Gallery of Military Images

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  • Local ARP wardens Janet & Sidney Grenville 1940s

  • Cavalry Drill Grnd.1926 Map.

  • Cavalry Drill Grnd.1905 Map

  • Sprowston Civil Defence volunteers 1940

  • The Sprowston First Aid Party with transport. This was one of the mobile first aid post the location of this photo is unknown.

  • RAF Old Catton - MT Vehicle Shelter in the 1960s.

  • Norfolk British Legion, Horace (John) Harrison middle row 2nd left. The location and date is not known.

  • Mobile First Aid Post convoy leaving the Blue Boar PH in the 1940s.

  • Lincolnshire Yeomanry on camp on the Polo Ground on Salhouse Road in 1915. This site has recently been covered with a new housing development in 2019.

  • Lincolnshire Yeomanry on camp on the Polo Ground on Salhouse Road in 1915. This site has recently been covered with a new housing development in 2019.

  • Sprowston Girls' Training Corps. 1943

  • Sprowston Girls' Training Corps 1943

  • RAF Old Catton - ROC Plotting Room - now ATC HQ. 1960s

  • Aerial view of the Wroxham Road area showing tank traps etc.

  • King Edward VII, who visited the Cavalry Barracks in 1909.

  • Royal Artillery Sergeant at Mousehold Barracks. 1910s

  • Boulton and Paul J6910 "Bodmin" being transported up St. James Hill to the Mousehold Airfield and Boulton and Paul’s Mousehold Factory.

  • Sprowston Memorial Book being presented to Broadland District Council in 2014.

  • Cavalry Officer, at Mousehold Barracks – early 1900’s.

  • Civil Defence, Sprowston. The Author, Diana Grenville in the 1940s

  • King Edward VII visiting the new Cavalry Barracks on Salhouse Road.

  • Reference from the Royal Navy on behalf of Kingy Fowler. 1930s

  • Civil Defence, Sprowston. Bill Cousins who was an Air Raid Warden for the duration of WW2.

  • The Northover Projector and the infamous Sticky Bomb used by the local Home Guard in WW2.

  • Members of the Hearts Team on the front.

  • 1944 - A land Army girl visiting the Best's family home in Rushmore Close.

  • Plaque to record the donation of the site by Norwich Home Guard for the Memorial Bungalows on Mousehold Lane built after WW2.

  • King Edward VII, his visit to the Cavalry Barracks in 1909 troops on parade.

  • The Prince of Wales inspecting aircraft at Mousehold Airfield on a visit in the 1920s.

  • Sprowston Memorial Book being presented to Sprowston Town Council in 2014.

  • Oliver Miller after three years of War – 1917, husband of Ethel Hardingham.

  • Badeker Raids on Mousehold in 1942, by Ed Meachen. WW2.

  • Civil Defence in Sprowston,4, by Diana Harrold, nee Grenville.

  • RAF Old Catton - Water Tower. TMilitary, Date 1960s.

  • RAF Old Catton - Water Tower. TMilitary, Date 1960s.

  • RAF Old Catton - Station HQ. 1960s

  • RAF Old Catton - MT Garages. 1960s

  • Aerial View 2000s- last piece of RAF Old Catton

  • RAF Old Catton - Meadow House Boundary. 1960s.

  • RAF Old Catton - map of site. Date 1950s

  • RAF Old Catton - Constitution Hill Entrance. Date 1960s

  • RAF Old Catton map of the original site.

  • RAF Old Catton entrance to ATC HQ. 1960s

  • RAF Old Catton - MT Section vehicle shelter. 1960s

  • RAF Old Catton - Boundary with Meadow House. 1960s

  • Scout Visit to Rackheath Aerodrome in the 1940s. At this time it was an American airbase.

  • ROC (Royal Observer Corps) Bunker RAF Old Catton. Date 1960s

  • Memorial names for WW1 & WW2 at the church of St Mary and St Margaret.

  • Memorial names for WW1 at the church of St Mary and St Margaret.

  • RAF Old Catton - Opening of the new 231 Squadron HQ – 1948.

