May 8, 2018 | People
Walter and Maude Vesey In 1911 Maud Mildred Told was 19 years old and an elementary school teacher living with her parents and sister (Ruth Lillian) in Emsworth Villa, Rushmere Road, Ipswich. Maud and Ruth were born in Friern Barnet and daughters of an army pensioner....
May 3, 2018 | Places
For those not familiar with this location you will find it as you travel along the Somersham road to Little Blakenham. Until a few years ago it was a land fill site operated by Suffolk County Council having previously been a chalk quarry. The hill, into which the...
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...
Feb 7, 2017 | Events
BIG FIRE AT BRAMFORD – FLOUR MILL GUTTED As a result of a fire which broke out on Thursday morning one of the landmarks on the River Gipping has been destroyed, the outbreak being attended with no small pecuniary loss. But more serious than the momentary loss is the...
Jan 16, 2017 | Events
A research project by Beryl Sims After the Black Death in 1349, which was responsible for the deaths of about one third of the population of England, the rate of change in the traditional way of life on the medieval manor escalated rapidly. Before that time, the lord...
Nov 28, 2016 | Events
Ipswich Journal 27 October 1838 ROBBING A FRIENDLY SOCIETY – Francis Flory, 34, and John Osborn (who had surrendered to take his trial having been admitted to bail) were charged with having on the 18th inst. stolen an elm box, containing £18 12s 0d, and a...
