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Name :   Chris Clarke Home page :    E mail :   cclarke34@orange.esinet.org Comment :   Thanks, I found your site really helpful in providing me with info about the sinking of the Royal Edward. I am researching the Attleborough War Memorial and one of our men, Charles Lincoln, also drowned on that day. Name :   Alan Gilbert Home page :    E mail :   giblet@online.no Comment :   Very interesting page about the Rows of Great Yarmouth. Have been tracing my family tree and have an ancestor who was born in Row 13. It has been really nice to find out the history of this part of Great Yarmouth Name :   Susan Brooks Home page :    E mail :   wolfweib@yahoo.co.uk Comment :   Lovely to find such a website. The people of Norfolk can hold their heads up high and be proud of their language. I get the mick taken out of me up here in Burton upon Trent, where I have moved to. Might just move back!! Name :   Robert Poulton Home page :    E mail :   bob.poulton@word.fsnet.co.uk Comment :   Norfolk boy now in Hants Name :   Richard WilliamTodd Family Home page :    E mail :   RWTNY@Juno.com Comment :   Great Website, was looking for the place ( county ) where our family came from, in the 1800s to North America. I have a clearer picture of who they were by listening to the dialect page and viewing the photos. Thanks. Todd Family Pine City New York. Name :   shirley hayes Home page :    E mail :   sshayes55@fuse.net Comment :   Thank you for info of the Rows, Mr Hamilton guided me to your site, I,m 70 years old and live in the U.S, but as a little girl in the 30.s lived in one of the Rows, Thank you again Shirley Hayes Name :   Charles Seaman Home page :    E mail :   writestuff@gmail.com Comment :   Delightful page that brings back memories. I can just barely remember my great granddad who came from Sedgeford and Kings Lynn. He emigrated when he was 17, but he still had a touch of Norfolk to him. I was pleasantly surprised to find that a few of the e Name :   Heather Home page :    E mail :   heather.smith983@ntlworld.com Comment :   Not knowing about the Rows I thought it strange when I found a name I am researching for family history lived in the Rows. It was not until this week when The Rows were mentioned on Anglia TV I realised the significance of the address. Searching the We Name :   Sarah Home page :    E mail :    Comment :   I never realised how Norfolk I was til I read this page and saw most of my phrases and vocabulary in print. Sarah Name :   marilyn randall Home page :    E mail :   bermar50@hotmail.com Comment :   This is a great site and it was good to hear how my ancestors would have talked. Even though I cant find them I know they were born in Norfolk. I will continue my search for the Shalders. Very difficult from Australia where I live. Anyway a great site. Name :   Jill Clinton Home page :    E mail :   jill.clinton@kent.gov.uk Comment :   Thank you for this site - Ive been having great fun with the dialect. I always thought my whole family were Londoners. Until I discovered the Forders of Toft Monks. Name :   Patt & Leslie Farrell Home page :    E mail :   leslie.farrell@ntlworld,com Comment :   My Dad is Norfolk born and bread, being a Sheringham Fisherman before the war. We now live in Manchester but keep up-to-date via newspapers and the websites. We also visit two or three times a year. My grandmother and her brothers all had strong Norfolk a Name :   Jan Murphy Home page :    E mail :   janet.murphy53@btinternet.com Comment :   Read through a veil of tears, all those sons, brothers and husbands. My uncle went down with the Royal Edward, my great-grandmother never really got over his loss, all these years later such waste that war brings still continues to resonate. Name :   Steph Home page :   www.costacakes.com E mail :   johnny_appleskins@hotmail.com Comment :   I remember my grandad telling me about the rows about 5 years ago... I was fascinated then and still am now. Name :   Keith Emmerson Home page :    E mail :   Keith-is@hotmail.co.uk Comment :   Aah bouy. keep this site gowin, thas nice to see somethun on the intronet thut i can understaaand! Name :   joyce harllee Home page :   san antonio texas usa E mail :   harllees@webtv.net Comment :   Im going to really enjoy listening to this. I am from Norwich (1958) and my Dads parents spoke with