Pin Mill
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- 7 photos on Pin Mill appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Pin Mill
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Buying a new drum for the Whitethorn Morris Band in Chelmondiston
I have been the band leader for the Whitethorn Band for more than twenty years and in 2002 we 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 day in 2002 I drove several of our band for a day's outing to Suffolk where we met Barry Askew and tried his drums. Having seen his workshop and completed our purchase we then had a splendid meal and dirnks in a river side pub at nearby Pin Mill. It was a lovely outing in a beautiful part of the country and ...read more here
A memory of Chelmondiston contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Family History
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 my ancestors.
A memory of Shotley Gate contributed by Mark Cuckow
HMS Ganges
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 so bad!! The Bristol Arms was out of bounds to us boys but I did finally get a drink there about 30 years later.
A memory of Shotley Gate contributed by Phil Smith
The model shop in The Walk
Yes Tami, I remember The Walk very well. In 1959 there was a model shop just to the right of the photo. They had wonderful little steam engines and I saved up pennies and shillings from my paper round until I could buy one.
Some years later as a young man we would drink Cob Toppers at the local pubs and then when the pubs closed we would go to Chinese restaurant on the first floor of an entrance in The Walk to have a supper of fried rice with vegetables--it was the cheapest dish on the menu.
These days I can afford to go to good restaurants but I don't enjoy them as much as that food in those ...read more here
A memory of Ipswich contributed by First name Last name
Extracts From Pin Mill & Suffolk books
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 left.
An extract from from"Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
This open space was created as a car park in 1921 by demolishing a cottage. The single-storey extension to the pub also dates from 1921, when Hiskey Golding was the landlord. Where the Austin Sevens are parked is now a beer garden. One of the sailing barges that used to work the coast and the River Orwell is laid up at the water’s edge. The maltings here at Pin Mill are a reminder of the days when grain was loaded into the barges en route for Ipswich.
An extract from from"East Anglia".
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 the mould,
and they appear backwards on
the finished article!
An extract from from"Ispwich Pocket Album".
A 20th-century means of pro-
ducing power shares the banks
of the Orwell with vessels which
harness one of the oldest forms
of power. With shallow mudflats
along the banks of the tidal
Orwell estuary, moored sailing
boats end up on their keels twice
a day.
An extract from from"Ispwich Pocket Album".
We are looking east along Tavern
Street from Cornhill. On the left
is the red brick and stone Lloyds
Bank building, with its fretted
skyline, while to the right is the
neo-classical Post Office, built
in 1881.
An extract from from"Ispwich Pocket Album".