Monday, 13 October 2025

Suffolk in Old Photos

 I found a bundle of photographs at one of the last Sunday car boots of the season,  they were in a box among other house clearance stuff . The man selling them said £5 for the lot or 50p each, then he said "what are they? I've not even looked at them". 

They are probably Edwardian photos, mainly of Suffolk, some have village names pencilled on the back others just said Suffolk, he accepted my offer of £4 for the lot as I wanted to take them home for a better look.

I put them up on a Facebook Group called East Suffolk in Old Photos and lots of people responded and identified a few that weren't named. 

What I can't find out is if they are copies of well known old photographic views that are already with local history groups or unknown - probably the former.

This is Laxfield - it's on the shop name, although it's a scene I would have known anyway .The shop is still there, it's a Co-op now. The building on the right was and still is a pub and the church still has the railings.


Below is Felixstowe Pier back when it was very long and had a tramway all the way to the pier head.


I didn't recognise this one below, but after putting it on the facebook page someone said it was Great Glemham, and that's a church I've not visited yet.



This one below was identified by someone on the Facebook group as Badingham with the school which is now a village hall



I had no idea about the one below, which said Sproughton on the back, but I couldn't recognise it. Luckily several people knew it was Parham, a village not far from Framlingham and another church still on my list to visit.


The one below said Rowhedge on the back, a village in Essex. It was the only photo from Essex and a place I don't know at all.


I had no idea about the one below, luckily someone recognised it as Wangford, a village just off the A12 towards Lowestoft. 



More tomorrow





22 comments:

  1. What a wonderful find! Well done, you!

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  2. Just shows how working together can solve things! I bet you've brought back some memories

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  3. The state of the roads and lanes tells you that cars had hardly made it to the scene.

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  4. Fabulous find and lots more places for you to visit. Well done!

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  5. Well done on the great find of the photographs! Isn’t it lovely that people have been able to identify them for you! Catriona

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  6. These are fabulous - what a treasure trove and it's so good that you've been able to identify them.

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  7. What a brilliant find. If you do not intend to keep them, you would probably be able to sell them on ebay, to people who collect postcards of Suffolk. My Partner collects postcards of Cardiff and is always looking for more for his collection and some are quite valuable.

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  8. What a great find! How lucky you are that they are written upon the backs, and you have found a great community of folk to get additional help to ID. I will look forward to more of this discovery.

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  9. Such fascinating scenes from a bygone age, a bargain too.
    Alison in Devon x

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  10. If it were me, I would spend a little time and money to travel to all these places to see what they look like now. Not necessarily all in one trip, but spaced out over a period of time as outings to places to explore.

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  11. It's so fun to search old photos and see how different things were back then.

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  12. Well done on rescuing them. I always think it's sad when old photos, whether they be of places or people are just discarded. Our town's Facebook group is a good source of this type of local photos, it's always interesting to see them. You've most likely given a lot of people some happy memories.

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  13. You bought a treasure trove of great old photos. It is always nice to look at photos from the past and notice any changes. Using Facebook to help id some of the photos is a great idea.
    Your local library might well be interested in the photos for historic purposes.

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  14. Old photos and postcards used to sell well on eBay. We have several FB pages, historical and school mostly. I'm sure most end up in landfill these days, so well done on saving them. I donated all of mine to the local Historical Society.

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  15. Such interesting photos from the past. And such a good idea to post them on FB for identification.

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  16. I love it when there are people in the picture -- their fashions help date the scene. I bet Steve will like these and approve your buy.

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  17. I am so glad you rescued the photos.

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  19. Wow, what a great find and how wonderful you are getting help finding out what each of the photos are about.

    God bless.

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  20. Oh WOW were you lucky to find those, and how fascinating they are. I love looking at old photos. Great idea to share them on line and get ID's of the villages depicted. Truly stepping back in history.

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  21. I would have bought these too. What a terrific find. I could get lost looking at them and imagining what it was like then.

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