Exhibitions
Here are pdfs of your photos:
2011 Church
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NngNWVuy0Weqh5x4M_Ua7flQiWKlNyXl/view?usp=drivesdk
2012 Summer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WoF5zQcJ0Y3RKON0ymYHMZb2rUOu-5ZE/view?usp=drivesdk
2013 Oursekves
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yGrn3j_Zu6lt53NZcDGREg6bsaq5RVvl/view?usp=drivesdk
2017 Tour of Britain
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihdvq3HuARR1H8QQ0I9VvMd1WEtRg-DV/view?usp=drivesdk
Notes from Thornham
Below is the archive of my Notes from Thornham which appear in our local magazine, the Gislingham Messenger. Please feel free to download and print out.
__Many thanks are due to all those who supply information – and also Ancestry, the county archive and last but not least the fabulous British Newspaper Archive. And thank you to readers for your support.
Stephen Schwarz
069 April 2021.pdf
Basil Brown and bicycles
068 March 2921.pdf
Two forges, Malcolm Archer
067 February 2021.pdf
Lamb’s forge in The Street
066 December 2020.pdf
The Suttons and Smallpox vaccination
065 November 2020.pdf
Fire-raisers at Swatisfield Hall, 1844
064 October 2020.pdf
The manors of Thornham
063 September 2020.pdf
Swatts or Swatisfield Hall
062 August 2020.pdf
VJ Day, 1995 and 2020
061 July 2020.pdf
Hartismere Deanery seal
060 June 2020.pdf
Thornham Magna’s charities – Bennett and Gobbett
060 May 2020.pdf
The Reading Room in The Street, Thornham Magna, update
059 April 2020.pdf
Painting of the Worthies of Eye, 1827
058 March 2020
Weekly bus to Bury St Edmunds
057 Fqeb 2020.pdf
Our water supply: water mains, fire hydrants
056 Dec 2019.pdf
Winding and straight roads in the Thornhama
055 Nov 2019.pdf
Water supply in 1945: Edgar Granville MP on conditions in Mendlesham
054 Oct 2019.pdf
Tobias Clouting: clockmaker, ironmonger and farmer of Eye and Thornham Magna
053 Sept 2019.pdf
Thornham Memorial Cottage Hospital, Mellis Road, Gislingham; later children’s convalescent home
052 Aug 2019.pdf5
More about Low House, Thwaitre becoming High Low House, Greenwich, Connecticut, see also March 2016.
051 July 2019.pdf
Visit of Princess Margaret to Thornbam, 1983
050 June 2019.pdf
Stone from Barnack built our churches
049 May 2019.pdf
First train from Norwich and collapse of water tower at Thornham Hall stables, 1849
048 April 2019.pdf
Fire at Thornham village school, 1937
047 March 2019.pdf
Village names of the Thornhams, including Pilcock
046 Feb 2018.pdf
Veteran oaks
045 Dec 2018.pdf
Eliza Mayes, White Lodge, 1911
044 Nov 2018.pdf
People at Thornham Hall, 1860s, part 2
043 Oct 2018.pdf
People at Thornham Hall, 1860s, part 1
042 Sept 2018.pdf
Mr Perkins, Mr Whistlecraft and a very hot day in 1873
041 Aug 2018.pdf
How clean water came to the Thornhams
040 July 2018.pdf
The last bus to Thornham (except on Wednesdays)
039 June 2018.pdf
Kneelers in Thornham Parva church
038 May 2018.pdf
Farewell to the brick letterbox opposite Red House
037 April 2018.pdf
Wortham Tithe War, 1931
036 March 2018.pdf
Ordnance Survey benchmarks
035 Feb 2018.pdf
Yaxley Halt on the Mellis and Eye railway
034 Dec 2017.pdf
Village Christmas parties in the 1950s and 1960s
033 Nov 2017.pdf
Mellis and Eye railway
032 Oct 2017.pdf
Tour of Britain bike race 2017
031 Sept 2017.pdf
Thornham Estate cottage numbers
030 Aug 2017.pdf
Nat Hawes’ cycle shop, Thornham Parva
029 July 2017.pdf
Spinning: false and short yarn, 1787
028 June 2017.pdf
18th century smuggling in Thwaite, part 2
027 May 2017.pdf
18th century smuggling in Thwaite, part 1
026 April 2017.pdf
Norwich to London by rail and sea, 1851
025 March 2017.pdf
The Henniker Archive: Thornham Estate map and diplomatic letters from Charles II carried by Lord Chandos to the Ottoman Empire and not used.
024 Feb 2017.pdf
Our District Nurse, c1910
023 Dec 2016.pdf
Norwich to London stage coach overloaded with turkeys at Christmas
022 Nov 2016.pdf
Auxiliary Units: secret Chariot Zero radio station in Thornham
021 Oct 2016.pdf
Post Bus: Diss and Gislingham via Thornham
020 Sept 2016.pdf
Grants to both Thornham churches
019 Aug 2016.pdf
The milestone on the A140 Norwich turnpike
018 July 2016.pdf
Thornham Estate brickworks
017 June 2016.pdf
Thornham Magna windmill
016 May 2016.pdf
The Reading Room in The Street, Thornham Magna 1
015 April 2016.pdf
Thwaite High House – the Cock
014 March 2016.pdf
Thwaite Low House (Queen’s Head) reborn in Greenwich, Connecticut as the High Low House of Isaac and Edith Newton Phelps Stokes, see also Aug 2019.
013 Feb 2016.pdf
Letterboxes of the Thornhams
012 Dec 2015.pdf
The Norwich road and Stonham Pie or Magpie, 1901
011 Nov 2015.pdf
Thornham Hall, church and ford, 181
010 Oct 2015.pdf
Horse drawn wooden snow plough
009 Sept 2015.pdf
Heritage Open Day 2015: Willis Faber building and Freston Tower