Long Melford
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Memories of Three Happy Years
I, Bill Rodgers was in the United States Air Force stationed at RAF Wethersfield. My wife Phyllis, son Michael and I lived on the Heath Estates, Great Waldingfield from 1962 to 1965. Michael, age 5 attended the Folly Road Primary School in Great Waldingfield. Our daughter Michelle was born in the Sudbury hospital in 1964. We had a wonderful time in Great Waldingfield, with wonderful neighbors. We visit England at least once a year. My wife is from Leicester, England whom I married in 1959.
Two years ago we attended our friend's (old neighgbor) 50th wedding anniversary in Red Lodge, England. We frequently visit with our friends durning our trips to England. ...read more here
A memory of Great Waldingfield contributed by Bill Rodgers
My Grandparents stayed here in 1955
My Grandparents stayed here in 1955, they had emigrated to Canada in 1951 and come "home" on Holiday.
I have the original receipt for their stay!
Greetings from Canada eh!
A memory of Cavendish contributed by john fox
Family
My maiden name is GAME and I've just started researching that side of my family tree, unfortunately due to the fact my dad didn't know too much about his dad's side of the family I had to send away for my Grandad's birth certificate. On receiving the certificate it placed his birth in Brent Eleigh and I was then away. I discovered my family went back to about 1750 in this delightful village, it could go back further but I haven't yet looked.
I visited Brent Eleigh and St Mary's church and what a lovely place tucked away in Suffolk, the church is set in a small area surrounded by trees, it was so peaceful. I found my GG Uncle and ...read more here
A memory of Brent Eleigh contributed by Linda Upson
Society Farm
In 2001 my husband Derek and I visited Assington. We had been researching Derek's family history, and had discovered that his great-great-grandfather John Crisell was the bailiff, in the middle of the 19th century,at Society Farm, Assington.
We were unable to find the farm, but called at a farm shop in the middle of the village, and were told that this had been Society Farm, but had changed its name to Willow Tree Farm. The reason it had been called Society Farm was that Sir John Gurdon, of Assington Hall, had set up a co-operative agricultural experiment on the farm in the 1830s in an effort to help the villagers. Some years later, John Crisell was appointed bailiff, and had lived ...read more here
A memory of Assington contributed by Rosemary Bennett
Extracts From Long Melford & Suffolk books
Melford Hall is a Tudor turreted brick mansion. Its bricks were supposedly made from clay dug out of the Green, and the hall was originally used by the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds as a hunting lodge. The children’s writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter spent many happy holidays here with her cousin, Lady Hyde Parker.
An extract from from"Suffolk Photographic Memories".
This early Elizabethan mansion
was built on the site of the former
house of the abbot of Bury St
Edmunds by Sir William Cordell,
Master of the Rolls, who founded
the hospital on the Green. The
original plan was an open
courtyard with rooms on all four
sides. The wing nearest to us was
removed in the early 17th century
to obtain a view over the park.
Queen Elizabeth visited in 1578,
and the Prince and Princess of
Wales in 1864. The owner and lord
of the manor in 1893 was the Rev
Sir William Hyde. The house now
belongs to the National Trust,
although the Hyde-Parker family
continue to live there.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
The church was almost
entirely rebuilt between
the 1460s and 1490s. The
exterior has lengthy
inscriptions and dates
recording those who gave
money to the various
parts of the building. An
almost unique feature is
the Lady Chapel,
positioned east of the
chancel and built by John
Clopton in 1496. Inside it
is a church in miniature,
with aisles on all four
sides for processions
around the shrine of Our
Lady of Melford, which
was removed in 1547.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
The three piers of the nave nearest to us were retained from the earlier 14th-century church
when the great rebuilding took place in the late 15th century. This style of building, with no
chancel arch and a continuous roof, was common in large churches of this period. The stone
reredos dates from 1879; its design is based on the description of the pre-Reformation
reredos by Roger Martin of Melford Place, whose brass is in the south chapel. The tomb of
Sir William Cordell (d1581) is on the right side of the sanctuary.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
The red-brick Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall stands at the northern end of Long Melford. Today it is best known for the striking Tudor Rose brickwork maze set into the courtyard.
An extract from from"Suffolk Photographic Memories".