  • RAF Old Catton - remains of Ops Room being rebuilt as ATC HQ. 1960s.

  • King Edward VII, his visit to the Cavalry Barracks in 1909 the crowds on St James Hill.

  • 1943 - Gerry Best's Aunt Betty when she worked in the land Army during World War II at Whitehouse Farm.

  • Wroxham Road from the air in 1946 showing line of tank traps. Photo taken by the RAF.

  • Ceremony of laying the first stone for the new cavalry barracks, site location Heartsease Lane. (EEN early 2006).

  • King Edward VII, his visit to the Cavalry Barracks in 1909, the cavalry parading.

  • Scout Visit to the USAF airfield at Hardwick? The 1940s.

  • RAF Old Catton - New 231 HQ - 1948.

  • WACs doing a fire drill at RAF Old Catton during WW2.

  • RAF Old Catton - ROC Plotting Room. 1960s

  • RAF Old Catton - aerial view taken 1946.

  • Farman aircraft (HF22 or 27). This photo. was most likely taken in India circa 1915. This type of aircraft flew from Mousehold Airfield. WW1

  • Main Gate RAF Old Catton. 1950s?

  • Entrance-ATC HQ- Guardroom right RAF Old Catton. 1950s?

  • Factories on Salhouse Road taken from old airfield – Photo from George Plunkett Collection.

  • A Boulton & Paul Sidestrand aircraft flying over the works on Salhouse Road Norwich, from the Boulton & Paul magazine 1994.

  • RAF Old Catton - WAC's training during WW2.

  • Civil Defence Sprowston (1), by Diana Harrold, nee Grenville. The, (stables), St Cuthbert's Church Sprowston. World War 2.

  • Civil Defence Sprowston (1), by Diana Harrold, nee Grenville. The, (stables), St Cuthbert's Church Sprowston. World War 2.

  • Junction of Salhouse Road with Heartsease Lane. The Cavalry Barracks are in the centre of the photograph, the tented area. The 1920s.

  • Crash landing on Mousehold. Britannia Barracks in the back ground. Missed airfield, by one mile! Charles Brown was the Boulton and Paul flight engineer.

  • The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor, on a visit to the Royal Norfolk Memorial Cottages, in Oaktree Drive off Mousehold Lane.

  • RAF Old Catton - Old Station HQ.

  • Queen Mary and King George V1??? at the Memorial Cottages in Oaktree Drive, off Mousehold Lane.

  • 232 (Norwich) Squadron ATC at RAF Watton 1942? The following names are associated with the photograph. Bunting, Goodson, Hudson, Savage, Spinks, Steward, Waller, Winter.

  • Memorial to those who died in WW1 at the Memorial Cottages in Oaktree Drive, off Mousehold Lane. The 1920's.

  • Monument in front of the cottages to the 2015 men of the Royal Norfolk Regiment who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2.

  • WW1 Memorial Cottages built in 1919/20 in Oak Tree Drive off Mousehold Lane. Inspection of work in progress by King George V.

  • Arthur Clark of Gertrude Road. Date of birth 17th January 1890.

  • WW1 Memorial Cottages built in 1919/20 in Oak Tree Drive off Mousehold Lane. Dedication of Memorial at cottages in 1921.

  • The R101 sails over Norfolk in November 1929 on its way to Bedfordshire. Less than a year later it crashed and burst into flames over France on its maiden flight to India, killing 48 people.

  • WW1 Memorial Cottages built in 1919/20 in Oak Tree Drive off Mousehold Lane. Dedication of Memorial at cottages in 1921.

  • Barnards employees with Long Service Awards. Third from the left, holding his presentation, wearing glasses is Fred Blythe. More correctly one time Chief Petty Officer First Class Frederick Blythe, Royal Navy. Fred worked with me in the export office at the end of his career. He joined the navy at the outbreak of WW2 as a rating and progressed through the ranks. Barnards took his war service into account with the view that had it not been for the war, as he worked for them before the war and after, the time he was away fighting for King and country was allowed as service for the company.

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