Official Guide to North Walsham 2023-2024
Everything you need to know about North Walsham and the local area for visitors and residents alike in a full colour, 160 page book. Up to date information on groups, services, businesses, events and stuff to see in the North Walsham area along with extensive history of the town in words and photos.
Everything you need to know about North Walsham and the local area for visitors and residents alike in a full colour, 160 page book. Up to date information on groups, services, businesses, events and stuff to see in the North Walsham area along with extensive history of the town in words and photos.
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138 North Walsham Town Guide
The Oaks
Capturing a day in time ....
In the North Walsham Heritage Centre
is a scale model (shown above) of this
imposing mansion - created in 2022 by
talented, local model-maker Richard
Crossley. The mansion itself had been
demolished in 1934 and was replaced,
eventually, by the North Walsham
Community Centre, Library, Fire Station
and Post Office which all occupy the site
now.
The date portrayed by the model is 11th
September 1889 and the event is the wedding
luncheon to celebrate the marriage of the
owner’s sister, the young widow Gertrude
Hadley to her cousin Lieutenant Colonel Arthur
Wilkinson.
However, 45 years after that grand occasion,
the imposing mansion was sadly demolished.
This is the story of The Oaks ….
Early Days
At the time of its demolition in 1934 a
substantial property had been sited there close
to 200 years; a dwelling in that location is visible
on James Corbridge’s Map of Norfolk drawn
in 1730 (printed c.1765) and is marked “Cap.
Cooper.”
The Cooper family’s early prosperity seems
to have stemmed from mercantile activities
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