Jimmy High with his first wife Laura and their two daughters Doris (on the left) and Laura the eldest, with baby Harold on his mother's lap.

Jimmy was born and brought up in Salthouse. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith in a nearby village and, after he married and settled in Sheringham, he became well known in his trade specialising in skilled wrought iron work in his later years.

       
          photo © Gillian Read 2002

In 1940 Jimmy High wrote his autobiography, and some of it - his boyhood in Salthouse - was reproduced in the Salthouse book with the permission of his granddaughter Gillian Read.

It makes fascinating reading — for excerpts from his story  click here