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Pin Mill, Suffolk
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Historic maps of Pin Mill and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Pin Mill maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Suffolk
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Pin Mill 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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Memories of Pin Mill
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Suffolk memories
Buying a new drum for the Whitethorn Morris Band in Chelmondiston
In 2002 I had already been the band leader for the Whitethorn Band for more than twenty years and ithe musicians decided we needed a new drum. By chance we discovered Barry Askew in Chelmondiston who used his woodworking skills to hand make perfect drums suitable for morris musicians.
We commisioned a new drum and one fine Autumn... [more]
Shared on 13 July 2008
I remember Shotley Gate 1954/55. I wish I could erase it from my memory. 12 months of sheer Hell at the infamous Ganges. I enjoyed my Naval Service and I did well, but Ganges almost defeated me. I danced a jig when they demolished the place!
JW
Shared on 27 September 2008
My ancestors owned this public house in the late 18th century. Prior to this they were tenants of the Duke of Bristol and the head of the household was the ferryman. He was mentioned in a letter to the Duke from a disgruntled customer claimed that his attitude was unbecoming!
We have visited the area many times during my search for... [more]
Shared on 07 April 2007
Until the mid '70s Shotley Gate was the home of HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training establishment. As 15 year old boys under training in 1964 we were allowed to visit the Post Office (see photograph in this collection) to draw money out of our Post Office savings books - usually to buy food of some sort as Ganges food was... [more]
Shared on 22 December 2006
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
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
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
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
Extracts From Pin Mill & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Pin Mill, inspired by Frith photos.
This is the same yachtsman as in photograph No 61998, clearly there to add an extra dynamic to the photographs (note that he is looking underneath the boom, and the boat is actually moored).
This is an extract from Ipswich Photographic Memories.
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Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
Before the deepening of the channel to Ipswich, ships stopped at Butterman's Bay to be unloaded into barges from Pin Mill. Arthur Ransome described Pin Mill with its 'crowd of yachts and its big brown sailed barges and steamers going up to Ipswich or down to the sea'. Esther Garrard, one of three boat builders, has her yard over on the... [more]
This is an extract from Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories.
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The Butt and Oyster is probably the most well-known pub on the East Coast, at Pin Mill, on the River Orwell. Across the river from here is Orwell Park, in the 18th century the home of 'Old Grog' - Admiral Vernon. It was he who established the system of allowing Royal Navy sailors their twice-daily ration of grog - rum and water.
This is an extract from Ipswich Photographic Memories.
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