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 August 1930.  The crossroads
photographed in 1946, showing how as it was at the time of the accident. 'Corners' now occupies some of the rough land to the left. Ten years later the County Council altered the road layout to try to make it safer, but didn't get everyone's approval … [Copyright Norfolk County Council; photo by RAF 31 January 1946]  April 1957.  'Topfields' in 1951, built by the Dreibholz family.  Mr Eric Dreibolz jnr
and Maurice Wooding boarding the London train at Norwich Station to travel to Moscow on a selling trip in 1969. The pair hired fur-lined coats and hats from Moss Bros. Dreibholz Bros. and Co made machinery for sugar beet processing and came to Norfolk from Holland in 1932. During the war they made turret rings for tanks.  Press
cutting from 1969.Fred Nicholson retired to Hoe and built the bungalow he called 'The Heater', named after the shape of the metal insert used to heat a flat iron, because the plot of land was that shape. He was also Chairman of Norfolk County Council. The house is now called Woodview Lodge. |