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The Great Dunham Archive and more = 200+ pages
The original 185 page archive was created by Pat Pierce

Items are being added to the archive as new material comes to hand. If you have photos or anything of interest please contact duncan@jdhector.co.uk 
Introduction
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Boundaries and Places
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Charity, Workhouses and Emigration
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Church and Chapel
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Fetes and Functions
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Great Dunham in 1845
"DUNHAM, (GREAT) 6 miles N.E. of Swaffham, and 2 miles S. by W. of Litcham, is a scattered village and parish, containing 520 souls, and about 2000A. of land, belonging to F.W. Keppel, Esq., Capt. Davy, the Rev. J. Humfrey, Major Loftus, and several smaller proprietors; and partly in the manors of East and West Lexham. The CHURCH (St. Andrew,) is an interesting Anglo-Saxon structure, with a tower between the nave and chancel. The interior has lately been cleansed and repaired under the direction of the present curate, and contains a curious font and piscina. Fragments of a Roman altar, and the foundations of another church, which was dedicated to St. Mary, have recently been discovered in the garden attached to the Rectory House. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £12.1s.10½d., was anciently in two medieties, and is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. John Humfrey, M.A., of Wroxham Hall, who has a manor here, and has lately erected a commodious National School near the church. The glebe is 44A. 16P., and the tithes were commuted in 1840 for £562 per annum. Here are three small chapels, belonging to the Baptists, and the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Susan Well]
fatal Stabbing 1862
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Newspaper clippings
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parish history
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people houses and places
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personal histories and recollections
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THEN AND NOW WRITTEN 1987 BY ALBERT LARGE (TYPED BY PAT PIERCE)

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MEMORIES OF VILLAGE LIFE IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S

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School and Schoolchildren
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War and the Home Guard
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