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Historic maps of Burston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Burston maps
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Shimpling| Diss| Scole| Pulham Market| Banham| Eye| Starston| Long Stratton| Botesdale| Rickinghall
Burston area books
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Recent Changes
Changes happen all so fast, about 10 years ago we were camping near Dickleburgh, a wonderfully friendly village and we bought the most wonderful sausages from there local butcher.
Returning this Easter (2009), we returned to holiday near the village, and I must admit I was quite looking forward to breakfast of sausages - but alas the shop had gone(!), as was the great mill which dominated the village centre. The shop I've dicovered on returning has closed, I found this website http://www.wilbys.com/ and see that the Mill was sold to a building developer see http://www.dickleburgh.com/village_society/themill.php. It was still a very friendly village and a great - albeit a sausage free - week away.
EJ
Holidays
I can remember coming into Diss station (1953 onwards) as if it was yesterday. I and my family came up from West Ewell, Surrey to stay with my aunt and uncle at Redgrave every year for our school summer holiday. My cousins and my sister Julie and I were taken to Diss every week, but on two of these occasions we were taken to the pictures which was a great joy to us all, on the way home we would have a big bag of chips each. I came up to Diss in 2009 and new super markets have taken over the loveliest little town. They say you shouldn't go back don't they, but my family originate from Wortham, so you can't stop it calling to you, can you. My mother's maiden name is Jolly.
The Court in Diss
I lived in the Court in Diss as a 3 and 4 year old girl. My father was in the US Airforce so we moved all over the world. The Court has special memories for us. My sister Sharon was born in the house. I remember beautiful gardens, apple, pear and peach orchards. I just recently found it for sale and was able to share the photos of the old house with my mother (84 years old now) and my sister Sharon (53 yr old). A Mr Willoby was the owner when we rented. He spent a lot of time on safari in Africa. The house was filled with antiques and animal skins with the heads on used as rugs. I started school there at 4 years old. A Miss Bat was the teacher. She was mean. We all thouht the house was haunted. I would love to learn more about the property and hear from anyone that knew the area and may have gone to school there also. I... Read more
I Lived There
I was born in Diss but now live in Kilmarnock, if my memory serves me well, down Mount Street, where my granny on my mother's side lived. We, me and my brother, used to visit our cousins who lived beside gran and play in The Rectory Meadows behind it (Mike Webb and The Noble Clan). I'm still in contact with my other cousin, Pat, also known as Lucy, who's now in the States but hoping to come back home soon. My brother Jim, who changed his name to Smiley Sandy, used to live on Roydon Fen but has since moved away I understand, after getting married and having a child (where exactly he's gone I don't know as we've lost touch with each other). It seems I've lost contact with a lot of old friends (Jim Church from Harleston, Stephen Hartley from Fair Green, The Crown pub crowd, The Saracen's Head lot, old school friends etc. but that's life). I remember catching a TV... Read more
Scole Old Beams
My great-aunt lived in this house - we always knew it as 'Beam Ends'. She had a little antique shop in the single storey bit at the end (on the right). I also remember the garage on the right in the picture which was run by a Mr Chapman. There is now a village by-pass but in the days when I knew Scole the traffic went through the village - from Bury to Gt Yarmouth, Norwich to Ipswich - it was never-ending and it is a miracle that the old house survived. I went back in October to visit the places I remember from my childhood - it was a poignant visit but well worthwhile and I loved seeing Scole again as it was where my grand-parents also lived and where we spent many happy years in spite of the war which, with so many airfields around, was always with us. I went down to the River Waveney where the old bridge used to be. It is amazing to think... Read more
High House, Scole
I have very fond memories of Scole because I spent an awful lot of my childhood and adult years visiting and staying with my Great Uncle & Aunt Tom & Florrie Clark who lived in High House. They initially had an antique shop at the front of the house, stables at the back and two orchards one at the side of the house and another down a lane nearby. My sisters and myself loved picking the apples from the trees. Of course we didn't eat any before my aunt would make lovely fresh pies with them, well maybe we we did just the odd one. The house was full of antiques and a lovely open grate fireplace that had logs burnt on it. The building was oak beamed as in Tudor style, the ceiling sagged in the living room I suppose as a result of its age and there were four poster beds upstairs. The downstairs floors were stone and the doors were all thick oak and very heavy with... Read more
SCOLE STORES
My parents Bernard (better known as Syd) and Margret (Peggy) Blunsom owned Scole stores in the main street of Scole. I rember the house well across the road was pretty"s garage. Old Mrs Johnsons cottage was sandwiched between us and the Scole Inn. On the other side was an antique shop where every mothers day I would go with the five shillings my dad had given me and get my mum a mothers day gift. The hugh heavy gates that lead into the court yard of the house where a long row of out buildings stood. One had been a bakery at some stage as the hugh oven was still there in the stone wall and next to that were some stables a store house and a coal storage area . Running the full length above these buildings was a hay loft with a hugh trap door. The house was amazing with many rooms. The shop was at the front it was a general store and we sold everything... Read more
