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2008 Holiday
I visited the church in 2008 with my mom, and husband, as this is the church where her dad Albert George Blythe married her mom, Matilda Elkin. It was a beautiful church, so peaceful and quiet. We walked around and saw some family names in the cemetery. Just to finally be in the place where my grandparents were married was amazing. The Blythes were from Acton, and I'd heard of it always, so to visit there was just wonderful.
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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. We still have other friends in Great Waldingfield with whom we stay in touch with.
Growing up in The 1950s
Dad was the village policeman, PC 39. Our family name was Moss. We lived outside the village near the T junction to Little Waldingfield (two farm houses, we lived in one of them). Dad, mum and my 4 sisiters. We all attended Gt. Waldingfield school (next to the church then). Miss Bowers was the teacher. She lived with her mum and brother in a bungalow near to the Shop. I sang in the choir at church. We walked to school (1-1/2 miles) every day. Some days we took short cuts through the fields. One day a swan landed on the pond at the bottom of the school lane (but the pond was in a field). Miss Bowers took us to see the swan, then we came back and drew it in pastel. I remember it like it was yesterday. Sometimes when we came out of school, the cows were being driven home for milking. The farmer had a black dog to keep the cows walking towards the farm. I remember... Read more
Corner Shop Opposite Lion Hotel
I vaguely remember visiting the corner shop seventy years ago. Not sure if the owners were relatives or just friends of my grandparents. If anyone knows who lived there and operated the shop in the 1940s the information would be appreciated. David, in Napa, California
William Bernard & Frances Honer (Witts) Taylor
William was born in 1798 in England and, at the time od his marriage, was a parishioner of Great Conard, Suffolk. He married Frances Honer Witts on the 26th November 1834 in St Peter's in the Parish of Sudbury, Suffolk, with the curate, H.W. Wilkinson, performing the ceremony. Frances was a parishioner of Sudbury, William was of the Parish of Great Conard. Witnessess for the ceremony were John Taylor and Thomas Goldsmith. William & Frances had at least seven children and those surviving in 1853 were Edwin (c1836) and his younger siblings, Fanny, Charles Everett, Ellen Elizabeth, Fredrick and Septimus. William & Frances brought their family to the colony of Port Phillip in 1852. William was afarmer and merchant at Little Brighton but suffered the death of his wife in early 1853. He became depressed and this exacerbated his tendency to drown his sorrows in alcohol. In late June he succumbed to the effects of alcohol and an inquest was made into his death.... Read more
William Bernard Taylor Family Farm Before They Emigrated to Australia in 1853
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591/0/10020 GREAT WALDINGFIELD
21-NOV-05 HOLE FARM
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House. Formerly a mid-C15 service building remodelled as a house in c.1600; later C17 extension to west; c.1970 jettied cross-wing. Two storeys. The building is of timber-framed construction, rendered, with a plain tile roof, hipped at the east end and two lateral brick stacks. The plan essentially comprises a long east-west range divided by an entrance passage, with two rooms to the east, one to either side of the chimney stack. To the west of the cross-passage are two further rooms, a second stack, and west again, a c.1970s jettied cross-wing. There are further projections to the rear.
The main façade is the result of C20 restoration. The central door and all of the casement windows are C20 insertions. The jettied cross wing to the west was added in c.1970. Windows to the rear are also C20, including the long windows in the rear wall of the staircase tower (now the dining hall). The... Read more
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