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Tidal level at Woodbridge

Tide gauge (sometimes a bit on the drag) Highest level was 3.35 (2013?) Ray Whyard tells  in 1953 the flooding reached up Cliff Road to the bend by the entrance to the Maybush car park. This is about 4.0m AOD (hard to be exact without measuring - lost OS BM on wall) which makes a height of tide of about…
alyson
February 11, 2020
BoatsWW2

1995 Bigbobs letter

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alyson
January 31, 2020
2009 at WarPoemWW2

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