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Maharajah Duleep Singh’s photographs of New Buckenham
Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh (23 January 1868 – 15 August 1926) was the surviving heir to
Sir Duleep Singh, the exiled Maharajah of the Sikh Empire. Also known as ‘Freddy’, he was
educated at Eton and Cambridge becoming interested in archaeology and was a member of the
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Duleep Singh lived as a well-connected country
gentleman at Old Buckenham Hall 1897-1906 and finally at Blo’ Norton Hall. He was a keen
photographer, capturing local scenes. The Archive is proud to display his photographs of New
Buckenham from the collection of Peter Bance, the Sikh historian.
These views of the village could easily have been taken on a single day’s outing, just a short
distance from Old Buckenham Hall. The view of the Vicarage shows the rear extension that was
built in 1901, so one could speculate that the photographs were taken 1901-1906.
Castle Hill Road (Almshouses on right) and Vicarage. Theses views have been taken
from the same spot, looking in different directions.
View up Chapel Street and along King Street. These views also could
have been taken from the same spot a few metres east to those above.
Market Cross
Prince Frederick Duleep Singh
at his home Old Buckenham Hall. Early 1900s
From: “Sovereign, Squire & Rebel Maharajah Duleep Singh”
by Peter Bance
Coronet House Publishing Limited, 2009
- Brief history of village
- A moated town
- William Barber's almshouses
- History of village school 1848-1912
- New Buckenham: the history of a market town
- Historic buildings research report (NHBG)
- History of individual properties
- Rogationtide in the 1590s
- Who was Boosey?
- New Buckenham in 1542
- Newspaper articles
- Prince Duleep Singh's photographs
