Just for once in the history of this site, I shall concentrate not on The Angel, but on Angel House, next door.
Among the material that Bernie Allen has sent me is the clipping (above) of an advertisement for the sale of Angel House, Glemsford. Although it is dated 1940, we suspect the advert comes
from a later time, when Angel House was up for sale.
We know that Bartle Allen retired to the house in about 1940, and we suspect, having pored over the handwritten annotations, that
he bought it for about £2000 (an average house in 1940 could have been expected to attract c.£500).
Our suspicion is that the advert was sent to Wilfred Allen in New Zealand by his sister, Mabel, Mrs Mayhew, and it may therefore date from the 1950s.
In itself it makes interesting reading:
modernised by an architect, double garage, central heating, £10650 .
Angel House plays a prominent part in the history of the Allen family. Wilfred was living there when the Great Fire happened in the 1890s, and his brother Bartle bought the house he had grown up in when he retired from being Headmaster of a private school in Kent.
Bartle's house is referred to also in this lovely piece of double history. Here we are, looking back at the lives of a family over the last couple of hundred years. In 1957, the "Suffolk Free Press" was doing the self-same thing, so we can look back to the local rag looking back!
This article appeared in September 1957. Again I am very grateful to Bernie Allen for sending it to me.