Tuesday, 14 October 2025

More of the Old Suffolk Photos

 More of the old Suffolk photos I found at the small Sunday boot sale. More information on yesterday's post.

The next two I knew. The first is at the top of Bent Hill in Felixstowe, one of the few places in Suffolk with a town by the sea and this bit is high above the sea which is why there is nothing in the distance.

And below is Woodbridge. The loading/weighing structure thing is still there and the building is a pub called 'The Old Bell and Steelyard". One of the oldest pubs in the UK. It's a Grade 1 Listed building


The one below could be almost anywhere in Suffolk, although the building left of centre could be a chapel which I thought might be still there. It was recognised by someone on the East Suffolk in Old Photos Facebook page as being Chapel Lane, Gt Glemham. So both church and chapel in Gt Glemham have featured and I've not seen either.


Another below that I didn't know, luckily again someone knew it as Hollesley church. Not far from the coast and another church I've not visited yet.


Below is Wickham Market, the road through the village that I now use when going back and forward to the Auction yard at Campsea Ash and one of the ways we used to go from Suffolk Coast to Mid Suffolk when we lived at the small holding. The road layout is still the same


Another photo of Wickham Market, just a bit further on from the one above. I got the magnifier out to read the name on the delivery bike! The houses on the right of the road are still the same, as are those on the left but the garage on the left of the road in the centre of the photo has long gone.


Another mystery photo but recognised by several people as Martlesham, another village now bypassed just north of Ipswich.


Again I didn't know this one but others said it was Alderton, a village I have visited for the church but don't know well at all.


This one below was labelled as Ufford, another church I have visited, tucked away in the village .


All the photos except the one in Essex and the two of Felixstowe, are near the A12, the main road from Ipswich to Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. 

I had fun looking at them all and finding out where they were, lots of people looked at them on the East Suffolk in Old Photos Facebook page and said it was a good find and they were glad I'd shared them all.

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5 comments:

  1. Those are a truly wonderful capture of Edwardian life, before the Great War destroyed families and village society. You now have excuses to visit the churches in these little villages :)

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  2. Lovely photos, as BB says, of those halcyon days before WW1. Thank you so much for sharing

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  3. Have you thought about going around to recapture the angle of these photos as they are today?

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  4. That's a fun idea of Rustic Pumpkin's. I've noticed how most of the roads are still unmade, lacking pavements for pedestrians. Of course they only became necessary much, much later.

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  5. Beautiful photos. The one of Chapel Lane makes me grateful for tarmac. Imagine walking along it when it had been raining hard for several days!

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