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

Church Farm, Mill Lane Ellingham.

Ellingham and Kirby Cane photograph archive

Church Farm, Mill Lane,  Ellingham

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. 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)

Mr and Mrs Moore with four children, outside  All Saints Cottage, Mill Road. (Gwennie Moore)

Barbara Turner (later Mrs Joe Pye) at Sheep Walk Farm (Joe Pye)

Joe Pye 1935 Silver Jubilee commemorative post card (Joe Pye)

Joe Pye

Billy Baldry's 100th birthday on 8th October 1919. Billy died 4 months later  in 1992Joe Pye

on the left. (Joe Pye)

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

Molly and Gwen with brothers (Joe Pye)

The Pye boys: Joe and Glen and ? (Joe Pye)

Joe Pye's parents in a field off Newgate (Joe Pye)

Read family and friends outside Airey House, Mill Lane. (Gordon Read)

The Read Family (Tony Read)

Mrs Read on the left, Gordon's mother (Gordon Read)

Gordon Read (Gordon Read)

Mr Read, Gordon's father (Gordon Read)

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

Canoe trip: Mr and Mrs Ward, Graham and Elizabeth Smith (Paul Farrow)

Mr and Mrs Page with Mike at Heimat, Yarmouth Road, Ellingham. (Mike Page)

Minna Page, Mike's Mother, evacuated to Ellingham from Gorleston 1938 (Mike Page)

Skipper Royal Arthur John Watson Page RNR. Father of Mike Page. Died Thursday 3rd December, 1942 (when Mike was two) on HMS Fir following an accident aboard when a shell exploded. He intervened to save other men. He is buried in Lowestoft with the Page family but also commemorated on the Ellingham War Memorial. The family lived at Heimat, Yarmouth Road for a while.(Mike Page)

Lily Scruten  Xmas 1987 (Annetta Saunders)

Press cutting Oct 2013 (Robin Lyne)

The Parravani's Ice Cream business first arrived at Dulls Farm, Ellingham in 1931, having moved from Bungay. Sadly, a week before they moved Giuseppe died at the age of 47. This left Caterina to bring up eleven children, the youngest of whom was a baby of six months, look after the farm and milk the cows. The business carried on from Ellingham, run by Giuseppi's eldest son Augie Parravani. Production stopped in 1940 but started again in 1946 and continued by Augie and his brothers Peter and Domenico until Augie retired in 1985. During 1986 the machinery was transferred to Chedgrave and in 1987 ice cream production was continued by Domenico, his son Paul and Paul's wife Sharon. In 2012 the business relocated to Beccles and now has a wide customer base covering the whole of East Anglia, producing a range of 40 ice creams and sorbets and desserts. Their ice cream vans can still be seen on their rounds and at local events. the following pictures have been given to the Archive by Sharon Parravani.

Just before the war the first ice cream van was put on the road. It had been converted by the family from a car.

Just before the war their first van was put on the road, converted from a car.

Below: Horse drawn cart with baby Anna, Giuseppi and Caterina. Bungay 1910. Above: Wedding of Giuseppi and Caterina, Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral 1909.

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

Gravestone of Agostino and Ethel Parravani, St Mary's Churchyard (Diana Wadley)

Dave Gladwell and Pat Farrow, pond dipping at Mill Pool Cottage (Paul Farrow) 

Bertie Snowling (Geoff Appleton)

Freddie Snowling (Geoff Appleton)

The Snowlings: Will standing, Bertie on the right, Edward centre, and Freddie seated left. (Geoff Appleton)

The Snowlings on bikes. (Geoff Appleton)

Mr Robert Burcham (Alma Harvey)

Winifred Mary Cossey, born 1889, married George Burcham, he died 1967. Alma's parents

(Alma Harvey)

Mr Robert Cossey senior (born 1850, died 1938) with two lads, rabbiting. He married Suzannah Anna Crowe (born 1874, died 1938) Grandparents of Alma (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 the two evacuee girls: Zita and Julie and their mother. Julie became a famous mountaineer. (Alma Harvey)

Julie died during a storm when descending K2

Alma with her parents and Alma and Vivian Harvey with the evacuee girls: Zita and Julie.