really a norfolk accent ! MANY THANKS Name :   Shirley Home page :   Hayes E mail :   sshayes55@fuse.net Comment :   Well I,ve lived in the states for 44 years, and happy to say, never lost my Norfolk accent.Do you know there are a whole bunch of Stolworthy,s from Yarmouth over here, all descendants of a Thomas Stolworthy, found out about them last year, would love for Name :   Penny Ewles-Bergeron Home page :    E mail :   p_ewlesbergeron@hotmail.com Comment :   I enjoyed the Norfolk dictionary and recognised phrases my grandfather Fred Cordy of Cantley would use. Do you know the term lob lolly for jelly dessert? It is perhaps more a Suffolk name, but I couldnt help thinking of it while reading your webpage. Used Name :   Craig Gordon Home page :    E mail :    Comment :   My grandfather charles stewart ramc survived the sinking of royal edward and spent most of the war in el kantara egypt defending the suez canal Name :   sharon duthie Home page :    E mail :   derrick@dduthie.freeserve.co.uk Comment :   Born and bred in the fens! Now living in Leics. Loved the site and helped with dialects for college work. Thanks! Name :   Ian Hook Home page :    E mail :   pompadour@chelmsfordbc.gov.uk Comment :   Pauline, Visited today to put a relative of 20729 Pte JW Nurse of Weybourne ("Webbun") on the Royal Edward trail. Wiht kind regards, Ian Ian Hook Name :   Kenneth A Holloway Home page :    E mail :   dudgeonlight@aol.com Comment :   A very interesting site. Well worth the browse. I also had a gt uncle drowned when the "Royal Edward" was torpedoed on 13/06/1915. Name :   Marlies from Holland Home page :    E mail :   haarlem11@hotmail.com Comment :   gret to see a site about a dialect, very interresting!I'm making a script for school about the english dialects,slang and accents. The history of the english language. Has anybody information about the subject!please contact me, thank you very much! Name :   Linda VESEY Sokalofsky Home page :    E mail :   VESEY@DCCNet.com Comment :   Thank you for your pages Pauline. We too lost a member of our family with the sinking of the Royal Edward the 13th of August 1915. Private 2345 Walter Frank VESEY,3rd/1st (East Anglian) Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps age 23 and just married. He is r Name :   christine Home page :    E mail :   christine20@bigpond.com.au Comment :   Hi I lived in Norfold from 8 -16 years of agee in the 60's I loved growning up there in Swanton Morley, I so miss the accent, its the best inthe world. I now live in Melbourne Australia, anyone who went to Dereham Girls Secondary Modern, please feel free Name :   john neave Home page :    E mail :   jl&rsn@wave.co.nz Comment :   My Neave forebears were Norfolk dumplings - they showed up in North Pickenham from somewhere (?) around 1800 but most were scattered elsewhere by the 1850s. It must have been something somebody said! Name :   Francis Skipper Home page :    E mail :   bskip29@excite.com Comment :   I was told that my family descends from Norfolk. My surname is Skipper and I am begginng my search. If my family did descend from there I will let you know. I would be proud to have come from such a culturally rich part of the world. First Name :   Peter Bewick URL :   peterbewick@yahoo.co.uk Comment :   Jochabed & Barzilia were the children of Thomas & Eliz Tipple. S. Elmham St Cross late 17 hundrend. I have details. Regards Peter Bewick 01603 618187 (Norwich) I will be at home in mid April. First Name :   keith aves URL :    Comment :   Son of William (bill)Aves. Loved the boy John.Laughter is great. The humour magic. Its good to see it continue. Now resident in New Zealand First Name :   Bonnie URL :    Comment :   I just read your article on Norfolk dialect and found it quite inteesting, ufortunately, I have the web and cannot download anything but Skip's voice a bit. But, did enjoy that...I have an online friend who lives in Norfolk, and just love him to pieces, h First Name :   Stuart URL :   stusage@hotmail.com Comment :   Living with that other strange breed, the Scousers - this makes me feel rather homesick - and the quiz says it all, there is something special about crossing the bridge at Sutton Bridge and seeing that sign for Norfolk... First Name :   Audrey URL :   Serreau née Capp Comment :   how're ye a gitiin'on tergather?Tha's a masterpiece,this here machine but