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Yoxford, Suffolk
Yoxford maps
Historic maps of Yoxford and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Yoxford maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Suffolk
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Yoxford books
Displaying 3 of 10 books about Yoxford and the local area. View all Yoxford books
Newmarket Town and City Memories
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£13
Suffolk Living Memories
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£14
Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
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£14
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Memories of Yoxford
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When I was a child, my great-aunt, Mrs Judith Pheby, lived in Bank House, Yoxford, and was its caretaker. The bank only visited the village once a week, I think, and the rest of the time the bank was closed. The house is on the corner, immediately opposite the Jubilee Seat, and I remember visiting there as a child. In those... [more]
Shared on 03 January 2010
This shelter/seat was built by my grandfather, Ezra Dowsing Cotton, in I believe the 1930s to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V. At least I think so. As a child I thought it was in memory of those who fell in the First World War . Ezra Cotton was a carpenter, builder, and importantly the village undertaker, in the early years... [more]
Shared on 26 November 2009
The village club, always known in my family (the Colletts and the Cottons) as 'The Hut', was where all the young people of that time, and probably earlier, met, since that particularly was the venue for village dances. Inevitably permanent relationships were made there. My mother Violet Cotton and her sister Winifred, daughters of Ezra Cotton, village carpenter and undertaker,... [more]
Shared on 26 November 2009
Suffolk memories
I grew up on Church Lane. I had an auntie and uncle living on each side. We had a well for about 10 cottages. I know that the Lane has a different name now. My sisters and I used to play at the big white house at the top of the hill and in the churchyard. We went to the school... [more]
Shared on 19 December 2008
Memories of dances at Leiston/Aldeburgh to the music of local band, The Rebels, with mates Steve Mew and Keith Tomblin. I worked at G.A. Hubbards as an aerial erector before moving to London, where I still live with my wife and 3 children. I remember the 8 Bells pub whose landlords were Jack & Sylvia Ford. My aunt & uncle Dot... [more]
Shared on 07 July 2006
The vicar for many years was the Rev Jack Thickett. As well as his cleric duties he was a part-time farmer, he had a field in Sipton where he kept pigs and as two of his sons had a butchers shop in Peasenhall, he kept them supplied with meat. In fact they still have the shop today (2006). I lived in... [more]
Shared on 05 December 2006
Edward Charles Friend was my father. His first wife died in 1930, he married my mother in February 1933 and I was born in December that year. Dad died in 1957, aged 88, and active until about three weeks before he died. He was a wonderful man, everyone loved him, I would love to know more of your side of the... [more]
Shared on 10 September 2009
My name is Alan Trageser and I was an American Airman living in Westleton from 1981 to 1985. My son was born at Ipswich hospital.
My greatest memories are of the wonderful people I met there like the older couple that befriended me, I called him Gramps and his wife Jess, and my friends like Adam (Gramps's grandson) and the... [more]
Shared on 19 April 2009
Extracts From Yoxford & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Yoxford, inspired by Frith photos.
North of Saxmundham, Yoxford was once a coaching stop on the London to Great Yarmouth route. Outside St Peter's church, an ornate cast iron signpost erected in 1830 has hands pointing to London, Yarmouth and Framlingham. The business of taking a photograph is still sufficiently unusual to ensure the subjects do not act naturally, and inevitably one of the boys has... [more]
This is an extract from Suffolk Photographic Memories.
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Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
This village is often called 'the Garden of Suffolk', something promoted by the local chemists Cleghorn and Owen, who produced the 'Garden of Suffolk Bouquet'. The turning on the right is to the Griffin, run by Henry Smith. Beside the church is the Three Tuns Hotel owned by David Beatton, which burnt down in January 1925. Lord Nelson and Charles Dickens... [more]
This is an extract from Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories.
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
It is rare in Suffolk to find a spire before the Victorian period. This one is 17th-century. The window of the Cockfield chapel is blocked by later monuments. The railed tomb (centre) is that of John Barnes (d1845). The white headstone to the left had only been erected in the previous year. It is for Ezra Cotton (d1898) and his widow Lucy (d1908).
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