolph Carlson, G.P. Monkswell House, Sprowston Road.
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  Civil Defence, Sprowston. The Author, Diana Grenville.
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  The Fowler family members of Sprowston choir 1912.
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  Passing and packing department Start-rite Shoe¬¬
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  Mr. & Mrs A. Clark date 1950.
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  Group outside the Methodist Church 1980s.
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  Lushers workforce photograph taken late 1920s.
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  Mick Gamble Sprowston cyclist in 2000s.
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  Andrew Clark, son of Arthur (b.1927), date 1940.
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  Church Boys - 1940s.
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  Annie Walker ~ 1922, with her new bicycle in front of the Parish Church entrance.
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  L to R Clara, daughter of Elizabeth and William Harrison Mill House ~ 1860`s.
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  Mr and Mrs Walker at the Senior Citizens Club.
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  Civil Defence, Sprowston. Bill Cousins World War 2.
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  Barnard's employee Fred Lack 4th Generation at company.
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  The Sprowston Wheelers cycle club taken at the Brickmakers in 1952.
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  Florida 'Clickers' Outing', Early 1960s.
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  Church Outing in the 1950s.
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  Church Outing to Hunstanton -1950s.
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  Party dressed in costume outside The Brickmakers the occasion is unrecorded. This was the original Brickmakers on Sprowston Road.
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  Some of the first tenants at Coughtrey Close. 1970s.
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  A Silver Jubilee Street Party. The 1970s.
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  Sprowston High School Christmas Lunch. The 1970s.
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  The Walker daughters ~ 1931, Olave (Sturman), Dora (Chettleburgh), Marjorie (Fowler), Gladys (Dashwood). In brackets husbands surname.
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  1950s Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. Netball team.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School?, Cannerby Lane. 2nd Year Football Team.
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  Julie, Helen, Sandra and Sarah. Sprowston High School 1983 - 5th year.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Mr Meatyard with some of his class in 1967.
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  Sprowston Memorial Book being presented to Sprowston Town Council in 2014.
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  Taken at the Brickmakers PH 1951, “The Hard Men” 100 milers are ready - Left to Right. Dave Oxbury, Freddie Page, John Panks, Mick Barnes, Mick Gambling, Terry Eames and Peter Clarke.
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  Charles Harrold - Church Youth Fellowship The 1940s.
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  Coughtrey Close: marriage of the Warden 1970s.
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  Sprowston High School visit by Mr.Kenneth Baker. 1980s.
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  Mr. Peter Turney in the finishing and profile dept. Start-rite Shoe.
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  Mr. George Beckett in the making room repairs dept. Start-rite Shoe.
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  Margret Trotter, first Head of Sparhawk First School at her farewell, Easter 1984.
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  Ron Ottaway and Friends in the garden of 2 Cannerby Lane, 1948.
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  British Legion March passing the Methodist Church on Cozens Hardy Road.
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  The School Dinner ladies at Falcon Road Middle School
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  A Coronation Float on Wroxham Road near Blenheim Road
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  Sprowston High School – female students in the 1970s
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  Sprowston High School, Children of Achievement Award, 1990s
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  Lifeguards (Sprowston High School pupils) at Sheringham. 1990s
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  St. Quintin family outside School House, School Lane, c.1946
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  Sprowston Youth Club tour of Manchester. The 1940s
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  James Hanly (1943 - 1985), chairman of Start-rite and Southalls up to 1978.
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  Daughters of Arthur Clark, from top Elsie (b.1918), Joyce (b. 1921) and Audrey (b.1923), date 1925
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  June & David St. Quintin outside School House, School Lane, c1945.
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  William Harrison, miller at Sprowston. Husband of Elizabeth Sarah Robertson. They had one daughter and seven sons.
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  Wedding of Horace John Harrison and Elizabeth Hannah 'Cissie' Grehan. World War 1.
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  Presentations were made to Cecil Gowing on behalf of the Sprowston junior and infants schools.
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  James Sturman standing in front of the old Laundry building on Laundry Lane. 1933
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  Maude and Violet Chamberlain at Church Cottages. The 1920's
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. School Friends 1957
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  The Hayward Family from the Sweetshop at 557 Sprowston Road in 1933
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  David Best in our front garden in Rushmore Close looking towards where Adams road now is.
