Catalogue entries

Herbert Birrell, The Old Oak Paddock , illustrated by A. Maculric (Blackie & Son Ltd, London and Glasgow).

D. Bayne, A Comprehensive History of Norwich (London, n.d.).

John T. Appleby, Suffolk Summer (East Anglian Magazine Ltd., 1948, this edn. 1952).

Books

Where to go? Planning a trip to the Broads (Broads Authority 1985)

What’s that? Animals and Plants of the Broads (Broads Authority, 1984)

Booklet on Hickling Broad, 1970, order form for Christmas cards, 1972, annual report, 1976.

South Norfolk, A Guide to the District, by South Norfolk Council.9/6Information for Parents 1997-98, Norfolk County Council.

‘Thorpe Road Library, Norwich, 1951-1988’.

‘Services in Rural Norfolk 1950-1980’, by Norfolk County Council Planning Department: a survey of the changing pattern of services in rural Norfolk over the last […]

Guide to South Norfolk, official guide issued by South Norfolk District Council. (?1980s)

Guide to South Norfolk, official guide issued by South Norfolk District Council (?1970s)

Guides and information

Heritage Society Newsletter, Autumn 1999, Winter 2000

Poster showing Historic Buildings of South Norfolk, including Wymondham Market Cross, and the font in Wymondham Abbey (Aug. 1990). [Outsize]

Walks in the Wymondham Area, published by the Wymondham Heritage Society, April 1988

Wymondham Past and Present by Philip Yaxley (1988).

The Wymondham Market Cross: Wymondham Society Pamphlet No. 1 (1979).

The Official Guide to Wymondham (1970).

Wymondham history and guidebooks

Guide 1984: guide to access for disabled people to shops and other buildings in Hethersett, produced by Hethersett High School Personal Social Development Group.

Two hundred years of change, compiled by Gwen E. Hughes: contains black and white, and coloured photographs of buildings in Hethersett, with notes on some […]

in Pictures from the Past, compiled by Gwen E. Hughes: containing black and white photographs of village scenes, many by Tom Nokes, reproduction of entry […]

from Hethersett History, compiled by Gwen E. Hughes and illustrated by Nora Pearson

history and guidebooks

Norfolk Fair, Volume 7, Nos 7-12 (Nov. 1974-Apr 1975). [volume] 1974-75

Fair

The Norfolk Annual [MS Series] Oct. 1934

The Norfolk Annual

Hethersett Mercury, local newspaper in magazine format containing community news, photographs, advertisements, etc. 2000

Hethersett Mercury, local newspaper in magazine format containing community news, photographs, advertisements, etc. 1999

Mercury

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 2000

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1999

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1998

Hethersett News Sheet 1997

Hethersett News Sheet 1996

Hethersett News Sheet 1995

Hethersett News Sheet 1994

Hethersett News Sheet 1993

Hethersett News Sheet 1992

Hethersett News Sheet 1991

Hethersett News Sheet 1990

Hethersett News Sheet 1989

Hethersett News Sheet 1988

Hethersett News Sheet (no copy for Nov.) 1987

Hethersett News Sheet 1986

Hethersett News Sheet (no copy for Sept.) 1985

Hethersett News Sheet: the News Sheet was renamed ‘Good News’ in June 1984

Hethersett News Sheet 1983

Hethersett News Sheet 1982

Hethersett News Sheet 1981

Hethersett News Sheet 1980

Hethersett News Sheet 1979

Hethersett News Sheet 1978

Hethersett News Sheet 1977

Hethersett News Sheet 1976

Hethersett News Sheet 1975

Hethersett News Sheet (no copy for July) 1974

Hethersett News Sheet 1973

Hethersett News Sheet 1972

Hethersett News Sheet 1971

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound)1970

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound)1969

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1968

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1967

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1966

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1965

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1964

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1963

Hethersett News Sheet (monthly, unbound) 1962

News Sheet, 1962-84, and Good News, from 1984

The Gazette, the Monthly Magazine of Hethersett and Ketteringham, including Newscutting about Kett’s Oak (unbound). 1961

The Gazette, the Monthly Magazine of Hethersett and Ketteringham, including Newscutting about Kett’s Oak 1957-60

The Gazette, the Monthly Magazine of Hethersett and Ketteringham, including Newscutting about Kett’s Oak 1953-56

