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Welcome to the new Thorpe Hamlet History Information page! 

The new group has published a number of articles about Thorpe hamlet which you can read below, just click on the title

Are you interested in joining a new local history group? A new group has been set up to look at various aspects of the history of Thorpe which meets at the Plumsted Road Library details of the next meeting are here

Number

Title

Author

Suggested category

       
 0 A Thorpe Hamlet Miscellany June Marriage Miscellaneous articles on 108 topics
1

Wellesley Avenue Infants School

Pauline Scales

Education

2

The big houses of Thorpe Hamlet

Debbie Russell

Buildings

3

Entertainment and leisure in Thorpe Hamlet

Debbie Russell

Shops, pubs. Etc

4

Thorpe Maternity Home

Debbie Russell

Health

5

A passage to Norwich

Robin Bowling

River and bridges

6

School holidays remembered

Debbie Russell

Reminiscence

7

A bridge too near

Robin Bowling

River and bridges

8

Pubs

Debbie Russell

Shops, pubs. Etc

9

The incident in the fog

Robin Bowling

River and bridges

10

Cargoes to and from Norwich

Robin Bowling

River and bridges

11

The General, the Banker and the Solicitor

Jim Marriage

People

12

June Marriage eulogy

Barbara Miller

People

13

Allotments to the rescue

Robin Bowling

Miscellaneous

14

Clarence Harbour

Robin Bowling

River and bridges

15

The optical telegraph in Thorpe Hamlet

Tony Smith

Communications

16

St. Leonard’s Priory

Ann Shopland

Buildings

17

Thorpe Hamlet School

Debbie Russell

Education

18

Thorpe Hamlet’s international connections

John Trevelyan

Miscellaneous

19

Read’s Flour Mill

Robin Bowling

River and bridges

20

Sayings in common usage

Robin Bowling

Miscellaneous

21

When I was on ‘Flog It’

Robin Bowling

Reminiscence

22

Bishop’s Bridge

Ann Shopland

River and bridges

23

Foundry Bridge

Ann Shopland

River and bridges

24

Windmills in Thorpe Hamlet, a brief overview

Steven Bloomfield

Buildings

 25 Mobile friendly self guided tour around the military graves in the Rosary Cemetary  History group  Historic Cemetery

 
     
 
 

This page was last updated  October, 2026