Winona Doddington (Nonie) Lilly Brown (nee Moore) and Gwennie Moore (Gwennie Moore)

Thatched Cottage, School Road, Kirby Cane. (Formerly known as Mud Hall)

Ellingham and Kirby Cane Photographic Archive

The Milestone, Yarmouth Road, Ellingham, which once read Bungay 3 Yarmouth 15

Church Farm, Mill Lane Ellingham.

The Village photographic archive has been migrated from the BT site to Krystal. It still needs many lost pictures put back so please bear with us

Welcome to the Ellingham and Kirby Cane Photographic Archive.

This was a project set up by the Computer Club in 2004. Our first Archivist, Robin Richardson, invited the loan of residents' pictures for scanning and you didn't disappoint. On Robin's retirement Diana Wadley took over and the collection has now grown to well over 1300 images. Several public presentations and exhibitions have taken place over the years. 

New images and memories are being welcomed into the archive from far and wide. 

Today's events are tomorrow's history.

Below are the names of all who donated pictures so far.Their names appear in italics with their picture, in each section.

Carl Adams, Jack Adams, Ruth Aird, Pam Aldous, Geoff Appleton, Jo Archer, David Arterton, Nicky Aubury, Pamela and John Baker, Ian Bale, Molly Barber, Sue Bearne, Carolyn Britton, Sybil Bussingham, Stella Canham, Laurence Carr, Francis Chirola, Janet Clare, John Clarke, Bill Clutton, John Cook, Terry Coram, Rosemary Crisp, Carol Day, Nonie Doddington, Clive Drake, Chris and Karen East, Paul and Pat Farrow, Eris Feavyour, Margaret Gillies, Dave Gladwell, Jo Gooderham, Jean Green, Cherry Griffin,Sarah Hanlan, Andrew Harvey, Alma Harvey, Tim and Steve Harvey, Derek Hinsley, Diana Burcham, Derek Hood, Carol Jacobs, Helen Kirby, Michelle Kirk, James Lawrence, Ronald Letheren, Robin Lyne, Mary Marchant, Sally Macnab, Gwennie Moore, Rosemary Morgan, Adrian Muttitt, Lorna Neale, Mike Page, Lyndon Pallette, Reg Parnel, Sharon Parravani,  Jonathan Peart, Gloria Powley, Joe and Holly Putman, Joe Pye, Brian Quantrill, Helen Rayment, Sharon Raven, Gordon Read, Tony Read, Robin and Julie Richardson, Annetta Saunders, Deanna Saunders, Henry Shipp Thelma Southgate, Beryl Simpson,   Roy Spall, Vaughan Smith,   Dorothy and Geoff Stevens, James Stacey, Irene Taylor, Robert Taylor, Mary Tipler, Val Tuthill, Diana Wadley, John Walker, Hannah Westgarth, Hilda Wickenden, Mike Wickenden, Jean Woods, Iain Wright, Eric Zeichner.

Hosted by Krystal 

Supported by Kirby Cane Memorial Hall (a registered charity).

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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)