Sep 8, 2024 | Articles, Events, Places
IPSWICH GRAND STEEPLE CHASE.For many months past, the members of the sporting world, and, indeed, the public generally, looked forward with great interest to the period when these sports would take place; and that interest was in no degree increased, when it was...
Sep 8, 2024 | Articles, Events, Places
IPSWICH GRAND STEEPLECHASEThis splendid affair came off on Thursday last, and fully realized the ardent anticipations of its promoters. The most intense interest had been excited amongst the sporting circles for some time before, especially as it was known that the...
May 14, 2024 | Articles, People
John Minter Morgan was baptised in St Bride’s, Fleet Street in the City of London on the 19th June 1782. His parents were John and Biddy Morgan. John Snr’s father was George Morgan of Bramford. The Morgans were prominent farmers in Bramford and very involved with the...
May 7, 2024 | Articles, People
In October 2020 we were contacted by Vickie Jennet of the Needle Work Press in the USA asking for information about the Rev George Naylor’s “School of Industry” in Bramford. This term was used on a sampler produced by Sarah Garrard in 1825 at the school. This was...
May 1, 2024 | Articles, Events, People
From the Ipswich Journal, 23rd March, 1844 We are again compelled to defer several communications.IPSWICH,Saturday, March 23,1844.MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT TOLORD WILLIAM HILL. In the afternoon of Monday last a universal gloom pervaded the town of Ipswich, by the...
