Gallery of Military Images

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  Local ARP wardens Janet & Sidney Grenville 1940s
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  Cavalry Drill Grnd.1926 Map.
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  Cavalry Drill Grnd.1905 Map
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  Sprowston Civil Defence volunteers 1940
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  The Sprowston First Aid Party with transport. This was one of the mobile first aid post the location of this photo is unknown.
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  RAF Old Catton - MT Vehicle Shelter in the 1960s.
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  Norfolk British Legion, Horace (John) Harrison middle row 2nd left. The location and date is not known.
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  Mobile First Aid Post convoy leaving the Blue Boar PH in the 1940s.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Sprowston Girls' Training Corps. 1943
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  Sprowston Girls' Training Corps 1943
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  RAF Old Catton - ROC Plotting Room - now ATC HQ. 1960s
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  Aerial view of the Wroxham Road area showing tank traps etc.
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  King Edward VII, who visited the Cavalry Barracks in 1909.
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  Royal Artillery Sergeant at Mousehold Barracks. 1910s
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  Boulton and Paul J6910 "Bodmin" being transported up St. James Hill to the Mousehold Airfield and Boulton and Paul’s Mousehold Factory.
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  Sprowston Memorial Book being presented to Broadland District Council in 2014.
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  Cavalry Officer, at Mousehold Barracks – early 1900’s.
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  Civil Defence, Sprowston. The Author, Diana Grenville in the 1940s
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  King Edward VII visiting the new Cavalry Barracks on Salhouse Road.
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  Reference from the Royal Navy on behalf of Kingy Fowler. 1930s
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  Civil Defence, Sprowston. Bill Cousins who was an Air Raid Warden for the duration of WW2.
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  The Northover Projector and the infamous Sticky Bomb used by the local Home Guard in WW2.
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  Members of the Hearts Team on the front.
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  1944 - A land Army girl visiting the Best's family home in Rushmore Close.
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  Plaque to record the donation of the site by Norwich Home Guard for the Memorial Bungalows on Mousehold Lane built after WW2.
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  King Edward VII, his visit to the Cavalry Barracks in 1909 troops on parade.
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  The Prince of Wales inspecting aircraft at Mousehold Airfield on a visit in the 1920s.
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  Sprowston Memorial Book being presented to Sprowston Town Council in 2014.
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  Oliver Miller after three years of War – 1917, husband of Ethel Hardingham.
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  Badeker Raids on Mousehold in 1942, by Ed Meachen. WW2.
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  Civil Defence in Sprowston,4, by Diana Harrold, nee Grenville.
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  RAF Old Catton - Water Tower. TMilitary, Date 1960s.
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  RAF Old Catton - Water Tower. TMilitary, Date 1960s.
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  RAF Old Catton - Station HQ. 1960s
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  RAF Old Catton - MT Garages. 1960s
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  Aerial View 2000s- last piece of RAF Old Catton
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  RAF Old Catton - Meadow House Boundary. 1960s.
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  RAF Old Catton - map of site. Date 1950s
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  RAF Old Catton - Constitution Hill Entrance. Date 1960s
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  RAF Old Catton map of the original site.
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  RAF Old Catton entrance to ATC HQ. 1960s
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  RAF Old Catton - MT Section vehicle shelter. 1960s
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  RAF Old Catton - Boundary with Meadow House. 1960s
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  Scout Visit to Rackheath Aerodrome in the 1940s. At this time it was an American airbase.
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  ROC (Royal Observer Corps) Bunker RAF Old Catton. Date 1960s
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  Memorial names for WW1 & WW2 at the church of St Mary and St Margaret.
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  Memorial names for WW1 at the church of St Mary and St Margaret.
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  RAF Old Catton - Opening of the new 231 Squadron HQ – 1948.
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  RAF Old Catton - remains of Ops Room being rebuilt as ATC HQ. 1960s.
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  King Edward VII, his visit to the Cavalry Barracks in 1909 the crowds on St James Hill.
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  1943 - Gerry Best's Aunt Betty when she worked in the land Army during World War II at Whitehouse Farm.
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  Wroxham Road from the air in 1946 showing line of tank traps. Photo taken by the RAF.
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  Ceremony of laying the first stone for the new cavalry barracks, site location Heartsease Lane. (EEN early 2006).
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  King Edward VII, his visit to the Cavalry Barracks in 1909, the cavalry parading.
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  Scout Visit to the USAF airfield at Hardwick? The 1940s.
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  RAF Old Catton - New 231 HQ - 1948.
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  WACs doing a fire drill at RAF Old Catton during WW2.
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  RAF Old Catton - ROC Plotting Room. 1960s
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  RAF Old Catton - aerial view taken 1946.
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  Farman aircraft (HF22 or 27). This photo. was most likely taken in India circa 1915. This type of aircraft flew from Mousehold Airfield. WW1
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  Main Gate RAF Old Catton. 1950s?
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  Entrance-ATC HQ- Guardroom right RAF Old Catton. 1950s?
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  Factories on Salhouse Road taken from old airfield – Photo from George Plunkett Collection.
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  A Boulton & Paul Sidestrand aircraft flying over the works on Salhouse Road Norwich, from the Boulton & Paul magazine 1994.
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  RAF Old Catton - WAC's training during WW2.
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  Civil Defence Sprowston (1), by Diana Harrold, nee Grenville. The, (stables), St Cuthbert's Church Sprowston. World War 2.
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  Civil Defence Sprowston (1), by Diana Harrold, nee Grenville. The, (stables), St Cuthbert's Church Sprowston. World War 2.
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  Junction of Salhouse Road with Heartsease Lane. The Cavalry Barracks are in the centre of the photograph, the tented area. The 1920s.
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  Crash landing on Mousehold. Britannia Barracks in the back ground. Missed airfield, by one mile! Charles Brown was the Boulton and Paul flight engineer.
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  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.
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  RAF Old Catton - Old Station HQ.
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  Queen Mary and King George V1??? at the Memorial Cottages in Oaktree Drive, off Mousehold Lane.
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  232 (Norwich) Squadron ATC at RAF Watton 1942? The following names are associated with the photograph. Bunting, Goodson, Hudson, Savage, Spinks, Steward, Waller, Winter.
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  Memorial to those who died in WW1 at the Memorial Cottages in Oaktree Drive, off Mousehold Lane. The 1920's.
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  Monument in front of the cottages to the 2015 men of the Royal Norfolk Regiment who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW2.