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...
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...
Dec 29, 2023 | Events, People
Saturday 19th May 1917 The funeral of Rear-Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine took place on Saturday at Bramford. The coffin, which was covered with a flag and bore upon it the deceased’s hat, epaulettes, and sword, was borne from Bramford Hall to the church on a farm...
Nov 23, 2023 | Events, People
1834 PealIpswich Journal – Saturday 29 March 1834 Based on the 1817 peal board, pictured below, this is what we think a board would have looked like if one had been...
