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November 2001

At long last the conversion of all the photographs is finished and I've got some space back that I've already started filling! Details of what has been added since last month can be found on the ‘What's New’ page on site 1. Please, if you find any broken links or anything else that doesn't work send me an email detailing the problem.

October was a quiet month for a change but November is getting off to a busy start as we have the Mayor coming to visit us on Monday and as Parish Council Chairman it falls to me to give him the conducted tour. Perhaps I should just sit him down in front of the website. The smells from the composting operation on Lodge Road should be finished by the 15 Nov - at least the Christmas air should smell better but we'll probably still have the grass to cut or we will if the unseasonably warm weather continues. Is it Global Warming? Can we afford to ignore the possibility that it is? Just look at the new photos of the Fen Flood to see what we definitely don't want to happen again.

October saw the lowest number of requests for Feltwellian status so far but amongst them was a gentleman who served at Feltwell when it was a Thor missile base and he has promised me some recollections. He got in touch because, by chance, he obtained a copy of the village magazine that contained an extract from the RAF Feltwell Welcome brochure from that time and he wanted some back issues so that he could collect the set. The brochure has been added to Site 2 by the way.

The first request for information this month comes from Peter Moon who is trying to find out about an epitaph. I'll let him explain -

I have found the same verse on five headstones in the churchyard of All Saints, Brightlingsea, Essex:

"Affliction sore long time she bore

Physicians were in vain.

Till God was pleased to give her ease

And freed her from her pain."

There are small variations in the wording, but "Physicians were in vain" is unvarying.

Is this a local bit of doggerel, or is it found elsewhere? I haven't come across it in numerous epitaphs I've studied in Cornwall and Yorkshire.

Peter Moon.

Next we have Ron Francis -

"My grandparents were married in Feltwell Church in 1872. Samuel Langley and Naomi Ruth Bulwer. My mother was Celia Langley, born 27-8-1886, her sisters were Sophia, Emily, Ethyl, Florence and a brother Samuel. My father was Hugh Francis from the Stukeleys and then Sawston. Should be more than extremely grateful for any information hoping, of course that I may have something to give in return

Next is Stuart Wilson -

"I have been doing some research on my late uncle, Gerald Cooden Caesar, 1181561, RAF 57 squadron, who was killed in action July 16, 1941, while on ops and stationed at Feltwell. I have gleaned some knowledge from different sources, Rob Davis' especially."

Sharon Mountford sent a long email but she has proven Feltwellian status via Robert Palmer (1873/1876-1841) and would like any other details.

Finally, Colin King from Peterborough is researching his family and, in his own words, "one name I believe originated from Feltwell is my grandmother on my mothers side, information I have is Ellen Elizabeth Killingworth born in Feltwell in 1800s married Robert H Parker from Whissonsett. This is the only info I have. Can anyone help? Thanks Colin King.