Voices of Hickling: St Mary’s Church
This page holds memories from our “Voices” about St Mary’s Church, Hickling
Page updated 15/11/21
Father was the Verger…
Mirrie Lambert
Methodists and Anglicans… David Osborne
Cleaning and warming the church - Mirrie Lambert
An apocryphal story? David Osborne
To Church for the Baby’s
Funeral… - Mirrie Lambert
Mrs Crosse
Pat Deane
Church, choir and social life
Mirrie Lambert
Dad died very early
Mirrie Lambert
Yo-yos, Diablos and the
Vicar! - Brian Phillipps
A written memory of Sunday School Treats in the 1920s
Other annual occasions were the Sunday School Treats which followed the Anniversaries where every scholar was expected to either recite or sing.
Local Farmers provided transport for the treats. Great red and blue wagons scrubbed down and with clean straw on the floors and drawn by two heavy farm horses in shining harness and with their manes and tails braided were better than any bus. There were forms to sit on and away we went to Sea Palling or Waxham for the day. Great hampers of food had been prepared; races were run for pennies (everyone got some), we had a paddle or a swim and then home again with everyone singing the best of the Anniversary hymns: no bus outing could ever compare with this. A farm wagon was also used one Sunday each year as a pulpit fo the Annual Camp Meeting when the Chapels got together for an outside service.