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Great Waldingfield photos
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Great Waldingfield maps
Historic maps of Great Waldingfield and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Great Waldingfield maps
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Great Waldingfield 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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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
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... [more]
Shared on 12 November 2007
Suffolk memories
I think my father's birth family the Harts may have lived in this house. Does anybody know any history of the occupants of the house?
Shared on 24 May 2009
I started working at Brundon Farm when I was ten years old. Mr Norman was very kind to me and I helped out on the the farm for the next five years. I had a great time when I was a kid fishing at Brundon Mill mainly for pike. There were concrete tank traps that were left over from the Second... [more]
Shared on 01 May 2009
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
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... [more]
Shared on 27 August 2006
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
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
Extracts From Great Waldingfield & Suffolk books
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Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
The church of St Andrew with its distinctive wooden spire was restored in 1862. The south aisle with its square-headed windows was rebuilt in 1887 by a bequest of William King. The gable cross has gone, and clock faces have been inserted into the tower roundels; otherwise the view is unchanged today.
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Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
This is the rear view of the Saracen's Head pub; from c1900 to c1930 it was run by Miss Florence Glass, the third generation of her family at the pub since c1850. The pub had its own maltings in the range of buildings alongside. The photograph was taken from the golf course, established in 1907. The A134 Sudbury to Colchester road runs left... [more]
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Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
The Newton Green Sudbury Golf Course was established in 1907, and it had its headquarters at the Saracen's Head, visible in the distance. The course '... is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'. The subscriptions in 1910 were £1 9s (£1.45) for gentlemen and 16s (80p) for ladies, with a daily rate of 1s (5p) for visitors. The A134 runs in front of the rows of cottages. ... [more]
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