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1929-1989 Poem Waldringfield Village Hall

When all our pensioners were lads And lasses, they would play Right up the village, past the school Where a field abandoned lay. Cricket and such, in spite of ruts And bumps among the hay. Arthur Bloomfield Then sixty years ago this year An army hut was found Which Arthur Bloomfield had put up On that same piece of ground…
alyson
February 17, 2018
Cement WorksCensusDocumentsFamilyIndustryPeople

1876 Census Cement Workers

Just because it isn’t stated doesn’t mean there wasn’t stuff going on between 1871 & 1881  which gave me a hint and I have quickly looked through the Baps etc., with a word search on cement and found Baptised at Waldringfield - 10 Sept 1876  Mary Ann Elliot d.o. William & Ellen Elliot   Foreman at Cement Works  10 Sept 1876…
alyson
February 16, 2018

Hilton Creek

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alyson
February 14, 2018
Cement Works

1875 Shadbolt Cement works Court Case from The Builder

PAYMENT FOR ESTIMATE. At the Woodbridge County Court, on the 19th inst., Mr. John Frost, builder, Woodbridge, brought an action against Messrs.Coles & Shadbolt, cement manufacturers, to recover 31, 15s., for making an estimate of the cost of a new dock at cement works belonging to the defendants at Waldringfield, and for other work done. The firm wrote ... Book on google books  …
alyson
February 14, 2018

The Coal Shed

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alyson
January 31, 2018
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Ordance Survey and other map resources

For Geological and others see David Rumsey collection 1881 25 inch 1882 Geological Map of area in David Rumsey Collection - can be zoomed. 1902 6 inch 1902 25 inch 1907 1 inch Woodbridge 1919 1 inch 1925 25 inch 1941 1:25000 German High Command 1946 1 inch 1955 1:25000 The National Library of Scotland have a large collection of…
alyson
January 29, 2018