Glemsford: the People and the Past
History is made of you and me
Slowly, and almost accidentally, this site is beginning to reveal several aspects of Glemsford's past, through the eyes of a variety of witnesses, and through a limited range of sources.
Now seems as good a time as ever to link all these sections into a single page, so that readers and visitors can browse fairly painlessly and, perhaps, make some comparisons.
If any of you reading this have more pages to contribute, please let me know. The work done so far deals with the village up to about 1945, but there is always room for thoughts about the second half of the 20th Century, to link up with the Day in May project.
- Glemsford's Great War Dead- some research
- A look at St Mary's: some notes from Clive Paine's fascinating talk
- Glemsford and Windsor Castle: links with the 14th Century
- Glemsford in Old Postcards
- Aspects of life in Victorian Suffolk: brief notes on Transportation
- "Nine Acres at Twinn's Lay": Glemsford School in the 19th Century
- Those were the days ... or were they?
- Cornelius Brown: a note on the difficulties of life for ordinary Glemsford people in the early 20th Century
- Extracts from"The Life and Times of Thomas J. Brown": life in Glemsford between the wars
- Glemsford in the 1920s recalled by Mr. Ted Hartley, December 1978.
- Life in the village during the Second War: Roy Porter's tales of the Auxiliary Fire Service
- Tom Brown's War: an account of life as a POW
- Industry in Glemsford: a brief look at Messrs. Downs
- A Walk Through Glemsford with Doris Bullingham