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Woolpit, Suffolk
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Historic maps of Woolpit and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Woolpit maps
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Woolpit books
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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 Woolpit
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I'm sure I remember a Harry Elmer......did he have a shop in Elmswell or did he rent out motor cars or even caravans from Woolpit?
I was born in Elmswell in 1947 and the name certainly rings a very loud bell and was constantly mentioned in our household at the time.
Shared on 11 November 2007
Hi there. Harry Elmer (who I understand was my GGrandad's brother) owned and ran this Mill into the 1940s. The Muggeridge Collection has some wonderful images of him replendent in the very gentlemanly working clothes of a miller of his ilk, and still working in his 80's. Anecdotally Elmers Mill in Woolpit and Drinkstone Mill close by were dead ringers for... [more]
Shared on 06 July 2006
Suffolk memories
family connection to the Shoulder of Mutton
My great great grandfather was Richard Thurston and I believe that his family lived at the pub about 1845.
They had several children Deborah,John Palmer,Mary Jane,Richard and William Mumford (thurston) His wife was Susannah.
John Palmer Thurston was my great grandfather.
My grandfather William John Thurston emigrated to Australia in 1910 with his wife Agnes Alice Thurston(nee Stillwell) from Sussex.
Shared on 11 January 2008
I atended primary school in Walsham from 1953 to 1955, my father was stationed at Shepards Grove. We lived in West House about a mile out of town toward Bury St Edmonds. I enjoyed my time in school there. My wife and I made a trip back to places I lived at and we went through Walsham and I remembered most... [more]
Shared on 02 August 2008
We visited Gipping in 2003 to try to get a sense of the place our ancestors left in 1859 to start a new life in New Zealand. The flatness of the area was a significant contrast to the rugged coastal lands they farmed on their arrival in Little Akaloa, Canterbury. William Henry Elliss and his wife Sophia Rebecca Davey were resident... [more]
Shared on 21 June 2009
I spent so many happy summer holidays in Great Barton, and in particular Conyers Green where my Aunt Norah Lovelace lived in a cottage next to the old chapel building. I cycled often to the village store/post office, and to my friend's parent's farm up the lane at the side of the cottage, their name was Rolfe and we had many... [more]
Shared on 03 August 2008
In 1861 my Great, Great, Great Grandfather Charles Frederick Whiskin worked for the Steel family in their grocer's shop situated in the Butter Market. Charles came originally from Black Friars in London and was born in 1832. He learnt his trade from the Steels and went on to own his own shop in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire which he ran with his wife... [more]
Shared on 11 July 2008
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
Extracts From Woolpit & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Woolpit, inspired by Frith photos.
Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
Most of the buildings are timber-framed, although it is only at the far end that they retain their original appearance. This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car. On the right is a former 16th-century pub with a decorative Victorian front. The shop at the near corner is Addison's, established in 1889.... [more]
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
This is a double hammer beam roof, an exclusively East Anglian structure of which Suffolk has two-thirds of the total. There are 106 angels on the hammers, wall plate and wall posts, all with outstretched wings hovering over the congregation at worship. At the end is the Canopy of Honour, which may have been part of the original design, but which was most probably... [more]
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Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
The inn occupied both of these buildings. The one to the left is 16th-century, with a brick façade of 1759. The taller building was erected in 1826. The inn has closed, the urn has gone from the niche, and the petrol pumps have been removed. The village pump commemorates Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. The corners of the shelter are carved... [more]
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