Paul recounts his life working on the marshes as a marshman. He says, ‘Marshmen don’t seem to retire, they just keep going.’ When I was about nine years old I started going down Norton marshes with my dad duck shooting from the first of September. We shot mallard and geese, which would have been greylags […]
Marshmen
Four generations of marshmen and reedcutters (1950s-2017)
Generations of Brian’s family have lived on the marshes and worked as marshmen. He tells us about his family and his own life growing up on the marshes. Generations of marshmen My family has lived on the marshes for generations. My grandfather Reginald Mace was a marshman on the Reedham level and he had a […]
Laughter brings life to the marshes (1930s-2017)
Bill lived and worked on the marshes in Norfolk all his life. He talks about all the jobs involved and the changes that took place during that time. I was born in Reedham in 1927 and started school at Burgh St Peter when I was about four or five, as my father worked on the […]
Wanderings of a Naturalist – Haddiscoe (1940s-2019)
Roy studied natural history most of his life and joined the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society in the winter of 1966 and soon became the secretary. In those days there was a very small committee, including the great Ted Ellis. I grew up in the Second World War. My father was a Bristol Channel pilot, […]