Barking Tye, 1934
Photo ref: 86418
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Photo ref: 86418
Photo of Barking Tye, 1934

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This looks like Sunday morning, with people either returning from the church or heading towards the chapel on the Tye. Walnut Tree is on the right, with Wayside and Apple Tree Cottage on the left. Land here was owned by the Quaker Philip Butler, Secretary of the Suffolk Tithe Payers' Association, which helped to bring about the abolition of tithes in 1936.

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A Selection of Memories from Barking Tye

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 Barking Tye

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My father Eric Welham is still living in Barking Tye and will be 90 this year. A 'Shepherd's Hut' which was originally from a farm on Barking Tye around the early 1900s was bought by my Grandad Welham and he moved it across the tye to 'Mill Cottage' along the top of Barking Tye. It was then moved again across the Tye in 1950 to where my father still lives in Fox Meadow and used as a work shop. I have great ...see more