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Ipswich, Buttermarket 1893
Ref: 32204
I loved going in the Ancient House as a child. Lots of stationary and books. I remember the floors squeaked.Shame it is no longer a book store.
Shared on 01 July 2009
Ipswich, the Walk c1955
Ref: I18030
I worked at Bowhill Elliot and White shoe store at the top of The Walk in 1960 Every morning I walked through here to go to work. I still e-mail a friend who worked at Turners Photography also in The Walk. We were like a family in The Walk, greeting each other every day, and going to lunch.
Shared on 01 July 2009
Ipswich, Buttermarket 1893
Ref: 32204
The shoe shop at number 44 was Thomas Alderton and Son, shown on the 1871 census as the family living there, presumably above the shop, it was still there in 1985 with the original street frontage, is it there now?
Shared on 31 January 2009
Ipswich, St Lawrence Street 1921
Ref: 70389
Back in the 1960s there was a beautiful Magnolia tree oposite the church in front of a solicitor's office in St. Lawrence Street.
Forty years have passed and I live the other side of the world.
I wonder if that tree is still there.
Shared on 30 July 2008
Ipswich, the Walk c1955
Ref: I18030
Yes Tami, I remember The Walk very well. In 1959 there was a model shop just to the right of the photo. They had wonderful little steam engines and I saved up pennies and shillings from my paper round until I could buy one.
Some years later as a young man we would drink Cob Toppers at the local pubs and then when the pubs closed we would go to Chinese restaurant on the first floor of an entrance in The Walk to have a supper of fried rice with vegetables--it was the cheapest dish on the menu.
These days I can afford to go to good restaurants but I don't enjoy them as much as that food in those golden days of yore.
I getting maudlin!
Rob in Mexico
Shared on 24 June 2008
I would like to ask whether anyone might be able to help me piece together a mystery. Five weeks ago, whilst walking through the local Derby countryside, my wife and I discovered a briefcase dumped in a brook. There were various items, including photographs, maps, documents etc, scattered all around. Curious, I collected as much as I could and took it home to dry out and investigate further.
The contents spanned around sixty years of a man's life and since the discovery my wife and I have been piecing together his history.
The briefcase belonged to a Mr J.B. Crisswell, who sadly passed away in 2003, but, thanks to the local media, I have had a fantastic response from friends and associates and over the past weeks we have been compiling the chronology of his life. See the links below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/articles/2008/01/16/crisswell_mystery_case_feature.shtml
Type my surname 'Fulep' into the search bar on this one and you will see the story updates.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jspnodeId=251470&command=newPage
http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/A-man-who-lived-an.3751398.jp
We have gathered quite a lot of information regarding Mr Crisswell's uncle, who owned a Crisswell’s Garage in Newmarket, but the search into his father's history is evading us. We are trying to uncover his childhood and believe his father, Charles Henry, was originally a motor engineer, but became a draper in Newmarket. Further searching revealed that Charles Crisswell married Gladys Laura Hall in Ipswich in 1917. Gladys Hall's family were drapers and we assume the drapery business in Newmarket may have been a consequence of the marriage.
Brian Crisswell was born in 1920 and we have confirmation that he attended Ipswich Grammar School for one year, September 1930 to July 1931, before moving to Perse School, Cambridge. We would like to find out which school he attended previous to Ipswich Grammar and more history or information on his parents. We have a photo of Mr Crisswell in school uniform, aged around five or six.
Any memories would be most gratefully received.
Thank you
Tom and Julie Fulep
Shared on 17 February 2008
Ipswich, St Lawrence Street 1921
Ref: 70389
From the early 1900s to the mid 1960s my family, the Coopers, owned Thompsons Bakers, Confectioners and Restaurant at 34-36 Tavern Street. If you turned left into St Lawrence churchyard - just where the person on the left of the photo is - and walked along the path beside the church, you would get to the stairs down to the bakehouse.
Shared on 14 January 2007
Ipswich, Major's Corner c1955
Ref: I18034
Pop was at it agin with his mates. To the front of this picure the Tudor faced building...THE BEEHIVE PUB, there was a fella called Stumpy (well known older gentleman). He was a gentleman with one leg, who propped himself up against the downpipe of the pub, and who would challenge anyone to put the money down on the path and try and kick his remaining leg from beneath him to win the pot. As he then would give them a beating with his crutch ..... so in reality...you couldn't get near enough too kick his leg!!!!! Crafty heh?
Shared on 02 January 2007
Ipswich, the Walk c1955
Ref: I18030
The building on the left with gable roof is where my Mum In Law got her bouquet for her wedding.
Shared on 02 January 2007
Ipswich, Wolsey's Gate and St Peter's Church 1893
Ref: 32219
This is where my husband's Uncle and Auntie got married, brother to Janet Halls nee Smith.
Shared on 02 January 2007
Ipswich, the Docks 1893
Ref: 32208
The story of the family dunking.....Once upon time there was a naughty little boy aka POP, and he and his friends decided they fancied the bibles and candles from the local church, they decided to run for it, and he and his mates decided to finish the day by pushing out an old coal barge...just for a laugh, the powers above then made him fall straight into these docks...... this was followed by a good beating from the ladies in his neighbourhood once he returned home wet and cold...... that will teach them for taking something that wasn't theirs!!!!!!
Shared on 02 January 2007
Ipswich, Post Office and Town Hall 1893
Ref: 32207
The building on the left, the old Post Office, is now the TSB Bank. My Father-in-Law can remember the trams travelling in front of these buildings....no shelters, so the poor old Teddy Boy got wet!!!!!
Shared on 02 January 2007
Ipswich, Buttermarket 1893
Ref: 32204
My Father in Law aka POP (Michael Halls) can remember the building on the right as Ancient House. This was a big book shop which is now Lakelands kitchen shop.
Shared on 02 January 2007
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