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Historic maps of Dunwich and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Dunwich maps
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Dunwich 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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5 Dunwich photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Dunwich
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I spent my teenage years in Dunwich, and in retrospect they were wonderful. Freedom, long walks, the beach and sea, cliffs, marshes and the old tank defences from WWII. My best friend Justin North, who lived at 'Marshside' opposite me at The Ship, and I spent hours during those years, roaming, swimming, canoeing, making carts to career down the hill from... [more]
Shared on 22 November 2007
My earliest memory of Greyfriars in Dunwich was probably driving down the hill in my grandfather's old car in 1960 as he brought me to my new home at The Barne Arms Hotel. I had been at boarding school at Dollar in Scotland, and my grandfather had met me off the train in London and driven me along the tortuous roads... [more]
Shared on 22 November 2007
My parents owned and ran The Ship Inn from 1960 to 1975. My father a retired soldier and wartime paratrooper had taken early retirement to buy the business, then called The Barne Arms Hotel after the estate. The new Inn sign was based on the Blue Peter logo from the BBC Children's programme (from whom he'd got permission to use a... [more]
Shared on 22 November 2007
Suffolk memories
Edward Charles Friend was my father. His first wife died in 1930, he married my mother in February 1933 and I was born in December that year. Dad died in 1957, aged 88, and active until about three weeks before he died. He was a wonderful man, everyone loved him, I would love to know more of your side of the... [more]
Shared on 10 September 2009
My name is Alan Trageser and I was an American Airman living in Westleton from 1981 to 1985. My son was born at Ipswich hospital.
My greatest memories are of the wonderful people I met there like the older couple that befriended me, I called him Gramps and his wife Jess, and my friends like Adam (Gramps's grandson) and the... [more]
Shared on 19 April 2009
Eddie Friend, miller and millwright at Westleton
My great great uncle, Edward Charles Friend, was listed on the 1901 Census as miller and wheelwright at Westleton. He was born at Wenhaston 10 April 1869, the ninth child and fifth son of Samuel and Sarah Friend (nee Driver) who married at Easton on 1 October 1849.
Shared on 03 July 2009
Walking with Bob my border collie through the salt marshes and dunes. Listening to the birds in the marshes and trying not to get lost! Keeping Bob away from people as he's a very cautious rescued border collie. The sense of peace whenever I have returned here. Now sadly without my dearest brave Bob but always remembered.
Shared on 19 August 2007
I thought the picture of me as a toddler in a wooden paddle boat was taken at Southwold, and now 60 years on it was Southwold. We only went there from Norwich for the odd trip but I am pleased to find this c1955 picture in the Frith pictures.
Shared on 06 September 2009
Extracts From Dunwich & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Dunwich, inspired by Frith photos.
Southwold to Aldeburgh Photographic Memories
What weddings and baptisms brought joy to the community from within these walls of All Saints' in olden times? Now the sad remains await the final indignity, as the sea completes its task of 700 years and claims the last monuments of a once great town.
This is an extract from Southwold to Aldeburgh Photographic Memories.
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Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country. When this picture was taken, what remained of Dunwich still had the last of its old churches. It had started to collapse five years previously, and finally... [more]
This is an extract from Suffolk Photographic Memories.
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The story of the demise of Dunwich, in medieval times a prosperous port until the ravages of the North Sea gradually demolished its soft, sandy cliffs, is one of the most romantic of the Suffolk coast. There were still substantial remains of All Saints' parish church on the cliff top above the beach tents when this photograph was taken; here we... [more]
This is an extract from East Anglia.
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