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Wickham Market, Suffolk
Wickham Market photos
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Wickham Market maps
Historic maps of Wickham Market and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wickham Market maps
Historic map of Wickham Market
Illustrated Victorian map of Suffolk
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Wickham Market books
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Suffolk Living Memories
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£14
Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
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£14
Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
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£14
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Memories of Wickham Market
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During the 1960s while stationed at RAF Bentwaters I, with my family, lived at #6 Broad Road, in Wickham Market. Our landlord was Richard Upson, who with his family lived on one side of the house and we occupied the other side. Our neighbour was Police Sergeant Alan Airey who has since passed away.
My time spent in England was without... [more]
Shared on 21 April 2008
Suffolk memories
My great grandparents, my nanna (and all of her siblings)and my mother all lived in this house. I'm not sure of the timeframe but it was for a number of years. My mom had many fond memories and stories of the crinkly wall across the street, as well as the 5 Bridges. My family name is Harvey. ... [more]
Shared on 31 August 2008
What happened to the Kotarski's ?
Fond memories of Parham makes me write this, remembering the peacefulness.
Surfing the Web, here I am posting a question all the way from he USA.
It was early summer 1954 and I was a Dutch farm exchange student staying with the family Kotarski on the so called "White House farm" just outside Parham village. The farmer was of Polish decent,... [more]
Shared on 03 March 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 18 July 2009
Extracts From Wickham Market & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Wickham Market, inspired by Frith photos.
Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
The man on the left is about to enter the shop of Cyril Amey, hairdresser and shopkeeper. There are then two 16th-century houses with jetties, but the grocer's shop is no longer on the corner. The building on the other side is still a butcher's, but the White Hart Hotel run by Louis Zissell has closed.
This is an extract from Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories.
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This quiet little village north of Woodbridge was granted a market in the mid 15th century by Henry VI. Four hundred years later, it was here that John Kirby wrote his influential 'Suffolk Traveller'.
This is an extract from Suffolk Photographic Memories.
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On the left is A J White, watch and clockmaker (the other half of the building was Barclays Bank, open on Wednesdays), George Howe, draper and grocer, Adam's, baker and confectioner, and the Crown. In the corner is The Grange, a Georgian-fronted building with a fine doorway. The church tower is octagonal and capped with a wooden leaded spire. The pump... [more]
This is an extract from East Anglia.
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