Giles Cartoon of the Maybush 1. Dr Stanley Wall Hoyland was a doctor in Ipswich and is shown bare from the waist up standing in the Dragonfly. His son 'Jack' John Stenton Hoyland helped with the rebuilding of WSC in 1952. Jack and his wife Jill and daughter Allison were members in 1976. Jack sailed with Mike Nunn in Dragonfly…
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…
In the year of a global pandemic and increasing concerns about climate change, the Met Office confirm that 2020 was a year of weather extremes, 'with the wettest February on record, the sunniest spring, a heatwave in the summer and a day in October that broke rainfall records'. This supports the general trend of warming as a consequence of climate…
In the 3rd blog of this series, we take a walk down School Road where despite being in the throws of a global pandemic, local residents put out the flags and celebrated VE Day with true community spirit, whilst at the same time adhering to strict government restrictions on social distancing. It was indeed an important day, being the 75th…
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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