Bramford’s oldest photograph

This picture is of a few drinkers at The Bramford Cock and one of the earliest we have ever come across. It dates from the mid 1800’s.Our copy of it came from a personalised Christmas card sent by Hugh and Winifred Green of Glebe House in Vicarage Lane, Bramford. Hugh...

Bramford Hall

An 1837 Etching of Bramford Hall Extract from The Book of Bramford – A Suffolk Parish and its People (Halsgrove 2003 & 2012) There is no doubt that had the structure still been standing today, Bramford Hall would have been the most important residence in the...

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....