Dec 16, 2024 | Articles, Events, Places
At the end of the First World War there was a surplus of army huts which had been used to accommodate the rapidly expanding services during the conflict. In order to meet the post-war demand for suitable housing many of these huts were bought and converted into...
Dec 9, 2024 | Articles, People, Places, WW2 Memorial
Stanley was born in Bramford on the 4th January 1917 to Albert Edward Laffling and Emily (née Barker). The couple had married in 1914, and it appears that Albert (born 1888 in Flowton) had previously worked on the railways at Ipswich. An accident at Ipswich South...
Oct 1, 2024 | Events, People
The shop premises referred to in the article, as later run by Walter Tricker. Known for many years as “The Top Shop”, being at the top of The Street, it burnt down in the 1960’s and Walnut Tree Place was built on the site. From the Star of the East,...
Sep 28, 2024 | People, Places
(Pictured above in the 1950’s – certainly before the Tollemache and Cobbold breweries amalgamated in 1957) The occupiers of the White Elm were described principally as “Beerhouse Keepers”.A Beerhouse was a type of drinking establishment created in the United...
Sep 8, 2024 | Articles, Events, Places
Although advertised as the Ipswich steeplechases at least three of these events are recorded as being held in Bramford.At the time of the first two, in the 1840’s, the Morgan family farmed much of the land in the village, and it was with their permission that these...
Sep 8, 2024 | Articles, Events, Places
EASTERN COUNTIES GRAND STEEPLE CHASE. This event in the sporting annals of the county, which had been twice postponed owing to the inclemency of the weather, at last came off on Wednesday at Bramford; but even then, as all the way through, the weather moved somewhat...
