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Not Amused

on November 8, 2011 · No Comments · in Schools, Town Life

An incident in Ipswich in July 1851 resulted in the town being banned from seeing members of the royal family visit the borough for seventy-five years. The problem arose during a visit of Prince Albert to Ipswich in July 1851 to attend the annual meeting of the British Association and to lay the foundation stone [...]

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Edith Cook

Brave Edith reached for the sky.

on November 4, 2011 · No Comments · in Town Life

“Reach for the Sky”, “Aim High”, “The Sky is the Limit”. All of these well known sayings must have run through the mind of a little girl in Ipswich over a century ago. Ipswich girl Edith Cook, became the first female pilot in the country. Edith was born in Fore Street in 1878, a poor [...]

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Ken Smith when he was a Ganges boy in 1963.

Master of Ceremony

on October 12, 2011 · No Comments · in Royal Navy

Standing on a wooden disc about a foot in diameter and saluting does not sound too much of a challenge, unless it is 143 feet above the ground and you only have a lightning conductor to grip between your knees. This was the job of the button boy at HMS Ganges who had to shin [...]

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The photograph taken at St Helens School

An Ipswich childhood in the 1920s and 30s.

on August 26, 2011 · No Comments · in Town Life, Wartime

Childhood memories of Ipswich, around eighty years ago, included playing football in a traffic free street, buying fireworks from the back room of the corner shop, Wallace Simpson’s divorce at the County Hall and buying beer in a jug for father on a hot summers night, came from Ernest Farrow who wrote from his home [...]

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The Carr Street, Ipswich newspaper works

Ipswich newspaper history.

on August 23, 2011 · No Comments · in News, Town Life

Thundering sounds of a press printing newspapers was a feature of Carr Street, Ipswich until publishers, the East Anglian Daily Times Company, moved to Lower Brook Street in May 1966. The roar of the rotary printing press was a regular sound day and night. Diane Roper (nee Last) said “Until the age of eleven I [...]

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Competitors during an event at the Arlington Ballroom in 1968.

Dance Hall Days.

on July 27, 2011 · No Comments · in Town Life

Thousands of people have walked through the impressive front entrance of a building in Museum Street, Ipswich, since it was first opened to the public over 160 years ago. The building, which was closed for around fifteen years, has been brought back to life as a restaurant. Built as Ipswich Museum, opening in December 1847, [...]

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Children with gas masks during World War Two

Suffolk childhood memories of the 1930s

on July 14, 2011 · No Comments · in Public Transport, Royal Navy, Wartime

A drink and a meal at the Butt and Oyster public house by the River Orwell at Pin Mill, is a very pleasant experience, with thousands of locals and tourists visiting the beauty spot every year. Imagine how different it would have been in the 1930s when John Andrews was a boy and barges unloaded [...]

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Veronica Lake with her famous "peekaboo" hairstyle.

Veronica Lake in Ipswich

on June 30, 2011 · No Comments · in Town Life

Film premiers, Hollywood stars as friends and a showbiz lifestyle, all sound a long way from life in Ipswich, Suffolk. American film star of the 1940s, Veronica Lake, lived in Ipswich. when Veronica was asked ‘Why Ipswich?’ She said, ‘Why not?’ Thanks to Valerie Giles of Ipswich, we now know more about the stars time [...]

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The livestock market close to Princes Street during a fall of snow in January 1962. Families like that of Mary Clay (nee Fletcher) lived in one of the houses, which then surrounded the market.

The Ipswich Cattle Market.

on June 21, 2011 · No Comments · in Town Life

A child walking from school in the middle of Ipswich would be amazed to see a herd of cattle approaching. The Ipswich Livestock market was held every Tuesday until the 1970s at sites around Princes Street. Bernard Jasper of Ipswich, was a pupil at St Matthews School, Ipswich, in the 1940s and on his journey [...]

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Harry Cork sent this photograph of himself in his class at Trinity Street School in around 1928.   Harry is on the right sitting in the second row of desks.

Trinity Street, Ipswich School.

on June 13, 2011 · No Comments · in Schools, Town Life

Open coal fires, a school bell and highly polished wooded floors, all memories of school days at Trinity Street schools, Ipswich. Stan Ransome, who now lives in Lancashire was a pupil at the schools during the 1930s. Stan said, “There were two schools, one each side of Trinity Street. On the side nearer the gas [...]

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