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Diss, Mere Street 1925
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Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street. The town prospered in medieval times as a market for cloth and linen thread, which was spun and woven from local flax. Mere Street funnels its way, tight as a shirt collar, to the market place. Above the doorway of the shop on the right is the famous logo of 'His Master's Voice' – the gramophone had become a fashionable gadget in every home.

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A Selection of Memories from Diss

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Diss

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Diss A Very Pleasant Bolthole
I had many memorable times in Diss. When living in Cambridge, I often, unexpectedly for him, dropped in to see Mr Robert Stubbs who had been living by himself and his toy poodle since his wife's passing many years earlier. Despite being in his eighties, he was still as sharp as a tack and stuck to his daily routines of listening to his vast record collection, keeping up with the news and fussing over ...see more
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Wortham Ling
I was born on the Ling,moved to Palgrave,returned to the Ling on leaving Diss Secondary Modern School as it was then.First job was as an apprentice baker at Denny's cafe/restaurant,who remember Denny's?.as a teenager it was the Rendevous coffee bar the local meeting point on Victoria Road.Now living in Nottinghamshire.
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Sunnyside Street
I lived in Diss in the 50's at 14A Sunnyside Street. My parents were the Salvation Army officers. The house we lived in was behind the Salvation Army hall. I remember buying a pomegranate, from the market on the way to school and eating it with a pin. There was a boy who lived in a house overlooking the Mere that went to my school, I seem to remember he had some sort of disability I visited his house to play. There was ...see more
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I Lived There
I was born in Diss but now live in Kilmarnock, if my memory serves me well, down Mount Street, where my granny on my mother's side lived. We, me and my brother, used to visit our cousins who lived beside gran and play in The Rectory Meadows behind it (Mike Webb and The Noble Clan). I'm still in contact with my other cousin, Pat, also known as Lucy, who's now in the States but hoping to come back home soon. My ...see more
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