NEW ADDITIONS FROM JANUARY 2021
Cherry Griffin's family bought Station Farm in September 1960. They had just come back from New Zealand. In Cherry's words:
"The house was built in 1735 and had a Victorian wing at ther right hand end. It had 5 bedrooms and I did hear funny noises sometimes, creepy! Father used to hang pheasants in the rooms that were not used to ripen ready to eat! I slept in the right. The right door was blocked up. My parents slept downstairs on the left, which was handy as I didn't wake them as I came home from a night out. But as they installed a catflap so that the two cats could come and go, I often stepped on a disembowelled rabbit they left outside my door! There were huge spiders in the house and once I had to wake Father up to get rid of one just above my bed. He never seemed to mind.
There was an outside toilet, a two seater with spiders, I hated it and Father got a toilet and bathroom installed as soon as he could! I was nearly sixteen when we moved and refused to go back to Sir John Lemon in Beccles where I'd left in 1957 to go to New Zealand where the schools were just great. I wanted a dairy herd and I got one. I loved the life but my Mother thought I was becoming a recluse so asked a girl from Kirby Cane, Ann Chapman, to take me to Loddon YFC. I ended up marrying a Bungay man, not a farmer, if I had I would still be married and living locally but I am in South Suffolk now and happy"
Thatched Cottage, School Road, Kirby Cane. (Formerly known as Mud Hall)
NEW ADDITIONS FROM JANUARY 2021
The Milestone, Yarmouth Road, Ellingham, which once read Bungay 3 Yarmouth 15
Church Farm, Mill Lane Ellingham.
Church Farm, Mill Lane, Ellingham
Station Farm, Ellingham 1967 (Cherry Griffin) (Morris)
Cherry's family bought Station Farm in September 1960. They had just come back from New Zealand. In Cherry's words:
"The house was built in 1735 and had a Victorian wing at ther right hand end. It had 5 bedrooms and I did hear funny noises sometimes, creepy! Father used to hang pheasants in the rooms that were not used to ripen ready to eat! I slept in the right. The right door was blocked up. My parents slept downstairs on the left, which was handy as I didn't wake them as I came home from a night out. But as they installed a catflap so that the two cats could come and go, I often stepped on a disembowelled rabbit they left outside my door! There were huge spiders in the house and once I had to wake Father up to get rid of one just above my bed. He never seemed to mind.
There was an outside toilet, a two seater with spiders, I hated it and Father got a toilet and bathroom installed as soon as he could! I was nearly sixteen when we moved and refused to go back to Sir John Lemon in Beccles where I'd left in 1957 to go to New Zealand where the schools were just great. I wanted a dairy herd and I got one. I loved the life but my Mother thought I was becoming a recluse so asked a girl from Kirby Cane, Ann Chapman, to take me to Loddon YFC. I ended up marrying a Bungay man, not a farmer, if I had I would still be married and living locally but I am in South Suffolk now and happy"
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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)