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Historic maps of Semer and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Semer maps
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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 Semer
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Joseph Culling was my Great Great Grandfather, he was born in Offton in 1819. He married an Eliza who was born in 1802 in Semer, they had 4 children, Charles, Emma, Patience and Dinah (my great grandmother). Does anyone know of this family, they are very elusive and I cannot find many references to them.
Christine Harris
Shared on 10 March 2009
Hi I am from New Zealand and from information I have my ancestors came from Semer the male name is johnson and the Female maiden name was Cuthbert, the only info I have indicates that they lived there in the mid 1700's i would be plesed to know any information about the town etc or if any Johnsons or Cuthberts still... [more]
Shared on 13 December 2006
Suffolk memories
Hi, I guess it's one of those things you do as you get older, to take a walk down memory lane and to do a little bit of reminiscing. I was doing such a thing when I came across this photo of the village in Bildeston and saw the old house in the High Street that as a child and also... [more]
Shared on 26 June 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 05 June 2008
We have just discover some of our relatives may have come from the Boxford area. Does anyone remember or recall anyone of the name of Churchyard or maybe Greenwood living in Boxford or nearby, maybe even Ipswich. Our father maybe went to a boys home in the area in the 20's and 30's
Can anyone help with our... [more]
Shared on 11 April 2009
William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - however, we are not certain which town in the UK he became Mayor of - because he moved to London... [more]
Shared on 08 June 2008
I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago.
As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her parents, my great Grandmother Mary and Grandfather Charles Carpenter at Tinywent Corner - a little cottage with a well... [more]
Shared on 09 August 2006
Dad was the village policeman, PC 39. Our family name was Moss. We lived outside the village near the T junction to Little Waldingfield (two farm houses, we lived in one of them). Dad, mum and my 4 sisiters. We all attended Gt. Waldingfield school (next to the church then). Miss Bowers was the teacher. She lived with her mum and... [more]
Shared on 26 February 2009
Extracts From Semer & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Semer, inspired by Frith photos.
Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
The church of St Andrew with its distinctive wooden spire was restored in 1862. The south aisle with its square-headed windows was rebuilt in 1887 by a bequest of William King. The gable cross has gone, and clock faces have been inserted into the tower roundels; otherwise the view is unchanged today.
This is an extract from Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories.
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Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
This is the rear view of the Saracen's Head pub; from c1900 to c1930 it was run by Miss Florence Glass, the third generation of her family at the pub since c1850. The pub had its own maltings in the range of buildings alongside. The photograph was taken from the golf course, established in 1907. The A134 Sudbury to Colchester road runs left... [more]
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Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
The Newton Green Sudbury Golf Course was established in 1907, and it had its headquarters at the Saracen's Head, visible in the distance. The course '... is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'. The subscriptions in 1910 were £1 9s (£1.45) for gentlemen and 16s (80p) for ladies, with a daily rate of 1s (5p) for visitors. The A134 runs in front of the rows of cottages. ... [more]
This is an extract from Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories.
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