(Alma Harvey)

Alma Harvey with her future husband, Vivian Harvey. He later became a Methodist Minister.   (Alma Harvey)

Mr and Mrs Burcham with Zita and Julie outside The Red House. (Alma Harvey)

Mrs Burcham on a bicycle (Alma Burcham)

Alma and Mrs Burcham with friends (Alma Harvey)

Alma and Friend (Alma Harvey)

Mr and Mrs Bob Turner (Alma Harvey)

The family believed to have kept the shop at Ellingham West (just before Broome Beck)        (Alma Harvey)

The Webster family from Sheepwalk Farm. Three generations of Webster men. Daisy Harvey (nee Clarke)seated left. (Alma Harvey)

The Burchams (Diana Holden nee Burcham)

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

Miss Grace Youngman (Alma Harvey)

Rev Gentry on the shoulders of Reg Harvey (Alma Harvey)

Pat Guilding, baby in pram and possibly Andrew.(Carol Jacobs

The Rev Pert (Ellingham Rector 1950-1961) with his wife Rosetta, Sue and Mary 

(Ruth came later) (Ruth Aird)

The daughters of The Rev Pert: Mary Ruth and Sue (Ruth Aird)

Alastair Aird with Mrs Pert (Ruth Aird)

The Chapman Children of Dairy Farm (Hannah Westgarth)

The Chapman family 1938  (Hannah Westgarth)

Robert, John and George Chapman of Dairy Farm, Ellingham.

Chapman family gathering. (Hannah Westgarth)

Ladies of Dairy Farm on waggon.(Hannah Westgarth)

Dairy Farm (Hannah Westgarth)

Mr Hinsley, Mrs Minns, Headmistress and Ann Crane.

Below: Grace Fulcher, Jo Gooderham's mother. (Jo Gooderham)

The ladies and gents who ran the MacMillan 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 in the Memorial Hall January 2019 (Diana Wadley)

Yvonne and Stu Philips (Diana Wadley)

Diana and John Lowrey 1st January 2019 at the Memorial Hall Lunch (Diana Wadley)

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.

Mr and Mrs Ben Hinsley, with presentation clock for 50 years service as Methodist Sunday

School Superintendent outside Row Farm. (Derek Hinsley)

John and Celia Harvey, parents of Jo Harvey Senior (Alma Harvey)

Joe and Agnes Harvey, Geoff's great grandparents (Geoff Appleton)

Reg Harvey's Ordination. Left to right: Susan and Paul, Reg Harvey, Bishop Wood, Andrew and Louise Harvey with Gemma and Hazel behind. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey with Bishop Wood at Reg's ordination.

Reg was a  lay reader at Ellingham  for 27 years before being ordained deacon in 1982 and priest a year later. Hazel  and Reg served the church and ran Harvey's funeral service together. They both died following a tragic traffic accident in 1999. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey after being elected Chairman of the Norwich and Norfolk local association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) outside his undertakers in Newgate, Kirby Cane(Andrew Harvey)

Reg and son Andrew when Reg was President and Andrew was Chairman of NAFD the same year. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey outside the old Mission Church, Yarmouth Road, Kirby Cane  1981(Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey outside the old Mission Church, Yarmouth Road Kirby Cane 

(Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey at his undertakers, Newgate. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey with Rev Gentry (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey preparing a sermon. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey and Vivian Harvey (cousin) with Rev Stanley Pert (Andrew Harvey)

Joe and Reg Harvey at rear of Mill Road (Lorna Neale)

Andrew (as Chairman of Norwich and Norfolk NAFD) and Reg Harvey (as President)