The Gazette, the Monthly Magazine of Hethersett and Ketteringham, including Newscutting about Kett’s Oak, 1933, and copy of HA/A/4/10, above.1949-52

Gazette, 1949-61

Hethersett Parish Magazine with typescript index 1941-48

Hethersett Parish Magazine with typescript index 1932-40

Hethersett Parish Magazine with typescript index 1925-31

Hethersett Parish Magazine with typescript index (unbound). [MS Series] 1924

Hethersett Parish Magazine with typescript index 1919-23

Hethersett Parish Magazine with typescript index. 1910-19

Hethersett Parish Magazine 1900-09

Hethersett Parish Magazine 1892-99

Hethersett Parish Magazine 1887-1902

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1885

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1883

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1882

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1881

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1880

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end.1879

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1877

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1874-75

Rev. Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart & Hearth (London); with Hethersett Parish History bound at end. 1872

‘Gas, Grime and Government’, a history of the Wymondham Gas Light and Coke Co., by Bill Reekie. (typescript booklet) [MS Series] n.d.

Bill to Anna Pomeroy for her admission to land in the manor of Wymondham Hethersett in trust for William Baker. [MS Series] 24 Jan. 1888

Bill to the Rev. Cremer Cremer for legal expenses for admission to property in the manor of Framingham Earl, by virtue of the will of […]

Notice of sale by auction of furniture of Mr Geor[g]e Diggons in Damgate Division, Wymondham. [MS Series] 27 Oct. 1826

Letter from William Clarke, Wreningham, to Mrs Hale [probably Mary Ann Halls or Hale, Coggle’s daughter]: neither he, nor Mr Thomas Burton, nor Mr S. […]

Bill to Matthew Coggle from E. Norton, ironmonger, brazier, etc., Wymondham. [MS Series] 1810

Will of Matthew Coggle of Wymondham, butcher, 8 April 1810, probate 16 August 1810, executors William Clarke of Ketteringham and Thomas Burton of Wreningham. [MS […]

Account of meat supplied by Matthew Coggle to Mr Hewett, late of the King’s Head, Hethersett. [MS Series] 1796-1808?

Miscellaneous papers relating to Wymondham

WYMONDHAM

Brief guide to All Saints’ Church, Little Melton. (typescript booklet) Feb. 1987

History of Little Melton Church, by J. M. Proudfoot, containing transcriptions, photocopies and drawings. [in folder] Feb. 1980

Visual Record of the Structure of Little Melton’s thirteenth-century Parish Church, by J. M. Proudfoot: scrapbook containing maps, plans, elevations, and architectural details. [outsize] Nov. […]

Notes from records relating to Little Melton church [? by J. M. Proudfoot]. n.d.

Photocopy of photograph of Little Melton Church. n.d.

Typescript notes on Ordnance Survey benchmarks on tower of Little Melton Church and in the village. n.d.

Postcard of pen and ink drawing of All Saints Church, Little Melton, by Carol Twinch, Bawburgh. 1981

Typescript notes on Little Melton church, by R.A.L. (photocopy) 1976

Little Melton Church, report on the condition of the fabric. (photocopy) 26 Nov. 1969

Historic Churches Preservation Trust, application for a grant for repairs to St Mary and All Saints, Little Melton. (photocopy) 12 Mar. 1963

Report on structural condition of Little Melton Church, with recommendations, by Donovan Purcell, F.R.I.B.A., Little Bethel Street, Norwich. (photocopy) Mar. 1957

Plan of Little Melton Church by Purcell & Johnson, architects and surveyors, Norwich. (photocopy) 17 Dec. 1956

Printed notes on Little Melton Church by N.W.P. [Nigel Wood Paine, vicar of Little Melton and Great Melton 1926-39]. 1933

Elevation of Little Melton Church (Norfolk Record Office, Acts of Court). (photocopy) 1896

Engraving of Little Melton Church ? by J. B. Ladbrooke, with photocopy. c.1820

Papers relating to the history and architecture of Little Melton Church

LITTLE MELTON: CHURCH

Newscutting about planned new sixty acre sports complex at Little Melton. (E.E.N.) 10 Oct. 1989

Reminiscences of Little Melton Football Club in the 1930s, by Les Williamson. (Weekend News) Jan. 1989

Newscuttings about Hethersett and Little Melton Band in the 1920s. (E.E.N.) 1988

Newscuttings about unveiling of new village sign. (E.D.P. and E.E.N.) 1981

Sketch map of Little Melton showing parish boundary, with notes by J. M. Proudfoot. 8 Oct. 1979

Typescript history of Little Melton School by George Gleadhill, with later notes. [volume] n.d.

