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A century ago on April 6 1912 Ipswich suffered a major disaster when fire broke out at the premises of R D and J B Fraser. The large furniture store was on a site bound by Princes Street, Museum Street and Elm Street. The fire brigade dealt with a fire on the site but later [...]
In the Suffolk flood of 1939, David Allum and Prince, his shire horse, braved the torrent of flood water as heavy rain and rapidly melting deep snow combined to flood the Gipping Valley.
Bluesville. Oh, the memories of those great days of rhythm and blues at the Baths Hall or the Manor Ballroom, Ipswich, on a Monday night. Ron and Nanda Lesley brought to Ipswich the top names in live music for over fifteen years at the Baths Hall and The Manor Ballroom.
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.
The harsh justice of school days for pupils pre 1970s seems unbelievable in these times when teachers would lose their job for a much smaller incident than my recollections of around 1958 at Landseer Secondary School in Ipswich.
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.
The Stoke area of Ipswich was part of the town with hundreds of tiny terraced houses where families would organise themselves for bath night in a tin bath in front of an open fire. Most of the homes had an outside toilet. A visit could be quite a mission on a cold dark night, with a candle for light blowing in the breeze!
St John’s Orphanage, Ipswich, stood at the corner of Freehold Road and Bloomfield Street. Henry from Ipswich was sent there with his twin brother Frank in 1932. Henry and Frank Webb had a happy early childhood living with their widowed mother Jessie at 49 Ringham Road, Ipswich.
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.
A tin bath in front of the fire, collecting coal in an old pram to keep the family warm, putting coins in the gas meter, visiting a scrap yard to raise a few pennies to help the family budget and even then not realising the family was poor until years later! These colourful memories come [...]
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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