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Hitcham photos

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Hitcham maps

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

Hitcham map

Historic map of Hitcham

Suffolk map

Illustrated Victorian map of Suffolk

Hitcham map

Historic Map of any Hitcham postcode

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Hitcham 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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Hitcham books
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Memories of Hitcham

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Suffolk memories

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.

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.

Harry Elmer

I'm sure I remember a Harry Elmer......did he have a shop in Elmswell or did he rent out motor cars or even caravans from Woolpit?

I was born in Elmswell in 1947 and the name certainly rings a very loud bell and was constantly mentioned in our household at the time.

Shared on 11 November 2007 by Roger Lambourne.

Elmers Mill - Family History

Hi there. Harry Elmer (who I understand was my GGrandad's brother) owned and ran this Mill into the 1940s. The Muggeridge Collection has some wonderful images of him replendent in the very gentlemanly working clothes of a miller of his ilk, and still working in his 80's.  Anecdotally Elmers Mill in Woolpit and Drinkstone Mill close by were dead ringers for... [more]

Shared on 06 July 2006 by Les Elmer.

happy days

this is only one  of  many wonderful memories i went to school in needham market the junior school and lived at darmsden we were picked up and taken to school by a mini bus we lived in three places in  darmsden the 2nd place was right next door  to a strawberry  field one of many owned by tarston farms further up... [more]

Shared on 21 January 2008 by Lynda Cressy.

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 Hitcham & Suffolk books

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

Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories

This shows Old Hall (the former medieval Guildhall), the church, Church Lane, Friday Cottage (far right), Fen Lane with its finger post, and the bridge over the river Brett. One of the cottages in the row was occupied by Frederick Butcher, the parish gravedigger. The three were converted into one in the late 1990s, although the positions of the doors and... [more]

Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories

This photograph was taken from outside the former Guildhall. The porch of c1470 and the battlements have flint flushwork patterns. The unusual clerestory windows were created in the 15th century by altering earlier quatrefoil windows, which remain on the less fashionable north side. The chancel was rebuilt in the 1878 restoration.

This is an extract from Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories.
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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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