Santon Downham has featured in the press regularly over the years. Many of them are to do with weather extremes or the annual ride for life and historical ones to do with events at Downham Hall. A Selection are included here. Thanks to John Dyer for the research on the historical clippings.
We missed seeing Santon Downham’s inclusion in a recent Sunday Times list of the best places to live in Britain but n=managed to track down the feature
BFP – June 2013 – Life in the heart of the forest (archive no longer available)
BFP – July 2002 – Freak Hail Batters Village (archive no longer available)
In December 1933 the Bury Free Press reported on the unveiling of a memorial tablet to the late Col. Mackenzie.
The Cambridge Daily News advertised a Two Day Sale at Downham Hall featuring contents of the mansion.
Following extensive renovations the The Bury Free Press reported the re-opening of the church in it’s 30 December 1893 issue
The Bury and Norwich Post on the 26th August 1890 had details of a Bizaar in aid of the Church resoration fund.
In the summer of 1874 the Lynn Advertiser reported on the Theford Horticultural Society summer exhibition held a Downham Hall.
The weather was of note even then.