PRENTICE BROTHERS, LIMITED

This article was published in the very first Fison, Packard & Prentice Journal – a company magazine that continued into the latter part of the 20th Century. The companies had amalgamated the previous year. byW. HENRY PRENTICE The Chemical Works at...

EDWARD PACKARD & CO. LIMITED

This article was published in the very first Fison, Packard & PrenticeJournal – a company magazine that continued into the latter part of the20th Century. The companies had amalgamated the previous year. byWALTER G. T. PACKARD In the year 1841 Mr Edward...

JOSEPH FISON & CO. LIMITED

This article was published in the very first Fison, Packard & Prentice Journal – a company magazine that continued into the latter part of the 20th Century. The companies had amalgamated the previous year. byWm. R. WOLTON t was in the year 1847 that Mr....

JAMES FISON & SONS. THETFORD

This article was published in the very first Fison, Packard & PrenticeJournal – a company magazine that continued into the latter part of the20th Century. The companies had amalgamated the previous year. byWALTER C. FISON The firm of James Fison & Sons,...

Stanley Douglas Laffling

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...

THE BRAMFORD GHOST STORY

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,...