Purchases made by the Friends of Suffolk Record Office

	HD2212_1 Ipswich Record Office Purchased by the Friends in 2003 Photograph of the delivery of the first consignment of steelwork for the new sugar beet factory at Sproughton, 7 April 1925. This was one of a number of beet processing factories to be built in East Anglia after the First World War, marking the start of what became a major East Anglian industry. The factory was built by the Anglo-Dutch Sugar Company on a 100-acre site. This photograph is one of a collection of 155 which document the development of the works. They complement the firm's archive, which was already deposited at Ipswich (ref HC429).

	1560/1 Lowestoft Record Office Purchased by the Friends in 2004 Marriage certificate of Robert Alcock of Bungay and Elizabeth Barker of Beccles, 26 December 1723. The certificate states that the bride and groom had declared their intention to marry at the Quaker Meetings in Beccles and Middleton and had now appeared at a public assembly at Mattishall in Norfolk. Quakers did not marry before a priest or minister but at an open ceremony, with a certificate signed by the parties and witnesses; the certificate would then be kept by the couple.

	HD2362_11461 Bury Record Office Purchased by the Friends in 1999 Horringer Street and Manor Lane, from a map of the village made in 1825. The Hervey family of Ickworth acquired Horringer in 1808 as part of their share of the estate of Sir Charles Davers. Most of the family and estate archive had been deposited in Bury St Edmunds by the time of the death of the seventh Marquess of Bristol in 1999; this map was among the Marquess's effects, put up for sale after his death.

	HD997 Bury Record Office Purchased by the Friends in 2000 Troops of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders lined up on the railway station at Ingham near Bury St Edmunds in October 1916. The photograph comes from an album of over 2,000 photographs taken during the Great War in and around Bury St Edmunds by Walton Burrell. Subjects include troops on Home Defence duties, many of them in camp; damage caused by Zeppelin raids; scenes inside Ampton Hall when it was in use as a military hospital; and, possibly unique, views of trench systems created locally for the testing of prototype tanks. It is not clear how Burrell was given permission to visit, and take photographs in, what were presumably restricted areas.

	HD1888_1_21 Ipswich Record Office Purchased by the Friends in 1999 The Hartismere Union workhouse in Wortham, drawn by Rev Richard Cobbold, Rector of the parish, in 1860. The drawing comes from a volume titled ‘Features of Wortham', in which Cobbold drew and described the buildings and locations of the parish, starting with the public buildings and moving on to the mansions, farmhouses, shops, inns and cottages. It complements six similar volumes of Cobbold's work which the Record Office already held; collectively they provide a possibly unique record in word and picture of a mid-Victorian rural community.

	HD11_50_1 fol 22v Bury Record Office Purchased by the County Council in 1989, with financial assistance from the Friends. Accounts of the Feoffees of the Town Lands of Bury St Edmunds, 1583-4. In the seventy years after the dissolution of the great abbey of St Edmund, the town was administered by a body of feoffees, the successors of the medieval Candlemas Guild. These accounts cover the period 1569-1622 – a key period in the history of the town. They had disappeared from view in 1854 and only reappeared in 1981, when they were brought into Bury St Edmunds. along with other records, including a fifteenth century bailiffs' minute book for the Borough of Dunwich (now Ipswich Record Office HD1001).

	HD2212_12571 Ipswich Record Office Purchased by the Friends in 2003 Front and back elevations of the Maypole Hotel in Whitton, October 1947. This drawing comes from a small collection of material relating to the Ipswich brewers Tollemache and Cobbold. It includes plans and elevations of public houses owned by the company, and three ledgers detailing repairs carried to their houses between 1936 and 1952. The records complement a much larger ‘Tolly Cobbold' archive previously deposited in the Ipswich Record Office (ref HA231).

	HD1538_174_1 Ipswich Record Office Purchased by the County Council in 1987, with financial assistance from the Friends Grant of land to Campsea Ash Priory. William de Saham gives his land in Bredfield to the nuns of Campsea Priory, ‘for the salvation of his soul and those of his ancestors'. In return the nuns will make a contribution of ten marks in silver towards the cost of William's pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The deed is not dated, but was written around 1200, making it one of the oldest documents in the Record Office. It forms part of the extensive Iveagh collection of medieval manuscripts purchased by the County Council after a campaign organised by the Friends.

	HD2583_11949a and HD2583_11949b Room plan of the ground floor, and elevation, of a proposed enlargement of the manse belonging to the Wattisfield Congregational Chapel, 1751. The congregation at Wattisfield was founded in 1654, one of the earliest in Suffolk. The third Pastor, from 1735 to 1788, was Rev Thomas Harmer, for whom the manse was built. The plans come from a bundle of deeds which also includes a subscription list and two trust deeds for the chapel, in 1746 and 1864.