Nostalgia - Weeting manor house set to be demolished

In today's nostalgia we go back to 1952 when another manor house was going to be demolished.

Workmen arrived one Monday morning in May to tear down the18th-century Hall in Weeting, near Thetford - once the proud country seat of the wealthy Angerstein family.

Then owned by the Norfolk Agricultural Executive Committee, it was purchased by Mr P. C. H. Johnson, contractor, Terrington St Clement, near King's Lynn, for the purpose of demolition

Mr Sid Money, who resided in the village, had been the caretaker of the mansion on and off for 20 years.

He considered that it would have been too costly to turn it into flats.

The last occupants of the hall were wounded Indian POWs from Germany, but since their departure in 1946 it remained uninhabited.

For several years previously to the last war, the hall was used as a Ministry of Labour Instructional Centre for the benefit of unemployed men from the distressed areas. Then the Army Council took it over from the Ministry of Labour.