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Contents

John Peake 1933 – 2024

Pam Peake

Morris Arthur & Mary Ferroussat

John Wright

Letheringsett with Little Thornage Conservation Area:
The Settlement History from medieval times

Ian Shepherd

William Allen’s first four Ships

Jonathan Hooton

Synopsis: My previous article “William Allen: Weybourne Ship Owner” in the Glaven Historian No 16, described William Allen’s life as a ship owner and tried to outline a little more of his background. However, it left much unsaid about his ships and the type of trade they were involved in. Although much is still to be discovered about his exploits this article tries to fill in a little more detail about what is known at present of his ships and trading activity. He owned nine ships during his ship owning career and they will be looked at one by one in the order that he purchased them. This article deals with his first four ships.

Cley dead from the Second World War

Richard Jefferson

Synopsis: Ten names are on the memorial in the Lady Chapel in St Margaret’s Church (Fig.1). Five served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment and died at the hands of the Japanese, three of them Prisoners of War (PoWs). One other soldier, three in the Royal Navy and one in the R.A.F. make up the number.

Cozens-Hardy Archive at the NRO

Margaret Bird

Synopsis: In October 2022 a highly significant body of manuscripts, photographs and maps from the Cozens-Hardy Collection was lodged in the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) by Caroline Holland, née Cozens-Hardy. Caroline is a BAHS member and is descended from the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy. This newsletter item appears with her permission.

What is a ‘Tide Waiter’?

Richard Kelham

“Stone Object”

Eric Hotblack

The Hettie Lifeboat and the Lifeboat Houses: A Personal Odyssey

John Peake

Synopsis: As I was reading John Wright’s interesting article on the Blakeney Lifeboat Station in the Glaven Historian 17 I couldn’t stop memories flooding back. Although they started with the first time I heard of the ‘Hettie’ lifeboat, my mind rapidly wandered to earlier thoughts of seeing the iconic lifeboat buildings over 70 years ago, just after WW2 when I first visited the Point as a schoolboy, then coming back to camp there as an university student. However, my strongest memories are living by myself in the old laboratory during one winter when employed as a Research Officer by the National Trust, cooking my own meals on a primus stove and watching birds in the tamarisk bushes just outside the window, only to realise Richard Richardson was on the other side also watching. In those days the harbour was far from empty, there would be fishermen working their mussel lays, bait-diggers scattered around or Stratton Long charging out to sea in a converted lifeboat to recover targets shot down by gunnery fire from the army camps.