Parham, Suffolk

Parham Church & Hall

Earlier this year, my wife and I visited St Kitts, which has a small museum; here we discovered that Thomas Warner, son of William Warner 'gentleman farmer from near Framlingham', had landed on St Kitts as the first European settler on 16th January 1628, colonising same for the English, and later the same of Antigua. With him was Thomas Jefferson whose... [more]

What happened to the Kotarski's ?

Fond memories of Parham makes me write this, remembering the peacefulness.
Surfing the Web, here I  am posting a question all the way from he USA.
It was early summer 1954 and I was a Dutch farm exchange student staying with the family Kotarski on the so called "White House farm" just outside Parham village. The farmer was of Polish decent,... [more]

Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories

The church tower still has a 14th-century bell frame, a rare survival. The thatched Old Parsonage at the end of the road is late 15th-century. The exposed timbers have been plastered over. A group of children stand by a 19th-century cottage now called White Gates. The double row of Street Cottages (right) is 17th-century; the further one is still three separate... [more]

Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window. The farm was part of the Parham estate until 1921. Beyond the barns are two 17th-century groups of houses: Street Cottages and the flint and brick White Gates.

Ispwich Pocket Album

St Mary's, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire. Inside is the 600-year-old Angelus Bell, one of the oldest in the country, which is inscribed 'Ave Maria Gracia Plena Dominus Tecum'. Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in... [more]