(Andrew Harvey)

Hazel Rachel Harvey nee Girling (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Darwin Harvey on motor bike with Mother-i-Law Florence Girling.(Andrew Harvey)

Possibly Charles and May Harvey (Andrew Harvey)

Charles with two  young Harveys (Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey (Andrew Harvey)

A young Hazel Rachel Harvey Nee Girling (Andrew Harvey)

May Harvey nee Clutton, (born May 1894 died Sept 1972) wife of Charles Harvey (born 1894, died Nov 1955). Location possibly at the rear of The Nest, Mill Road, Ellingham. (Andrew Harvey)

Reg Harvey with Rev Bob Fillery, Rev Jim Armour and Muriel Guilding (Andrew Harvey)

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

Robert Pilgrim married Lucy Bradnum and built Sheep Walk Farm on returning from sheep farming in Australia (Jonny Peart)

14th September 1915 (Jonny Peart)

The young Gordon Webster of Sheep Walk Farm (Johnny Peart)

David Webster, Gordon's father of Sheep Walk Farm (Johnny Peart)

David Pilgrim born 1863, son of Robert Pilgrim. Trained as a lay evangelist. Died in South Africa aged 28. (Jonny Peart)

Eva, born 1885, step sister to David, married Ernest Turner, from Bradfield with children: Majorie and Robert Pilgrim Turner 1917 

(Johnny Peart)

David Webster. He and his father Henry take on the farm and live next door to the Turners at Sheep Walk Farm. (Jonny Peart)

Grandma Webster (Jonny Peart)

Harry Webster, David's brother, of Sheep Walk Farm (Jonathan Peart)

Henry Webster at Sheep Walk Farm(Jonny Peart)

Jenny with her grandfather David Webster at Sheep Walk Farm. David lived there until his death in the early 90s. He had lots of cats.(Jonny Peart)

Jonny with his sister, with Uncle Gordon (Jonny Peart)

Richard Lees at Ellingham School Fete, exhibiting the children's ideas for the village sign

 (Diana Wadley)

Santa and Wife, Julie Richardson. (Diana Wadley)

Julie Richardson with Kiri at a school fete on the playing field.

Mrs Guilding at her care home in Chedgrave and Doreen Letheren (Ron Letheren)

Hilda Violet Wickenden born Earsham 16/9/1922 died while living at Kirby Cane 17/10/2016. Pictured in Australia.

(Mike Wickenden)

Hilda Wickenden (Diana Wadley)

Rev Julie Oddy-Bates, Ian and Barbara Partington and Bill Jenner. Church Coffee Morning March 2014 (Diana Wadley)

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

Group of men including a young Joe Pye (Lorna Neale)

St Mary's Parish Hall, Mill Road, 1953 Front Row: Mrs Rachael Crane with Janet, Miss Smith. 3rd from right Mrs Harvey (Reg Harvey's Mother) (Lorna Neale)

Rev Jarrold and possibly Miss Smith (Lorna Neale)

Molly and Gwen Pye (Joe Pye)

Reg Harvey with his parents Charles and May Harvey (Andrew Harvey)

Reg and Hazel Harvey (Andrew Harvey)

Charles and May Harvey with their children Muriel, Joe, Lorna and Reg. Lorna married Horace Neale. She died on 1st June 2014 aged 93. (Lorna Harvey)

Robert Bussingham (Charlie Bob) 29.9.1926 - 21.4.2013. Soham Show Cup Winner of the Pulling Contest. Robert resided in Newgate with his wife Sybil for 54  years. He moved here in 1961 from Ely. He kept horses as a hobby (Sybil Bussingham)

Bob's Panksworth Dawn with foal Charlie Girl 1989 on the field, which is now the village

allotments. (Sybil Bussingham)

Bob with his horses in Newgate. (Sybil Bussingham)

Mr Bussingham leads Shire horse at show. Robin Lee from Panxworth behind. (Sharon Raven)

Mr Bussingham with heavy horses (Sharon Raven)

Robert Spinks, Blacksmith. (Rosemary Crisp)

Miss Margaret Thomas, celebrating the Jubilee  Gates at Ellingham Mill (Paul Farrow)

Miss Thomas RBA NEAC, died on Easter Day 2016. She would have been 100 on 26th September 2016. Lord Bruin Bear was taken to the wake. 

