Wroxham resident and retired Fleet Street journalist Keith Turner runs a very interesting web site that chronicles the fascinating history of our village.
Keith writes: " Starting with the talk I gave to The Friends of Wroxham Church in 2010 about my boyhood in a village where three generations of my family lived my website has grown over the years with fascinating tales of life here from other contributors. Read about the bear at Bear’s Grove, news from the 1800s, the secret wartime warriors living in The Avenue, the double crash of two Liberators in a Wroxham field, and some of the interesting characters who populated the parish.
New to the history site and in his own words - a fascinating account of the man who, on a whim, decided to buy the Wroxham boatyard owned by Graham Bunn and turned it into the most popular hire fleet on the Broads. Tales of black market money, the boat that wouldn’t pass a pub, the houses he built in Hoveton as homes for his workers, the crazy idea of concrete boats… read Donald Hagenbach’s memories, written in 1949. …