St Mary’s Church oldest peal board

Nov 8, 2023 | Events, People

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

May 21, 2020 | Events, People

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

Apr 18, 2020 | Events, People

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...

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRAMFORD MILL

May 1, 2018 | Events

Ipswich Journal 14 October 1876 An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon in the Board Room at the East Suffolk Hospital, touching the death of James Scott, who died on Wednesday, from the effects of injuries sustained by the falling of a sack of corn upon him, at...