Newscutting about surprise leaving present for George Gleadhill, headmaster of Little Melton First School. (E.D.P.) 9 July 1979

Details of the Skottowe family of Little Melton and their epitaphs in All Saints, Little Melton, and St Swithin’s, Norwich; photocopy from The Leaf and […]

Photocopy of entry for Little Melton from N. Pevsner, Buildings of North-West and South Norfolk (1962). 1962

Copy agreement between Crosier Bailey of 28 Bury Street, St James, London, esq., receiver of the estate of Florence Rosa Cann, a person of unsound […]

Photocopy of entry for Little Melton from Kelly’s Directory. 1908

Printed sale particulars of freehold cottages to be sold by Messrs Ray by auction. [MS Series] 2 Oct. 1888

Printed sale particulars of three cottages, market garden, etc., in Little Melton, to be sold by Messrs Ray by auction. [MS Series] 11 Aug. 1888

Printed sale particulars of property in Little Melton to be sold by Standley & Sons by auction, under the will of Samuel Hipperson, deceased. [MS […]

Draft will of Henry Lack of Little Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 17 May 1880

Photocopy of entry for Little Melton from White’s Directory of Norfolk. 1864

Schedule of deeds and writings relating to property of Samuel Hipperson at Little Melton. [MS Series] 30 Jan. 1864

Draft will of Samuel Hipperson of Little Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 12 Sept. 1863

Printed sale particulars of a small estate at Little Melton to be sold by Mr Standley by auction, under the will of Thomas Hubbard deceased. […]

Printed sale particulars of property at Little Melton and Bawburgh to be sold by William Butcher by auction. [MS Series] 21 Apr. 1825

Copy admission of Edward Heath to a piece of land allotted him by the Little Melton Enclosure Act in the manor of Little Melton. [MS […]

Copy heads of will of John Leeder: mentions property in Little Melton, Bawburgh, Barford and East Carleton. [MS Series] 26 May 1810

Photocopy of entries for the hundred of Humbleyard, Colney, Little Melton, Great Melton, and Hethersett, from Francis Blomefield, An Essay towards a Topographical History of […]

Abstract of will of [unnamed]: mentions wife Christian, beneficiaries Harcourt, Hannah, Honour, Hebe, Hagar and Hubert Howlett, and brother John ?Galder. [MS Series] n.d.

Copy of will of Henry Dade of Little Melton, farmer, 12 Sept. 1793, proved 4 Nov. 1797: mentions cousin William Dade, and sister Honor, wife […]

Photocopy of translation of entry in the Domesday Book relating to the lands of Godric the Sewer at Little Melton in the hundred of Humbleyard, […]

Miscellaneous papers relating to Little Melton (Melton Parva) including wills and other records of local families

LITTLE MELTON: GENERAL

NARG News: 51: The Quarterly Journal of the Norfolk Archaeological Rescue Group, containing an article on the Great Melton Mesolithic site by P. A. Robins. […]

Newscutting about need for support from nearby villages for proposed Hethersett community centre, with photograph of Great Melton church. (E.E.N.) 6 Apr. 1987

Abstracts of documents, 1605-1665, in the Evans-Lombe MSS in Norfolk Record Office. 25 Sept. 1985

Newscutting about plan to re-open the Green Man pub at Great Melton. (Mercury) 14 Jan. 1983

Sale notices for Town Cottage, Great Melton. 1981, 1986

Photocopy of entry for Great Melton from N. Pevsner, Buildings of North-West and South Norfolk (1962). 1962

Photocopy of photograph of Great Melton Hall. n.d.