ye're gotta hev a hid on yer to git it to wark proper First Name :   clair URL :   cheerfulpippa@hotmail.com Comment :   i am a proper norfolg gal trying to teach my kids the rite way to speak. After all I am related to Sidney Grapes who wrote the boy John books. First Name :   Carmen URL :    Comment :   I visited Norfolk many times. I come from Romania. I think it is lovely part of the country, and I hope it continues to remain beautiful, but I guess that all depends on the way people continue in the Norfolky spirit and life. I'd love to visit again, as First Name :   Peggy URL :    Comment :   I am a Skipper my grandfather was born in Norfolk in 1892. He came to America in 1910. First Name :   Phil URL :   captain@steamboat.freeserve.co.uk Comment :   If you want to hear a bit o dumplin afloat, give us a look. First Name :   Charles Franklin McLane URL :   ChazMcLane@cs.com Comment :   Very interesring ...and funny website. I was born in Norfolk Virginia USA and just surfed on in. Glad I did. Chaz First Name :   Shaun URL :    Comment :   Well may have only been away from Norfolk a few months here in New Zealand, but I miss greatly having a yarn wiv a few of the'bors back in Norfolk. Anyway the internet is great for keeping up to date and viewing Norwich through the web cams. Although my a First Name :   Val URL :   hallval@hotmail.com Comment :   A wonderful find - thanks to Trevor who put me in touch. It brings back fond memories of my father who sadly left Norfolk many years ago and moved to boring old Surrey following a job offer. I will be adding my name to the mailing list - who knows I may f First Name :   Dave URL :   admrob@bigpond.com.au Comment :   As an ex dumpling now living in Newcastle NSW Australia I find it great to be able to read your pages in particular the diologue as my mates at work find it easier to understand me now after giving them a copy of some of the lingo. As you can tell from t First Name :   Paul URL :   schoolbutch@aol.com Comment :   Born in Breckles around the time the old king was a little lad, now living 'down south'. Looking for Singing Postman info, hope this site will be of help. First Name :   kevin URL :    Comment :   its great to see that there are lots of people with an interest in the norfolk dialect as a norflok man my self and being lucky enough to speak a yarn or two it gives me a great pleasure in seeing others facinated by it First Name :   madeline URL :   maddy@scottla4.freeserve.co.uk Comment :   IM,E FEELING VERY HOMESICK,AND SAD ,HAVE JUST MOVED TO MORECAMBE IN AUGUST AND THE CULTURE SHOCK IS TOO MUCH FOR ME I DESPERATLY WANT TO COME HOME TO NORFOLK,BUT I DON,T KNOW HOW I WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD ANOTHER HOME NOW. First Name :   Alton URL :   http://www.lagrandemoda.co.uk Comment :   Nice page, very imformative, at the moment I'm trying to imagine Yarmouth like you describe it, unfortunately as most of the rows are now gone I cannot imagine it. I would have liked to have seen a complete row, one that runs from the quay right to the to First Name :   Dawn URL :   sunsup@verizon.net Comment :   What a neat site. Thank You! Seattle, Washington, USA First Name :   judy matthes (nee hewitt) URL :   http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5564/gyghighschool.html Comment :   Hi, My son showed me your website it brought back so many memories of the old school, I have been living in canada since 1969 having taken a circuitous world route to get here! I would love to chat with you, my email is fredandjudy@shaw.ca so I hope to he First Name :   Dave URL :   Bradnum Comment :   Ass a bloamen good read.Int northen betta on this ere compewter i,s gorta look in to it further.Keep a troshin boy cheerioo First Name :   Ken URL :    Comment :   Fantastic site. I should not do this I know. But I cannot help but look for more about Herman George Rayner, My Grandad. (Boof). A story I remember is about lots of woman scaling and cleaning at a mere 4 seconds each. Boof took me fishing too. Gorleston o First Name :   Gerald URL :    Comment :   Very informative - and lots of fun.I'm recommending the site to all those cousins overseas who need to experience how it might be that their ancestor's surnames became recorded with so many variations !!! The dialect is a joy to hear.

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