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Memories of Three Happy Years
I, Bill Rodgers was in the United States Air Force stationed at RAF Wethersfield. My wife Phyllis, son Michael and I lived on the Heath Estates, Great Waldingfield from 1962 to 1965. Michael, age 5 attended the Folly Road Primary School in Great Waldingfield. Our daughter Michelle was born in the Sudbury hospital in 1964. We had a wonderful time in Great Waldingfield, with wonderful neighbors. We visit England at least once a year. My wife is from Leicester, England whom I married in 1959.
Two years ago we attended our friend's (old neighgbor) 50th wedding anniversary in Red Lodge, England. We frequently visit with our friends durning our trips to England. ...read more here
A memory of Great Waldingfield contributed by Bill Rodgers
Society Farm
In 2001 my husband Derek and I visited Assington. We had been researching Derek's family history, and had discovered that his great-great-grandfather John Crisell was the bailiff, in the middle of the 19th century,at Society Farm, Assington.
We were unable to find the farm, but called at a farm shop in the middle of the village, and were told that this had been Society Farm, but had changed its name to Willow Tree Farm. The reason it had been called Society Farm was that Sir John Gurdon, of Assington Hall, had set up a co-operative agricultural experiment on the farm in the 1830s in an effort to help the villagers. Some years later, John Crisell was appointed bailiff, and had lived ...read more here
A memory of Assington contributed by Rosemary Bennett
My Grandparents stayed here in 1955
My Grandparents stayed here in 1955, they had emigrated to Canada in 1951 and come "home" on Holiday.
I have the original receipt for their stay!
Greetings from Canada eh!
A memory of Cavendish contributed by john fox
Family
My maiden name is GAME and I've just started researching that side of my family tree, unfortunately due to the fact my dad didn't know too much about his dad's side of the family I had to send away for my Grandad's birth certificate. On receiving the certificate it placed his birth in Brent Eleigh and I was then away. I discovered my family went back to about 1750 in this delightful village, it could go back further but I haven't yet looked.
I visited Brent Eleigh and St Mary's church and what a lovely place tucked away in Suffolk, the church is set in a small area surrounded by trees, it was so peaceful. I found my GG Uncle and ...read more here
A memory of Brent Eleigh contributed by Linda Upson
Extracts From Sudbury & Suffolk books
The Town Mill was built on the site of a Saxon mill. The youths sitting on the wall in front could be posing for the camera, or they might just be dangling a line into the mill stream to see what they might catch. In recent years, the building has been converted into a hotel, with the water wheel inside kept as a feature of the dining room.
An extract from from"Suffolk Photographic Memories".
At this time, close to the end of the
Victorian era, staying fully clothed on
the beach was very much the norm, with
sand castles and donkey rides the prime
amusements for the children; the adults
relax in deck chairs, and shelter from the
wind behind umbrellas. Lowestoft can be
bracing any time of year...
An extract from from"East Anglia Pocket Album".
Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market. Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter’s Church at the top. The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born here in a former 16th-century inn, and he lived and worked here for a number of years. Amongst the shops on the left are the Bazaar of the Misses Parsonson, Robert Joy’s carpet warehouse, John Payn, a stationer’s, and James Read, a furniture dealer’s (now Boots).
An extract from from"East Anglia".
Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter’s Church at the top. The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born here in a former 16th-century inn, and he lived and worked here for a number of years.
An extract from from"Suffolk Photographic Memories".
St Mary’s, one of the largest
in Suffolk, is not a typical
Suffolk wool church, and has
an elegant lead spire. Inside is
the 600-year-old Angelus Bell,
one of the oldest in the country,
which is inscribed ‘Ave Maria
Gracia Plena Dominus Tecum’.
Perhaps the man who made the
bell had other things on his mind
when it came to putting in the
inscription, as he forgot to invert
the words laterally in the mould,
and they appear backwards on
the finished article!
An extract from from"Ispwich Pocket Album".