Lord Bruin-Miss Thomas's bear. (Diana Wadley-courtesy of Nicky Aubrey)

Miss Thomas with Alistair Aird at Ellingham Mill (Ruth Aird)

Ernest Fiske MBE. (for services to the British Fishing Industry in 1970), winner of the Prunier Trophy in 1964; a competition each year for the biggest herring catch brought in in one night) Born Kirby Cane 1905. He died in 1977 by which time the Yarmouth and Lowestoft fishing industry had virtually ended). He left the land aged 17 to go to sea. 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 the year round and went far afield. He was a cousin of Robert Fiske the journalist.

Further 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 Eadie and listening on the radio to the returning fishing boats. Jumbo was a big man but incredibly dextrous and would move a sixpence magically between his thick fingers, while Iain would try to guess where it was. 

(Picture from Driftermen by David Butcher)

Rodham Gooch. When drifters and Trawlers ceased then Rodham skippered the CEFAS research vessel Boston Deep Sea.

Margaret Gillies (Ron Letheren)

Mr Clifford of Brooke Farm (one time Parish Clerk) (Gordon Read)

Tony Read (Tony Read)

Jeanne Coram: 

23rd January 1954 -26th July 2017 (Terry Coram)

Sue and the late Jim Bearne pictured at Leet Hill House, where they used to live.

Chris East, fossil collector, working on an Ichthyosaur. (Diana Wadley)

Chris East and Ichthyosaur. (Diana Wadley )

Chris with Ammonite ((Diana Wadley)

Karen East of Roseway, on the Fossil Stall, with Chris, Table Top sale 2014,at the Memorial Hall, Kirby Cane.

Mrs Carol Day at the Table Top Sale 2014 Memorial Hall, demonstrating spinning.

Peggy Docwra, Terry and Jean Coran at the Table Top sale 2014

The Moore family outside Roseway. (Chris East)

The Moore Family (Gwennie Moore)

Gwennie outside All Saints Cottage, Mill Road. (Gwennie Moore)

Mr Moore at Roseway, Church Road. (Gwennie Moore)

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

Moore family at Roseway, Church Road. (Gwennie Moore)

Moore's bus with driver in uniform.(Gwennie Moore)

Aunt Winnie with Pat Guilding, on the occasion of her Christening.

Bob Spinks, the blacksmith with Carol Jacobs and friend Betty Askew on the left. 1952 outside the forge, Yarmouth Road, Ellingham.

(Carol Jacobs)

Customers at The Bird in Hand (Sharon Raven)

Black Dog Marathon runners passing Ellingham Rectory (Sharon Raven)

Mr Taylor in The Bird in Hand (Sharon Raven)

Portrait of Billy Baldry 1989 by Hilda Wickenden, hanging in Kirby Cane Memorial Hall. Mr Baldry was a village character who worked at Hall Farm, Kirby Cane all his life and lived to be over 100.

Michael and Deborah Preston: Charity Church Bike Ride, Kirby Cane Church (Robin Richardson)

A Church Event: Bill Jenner, Ann Hood, Rev ?, Michael Preston, Nonie Doddington and

others (Hilda Wickenden)

Henry Vaughan Lockhart Smith of Ellingham Hall born 22nd July 1963 (picture from his website): 

Vaughan's father, Martin, was a Queen's Messenger and colonel in the Grenadier Guards and Vaughan was an officer in the same regiment, serving in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany. He captained the Army shooting team and won the inter-army rifle shooting championship. In the 1990s he worked as an independent cameraman and video journalist covering wars and conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, 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, producing the only uncontrolled footage of the Gulf War in 1991. During the 1990s he ran the Frontline News TV and won many awards. He has been shot twice, saved once by the 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. He lost his surety money when Julian Assange entered the Ecuador Embassy in 2012.

