Stiffkey

Q - IN the first episode of the ITV drama series Grantchester, reference was made to the Vicar of Stiffkey. I vaguely remember reading about him many years ago. Can you enlighten me? Edmund Perks, Ivybridge, Devon. A - YOU refer to Harold Davidson who ...

JUST down the road is the village of Stiffkey, home of the notorious “Randy Rector of Stiffkey,” Harold Francis Davidson. Never heard of him? I bet your grandparents had. In the 1930s he was at the heart of the biggest church scandal in Britain ...

Stiffkey once had three pubs but by the time the Cookes bought a house in the village, in the late 1980s, it had been bereft of a boozer for donkey's years. The former Red Lion pub, on Wells Road, had been a private house for 26 years before it came up ...

Now former lifeboat Lucy Lavers has been blessed ahead of a return trip to France at a special prelaunch ceremony in Stiffkey. Lovingly restored to her former glory by charity Rescue Wooden Boats (RWB) the vessel is almost ready to make an historic ...

A lifeboat that took part in the Dunkirk evacuation has been restored in North Norfolk. It's taken three years to transform the Lucy Lavers at a boatyard in Stiffkey. The Liverpool-type lifeboat was built in 1940 to act as the Aldeburgh lifeboat in ...

The 1880 French Bateau Bath on ornate feet which has been bought by Johnny Depp for his home in LA, in the window of the Stiffkey Bathrooms shop in Upper St Giles. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY. For the Pirates of the Caribbean actor is said to have bought ...