HUGGIE’S  MEMORIES:

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Introducing Huggie Gibbs

Early life in Hickling

The game seasons

All the shops

Hickling School

Biking to Stalham School

Learning at Stalham School

My various jobs

Catching the rabbits

The stoat and the rabbit

The village pubs and Saturday

nights

The winter of 1962-3

Winters are milder now

Eel babbing

The bittern with a broken leg

Father’s wartime injuries and

later problems

More of Huggie’s memories - 2

Photo by 

Martin Johns

The hard winter of 1962-3

The big freeze started at Christmas 1962 and the thaw didn’t arrive until March 11th 1963.


At the Pleasure Boat the ice was 16 inches thick!

Photo  from family collection

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