Snowy. Tim Harris

1. The Old Lodge, West Bilney, in 2009.

2. The Bridge over the Nar at Pentney Mill, by Walter Dexter R.B.A. (1878-1958).

      3. Grimston Court House built in 1881, where Fred often found himself.

4. Grey’s Cottage, where Fred and his family were living in the 1881 census. This photograph was taken in 1911.

5. Norwich Prison while it was still located in the castle, as it would have looked when Fred served his first term of imprisonment.

      6. Record of Fred’s first offence (top entry) from Docking Court Record, Grimston Court being in the Docking division.

7. The Oak tree in Narborough Park where Fred hanged his dog.

8. The Lodge in West Bilney, taken by Mr Arthur Taylor on 10 May 1892.

9. George Edwards, preaching from a wagon in East Rudham in 1918.

10. The isolated Freebridge Union Workhouse in Gayton.

11. Stibbard Memorial Cross, with the cottages where Fred lived with his family on the left. This photograph was taken in the 1920s.

12. Fred Rolfe (right) as Regimental Rat Catcher, holding a ratting stick and gin trap.

13. Roy Bulman and Emily Rolfe on their wedding day, 3 April 1919, at All Saints Church, Battersea.

14. David Rolfe, taken when he entered Barnardo’s on 20 April, 1920.

15. Bertha Rolfe, Fred’s granddaughter, who lived with Fred and Kitty from birth.

16. Shipmeadow Workhouse, where Kitty died in 1925. It is now apartments.

17. Bridge Street in Bungay, as it would have been in Fred’s time. His home at no. 7 is just behind the van at the end of the street. Nethergate Street is immediately to the right of the van.

18. 7 Bridge Street; the yellow cottage where the family lived in the 1920s.

19. Mrs Jessie Redgrave.

20. Clark’s Yard, as it would have been when Fred lived there with Mrs Redgrave after Kitty’s death.

21. Fred’s home at Grammers Green, Mettingham. He lived in the lean-to with the tall chimney, originally the brew house, when he left Mrs Redgrave’s home in the early 1930s. Painted by John Reeve.

22. Lilias Rider Haggard (left) with her sister Angela.

23. The first page of Fred’s book, I Walked by Night.

      24. Frederick Rolfe in 1935, when he was about 73.

      25. Frederick Rolfe. This was probably taken as a publicity photograph when the book was first published.

26. The letter which accompanied Emily’s book about Kitty’s life.

27. 1 Nethergate Street, Bungay. Fred died here on Wednesday 23 March, 1938.

      28. Some of Bungay’s Best Snares.

29. Les Knowles, who came across Fred’s body, standing with the author in front of the restored 1 Nethergate Street.

30. The document which Lilias Rider Haggard drew up for Fred to sign, giving him £20 in lieu of royalties.

31. Reverend Francis Kahn.

32. Author with David Rolfe, Fred’s great-grandson, and his granddaughter Holly.

      Following an outbreak of cholera in 1833, the good men of King’s Lynn decided the town must have a hospital and so they purchased Gallows Pasture, a meadow where criminals and pirates had been hanged in the 1600s. King’s Lynn Hospital was opened in 1835 and extended twice more, due to the generosity of two local benefactors, so by the time poor James arrived, there were beds for fifty-two patients. The downstairs wards were reserved for patients who had had accidents, a common occurrence in a rural port. This was to spare them the