Description: Family & Local History in Norfolk & Suffolk
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Grandfather David Lines with the brothers Wickham (George, on the right, was my Godfather). Somewhere up Britons Lane, Beeston Regis in the late 1940s.
I love history. Not the dry-as-dust lists of facts and dates that made school lessons so boring, or those dumbed-down TV documentaries based around a celebrity presenter, but details of the past that I can visualise, understand and relate to - in particular, what was life like for my ancestors in the towns and villages of Norfolk and Suffolk, especially those who worked on the land? How did the coast and countryside change over time?
While rooting around in old books and photographs I took notes and transcribed some of the manuscript documents that I thought might interest a wider audience on line. Here are a few. Please get in touch if you want to correct, comment or expand on any details contained in the various files.