The funeral of Rear-Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine Bt

Saturday 19th May 1917 The funeral of Rear-Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine took place on Saturday at Bramford. The coffin, which was covered with a flag and bore upon it the deceased’s hat, epaulettes, and sword, was borne from Bramford Hall to the church on a farm...

St Mary’s Church 1834 board

1834 PealIpswich Journal – Saturday 29 March 1834 Based on the 1817 peal board, pictured below, this is what we think a board would have looked like if one had been...

St Mary’s Church oldest peal board

1817 Peal board Bramford’s oldest peal board hangs in the ringing chamber of the church and records the efforts of the Bramford bellringers marking the beginning of the new year in 1817. The achievement was reported in the Suffolk Chronicle on the 11th January....

A Death at Waterloo

Recent research has found the record of a Bramford man who was at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.At the stated age of 15, William Death, enlisted in the 1st (Kings) Dragoon Guards on the 5th March 1805. At the time the Dragoons would have been stationed in Ipswich....

The 1939 Floods

David Allum and his horse “Prince” braved the torrent of water as heavy rain and rapidly melting deep snow combined to flood the Gipping Valley in February 1939. Resident Leslie Beckett remembers the day well: “As I cycled to work on that dull, wet and fateful...