Very little is known of the early history of Waldringfield. Until after WW 2 Suffolk was sparsely populated, apart from a few small market towns and the Tudor wool villages such as Lavenham. Until the motor car became widely used Waldringfield was quite isolated, unless one came by boat, bike or horse drawn vehicle. The population was small relative to…
May I draw members attention to the Deben magazine contents lists that Bertie has been adding to the RDA website? I was so pleased to notice that the magazine had been useful when compiling the Waldringfield History Book. I thought it would be even more uiseful to researchers if the contents were easily visible. He's done 1990-2010 so far and…
The second post in this series of blogs takes us down Fishpond Road, a relatively quiet back road in the village and home to the founding father and President of the Waldringfield History Group, Joe Clark and his wife, Kit, at 'Woodside', along with their labrador, Boots. Joe and Kit have lived in the village for 55 years with Kit's family…
In 2019, plans were afoot to capture life in the village in 2020, marking 20 years since Kit Clark's Millennium Albums. Little did we know that just around the corner was a global pandemic! The first lockdown started on 23rd March 2020, and life changed for everyone in some form or other. This didn't deter us from circulating a survey…
The CVMC car club experts have seen the picture of a car on Waldringfield beach and have advised that it is not a model T Ford as I thought but that it is almost certainly an American design either a Buick D35 or a Willys Overland 90. Both were assembled in the UK and are very similar in appearance. (Roger…
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