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Ramsholt maps
Historic maps of Ramsholt and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ramsholt maps
Ramsholt photos
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Alderton| Bawdsey| Waldringfield| Felixstowe Ferry| Bucklesham| Felixstowe| Martlesham| Woodbridge| Melton| Shotley| Shotley Gate| Butley| Parkeston
Ramsholt area books
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Memories of Ramsholt
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Suffolk memories
Joseph Rouse
This is not actually my memory, I am hoping someone will know of or remember the Rouse family who lived in Hemley. My ggg grandfather was born c1785 in Hemley and I am trying to trace any ancestors. Joseph joined the army in 1806, married an Irish girl, invalided out of the army in 1827 from Kilmainham Hospital.
In 1851 he is living in Winchester with Margaret and his children, he died in 1858
Lynda
Raymond Edward Shaw
My father lived at Southbeach Mansion and apparently died in Ipswich Hospital in 1997. I have been searching for him all my life. I was hoping that someone would remember him and perhaps have some memories or memorabilia that they could share. He was in the RAF. Loved motorcycles, and as I remember when a child he had red hair. My Mother and he lived perhaps in the Cotswolds briefly. Do not know when they divorced. Would like very much to learn something about him, even though he is no longer with us, its an opening and a closure.
Holidays at Grandma’s
Memories are the garnish of our later years...
During my extreme youth, the closest we ever got to a summer holiday was a week spent with our maternal grandparents. My father would trundle us through to their near-seaside town in the family car; a vehicle of indeterminate age that he had lovingly restored, but to which he had never added a rear floor. We could see the ground whistle by beneath us as we hurtled along and my siblings balanced their feet on a single plank, slightly narrower than the chasm below.
Seat belts and child safety seats had not yet been invented, so I, the youngest, would be propped up on the back seat; my personal space (an invention of the distant future) invaded by suitcases and sundry luggage so that I didn’t fall through the gaps. At four, I could hardly be trusted not to let a foot slide through beside the plank.
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HMS 'Ganges'
I did my naval training at HMS 'Ganges' during 1952/53 and enjoyed every muinute of it. It was a super place and now, long retired, I think often of those wonderful days. Lots of discipline and back straigtening instruction. It was super and I would do it all again.
A Spy at RAF Bentwaters? No Just my Dad Aircraft Spotting!
My Dad who is now 80 years old, shared a lovely story with me the other day. My husband and I had just come back from a holiday in Suffolk, staying at a beautiful old "folly" cottage opposite the entrance to Bentwaters. Dad recalled that when the USAF were based there, probably around 1955, maybe earlier, he'd decided to take a drive up the road that skirted the base to see if he could spot the new "stealth" fighter, which he had heard about. So, having left my mum chatting with her sisters who live in Woodbridge, he donned his black leather riding gear and rode his motorcycle up to the gates, got out his binoculars and was promptly arrested by the US guards! He was "asked" to accompany them onto the base, a request he gladly accepted, as he wanted to get a good look at their aircraft. Totally oblivious to the fact that he looked like everyone's idea of the cunning spy! While being escorted to the... Read more
Boulge Was my Home
My family owned the Boulge Hall estate at the time of your photograph. I was christened in Boulge Church in 1940.
I am the 3rd Baronet of Boulge Hall and the last of the line.
The summer house on the right of the picture was built by my grandfather Sir Robert Eaton White.
I remember Boulge well throughout my childhood. How sad that it was demolished.
I have some faded photos of the interior and a couple of others of the outside.
Nothing else remains.
Melton Grange in 1959
I was 7 years old in 1959 when I stayed in the Melton Grange Hotel for about 2 weeks with my mother, father, and 3 brothers. My father was in the US Air Force, stationed at RAF Woodbridge. As Americans, we were in awe of this large, ornate building and what seemed to us an enormous garden. We were introduced to the tradition of "Tea" at 4:00 p.m. each afternoon and soon realized that the dinner in the evening was probably intended for adults without their children. A gentleman who seemed to be the manager or owner showed us an upstairs room with a window still displaying a bullet hole from a wartime aircraft. About to return to the area to visit the place now, after more than 50 years, I was saddened to see on the internet that the old hotel was eventually abandoned, and later suffered a fire. I suppose it is no longer standing, but what a memorable place, and it... Read more
