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Bildeston maps

Historic maps of Bildeston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Bildeston maps

Bildeston map

Historic map of Bildeston

Suffolk map

Illustrated Victorian map of Suffolk

Bildeston map

Historic Map of any Bildeston postcode

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Bildeston books

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Suffolk Living Memories
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
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Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
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Bildeston books
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Memories of Bildeston

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My Early Years

Hi, I guess it's one of those things you do as you get older, to take a walk down memory lane and to do a little bit of reminiscing. I was doing such a thing when I came across this photo of the village in Bildeston and saw the old house in the High Street that as a child and also... [more]

Shared on 26 June 2008 by Steve Clark.

Suffolk memories

Josphen Culling

Joseph Culling was my Great Great Grandfather, he was born in Offton in 1819. He married an Eliza who was born in 1802 in Semer, they had 4 children, Charles, Emma, Patience and Dinah (my great grandmother). Does anyone know of this family, they are very elusive and I cannot find many references to them.
Christine Harris

Shared on 10 March 2009 by Christine Harris.

Historical Information

Hi I am from New Zealand and from information I have my ancestors came from Semer the male name is johnson and the Female maiden name was Cuthbert, the only info I have indicates that they lived there in the mid 1700's i would be plesed to know any information about the town etc or if any Johnsons or Cuthberts still... [more]

Shared on 13 December 2006 by Don Johnson.

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... [more]

Shared on 05 June 2008 by Linda Upson.

Can you help??

We have just discover some of our relatives may have come from the Boxford area. Does anyone remember or recall anyone of the name of Churchyard or maybe Greenwood living in Boxford or nearby, maybe even Ipswich. Our father maybe went to a boys home in the area in the 20's and 30's

Can anyone help with our... [more]

Shared on 11 April 2009 by Gloria Miller.

Stone Street, Boxford

William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - however, we are not certain which town in the UK he became Mayor of - because he moved to London... [more]

Shared on 08 June 2008

The Carpenters of Boxford

I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago.
As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her parents, my great Grandmother Mary and Grandfather Charles Carpenter at Tinywent Corner - a little cottage with a well... [more]

Shared on 09 August 2006 by Alan Lloyd.

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... [more]

Shared on 26 February 2009 by Valerie Magan.

Extracts From Bildeston & Suffolk books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Bildeston, inspired by Frith photos.

Suffolk Living Memories

This was built in 1864. Its only clock dial faces Albert Hall's grocer's and draper's shop (left), now Bank House Stores. The house on the corner of Chapel Street (centre) now has a porch in the second bay. Still's stores (right) later became Simpson's antique shop, and since 1990 it has been a private house.

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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories

This view shows the clock tower in the rectangular market place. Chapel Street and Duke Street run down towards Bildeston Hall (right). The burial ground of the Baptist chapel, rebuilt in 1844, is opposite the Hall. To the centre left is Squirrell's seed and corn merchants, now a housing development. In the distance is Wattisham Road, with 1930s Local Authority housing and the larger Brookfields Estate, begun in 1948.

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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories

On the right the large bay windows of the clock and electrical shops have been entirely removed. The fish and chip shop beyond, where it seems customers are heading, is now a hairdressers'. On the right are a series of former shop fronts in both brick and timbered buildings. In the distance is Eade's newsagent's shop and the exposed timbers of The Crown.

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