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  Ethel Hardingham far right. The mode of dress suggests that these ladies were in service, was their place of work Sprowston Hall?
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  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital first lady to become a Surgeon Mrs Rachael Hutchinson attended Sprowston High School.
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  A Teacher demonstrating an old childrens game to year one children of Cecil Gowing First School
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  Cathy Sneddon demonstrating the Bow and Arrow to year one children of Cecil Gowing First School.
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  The Dungers selling Christmas Trees from their home in Blue Boar Lane.
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  The Hardingham Family. The 1940s.
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  1967 - Gerry Best’s wife Gloria working in the garden at 55 Lindsay Road.
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  Olive Barrett's (nee Lee) grandfather in one of the local Brickyards.
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  Coughtrey Close ladies present a knitted blanket to the Norwich North Lions 1980s
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  Planting a tree at the Official Opening of the Cottage Plantation 1985.
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  Photograph of C.S Fowler of the Royal Norfolk Regiment.1879*1915, World War 1.
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  The Reverend Henry Banfather. Vicar St. Mary and St. Margaret from 1818 To 1873.
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  Yellop, Henry, farmer at Home Farm, opposite the Blue Boar. Great grandfather of Kingy Fowler.
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  Archie Cozens Hardy Editor of the EDP from 1897 to 1937. He lived at Oak Lodge, Sprowston.
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  Royal Oak Public House regulars, having a combined total age of 558
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  Picture taken outside of Whitehouse farm Cottages.
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  A day at the Seaside (Church Group). The 1950s.
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  Mr Ottaway and his family in World War 1. Later lived in Coughtrey Close.
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  The Ashford Sisters who worked at the Florida Shoe Factory on Salhouse Road.
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  Sprowston Working Men's Club held at Sprowston Vicarage.
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  The Fowler Brothers & Sisters taken at a wedding in the 1970s.
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  Keith in Sprowston Ace's Speedway Team. The 1950s.
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  Sprowston Clergy at St. Mary & St. Margaret Church. The 1970s.
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  Gattling Gun Cracker "Tiddles" manufactured at the Tom Smith Cracker Factory on Salhouse Road - 1960s.
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  The 0-4-0 class 'Oliver Cromwell 1632' built by Barnards Limited, with Mr. Bower driving.
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  Rev'd David Tuck. Church: St. Mary & St. Margaret. The 1970s.
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  Harry and Florence (nee Pointer) Willmott. Outside the Pointer's cottage on Whitehouse Farm.
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  Olave Walker, standing, and Dora at 4, Church Cottages. The 1920's.
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  Olave and Marjorie Walker, sisters, born at 4 Church Cottages, Sprowston. WW1.
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  Yellop, Henry with Mary Ann his wife, at Home Farm, great grandparents of Kingy Fowler. Both died in 1898.
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  Members of the 10th Platoon Home Guard. World War 2. The 1940s.
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  The opening of Cecil Gowing First School by Mr Cecil Gowing in 1967.
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  The lane leading to White House Farm off Blue Boar Lane. 1960s.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. Good Work! Made in the School Craft Class.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. Incubator Shed made by C.Wade at School, 1956.
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  Andrew Clark, son of Arthur (b.1927), date 1942 horse riding in the pond nearly opposite the Blue Boar PH.
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  Rehearsal of 'The Lost Angel' Nativity play at Sparhawk First School. The 1980s.
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  Hoeing gang during a break on the Church Lane agricultural station in the 1950s.
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  Joan Blyth's Aunts 1910.
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  The Walker daughters in 1931.
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  The opening of the New Methodist Church on Wroxham Road in the 1960s.
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  Walter Shorten was a Baker. Photo taken outside of The Brickmakers Arms Public House. The 1930s.
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  William Graver's daughter Rosa, later Mrs C Fowler, and mother of seven Sprowstonians. The 1960s.
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  Farewell to Rev. and Mrs. Coldwells at St. Mary & St. Margaret Church. The 1970s.
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  Mrs. Hilda Breeze Landlady of the Royal Oak Public House on North Walsham Road.
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  1954 - David Best being presented with a loser's medal by NCFC player Bobby Brennan.
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  David White, chairman of Start-rite shoe factory in 1978 beside a portrait of Charles Winter, the founders Grandson.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. Finished! Bureau made by I. White in School Crafts Class.
