Photograph of J C Foulsham, G Dalling, L Brown, C CH Brown taken at Great Yarmouth between 1914 - 1916
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Photograph of J C Foulsham, G Dalling, L Brown, C CH Brown taken at Great Yarmouth between 1914 - 1916
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Photograph of J C Foulsham, G Dalling, L Brown, C CH Brown taken at Great Yarmouth between 1914 - 1916. Reads: "the first two motorbikes and sidecars ever to leave Stradbroke together."
Two of the gentlemen look to be wearing volunteer Red Cross lapel badges.
Further in Stradbroke Monthly Feb.2019:
Mr John Charles Foulsham, Stradbroke pork butcher
A short piece about Stradbroke was written in 1951 in which the author had spoken to several local people. Of particular mention was John Foulsham who the writer reports had told many interesting and amusing stories. John Foulsham was the village pork butcher and his shop was in what was, until recently, the bridal shop in Church Street. The shop had been run by the family for several generations.
The story told in the article concerned an old house called The Rookery. A great uncle of the teller once farmed from there and on one occasion whilst attending the corn market (now the Court House), he, and several other locals, popped over to The Queens Head for refreshments. A sporting wager was made as to whether the farmer could not ride his old bay mare back to the Rookery and then up the stairs to bed. The bet was won but then a problem arose - how to get the old mare back down the stairs. She was quite content to remain in the bedroom. It was not until two tumbrel loads of straw had been spread on the stairs and hall that she was induced to come down.
John Charles Foulsham was born on 18th December 1895 to Frank and Kate Foulsham (nee Copping). He recalls that his grandmother, Sarah Copping, had witnessed the last public hanging in Norwich and had taken the last ever stagecoach to London. The writer finished his piece by stating, "It was a pleasure to meet a man with such a deep rooted affection for his native village."
John had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1916 at the age of 20 but was discharged in July of the following year as being no longer fit after mobilisation that February. His military record shows he was just 5' 6 3/4" tall.
Foulshams pork shop closed in 1961 and typically John wrote a poem to mark the occasion and inform his customers:
There's no more for Foulshams for pork
Now that's the sad topic for talk
For their sausages prime you may wish
But alas the pork shop will sell fish.
NB. from NS; The butchers shop door was under
at porch/archway with Foulsham's hardware next door and a Ladies hairdressers up stairs. I (NS) was told that Jack had a slaughter house behind the old police house where Willow Close now is,
John died on 11th July, 1978 aged 82
Ann Readman, SARA
Source:Ancestry.co.uk, BNA.co.uk, Freebmd.com, Stradbrokearchive.org.uk.
Two of the gentlemen look to be wearing volunteer Red Cross lapel badges.
Further in Stradbroke Monthly Feb.2019:
Mr John Charles Foulsham, Stradbroke pork butcher
A short piece about Stradbroke was written in 1951 in which the author had spoken to several local people. Of particular mention was John Foulsham who the writer reports had told many interesting and amusing stories. John Foulsham was the village pork butcher and his shop was in what was, until recently, the bridal shop in Church Street. The shop had been run by the family for several generations.
The story told in the article concerned an old house called The Rookery. A great uncle of the teller once farmed from there and on one occasion whilst attending the corn market (now the Court House), he, and several other locals, popped over to The Queens Head for refreshments. A sporting wager was made as to whether the farmer could not ride his old bay mare back to the Rookery and then up the stairs to bed. The bet was won but then a problem arose - how to get the old mare back down the stairs. She was quite content to remain in the bedroom. It was not until two tumbrel loads of straw had been spread on the stairs and hall that she was induced to come down.
John Charles Foulsham was born on 18th December 1895 to Frank and Kate Foulsham (nee Copping). He recalls that his grandmother, Sarah Copping, had witnessed the last public hanging in Norwich and had taken the last ever stagecoach to London. The writer finished his piece by stating, "It was a pleasure to meet a man with such a deep rooted affection for his native village."
John had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1916 at the age of 20 but was discharged in July of the following year as being no longer fit after mobilisation that February. His military record shows he was just 5' 6 3/4" tall.
Foulshams pork shop closed in 1961 and typically John wrote a poem to mark the occasion and inform his customers:
There's no more for Foulshams for pork
Now that's the sad topic for talk
For their sausages prime you may wish
But alas the pork shop will sell fish.
NB. from NS; The butchers shop door was under
at porch/archway with Foulsham's hardware next door and a Ladies hairdressers up stairs. I (NS) was told that Jack had a slaughter house behind the old police house where Willow Close now is,
John died on 11th July, 1978 aged 82
Ann Readman, SARA
Source:Ancestry.co.uk, BNA.co.uk, Freebmd.com, Stradbrokearchive.org.uk.
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1914-1916
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SLHG, “Photograph of J C Foulsham, G Dalling, L Brown, C CH Brown taken at Great Yarmouth between 1914 - 1916,” Stradbroke Village Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.stradbrokearchive.org.uk/items/show/586.
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