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• Roger Cook - Tuesday 8 December 2020 16:42

  Hello Charles
  My apologies for not replying sooner but have been busy on other aspects of family lineage. Many thanks for your comments and I have had a look at the stanhoe website and have the following comments:
  There is a photograph of Mrs Hattie Brown age 96 in the 1950's and I was wondering if there was any possibility of there being a connection to our Jim Brown ?
  is Brown a family name common in the village ?
  The photograph of the station 1937 is exactly as my mother told me that they arrived at when they visited and were collected by Jim Brown in a Governess cart pulled by a pony called 'sixpenny'. Mum said that the cart and the pony were kept in the barn at the rear of the Inn and this was also where the toilet was and they would run through the barn as quickly as possible incase there were any rats. She also said "when we went visiting relatives in the next village the pony would trot straight into the yard of any Pub we passed. I suppose he thought it was home as soon as he smelt beer. The cart had two steps at the back and every time we came to a hill, however small, everyone except Auntie had to pile out and walk up to the top, as it would have been too much for her beloved pony".
  The postcard I have is dated March 16th 1937 and I can scan both sides of this and send a copy to you if you let me know how this can be done to this site or can I send it to an email address ?
  I also have a photograph taken in the garden of the pub that I can also share with you.
  Please let me have your comments to my email as above.

• Charles - Wednesday 14 February 2018 21:13

  The Norfolk Pubs website gives Jim Brown’s dates as 1929–1937. Does that sound right? The bowling green, the airmen, and getting water from the Pit certainly match what we know from other sources.
  
  If you use the search box on the stanhoe.org home page you'll find various reminiscences about the Hero. More photos of the Hero here: https://stanhoe.org/gallery/index.php?/search/174. I don’t think any of those started life as a postcard, so yes please, we’d love a copy of yours.
  
  I tried to email you but my message bounced, so please contact webmaster@stanhoe.org if you can. Many thanks!

• Roger Cook - Wednesday 14 February 2018 16:45

  My mother had an Aunt Pattie who was married to Jim Brown and they ran the pub in the late 1930's and my mother would visit there.
  My mother told me that there was no sanitation inside and that water had to be collected from down the road by using a yoke and two buckets.
  She also said that there was a bowling green out the back of the pub and that a lot of servicemen from nearby Bircham Newton Aerodrome would use the pub as there was no NAFFI at the camp.
  I have a picture postcard of the pub that was sent to my mother in 1937 if that would be of interest. It is an external view of the pub with a man standing by the doorway