Hartest, Suffolk

Racing

Can any one from Hartest remember the local boys having cycle races around the Green?

School days

I am putting this on here to contact Carefree....did you go to Clare Secondary School and start in 1 Alpha? If so you sat next to me on your first day at school there!!!! If so I have thought of you no end of times over the years and wondered how you have got on. looks as if the answer may... [more]

Carefree

When I was a child I lived in foster care in Hartest and one of my fondest memories is of riding my bike down Harvest Hill. Many years have gone by since my carefree, days of feeling the joy of rideing that bike and the fun I had going down that hill. I now live in Biloxi, Missouri in the USA... [more]

Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories

The village got its red telephone box (centre) listed in 1987. The former post office, called Hunter's, is to its right. The former Congregational manse is to the left, then the chapel, which closed in 1980. The shop next door was Crickmore and Savage's, a grocer's and draper's, then Osborn's, and finally Ralling's when it closed in 1990. The thatched house (left) is still Basham's, butchers since 1926.

Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories

In the distance the church and the Crown are hidden by trees. To the left is the Congregational chapel, opened in 1864, with round-headed windows added in 1906. The chapel closed in 1980. The gable end is part of a 15th-century Wealden house. The stone was brought here from Somerton in 1713 on a sledge pulled by 45 horses to commemorate... [more]

Suffolk Living Memories

To the right of the picture are the Hall, now the Crown Inn, and the church. Behind the war memorial is Church House, the former Guildhall. Hartest Hill rises steeply with the Plymouth Brethren Gospel Hall, which closed in 1977, on the right and the cemetery of 1857 on the left. On the edge of the green are the former wheelwright's... [more]