East Anglian Real Property Company

This a fascinating read about the largest landowner in the village, and how they came to acquire the different farms around the area. It tells the story of the development of the sugar beet industry, and how the landscape changed to accommodate the new farming practices. Read it here.

If you have any information about the workers on the farms or photographs we, as always would really like to hear from you.

Also published is Norfolk Ploughlands a first hand account of a visiting farmer and broadcaster Ralf Whitlock (the Adam Henson of his day) and what he made of the the sugar beet industry in East Anglia in 1947.