Two of the refugee workers, Karl and Franz later became members of the Lakenheath Home Guard.Ĭaptain Kidner who lived at 81 High Street, was the Village’s Head Air Raid Warden. Later **Enemy Alien internment camps were established. In Germany, Nazi persecution of Jews had accelerated, leading many Jewish people to flee the country and Great Britain allowed refugees into the country through a gradually tightening visa system. We hope to be able to tell more of their story in the future. After the war they remained in the country, living in London. Lola was made responsible for feeding the young men and their welfare. They have been identified as Lola Orbach, her husband, and Stella. In 1940 another married couple and their daughter arrived.
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There was a married couple there on the National Registration Day. It’s thought that they arrived in the country in 1937-38. The 1939 National Register shows 20 *German Jewish refugees aged around 20, living and working at the Chivers Factory on Sedge Fen. 2018.īrian Bonnett on the restored tumulus in 1947.Ĭaptain Kidner rented the land and grew asparagus there for several years but the soil was too sandy to be really successful. My understanding is that when Lady Briscoe heard of this desecration, she asked for the mound to be restored, and the Gyrotiller duly obliged’.įrom a letter from Prof. I presume that the large stones were buried in the existing pits. Anyway, the tumulus was flattened with everything else. Although I am not sure of it, I presume that the land belonged to the estate of Sir Carlton Briscoe.ĭuring and /or just after the second world war, the West Suffolk branch of the War Agricultural Committee was engaged in maximising food production, and this entire area of land, previously uncultivated as far as I know, was ploughed up using a very large machine (which I think was referred to as a Gyrotiller……………….
The Tumulus was surrounded by three large stones, two greyish and one brown, and were clearly visible from far away. Some of the depressions were considerable, and one had sycamore trees growing in it. ‘It was then a clear mound set in an area of heathland, the latter being considerably pitted with depressions (probably for sand excavation), on the other side of a plantation known locally as ‘The Covey’. The Maids Cross tumulus ( mound) was still to be seen. In 1940 his eldest daughter, Nellie Rachel Paula Cecile Hortense de Cock married the Lakenheath GP, Dr J Barr, whose surgery was at The Yews, High Street. Later the bankruptcy order was lifted and production continued until 1981. The purpose-built Lakenheath factory was seen as the start of a new industry which had the potential to supply chicory to the whole UK market.įinancial difficulties led to M.
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By 1943 production was in full swing and a number of villagers were employed who were trained by Belgian workers brought in by the owner M.Charles Augustave de Cock, a Belgian entrepreneur who had first established the company at St Ives in 1930. *Machinery was being installed at the ‘Home Grown Chicory’ factory near the railway station at The Hiss. Read about: Jonah Rolph and the Ichthyosaur This part of the Timeline begins at 1935, to allow a recent village discovery to be includedĪ fossilised vertebra of a prehistoric reptile was found on Lakenheath Fen. Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War. General information has been taken from Wikipedia and other sources as cited in the text.Īeroplane Crashes.
Second World War posters are reproduced by permission of The Imperial War Museum under the IWM Non-Commercial Licence.
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Please feel free to contact us if you feel something is incorrect or missing, or if you would like to contribute more information. The others in black are still being researched or written. Stories highlighted in blue are available to read. The work of the late Roy Silverlock has been particularly valuable.Īdditionally, the Heritage Group is indebted to those villagers, past and present, who have provided documents and artefacts for our use.
Timeline 6 and its Stories are mainly based on information collected from Villagers past and present some written, some from donated photographs and some from documents of the time.
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