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Polstead Heath maps
Historic maps of Polstead Heath and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Polstead Heath maps
Polstead Heath photos
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Kersey| Boxford| Hadleigh| Semer| Assington| Chelsworth| Monks Eleigh| Newton Green| Little Waldingfield| Nedging Tye| Bildeston| Brent Eleigh| Great Waldingfield| Dedham| East Bergholt| Nedging| Flatford| Bures| Lavenham
Polstead Heath area books
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Essex memories
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER MY DAD?
My dear dad, who is 90, was as a small child sent to live on a farm in Stoke By Nayland, as he was orphaned. It would be between about 1924-1929. He has very happy memories of staying with the farmer and his wife. Dad was also a choir boy at the local church. His name is Dennis Craddock, and he would love to hear from anyone (still alive!) that might remember him. We are planning a trip to Stoke by Nayland before the end of the year.
Land Army Girls
I am looking for any Land Army Girls who were billeted in the Hostel at Plough Lane, Leavenheath.
Would like to hear from you as I am compiling a history of the site.
'Threeways Cafe', Bures
My dad and mum owned the Threeways Cafe in Bures for a while in the late 1950s, they where Eddie and Margaret Morris. If anyone remembers them I would like to see their memories.
Mary
Early Memories of Brook Street
I lived in Brook Street with my family between about 1958 and 1967. We lived at the bottom of the road nearest the High Street and opposite a large pond, which was a source of great entertainmanet to me and my sister at times! We watched local firemen practice fire drill, unrolling huge hoses and aiming the water into the pond then rolling up the hoses again when they'd finished. We sometimes climbed the wall surrounding the pond and dared one another to walk along it, and even walked along a ledge on the inner side of the wall, just above the water line - we must have driven our poor mother mad! The house we lived in is long gone now, and so is the pond. I'd very much like to know what the pond was built for and when.
Witches
I have visited Manningtree only once, but I have an interest in the area as my father (Donald Turner) is tracing our family tree and he has discovered that one of our ancestors - Elizabeth Goodwin was tried and hung as one of the witches of Manningtree by Matthew Hopkins! She was accused of casting a spell on a grocers horse, and making it die after he refused to give her credit to buy cheese.
Schooldays And Beyond
Starting school for the first time was at Mistley Norman School, my first teacher was Miss Temple in the infants we were given a slate board and slate pencil one thing that sticks in my memory we all had a small mattres and after dinner we all had to have a nap.Then we moved from the prefabs to Lawford soI was sent to Lawford School in Wignal Street. Transport was bike or on foot sometimes my friend and I would get a lift with the milk cart from Pooles Farm to the churn table on the corner of Bromley Road, bulk tankers were in the future so horse and cart was used for the trip. Mr Hughes the head master wore a monacle and he wouldgive it a clean then the lesson would start. One day he bought a moose head from a sale and put it on the tree stump at the school gate the antlers were so large we could sit in them .My next school was Man... Read more
Cook Family
As a child I visited my grandmother at Ivy Cottage where my mother was born 100 years ago. The Cook family and the Faircloths were the backbone of the village. Granny Cook lived in the house next door to Ivy Cottage for which my grandfather paid 21 guineas (or it may have been 20 guineas as I believe he lost one in the garden!) It was an exciting event when gran had a water pump fitted in the kitchen which was noisy after being primed. My mother, Kathleen Cook, is still with us and has an excellent memory of Crockleford and its little school.