Extract from proceedings of Norfolk & Norwich Horticultural Society about the election as President of Major Edward H. Evans Lombe of Great Melton and Marlingford, […]

Photocopy of entry for Great Melton from Kelly’s Directory. 1908

Edward Evans Lombe, Melton Hall, to Mr Pomeroy [solicitor]: letter about the drawing up of his will with details of individual bequests. (photocopy) 16 Jan. […]

Newscutting about Norfolk ghosts, including a phantom coach and four, containing four ladies in white, near Great Melton. (E.D.P.); with photocopy of description of this […]

Notice by Henry Lombe to the executors of the late Mr Joseph Miller Aldred deceased, that his tenancy of property in parishes of Great and […]

Birth certificate of Thomas Philip Archibald, son of Thomas Rose, farmer, and Sarah Albertina Rose, formerly Howlett, at Melton Magna, with endorsement that the certificate […]

Photocopy of entry for Great Melton from White’s Directory of Norfolk. 1864

Draft wills of Robert Dodd of Great Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 1858-69

Copy schedule of title deeds, etc., relating to estate of James Darby at Great Melton. [MS Series] 1858

Draft will of Matthew Howard of Great Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 18 Apr. 1855

Receipts for highway rate and various accounts paid by Philip Rose of Melton Magna; printed catalogue of farming stock of Philip Rose, who gives up […]

Copy of Great Melton poor rate, made 5 November 1846, giving names of owners, occupiers, properties, acreages, estimated rental, and rateable value. [MS Series] 1846

Photocopy of entries for Great and Little Melton from White’s Directory of Norfolk (1845). 1845

Draft will of John Hubbard of Great Melton, yeoman. [MS Series] 27 Mar. 1845

Attested copy of the will of John Bloom of Great Melton, farmer, 1828, who died 2 Nov. 1843. [MS Series] 1843

Wills and draft wills of William Sutton of Brandon Parva, later of Great Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 1841-71

Detail showing Great Melton Hall and Park, from tithe map. (Norfolk Record Office, Tithe Map No. 388). 1840

Draft will of Henry Dodd of Great Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 26 May 1840

Draft wills of Thomas Rose of Great Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 1837, 1848

Administration of the effects of John Knights, deceased, late of Great Melton, to his widow Susanna Knights. [MS Series] 15 Apr. 1836

2 copies of inventory and appraisement of the household furniture, live and dead stock, etc. of John Knights, farmer of Melton, who died intestate on […]

Engraving of Melton Magna church from the north east by J. B. Ladbrooke. (2 copies) 1823

Order of removal of Edward Robearts [sic], carpenter, who has become a charge on the parish of Melton Magna, to Wymondham, the place of his […]

Photocopy of entries for Great and Little Melton from Zachariah Clark, Norfolk Charities (1811). 1811

Draft will of John Wright of Great Melton, farmer. [MS Series] 29 Jan. 1800

Drafts of will of John Vince of Great Melton, yeoman. [MS Series] 1799-1800

Description of land in Great Melton belonging to the Trustees for the Town of Little Melton: 5 acres bounded by property of Edward Lombe esq. […]

Photocopy of translation of entries in the Domesday Book relating to the lands of Ranulf Peverel and Godric the Sewer at Great Melton in the […]

Miscellaneous papers relating to Great Melton (Melton Magna), including wills and other records of local families

GREAT MELTON

Postcard of drawing of St Mary’s Church, Marlingford, by Carol Twinch. 1981

Reproduction of colour photograph of Marlingford Mill. n.d.

Photograph of Marlingford Mill (newscutting), mounted on card with parts of cuttings about Norfolk Wherry trust and Swaffham parish church. n.d.

Photographs and drawings of buildings in Marlingford

Marlingford

Photocopy of printed sale particulars of the Ketteringham Estate, Wymondham, including rental of the entire estate, and details of Ketteringham Hall, Ivyhouse Farm, Gowards Farm, […]

Draft calculations of property tax payable by Sir J. P. Boileau. [MS Series] 16 Dec. 1857

Income tax assessment, Sir J. P. Boileau and Mr Houlton, parish of Ketteringham. [MS Series] 1856/7

Miscellaneous correspondence between Sir J. P. Boileau and J. Mitchell, solicitor, Wymondham, about estate affairs; notes by J. Mitchell 1841. [MS Series] 1841, 1848, 1851

Specification of works to be done to the farmhouse lately occupied by Mr Read, by Jeremiah Lofty. [MS Series] 12 June 1851

Read’s Farm, specification for repairs and alterations to farm buildings, by Jeremiah Lofty. [MS Series] 12 June 1851

Statement of cropping on Mr Delf’s farm. [MS Series] 1850

Statement of land in Mr Delf’s occupation and course of cropping. [MS Series] 1849-51