Ryburgh Yesterday from your photo albums Volume 2

 

Ryburgh as we no longer know it!

Vol 2

 

These two press photos were taken by B.H.Smith on January 19th 1966 and published in the E.D.P.  The photos were taken from 90 feet up on the top of a silo at the Maltings:

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Cathy Giles has photos from the 1970's and the 1990's.

Below we see Cathy in 1974 with then boyfriend, now Sir Simon Rattle, world famous conductor who has just retired from being in charge of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra They are standing outside what was Henry Hudson's house and the old Post Office (demolished in 1980/1) as it was before relocating to the Top Shop:

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In 1973 we find Pink's Cottage in Little Ryburgh which became very much more dilapidated than this before it was restored to a habitable dwelling just a few years ago:

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These three views are from 1997 and the changes are more subtle but still there if you look closely:

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May 1997:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Riverside (now River Lodge) in the 1950's when it was the home of Walter Baldry

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Maltings cottages (now demolished) photographed by David Howe

 

 

 

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Willow Farm (now demolished) photographed by David Howe

 

 

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Willow Farm (now demolished) photographed by David Howe

 

 

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Chris Howard driving his cows past the Crown on the way to Willow Farm (now demolished)

photo Cathy Giles

 

 

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The Boar Clubhouse (now demolished) taken from the roof at the rear of

what was then the "Bottom Shop"

photo from David Howe

 

 

 

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Cottages in Fakenham Road  

photo from David Howe

 

 

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The "Bottom Shop"

depicted on two 35mm slides

dating from July 1969

 

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A view of The Boar that is not from a postcard.

 

 

 

More to come

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