LOCAL HISTORY
Memories of Frenze & Thelveton Local historian, Dennis Cross from Diss, shares with us his fascinating collection of old postcards, focusing on a different village in every issue. This time, we take a walk down memory lane in Frenze and Thelveton.
The Staffordshire Yeomanry was stationed at
Frenze during WW1, where they trained before shipping off to France. Here they can be seen in early 1914 with their horses, in a picture taken by official war photographer Ernest Abraham.
Seen here in 1911, St Andrews Church, Frenze, is
situated in beautiful surroundings and excellent for brass rubbings.
Early 1914 – soldiers from the Staffordshire
Yeomanry butchering meat for the troops in Frenze.
Frenze Hall is situated opposite the church,
and was owned at the time of this 1912 postcard by farmer Arthur Gaze. The population was 49.
The Eli Elizabethan b th mansion i Th Thelveton l t Hall, H ll in i Th 1914, was owned by Sir Edward Mann Bart JP. Many Agatha Christie TV programmes have been filmed here. 35
