Hi Bugbear & Ruskie, many thanks for all the information the map showing the location of Walcot House is brilliant, when I come upto Norfolk for my hols in Sept I intend to visit Walcot Green and take some photo's of Walcot House. You are dead right about the Quaker connection, when my mother stayed with Mrs Wallis Sundays were very strict and quiet, the day was spent reading, and confined to ones room, then singing hymns in the evening.
The news paper clips are excellent and give a little into the life at that time in the 1950's.
Prior to my mother dying, I knew very little of her life in Diss as an evacuee aged 13-18 prior to WW2, she only ever referred to Alice Wallis as 'Mrs Wallis' and there was an older gentlemen which I now know as Harry Rice her father.
Alice Wallis was a widow her husband George came from London where she also worked as a domestic marrying in 1913, he was killed on 9/12/1918 Royal Garrison Artillery in France. From the military records it would appear that she moved back to Diss to her parents house after her husbands death in 1920's.
My next aim is to try and find out what school my mother Joyce Chudley b1925 may have attended as the National 1939 Register shows her being a scholar aged 13, one suspects it must have been a school very local to Diss?
Again thanks for all the effort especially the cycle reconnaissance trip.
