Nostalgic memories of Bungay's local history
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That's more like the mid to late 1960's. But not our cars, we had an old black car then, a Minx.
This must be a bit earlier than 1960. I moved as a 7 year old to the black and white house in 1962. It is 18 Broad Street and was a wine merchants Hunter and Olivers. My father was the manager for around 25 years. Before him it was Peter Sayers who then opened a clothes shop in Earsham street and is still alive. Earlier it was Barretts wine shop. Mrs Barrett lived above our flat, she was a German lady, very pleasant ...see more
I have written on this page before, about my grandmother. This is news I did not know - I found it on the ancestry - if any one can help further fab
I wrote my grandmother was Emily Woolonough nee George married to Allen Woolonough
But she married an Ernest G Woolonough first who died in the war and they lived in Gas House Lane where my mum was born - Elsie Bernice, please email me if you know any more
Kind regards
Linda email davvlinn@aol.com
I was born in 1960 in Cross Street, Bungay above my grandmother's shop, a ladies dress shop called Dorothy Laws. We used to visit regularly through the 1960s.My mother, Una Jane, married Gerald Read who I believe worked for a grocers shop that was alongside the Buttercross. I remember the Mynah bird in Warnes shop clearly. We had an 'Auntie Betty and Uncle Freddie', family friends not relatives, who also lived in Cross Street, above a shop if I remember correctly. Not sure of their surname.
Re: the Horse & Groom Public House now the Green Dragon Public House (rebuilt in 1920) in Broad Street Bungay. My wife's great grandfather, Thomas Gris (1855-1910), was the licensee of the Horse & Groom PH in Broad Streetg Bungay and is listed there in the Post Office Directory of 1900 and the Census of 1901. He had previously been the licencee of the Inn of the same name, the ...see more
My husband's family on his mother's side were the Laws. James and Susannah ran a public house in Cross Street, which closed in about 1904, called The Jolly Butchers. If anyone with maps or photos cares to contact me.
I remember waiting for the bus here to take us back to Beccles after a day at school, St Mary's School to be exact! A lovely market town, what memories! Did anyone else attend St Mary's School around this time, or knew of anyone that did?
My father Ronnie Buck owned The Swan pub, then the wet fish shop near the market place in Bungay. The pet shop owned by Warnes was next door, to the left, and drapers the clothes shop to the right. Ivan Porter's fruit shop was opposite my fathers fish shop and Mrs Roe had a jewelrey shop next to the fruit shop.
Also, I remember how we use to watch a procession through the town from the butter cross, and if I remember correctly, a fete was held near the castle grounds.
My nan was Emily Woolonough she first married an Ernest Woolonough he died in the war.
My grandfather was Henry Knights.Grandmother Emily Woolonough
They had a daughters called
Irene Woolonough.
Molly Knights
Bernice Elsie Knights Woolonough
And three other sisters too
Please help, I would love to hear any information from anyone who knew my nan, her life, photos, anything.
She was a ...see more
Early years - Nurse Britton was a friend as she was to most I believe. I was too young to be exact with memories but my gran lived opposite Whitemans shop which got hit by a bomb in the Second World War. I remember the garage which sold Ford cars as the man said he would keep the car on display(Ford Prefect?) for me until I was old enough to drive, and just down the road towards Diss there was a school I think I ...see more