Southwold, High Street c.1955
Photo ref:
S168026
Photo ref:
S168026
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The seven-bay Crown Hotel (right), with columned porch, has a large and elaborate sign over the street. The painted advertisement next door has gone, but the gable beyond retains the date 1662. Beyond Barclays bank, on the left, the United Reformed Church is set back from the street. A cluster of bus signs has begun to gather on the left.
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A Selection of Memories from Southwold
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 Southwold
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Spent many happy hours paddling away in the little boats during the summer months when we lived in Southwold!
I remember staying here with my parents sister and cousin must have been about 1950. I would have been about 6 or 7.
Seem to remember a sort of sunroom located at the front where us kids slept in makeshift beds made up from loungers and easy chairs pushed together.
There was a kitchen somewhere at the back and the light from the lighthouse would send it’s beams through the windows.
Also remember seeing frogmen ...see more
The building with the turret is Acton Lodge where my grandparents Drs John and Mary Leedham-Green lived from 1946 until the late 1980s. The two cottages to the right had been demolished when my mother first visited (in the 1960s - she says it was a garden) and my grandparents built an extension there that housed their GP practice and garage with bedrooms down a long corridor accessible from the main house above. ...see more
I remember the boating lake with very fond memories. We used to holiday with my great aunt and uncle who lived in Reydon every year. My parents, with my brother and I would arrive in late July and they would return home a fortnight later. I would remain for a further 4 weeks and my aunt would then take me home.This was the pattern for a number of years. My uncle (Frederick Valentine Ladd) was a former Lowestoft ...see more
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