KEEP IN TOUCH WITH HORSEY VILLAGE HORSEY PHOTOHISTORY A CD packed with almost 200 high quality photographs of the village and it's inhabitants, spanning over 120 years.
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" Bringing the Past into the Present" |
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This website is being constantly updated as and when new details come to light, and will also continue to grow, as our collection of documents, papers, reminiscences, and photographs are sorted through. If YOU have any memories, information, photographs, or anything at all relating to the village or it's inhabitants, please get in touch with us to enable us to share information with all. |
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The Staithe |
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Two cottages were on the Staithe. In one of these lived Mr PEGG, the
waterman who used to take people out on to the Mere in the 1890's.
In 1910 the spark from a passing steam engine set fire to the thatch, and the cottages were destroyed. On the site, a Community Store was established by Major BUXTON in 1934,so the villagers could sell their produce to the holiday makers arriving on the mere by boat. Only Horsey residents could buy shares (only 49 shareholders to ensure that the company was not paid public), the profits from which were distributed to the shareholders. It is now leased to the National Trust shop.
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