HD2212_1
Photograph of the delivery of the first consignment of steelwork
for the new sugar beet factory at Sproughton, 7 April1925.
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).
Ipswich Record Office, HD2212 Purchased by the Friends in
2003
1560/1
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.
Lowestoft Record Office, 1560/1 Purchased by the Friends in
2004
HD2362_11461
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.
Bury Record Office, HD2362 Purchased by the Friends in 1999
HD997
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.
Bury Record Office, HD997 Purchased by the Friends in 2000
HD1888_1_21
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.
Ipswich Record Office, HD1888/1 Purchased by the Friends in
1999
HD11_50_1 fol 22v
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).
Bury Record Office HD1150/1
Purchased by the County Council in 1989, with financial assistance
from the Friends.
HD2212_12571
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).
Ipswich Record Office, HD2212 Purchased by the Friends in
2003
HD1538_174_1
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.
Ipswich Record Office, HD1538/174/1
Purchased by the County Council in 1987, with financial assistance
from 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.