Vaughan's first wife was Sanela Djono 1996-2001 and in 2005 he married his present wife Pranvera Shema. They met when covering the Kosovo conflict and have five children.

Wedding of Vaughan Smith and fellow journalist, Pranvera Shema 2005

Vaughan Smith holding the baby, while entertaining. 

Family outside cottage where Mill Close is now (Iain Wright)

Mrs Dorothy Wright, Airey house, Mill Lane. Note bike with child seat.(Iain Wright)

Iain with dog, garden of Airey house, Mill Lane. Cottages in background were where Mill Close is now(Iain Wright)

Kirby Cane Policeman outside Roseway, Church Road. (Iain Wright)

Not sure which Policeman this is. Could be P.C. Cunningham who gave National Cycling Proficiency lessons at Ellingham School in 1966 or perhaps P.C. E Hooper of Kirby Cane 1956.

P.C.Knights was Ellingham's first resident policeman. The Police House was Simla in Mill Road. (see below)He stayed until 1938 when P.C. Stevens took over the beat until 1940. Prior to 1930 the village was policed by the Ditchingham Officer.

Kirby Cane Policeman with Corgi, Austin 7, outside the Police House, Yarmouth Road. 

(Iain Wright)

Roger Turner outside Spar village shop (Eric Zeichner)

Mary Snowden's story as told by her husband Mr R Platten:

Mary lived at Kirby Green, later at Well Terrace and Crisp Road. She sang in the choir at All Saints, went to Kirby Cane School where her teachers were Mrs Cook and Mrs Warnes. She took the Brownies and Guides in the Mission Hall, when Mrs Abernethy left. She married Mr Platten aged 18 : they had six children. Her father died suddenly aged 40. Grandfather Snowden had threshing tractors and then a repair business.

Sydna and Les Elliott: Village Fete 2015.

Sydna and Les 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. Older cottages were demolished and the bricks were used on the interior of the new house. There were cows in 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 are now. (Derek and Jill Hinsley built these two properties.) Sydna's Dad paid for her to have shorthand 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 gathered during a visit January 2015)

Val and Colin Tuthill at Music in the Park September 2019

Christine Crisp 1936-2005. Christine was a talented artist, needlewoman and an accomplished horsewoman, Joint Master of The Waveney Harriers. She was also an excellent speaker on country and farming subjects. She was very interested in the community and  a member of the WI. She organised and helped in the making of the needlepoint kneelers for Kirby Cane Church and supervised a survey of the churchyard.

Valerie Rogers, of 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 Niki feature in the first story. 

(picture from Beccles and Bungay Journal)

Michael Skipper, retired Farm Manager at Kirby Cane Hall, Member of the Parish Council and Trustee of the Memorial Hall. Pictured here at the Party in the Park, August 2017. The gentleman to the right is Ernest Sullivan, father of Julie Pickering. Julie was joint fund raiser for the new play equipment and Parish Councillor.

Dorothy and Geoff Stevens pictured here at A Computer Club Christmas Party. December 2009.

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 Council minutes. (Frances Chirola)

Front cover of Horse and Hound, Queen's 90th birthday edition. Princess Anne's Welsh pony, Kirby Cane, Greensleeves, was bred by Mrs Barbara Crisp of Kirby Cane Hall. (born 1908 died 1986 aged 78) She was married to Raymond  John Seffe Crisp JP. He served in the Royal Suffolk Hussars and City of London Yeomanry. Born 1897 died 1966 aged 69. (Thanks to Mark Clare for pointing this out)

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