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School photograph c1920

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School photograph c1920

School Report about Witch Marks in Stradbroke by Nuala Duffy

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"My name is Nuala Duffy and I go to the primary school in the village. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, the school was closed to my year group, and others, so I was home schooled by my mum and dad.
 
As part of my history lessons, I did a local…

Schoool photograph c1930

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Schoool photograph c1930

Scouts outside the Court House

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Scouts outside the Court House.
The Court House was originally The Corn Hall. The building was commissioned from public donation, mainly farmers and tradesmen, and erected in 1854. The Revd. Allen placed a message on parchment in a bottle under the…

Seats for the village

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Seats for the village by public donation through the trustees of the parish charities.

Send Off WW1 voluneers from Stradbroke Station.

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Send Off WW1 voluneers from Stradbroke Station on the 31st August 1914.

Senior Citizens Party, 1976

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Senior Citizens Party, 1976

Senior Paying Boy Students

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Webb picture of Senior Paying Boy Students

Seven heads in the hay

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Seven bonneted heads in the hay at harvest time

Sewers being built

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The sewers being built along Queen Street

Sgt. Reginald Ruffles and his children John, Ann and Colin.

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Sgt. Reginald Ruffles and his children John, Ann and Colin.

Shelton Hill under construction

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Houses under construction on Shelton Hill - off the Laxfield Road.

Should Stradbroke have a new village hall?

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Should Stradbroke have a new village hall?

Siah Potter a Suffolk Character

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Siah Potter died in 1962 at the age of 71. Frank Ward wrote of him ‘He was something more than just a picturesque countryman, the city dweller’s idealized view of a rustic. . . . a handsome nose, twinkling piercing eyes and a mouth which constantly…

Siah Potter lighting his pipe at The White Hart public house.

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Siah Potter lighting his pipe at The White Hart public house.

Siah Potter obituary

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Siah Potter obituary

Skinners invoice with customer list on the rear.

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Skinners invoice with customer list on the rear.

Skinners Mill

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Skinners Mill off Queens Street.

Skinners Mill 1938

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Skinners Mill 1938

Skinners Mill- sewing bags

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Skinners Mill- Ginger Carver sewing feed bags

SLHG Enjoying each others Company

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SLHG Enjoying each others Company. When Mike Readman retired and came to Stradbroke he advertised in The Stradbroke Monthly for anyone interested in the village history to come round to his home to talk. The house was full and that's where and when…

Snow in Church Street

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Snow in Church Street.
NB. The fence in front of the old rectory, the phone box, the tractor without a cab.

Stadbroke Local History Group, Christmas Celebration

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Stadbroke Local History Group, Christmas Celebration

Stadbroke village school - Miss Brown’s class

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Nancy & Edna Mayhew in Miss Brown’s class:
also Beatie Honeybull and Alan Ward.

Staff at the Depperhaugh or Thorpe Hall

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Staff at the Depperhaugh or Thorpe Hall

Stanley Alderton in control of the horses

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Stanley Alderton in control of the horses on Barley Green Farm. The reverse of the picture tells that Stanley was a German prisoner of war.

Stanley Skinner - Lorry

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Stanley Skinner - Lorry

Stanley Skinner's - lorry

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Stanley Skinner's - lorry

Stanley Skinner's - lorry

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Stanley Skinner's - lorry