Swaffham Prior Parish Council 110 Years Ago
"Swaffham Prior Parish Council was having trouble with the School Board, because a vote of censure upon the Board was proposed for its discourteous treatment of a letter from the Clerk requesting a statement of accounts for the year ending 29th September 1898. An amendment was proposed that the letter be sent to the Chairman of the Board as 'the clerk is very old and feeble and the letter might have been mislaid.' This was approved by four votes to three with one abstention and 'was declared carried amid deafening cheers'!"