Mildenhall, Market Place c.1955
Photo ref: M75055
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Photo ref: M75055
Photo of Mildenhall, Market Place c.1955

More about this scene

Lying in the north west of the county, Mildenhall boasts one of the most magnificent churches in the region. Its market is held on Fridays, with the stalls set up between the Victorian pump and the 15th-century market cross. Whitworth's the grocer's is on the left-hand corner. The Tiger's Head, in the centre, also had a taxi service run by Sid Bonnett. The gabled house was built in 1912, but it lost its circular window when the shop front was extended in the 1960s.

A Selection of Memories from Mildenhall

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 Mildenhall

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I remember the old Bussen and Parkins in Mildenhall High Street burning down. I was only young then but have lived in Mildenhall most of my life. It was the night it burned down I was with my parents, coming home from visting my gran in Gazley village near Newmarket. We was just coming up to Barton Mills and we saw this red glow in the sky, so my dad, who used to like taking photos of things happening, like ...see more
I was born (1940) and raised in Mildenhall, in one of the old flint cottages in Kingsway, (now the Mildenhall Museum) almost opposite the fish and chip shop (Snushalls?) and after a couple of moves left Mildenhall in 1955 to join the RAF and travel the world. The cottage where I was born ('Fern Villa') has long since been knocked down to make a rear access to the shopping mall in the market. I am pretty ...see more
During the years of 1959-1960 I worked as secretary in the Education Centre at RAF Mildenhall. One of my favourite memories of that time was having lunch at Tillys Pantry every Friday. Another secretary at the air base had just passed her driving licence exam - quite a feat for a young girl at that time as it was a thorough examination and not too many passed on the first attempt, and ...see more