Glemsford
in Suffolk
Welcome to Glemsford.
This is the menu page for Glemsford's History.
Regular visitors will know that the site
has been changing - I hope for the better.
Apologies if some of the links are out of date or point you in the wrong direction.
I hope to get the glitches ironed out quickly.
Meanwhile the browser "Back" button might help.
The original material is all here; as time allows, it will be revised,
and it will certainly be added to.
I hope the division makes sense.
Steve Clarke
whose sites these are.
Glemsford today has its own index.
A parallel site contains vital information about:
- The Morris Men of Little Egypt
and
- The Angel Inn
and
- A detailed Index to both sites.
Links
Village Links
and
and
WARNING: the contact email address: admin@glemsford.org.uk
has been hijacked by those idiots out there peddling
their hideous rubbish.
So I've switched it off.
If you want contact me, use this address for the time being:
stephen.clarke06[at]btinternet.com
You'll know how to write [at] properly.
In this index you will find:
- Voices from the Past
- Glemsford Local History Society
- Family History material
- Other features
- Or use Google to help you search this site:
Voices from the past:
- Glemsford School: a few extracts from the school logs
- Sudbury by Gaslight: a Glemsford link with the north of England: George Boreham of Keswick
- Glemsford in the 1920s recalled by Mr. Ted Hartley, December 1978.
- 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
- 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
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Glemsford Local History Society, including:
- the programme for 2007 and 2008
- the programme for 2006 and 2007
- the programme for the previous season
Society Newsletters:
- The latest: November 2007
Concluding the "Happy Vaccy" account from the spring and summer editions, together with details of the
New Season's meetings
- The previous edition: August 2007
if you have read this, and know anything about Jean Cook, who wrote the "Happy Vaccy" story, could you please
let me know?
Several villagers are enquiring after her.
- Previous editions:
Spring 2007
November 2006
April 2006
October 2005
April 2005
- Two other earlier examples:
1998
and 1999
- Three early publications (1994-5) newly reproduced in web format.
These
include details of Society activities, and some fascinating short articles:
The King's Evil; Glemsford Fair; Indentures etc.
Other activities:
- Recording change - History as we experience it - latest addition: February 2007
- The 2006 GLHS Scatter Walk
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Family History
- A complete transcript of the 1901 Census for Glemsford
- A "Blog" style
question, comment and visitor section: - a successful forum for Family Historians.
This page is regularly updated and there is a multitude of family history questions which can be accessed and commented upon.
Earlier Family Historians' contributions with a
new page added for 2006 and
- the fascinating product of one such enquiry -
The Brown family of Glemsford
and
the Savages of Cavendish
Updated: 1 December 2005 - much extra detail and photos
and
16 January 2006: another letter to Araminta
- Now with a proper index and extra detail
and
- Another example of how this site can work:
The Pearman and Hempstead families
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Learn about Glemsford's War
Dead, here ...
- Glemsford's Great War Dead - some further research - with a small update 17 September 2006
- 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
- Eleanor Bowrey: a Glemsford Schoolteacher
- Those were the days ... or were they?
- Industry in Glemsford: a brief look at Messrs. Downs
- A Walk Through Glemsford with Doris Bullingham
- A different "Walk Through Glemsford" - 1993
- The Great Debate: Why "Little Egypt"?
- The Matmaking Industry - Richard Deeks's contribution
BACK
Society Newsletters:
Concluding the "Happy Vaccy" account from the spring and summer editions, together with details of the New Season's meetings
if you have read this, and know anything about Jean Cook, who wrote the "Happy Vaccy" story, could you please let me know?
Several villagers are enquiring after her.
Spring 2007
November 2006
April 2006
October 2005
April 2005
1998
and 1999
These include details of Society activities, and some fascinating short articles: The King's Evil; Glemsford Fair; Indentures etc.
Other activities:
This page is regularly updated and there is a multitude of family history questions which can be accessed and commented upon.
Earlier Family Historians' contributions with a
new page added for 2006 and
The Brown family of Glemsford
and
the Savages of Cavendish
Updated: 1 December 2005 - much extra detail and photos
and
16 January 2006: another letter to Araminta
and
The Pearman and Hempstead families
Learn about Glemsford's War Dead, here ...
- Glemsford's Great War Dead - some further research - with a small update 17 September 2006
- 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
- Eleanor Bowrey: a Glemsford Schoolteacher
- Those were the days ... or were they?
- Industry in Glemsford: a brief look at Messrs. Downs
- A Walk Through Glemsford with Doris Bullingham
- A different "Walk Through Glemsford" - 1993
- The Great Debate: Why "Little Egypt"?
- The Matmaking Industry - Richard Deeks's contribution
Please: as before, we welcome your questions and contributions.
Feel free to use these email addresses to contact us:
history@glemsford.org.uk
or
admin@glemsford.org.uk
