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.
Today is the beginning of the two busy birthday months, (and there was DiL's at the end of last month too) some just birthday cards, others cards and presents. Eldest granddaughter is 9 today and a nephews birthday too - he must be around 41-ish. Then there is youngest grandson's 4th birthday on the 13th and son's on the 17th, poor old fella will be 44. Then more cards and a couple of presents in November, and at the same time Christmas presents need sorting as well - complicated on the buying presents front! Thank goodness for amazon - who can deliver straight to grandchildren.
The lovely colours on the vine against the blue sky early in the week. It's on a piece of trellis by the shed and I have to cut it back so many times through the summer that I often think it's a real nuisance.
But then the colours in autumn persuade me to keep it for a while longer.
I've had a quiet week reading and not going far after being a bit unwell last weekend, hopefully antibiotics are sorting me out, something I've not needed for many, many years. I'm going to have to watch out for foods that effect me even more than before.
One of the books I read was a re-read of Susan Hill's Book "Howard's End is on the Landing" which is her book about reading only her own books for a year. I'm sure I enjoyed it first time but second time not so much. Then I read two other old crime fiction that I'd bought cheap off abebooks a while ago as they are part of a series and too old for the library to still have. Need to decide which other of my own books to read before the mobile library is bringing me a bagful next week. Choosing which of my own to read is hard!
This is new - it popped up on the post compose page...............
Google Search links: Based on your blog content, Blogger will automatically identify key words and phrases in your post and insert search links in case your readers want to explore more. In Compose View, look for the pencil icon at the top-right of the page to get started.
I clicked on the pencil icon to see what happened and links appeared all over the place and I had to undo them all individually. aaaagh!
We've probably all got used to blogger throwing in changes with no warning but do readers want to "explore more". And I can put in my own links Thank You Very Much!
Did anyone watch the much publicised 'Celebrity Traitors' - oh my - I found it dreadful - half an episode was enough. One celeb on their own is OK, even 2, 3 or 4 is not too bad - as on Have I got News For You or Richard Osman's House of Games but all that lot at once NO, NO.
Another thing watched was episode one of Murder before Evensong - the TV adaptation of the Rev Richard Coles book - didn't think much of that either!
But for something completely different that I do love - Ed Sheeran's new release
and the latest from Lewis Capaldi too.
Back Monday - fine weather forecast here for the weekend - have a good one whatever your weather.
Everyone agrees that it's an amazingly good year for acorns. This is an oak on the top bit of the car boot field at Needham Market (when the site wasn't full of people selling) and the ground is absolutely covered.
The early morning Farming programme on Radio 4 last week had a bit about Pannage in the New Forest, which I knew I'd written about a while back. Thanks to the post search feature I found it - I'd repeated it just last year. I love what an amazingly old system it is. HERE is a bit from wiki about the Agister which is an official, dating from medieval times, looking after the people who have rights of pannage.
Pannage, pigs and acorns in the New Forest
Pannage is an ancient practice that is still used today by commoners and verderers who turn out their pigs into the Forest during the season. The pannage season, usually between September to December, lasts around 60 days. This year's season (this would have been the year I first posted this info) will run between 13 September to 14 November. Pigs do a vital job of eating many of the acorns that fall at this time of year. Green acorns are tasty for them, but poisonous for the ponies and cattle that roam the area freely.
I found this rhyme about pigs eating acorns out of season....
Though good store of acorns the porkling do fat Not taken in season may perish of that, If pig do start rattling and choking in throat Thou loosest thy porkling - a pig to a groat!
Acorns can be turned into flour - but it's quite a long process as they are toxic unless properly prepared, shelling is the start and that's enough to put me off, then there is leaching out the tannins, drying, grinding, drying.
There's a website HERE if you want to see how, I'll stick to buying a bag of flour from a supermarket!
During the war they were used as a substitute for coffee often called an ersatz coffee, especially in occupied countries where coffee completely vanished from the shops. There's a youtube video below or HERE. which makes it look quite simple.
When I did the Following a Tree posts last year I had photos of the oaks up the lane all through the year but there weren't as many acorns as this year and I never looked in the Cecily Mary Barker Flower Fairy book to see if there was an Oak Tree Fairy - there isn't, but in the Autumn Fairy section I found an Acorn Fairy and his song.
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