Ipswich
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Crisswell / Hall family
I would like to ask whether anyone might be able to help me piece together a mystery. Five weeks ago, whilst walking through the local Derby countryside, my wife and I discovered a briefcase dumped in a brook. There were various items, including photographs, maps, documents etc, scattered all around. Curious, I collected as much as I could and took it home to dry out and investigate further.
The contents spanned around sixty years of a man's life and since the discovery my wife and I have been piecing together his history.
The briefcase belonged to a Mr J.B. Crisswell, who sadly passed away in 2003, but, thanks to the local media, I have had a fantastic ...read more here
Contributed by Tom Fulep
Ancient House
My Father in Law aka POP (Michael Halls) can remember the building on the right as Ancient House. This was a big book shop which is now Lakelands kitchen shop.
Contributed by Tami Cross-Halls
TSB Bank
The building on the left, the old Post Office, is now the TSB Bank. My Father-in-Law can remember the trams travelling in front of these buildings....no shelters, so the poor old Teddy Boy got wet!!!!!
Contributed by Tami Cross-Halls
A Dunking
The story of the family dunking.....Once upon time there was a naughty little boy aka POP, and he and his friends decided they fancied the bibles and candles from the local church, they decided to run for it, and he and his mates decided to finish the day by pushing out an old coal barge...just for a laugh, the powers above then made him fall straight into these docks...... this was followed by a good beating from the ladies in his neighbourhood once he returned home wet and cold...... that will teach them for taking something that wasn't theirs!!!!!!
Contributed by Tami Cross-Halls
Marriages
This is where my husband's Uncle and Auntie got married, brother to Janet Halls nee Smith.
Contributed by Tami Cross-Halls
Bakery entrance
From the early 1900s to the mid 1960s my family, the Coopers, owned Thompsons Bakers, Confectioners and Restaurant at 34-36 Tavern Street. If you turned left into St Lawrence churchyard - just where the person on the left of the photo is - and walked along the path beside the church, you would get to the stairs down to the bakehouse.
Contributed by Suzanne Dawes
The model shop in The Walk
Yes Tami, I remember The Walk very well. In 1959 there was a model shop just to the right of the photo. They had wonderful little steam engines and I saved up pennies and shillings from my paper round until I could buy one.
Some years later as a young man we would drink Cob Toppers at the local pubs and then when the pubs closed we would go to Chinese restaurant on the first floor of an entrance in The Walk to have a supper of fried rice with vegetables--it was the cheapest dish on the menu.
These days I can afford to go to good restaurants but I don't enjoy them as much as that food in those ...read more here
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Wedding bouquet
The building on the left with gable roof is where my Mum In Law got her bouquet for her wedding.
Contributed by Tami Cross-Halls
Some stories from 50's
Pop was at it agin with his mates. To the front of this picure the Tudor faced building...THE BEEHIVE PUB, there was a fella called Stumpy (well known older gentleman). He was a gentleman with one leg, who propped himself up against the downpipe of the pub, and who would challenge anyone to put the money down on the path and try and kick his remaining leg from beneath him to win the pot. As he then would give them a beating with his crutch ..... so in reality...you couldn't get near enough too kick his leg!!!!! Crafty heh?
Contributed by Tami Cross-Halls
Extracts From Ipswich & Suffolk books
We are looking east towards the Presbyterian church of 1870. On the right is the Crown and Anchor Hotel, whose landlord was Charles Quilter. Then came James Juby, tailor, and Garrards, the wine merchant’s. On the corner was the Provincial Co-operative Drug Co (centre), and next was the Barley Mow tavern run by William Ellis. On the left are Frederick Raphael (‘German Fancy Goods’), Frederick Betts, confectioner, and John Holland, hairdresser.
An extract from from"East Anglia".
We are looking east towards the Presbyterian church of 1870. On the right is the Crown and Anchor Hotel, whose landlord was Charles Quilter. Then came James Juby, tailor, and Garrards, wine merchants. On the corner was the Provincial Co-operative Drug Co (centre), and next was the Barley Mow tavern run by William Ellis. On the left are Frederick Raphael (‘German Fancy Goods’), Frederick Betts, confectioner, and John Holland, hairdresser.
An extract from from"Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
The earlier Corn Exchange on Cornhill was demolished in 1880 for the new post office. The replacement was built in 1882 in a mixture of Italianate styles, with French pavilions on the roof. This front towards King Street had shops on the ground floor, one of which was the Essex and Suffolk Fire Office. The building became a film theatre in 1973.
An extract from from"Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
On the corner with St Stephens Lane stands the Ancient House, a remarkable building which is probably the best surviving example of medieval pargetting - decorative plasterwork - in Britain.
An extract from from"Suffolk Photographic Memories".
When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.
An extract from from"Suffolk Photographic Memories".