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Gordon Phillips: Rookery Farm, Great Dunham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. PE32 2LU Tel: 07878000175


Nicky Stockman: 2, Church Lane, Chatteris, Cambs. PE 16 6JA Tel: 07747025557
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East Anglian Stories

We tell stories from across East Anglia, specialising in stories from the Fens of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk. From boggarts to giants to grey goose feathers, the unique character of the Fenland and its people is reflected in the tales that have been passed down through the generations.  We develop programmes of work relating to the stories which have involved:
  • Producing a short drama from a local story
  • Learning or writing the words to a song about a story
  • Re-telling the story to an audience
  • Writing new tales based on traditional story

Our favourite Fenland tales include the following:

Tom Hickathrift fought a terrible ogre on The Smeeth between Wisbech and King's Lynn

Mucky Porter, the pub landlord from Southery help King Charles I across the Fens

Black Sheet is a tale of murder and mystery set at The Ship Inn at Brandon Creek


In 2014 we delivered "The Enid Porter Project" which was a Heritage Lottery Funded project to re-invigorate the folklore collected by Enid Porter in five Cambridgeshire villages. As part of the project children visited the sites where some of the stories were based.

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