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  Roderick and Elizabeth Elphinstone, Innkeeper, Nurseryman and Author. Landlord of the Blue Boar Public House1869 to 1876.
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  The Founder and Original Scoutmaster of the 30th Norwich Scout Troop. The 1990s.
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  Stone House Farm. J.J.Dixon, milk delivery, prior to the van. 1930s.
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  Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Clark who lived in Gertrude road. The 1950s.
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  David Matthews' wedding and the Church Choir, St Mary & Margaret's Church, 1967.
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  'Sports day 1986' at Sparhawk First School. Doreen Ellwood on the right with Pauline Hobbs who succeeded Margaret Trotter as Headteacher in 1984.
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  Annie Walker, with her brand-new bike. She was in service at Beeston St Andrews. The 1920's.
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  Mr. Tom Shephard outside the new community room at Sprowston High with Mr. Peter Sneddon (Chairman Sprowston Heritage).
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  The young lady on the left is the Grandmother of Patricia Wilkinson. (Walker family).
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  Procession in Blue Boar Lane maybe 1955. One of the people on the tractor is Ted Dunger.
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  Blue Boar Lane, Private Road to White House Farm. This man, Geoffrey F Walker became Vicar of Necton, Clapham Lake District and Trowse in the 1950s.
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  Laying the foundation stone in the Methodist Church in the 1958.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. Re-Union: Secondary Modern School Teachers, 45 years on.
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School Cannerby Lane. Mr H. Skidmore, headmaster, presents the Norwich District Athletics Championships Junior Shield to Karen Bales and John Sowter.
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  John Ellis owned a shoe factory near the Denmark where he also founded a Ragged School. He sold up to found the Saltley Reformatory in 1853.
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  Lauretta Maisie Capes. Photographed School Library. Lauretta left the School in March 1964. Note the hairstyle. Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Cannerby Lane.
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  Bennett, Victor, Private , Home Guard 10 Platoon Sprowston. The Lone Barn Cannerby Lane. Later at Sprowston Pavillion, Recreation Ground. World War 2. The 1940s.
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  Violet Walker, as a Land Army Girl in the First Word War with Mr Blyth, a neighbour. (At Dixon's Farm).
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  Wedding photo of Charles Read and Lily Blake. The couple at the back are Lily's Grandparents John and Rose Blake.
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  Mark N. Lusher, Grandson of the founder of the business.
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  Walter Ottaway right and Ted Gowing on left. Ted lived in cottage now demolished near Lone Barn. My grandparents at number 2.
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  Isabel Blake Humfrey, from a photograph by Samuel Gurney in 1900. Married John Gurney in 1871. Born in Wroxham, she later became The Lady Talbot De Malahide wife of the 5th Baron.
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  Miss Frances (Fanny) Ellis, born 1875 in a cottage near the Denmark, used to take tea for the men working in the brickfields, and went to Australia by working her passage.
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  William Slaymaker Lusher, founder of Lusher Builders in 1924. He is pictured here in 1971.
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  William Ivan Lusher, the Son of the founder of the business. He was a Bricklayer by trade.
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  Thousands of Christmas trees being grown in wooden frames for Mr S.E. Gurney's, Heggatt Hall Est. by two woodmen Mr N.J.Dungar (left) and Mr T.S. Gowing at Blue Boar Lane.
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  Egg packers at work in the New Lay egg packing plant. The factory was on Salhouse Road on the site now (2008) occupied by Wilco*Fastfit the car part shops.
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  Mr. Donald Wright, born 1/2/1911 at 13, Blue Boar Lane. Married Joyce Daisy Vincent from Tuttington nr. Aylsham in 1938. Father, Walter was the forester on the Gurney estate. Mother, Maria (nee Sadler).
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  Elizabeth Sarah Harrison (nee Robertson). Elder sister of George Robertson, miller 1842 to 1884. Married William Harrison 1849. They had one daughter and seven sons one, William A. became the next miller.
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  John Gurney, a lithograph by C.W. Walton, about 1887. John Gurney (an original partner in Barclay's bank) purchased Sprowston Hall 1868 rebuilt it 1876. He married Isabel Blake Humfrey on March 21st. 1871.
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  Pauline Gowing, widow of Cecil Gowing plants a tree in the grounds of Cecil Gowing First School to mark the school's silver jubilee in 1992.

There are many more images which will be uploaded in the near future.