Firstly on the way back into the village, I managed to take a few photographs of Miller's Cottages which I featured yesterday. It's very difficult to get a good shot of these historic buildings due to the fact that cars are always parked in front and the road is quite narrow. So please excuse the quality of the photographs above.
I had a number of interesting comments about my post. Some readers remembered members of the Miller family. I will share some of the comments received in a future blog.
So now to the stroll. It's been difficult finding new places to walk in and around Hethersett after so many weeks of rambling. But today we found a slight detour. Walked into the village and then across the fields and on to Little Melton Church and then back through Little Melton to the new North Hethersett development and then down Henstead Road and home - a distance of over six miles!
Once again the church was closed for obvious reasons but we were able to look round the graveyard. There is history at every corner. I am far from a religious person - in fact the opposite could be said - but I do find graveyards places of great peace and of course historical interest.
Two gravestones intrigued me. You will see them in the photographs below. The first was for John Russell Crompton Moore 1912-1989 philanthropist, engineer and inventor and the other to Clarissa Javanaud 1951-2006 astrophysicist and teacher. Those set my research taste buds racing and I will see if I can find any more details about these people. We also visited the grave of the Rev Mary Kerslake who we remember with such fondness - a great loss to both Little Melton and Hethersett.
We deliberately walked back from Little Melton along what I will refer to as a controversial road - controversial because this is the route that children from Little Melton are being asked to walk along to get to Hethersett Academy from September when their school bus service is withdrawn. I have written absolute piles on this for my e-magazine Hethersett Herald and you can see back copies at www.hethersettherald.weebly.com.
On this occasion there was a lack of traffic due to the lockdown advice but we still had to jump onto a verge on more than one occasion and that was at midday on a relatively bright Spring day. I have walked it at 4 pm on a cold and wet December afternoon in almost darkness and it certainly wasn't a pleasant Steward stroll on that occasion and I really can't see how children can be expected to be seen and be safe in the middle of winter, or at any other time for that matter.
We the had a decent look at the new North Hethersett development and have to admit that we got rather lost. Many of the roads are named after occupations connected with Hethersett such as Harness Maker Way. Some of the other roads are named after soldiers that lost their lives in the two world wars and who do not already have roads named after them.
As you will see from the photos below we have Beaumont Crescent which leads to Blake Close and Bartram Close. I will have stories about these men in a future blog.
I recently came across some more photographs from the not too distant past that I know newer people to our village will find particularly intriguing and which may prompt some memories in older people. All will be revealed once I have scanned them in.