This page is dedicated to famous / well known people who have either lived, worked or connected to North Walsham presently or in the past.
Have we left you out? If you know somebody connected with North Walsham who you feel should be on this page and is not then please let us know.
Admiral Lord Nelson
Attended Paston Grammar School, North Walsham. (1768 -1771) with his brother William. William stayed for a further three years after his brother left.
Stephen Fry
Attended Paston Grammar School, North Walsham.
Cassie Jackman (Cassandra Jackman) MBE
Winner of 20 WISPA Tour titles held the Number One World Ranking
throughout much of 2000. Attended North Walsham High School.
Cassandra Jackman was recognised in the Queen's birthday honours list in 2004 with Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to squash.
Neil Storey
Highly regarded historian and prolific author of many historical books on North Walsham and Norfolk. Books include 'North Walsham And District In Old Photographs', 'North Walsham And District In Old Photographs: A Second Selection' and 'North Walsham Past and Present'.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He used the North Walsham town name in two of his books. The Adventure of the Dancing Men and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Andy Palmer
Famous for his bizarre and surreal songs and banter about Norfolk. "Swarm of Panda's" is all about North Walsham!
Arch Bishop Tenison
Scholar at Paston Grammar School, who crowned Queen Anne & George I.
Ron & Charlotte Sayer
Ron was the winner of Guitarist of the Year 1996 and Charlotte was runner up in the same year for the acoustic session
check out their site. www.sayermusic.co.uk/. Extremely talented couple!
Angie Clague
Former North Walsham school girl is now Heart FM’s newsreader on the breakfast show with
Rob & Chrissie.
Edward Wooll Q.C & O.B.E
Edward Wooll was a Q.C for 40 years and Recorder of Carlisle for 25 years. He and his family grew up in North Walsham and owned Brunswick House.
Nigel Wooll
Son of Edward Wooll. Nigel Wooll spent most of his childhood at Brunswick house. Hi is now a film producer producing American studio films.
The Norfolk Royal Apple
The excellent 'Norfolk Royal' Apple is a sweet, old-fashioned apple with a delicate melon flavour. It was found by chance as a sporadic seedling growing at Wright's Nurseries at North Walsham, Norfolk in 1908. A good stock of saplings were soon propagated and thereafter its popularity grew rapidly to become one of the nation's favourite varieties. Trees are still readily available at most good garden
centres. Its fruits are in season between September and December.
"The Old North Walsham Line" by The Singing Postman.
You can buy a CD of The singing Postman here...
http://www.anglianmusic.co.uk/ where you'll hear that famous tribute to the now no-more railway line (which used to pass through North Walsham along where the by-pass now runs and out Mundesley way) sung by local hero Allan Smethurst, The Singing Postman. The Song is about how Allan use to travel to school via the M&GN joint railway as a lad. Allan sadly passed away on 22nd December 2000 aged 73.
If you have any suggestions for this page of famous North Walsham
residents past and present please contact us at the North Walsham Guide.
Edward Wooll was a Q.C for 40 years and Recorder of Carlisle for 25 years. He and his family grew up in North Walsham and owned Brunswick House.