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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 [...]
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 [...]
Tony Smith of Needham Market, Suffolk has good reason to recall a day from his childhood as he stood in a field picking potatoes during World War Two. Tony said “I remember Monday, October 10, 1942, like it was yesterday. We were in the fourth year of World War II. It was a bit foggy [...]
HMS Ganges was a Royal Navy Training base at Shotley, Suffolk. Ganges, in the early years was afloat in Harwich Harbour, and from 1905 until 1976 as a shore base.
Vivid memories of 21 September 1940, when a German parachute mine landed in Cemetery Road, Ipswich during the Second World War, from Joan Pettit of Felixstowe.
Crashing jet aircraft, being a runner for the local bookie and black looks from grandmother if you did not attend Sunday school, are the childhood memories of growing up in White Elm Street, Ipswich, for Brian Dean.
Life was tough for families living close to the Ipswich town centre during the First World War period. In 2003 Nellie Page recalled her childhood and she recalled how hard it was for families to survive when fathers and husbands were killed fighting the war.
Ipswich - The Changing Face of the Town
The new book by David Kindred
Released on 20 October 11 in hardback. Photographs are grouped in themes showing how the town has changed in over 120 years. There are over 320 photographs, many in colour with detailed captions over 176 pages. More information available at Old Pond Publishing
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