—A meeting was held at the King’s Arms Hotel, East Dereham, in furtherance of a scheme for constructing a railway from Wymondham to that town, with extensions to Lynn and Downham. Lord Sondes, on October 7th, presided over a meeting at the Guildhall, Norwich, at which the undertaking was approved. It was estimated to cost £10,000 per mile. (See December 7th, 1846.)
OCTOBER.
10.—Died at Norwich, Mr. Thomas Turner, “a well-known amateur on the river.” “Agreeable to the wishes expressed by the deceased,
he was conveyed from Carrow to Thorpe on board a sailing-boat, from which he was carried on the shoulders of six boating men in blue jackets and white trousers to his last resting-place in Thorpe churchyard.”
16.—Van Amburgh’s Circus and Menagerie were exhibited in a large marquee erected in Chapel Field, Norwich.
17.—Dereham and Swaffham Theatres were advertised to be sold by auction, “under the will of the late Mr. David Fisher.” After this date there are no further records of the Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians, so long under the management of the Fisher family.
—Mr. Rush, “a respectable farmer,” of Hevingham, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun “left in the kitchen of his house by his son, James Blomfield Rush, auctioneer and farmer, of Wymondham.”
18.—M. Jullien gave the first of three concerts at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich.
26.—In the Arches Court, the Rev. William Henry Henslowe, perpetual curate of Wormegay, was suspended from the ministry for three months, for refusing on two occasions to bury the corpse of Sarah Bowden, a parishioner who had been baptised by a minister of the Primitive Methodist persuasion. The case was brought before the Court by letters of request from the Bishop of Norwich.