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A Suffolk Village by Stella James

Early morning, early summer, the sun rises over the village on a perfect Englishday. Bobby opens up the garage while up the road Miss Bloomfield in the Post Office drinks her first tea of the day, dusts the shelves in the tiny lean-to shop, polishes the jars of jelly babies and dolly mixtures, farthing a bag, bull’s-eyes, 1/2d. a half-a-dozen.…
alyson
January 25, 2019
BooksMiddle AgesReference

1587 Holinsheds Chronicles

Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland was a complete description of everything about Elizabethan Britain. There were 1577 and 1587 editions. The Description of England  was complied by William Harrison.  Of local interest: Volume 4 on Scotland is dedicated to Thomas Seckford. To the Right worshipfull Maister Thomas Secford Esquire and Maister of the Requests, William Harison wisheth all…
alyson
January 11, 2019
Sports clubsWW1

Cricket Club from Kevin Nunn

It may also be of interest to you that the cricket club records are held by Mr Alan Barnes, who can be found preparing the cricket wicket in Fishpond land most Thursdays in the summer. Or I can put you in touch. These records go back to the 1920s when the cricket club began to play at its current site.…
alyson
December 27, 2018
IndividualWW1

BLOOMFIELD, Stanley Walter

  Name BLOOMFIELD, Stanley Walter Served in Suffolk Regiment War Service Not known except that he was a Private in the 9th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment from 1914-20, which included service on the Western Front in France.  He is also rather unusually recorded as having served also with the 7th, 8th and 4th Battalions. Photo None of him. Badge…
alyson
December 3, 2018
IndividualWW1

BEAR, William Herbert

  BEAR, William Herbert   Suffolk Regiment War Service William enlisted as a private in the Suffolk regiment and fought in France where he was severely wounded on 30 Aug 1917, which entitled him to wear a Wound Stripe but eventually resulted in him being invalided out in 1918.  Apparently when he died, remains of shrapnel from his wounding were…
alyson
December 3, 2018
IndividualWW1

ALDIS, Sidney Walter Otto

Suffolk Yeomanry & Royal Munster Fusiliers War Service It is likely that Sidney Aldis signed up by his 18th Birthday in Aug 1915 and was almost immediately sent with his regiment to support the attack on Gallipoli in the Dardanelles of Turkey, setting sail from Liverpool on SS Olympic on 25 Sep and landing at Anzac Cove on 10 Oct…
alyson
December 3, 2018