Ludham, Norfolk - village sign - local postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Ludham, Norfolk - shows a sign with the village name
• Publisher:  The Corner Cabin, Ludham / Cartes Ltd.
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Ludham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, in The Broads, at the end of a dyke leading to Womack Water and flowing into the River Thurne. It lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the East of Ludham Bridge, which is on the River Ant. It covers an area of 12.18 km² (4.70 sq mi) and had a population of 1,301 in 582 households as of the 2001 census.^[1] For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of North Norfolk.

It is part of the Ludham - Potter Heigham NNR, a National Nature Reserve.

The village gave its name to a Ham class minesweeper, HMS Ludham and also, in geology, to an age/stage (the Ludhamian) in the British regional subdivision of the Pleistocene Series/Epoch. It also effectively gives its name to the preceding age/underlying stage known as the Pre-Ludhamian.^[2][3]

Ludham was transferred from No. 12 Group RAF to the Admiralty on 24 August 1944 and occupied by the Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation. RNAS Ludham was commissioned as HMS Flycatcher, RNAS Ludham on 4 September under the command of the Senior Officer Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation. At Ludham the MNAO assembled and despatched the first five Mobile Naval Air Bases (MONAB) and one ""Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard"" (TAMY). Flycatcher moved from Ludham to RAF Middle Wallop which was more advantageous to shipping the assembled units to the Far East. In return the RAF took Ludham on again.^[4]

Ludham was one of the film locations for the 1954 movie ""Conflict of Wings"" starring John Gregson and Muriel Pavlow. Adapted from the novel by Don Sharp, the story takes place in a Norfolk country village where the locals decide to fight against a proposal to build a rocket range on a bird sanctuary.^[5]

Filming took place in the village centre and shows many buildings and features (including the Bakers Arms pub and the very narrow main road through the village) which no longer exist.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=norfolk

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted