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ACCESSIONS 1 OCTOBER 1996 – 31 MARCH 1998

BURY ST EDMUNDS BRANCH

OFFICIAL

West Constabulary: miscellaneous minute books, crime books, occurrence books and other volumes 1845-1937; miscellaneous papers 1873-1947 (ED500) Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1979-1990 (BB504) Newmarket Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1979-1990; juvenile court registers 1983,1985 (BB506) Risbridge Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1980-1990 (BB507) St Edmundsbury Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1980-1990; juvenile court registers and papers 1978-1988 (BB514) Stow Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1979-1990; juvenile court registers 1978-1986 (BB10) Sudbury and Cosford Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1980-1990; juvenile court registers and papers 1979-1990 (BB509) Various Petty Sessions Divisions: domestic courts panels registers 1980-1988 (BB513) Thingoe Rural District Council: Sanitary Inspector’s reports 1924-1941 (EF510) Borough Council: deeds of borough properties 1716-1956 (EE500)

LOCAL PUBLIC

Suffolk Health Authority: reports, handbooks, circulars and photographs 1951-1986 (ID508) Newmarket and Moulton Joint Hospital Board: register of in-patients 1924-1957 (ID504)

SCHOOLS

Bures CEVP School: governors' minutes 1984-1994 (ADB730) Bury St Edmunds, Guildhall Feoffment CP School: photographs and certificates 1939-1996 (ADB550) Bury St Edmunds, Silver Jubilee School for Boys: log books 1936-1972 (ADB730) Bury St Edmunds,Tollgate CP School: log-books 1951-1993; punishment book 1952 (ADB556) Cockfield School: photographs of the school and school house c1920-1930 (K976) Euston School: letter concerning alterations 1913 (HD2198) Hadleigh CP School: governors' minutes 1974-1981 (ADB543) Haverhill,Clements CP School: log book, 1974-1990 (ADB594) Norton VCP School: log books 1949-1981; stock books 1942-1979; weekly class summaries 1931-1953 (ADB529) Risby CEVCP School: governors’ minutes 1984-1992; School Fund accounts 1974-1990; counterfoil absence certificates 1951-1964 (ADB524) Rougham VCP School: photographs of teachers and pupils 1912 (ADB716) VCP School: log book 1988-1996 (ADB539)

CIVIL PARISH

Pakenham: title deeds of parish council properties 1947-1997 (EG593)

ANGLICAN

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Diocese of St Edmundsbury and : Diocesan Board of Finance registers of diocesan trusts 1960-1986 and related papers 1983-1988; files created 1990s (FE500)

PARISHES

Acton: registers of marriages 1837-1988, banns 1938-1994, burials 1882-1989 and services 1911-1988; PCC minutes 1920-1983 and accounts 1927-1982; visitors’ books 1917-1966; electoral roll 1971-1990 (FL518) : registers of baptisms 1881-1997 and marriages 1978-1988; churchwardens’ accounts 1887- 1995; charity accounts 1916-1975; papers 1959-1973 (FL526) Beyton: register of marriages 1837-1995; PCC minutes 1962-1992 (FL528) Chelsworth: registers of burials 1814-1996 and services 1965-1991 (FL549) Edwardstone: correspondence relating to lease of The Triangle 1994-1997 (FL563) Euston: PCC minutes 1971-1986 (FL566) : register of marriages 1992-1994; faculties 1986-1995; papers 1986-1993 (FL572) Gedding: registers of baptisms 1813-1997 and banns 1887-1994; PCC minutes 1950-1988 (FL574) Hadleigh : registers of baptisms 1899-1991, banns 1982-1989, marriages 1949-1992, burials 1952-1971 and services 1967-1995; visitors' book 1973-1976; faculties 1996; miscellaneous papers, notes and photographs 1920-1968 (FB81) : register of marriages 1838-1996 (FL579) : register of marriages 1988-1996 (FL505) Lavenham: survey of townlands 1596 and perambulation [1596] (FL508) Leavenheath: registers of baptisms 1863-1986 and marriages 1863-1970; terrier and inventory 1925-1935 (FB84) Milden: register of burials 1813-1992 (FL605) Rattlesden: Mothers’ Union records 1933-1961; photographs of church, choir, and Mothers' Union c1893- 1939, nd; watercolour of rectory 1892 (FL500) Risby: PCC minutes 1983-1995; electoral roll 1989-1990 (FL618) Rougham: Vestry/PCC minutes 1904-1997; service registers 1898-1949; church accounts 1919-1979 (FL619) Santon: registers of baptisms 1813-1976 and burials 1813-1953 (FL665) : registers of marriages 1955-1996 and burials 1813-1995; vestry/parish meeting minutes 1902- 1938; churchwardens’ accounts 1846-1925; Poors’ Lands trustees’ minutes 1910-1937 (FL641) Great Waldingfield: registers of baptisms 1895-1997, marriages 1921-1987, burials 1885-1997 and services 1948-1980; PCC/ vestry minutes 1920-1957; PCC accounts 1926-1971 ; churchyard plans nd; tithe records (1838)-1925; faculties 1964-1969; miscellaneous papers 1945-1982 (FL514) Wattisfield: PCC minutes and papers 1958-1989 (FL668) Wissington: registers of baptisms 1813-1983 and burials 1813-1982 (FB65) : registers of baptisms 1853-1997 and burials 1880-1972 (FL653)

NONCONFORMIST

Boxford United Reformed Church: registers of baptisms 1824-1948, marriages 1909-1960 and burials 1824-1991; church book 1824-1920 (FK3/514) Bury St Edmunds Preparative Meeting of Society of Friends: minutes 1988-1993; papers 1982-1997 (FK6500) Bury St Edmunds, Garland Street Baptist Church: minutes 1934-1991; members’ register 1968-1974; church accounts 1948-1988 (FK2501) Hadleigh Methodist Circuit: registers of baptisms, Hadleigh Chapel 1955-1978 and Polstead Chapel 1942- 1971 (FK1505) Haverhill Methodist Circuit: Primitive Methodist church accounts 1908-1924 (FK1508) Moulton Methodist Church: deeds and papers 1830-1936 (FK1511) Sudbury Primitive Methodist Circuit: circuit preaching plan 1909 (FK1/500) Nonconformist Chapels in Suffolk: completed survey questionnaires, notes and photographs 1989-1991 (GC564)

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CHARITIES

Ling Heath Trust, Brandon: minutes 1822-1936; accounts 1865-1992 (GB563) Guildhall Feoffment Trust, Bury St Edmunds: summary of financial statements 1996 (GB500) Ancient House Museum, Clare: miscellaneous records including engravings, books and printed ephemera 1794-1956 (GB561) Sudbury Common Lands Charity: herbarium collection and items relating to centenary exhibition 1995- 1997 (GB514) Gainsborough's House Museum, Sudbury: minutes, financial papers, reports, catalogues and corespondence c1950-c1990 (GB560) Suffolk Regiment: miscellaneous papers 1828-1997 (GB554)

SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

East Midlands Regional Library Service: minutes, reports and correspondence 1934-1987 (GC561) Eastern Engineering Council and Council of Engineering Institutions: records 1970-1997 (GC565) Bury and Chess Club: minutes 1867-1983; register of games 1870-1872; games 1867-1887; Proceedings 1867-1883 (GC560) Bury St Edmunds Concert Club: minutes, programmes and papers 1961-1993 (GC566) Bury St Edmunds Constituency Labour Party: minutes 1959-1993; Eye Constituency Labour Party magazines 1961-1970 (GK503) Bury St Edmunds Naturalists' Society: programmes and papers 1954-1992 (GC525) Bury St Edmunds Past and Present Society: programmes 1961-1983; 'Bury at Work' competition photographs 1995 (GC521) Bury St Edmunds, Royal Arch Masons White Rose Chapter No.1008: minutes 1873-1990; financial records 1873-1994;miscellaneous records 1873-1990 (GC562) Bury St Edmunds YWCA: minutes 1933-1949; accounts 1942-1945; correspondence and papers 1936- 1952 (GC536) Chevington Women's Institute: third volume of a history of Chevington W I 1969-1981 (GH516) Clare and District Model Aeroplane Club: minutes,accounts,club magazine and papers 1935-1986 (GC563) and St Genevieve Women's Institute: Diamond Jubilee scrapbook 1980; certificates 1967,1969 (GH524) Polstead Women's Institute: minutes/record books 1924-1989; financial records 1932-1990; attendance registers 1919-1990; miscellaneous records and papers 1919-1996 (GH501) Sudbury and District Pensioners Association: correspondence, cuttings, photographs and newsletters 1995-1996 (GC552) Women's Institute: scrapbooks 1991-1996 (GH518)

FAMILY AND PERSONAL see also MISCELLANEOUS

Balls Family of Bury St Edmunds: miscellaneous papers 1889-1968 (HD2190) Francis Beales of Woolpit: copy and transcript of will (1728) (EG524) James Borton of Bury St Edmunds: correspondence on legal matters 1826-1833 (HD2315) Mrs M Carroll: (1893-1997 ) memoirs, headteacher of Hinderclay School 1919-1957; parish magazines for the united benefice of Hepworth with Hinderclay, Wattisfield and 1997 (HA556) J Collins of Newmarket and G H Verrall, entomologists: papers 1890-1924 (HD2191) William Corder: microfilm of sermons concerning (1828) (J757) Josephine Devereux: school reports, Guildhall Feoffment County Primary and Silver Jubilee Modern Secondary Schools, Bury St Edmunds 1949-1958 (HD2310) Rev Michael Marlow: copy will (rector of Fruston and Lackford) 1795 (HD2319) Kitty Ranson of Lavenham: school work while a pupil at Sudbury High School for Girls c1930 (HA555) J F Rushbrook: personal papers including Fascist newspapers and printed propaganda 1920s-1970s (HA557)

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ESTATE AND MANORIAL see also MISCELLANEOUS

Manors of Smallbridge, Silvester Overhall and Netherhall in Bures St Mary: court book 1859-1879 (HD2197) Manors of Shakerland, Ixworth and Walsham Church House: microfilm of court rolls (1469-1483) (J754) Manor of Stanton Hall with Mickfields and Badwells: court books 1807-1925 (HD1396) Riddlesworth Estate: estate records including records of the manors of , and Gasthorpe 1435-1987 (HD2318)

BUSINESS

F L Ranson , Lavenham, tailor: records 1880s-1991 (HC551) R Hogg and Son, Coney Weston, builders: ledgers and job files 1895-1945 (HC552)

DEEDS see also OFFICIAL

Assington, Boxford, Elmsett, Nayland, Polstead, Stoke By Nayland, Great Waldingfield and Wissington: 17th-19th cent (HD2196) Beyton: Oak Cottage, Beyton Green 1809-1963 (HD2309) Bury St Edmunds: 7 College Lane and 51 and 52 College Street 1904-1951 (HB504) Bury St Edmunds: 19 and 20 Eastgate Street 1802-1986 (HD2304) Bury St Edmunds: Honey Hill 1863-1881 (GB559) Bury St Edmunds: Flat 3, Kevor House, 62B Out Westgate 1961-1997 (HB515) Bury St Edmunds: 51a, 51b, and 52 Victoria Street 1851-1948 (HB501) Bury St Edmunds and Hunston: 1950-1993 (HB515) : 1914-1992 (HB504) Lavenham: 1620 (HD2307) Kentwell Hall, Long Melford: deeds and papers relating to Long Melford and Stanstead, 1642-1937, , and 1870-1882, Folkestone (Kent) 1886 and Hackney (Middx) 1871- 1928 (HD2320) Polstead: (1810-1892) (P908) : manor of Windford's 1693-1843 (HD2300)

MAPS AND PLANS

Stoke-By-Clare and : estate maps of lands belonging to Richard Fitch 1785-1819 (HD2305)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Arethusa Cullum: photographs of locations in Rome referred to in her travel journal 1996 (K973) Barking: negatives of ‘High Winds’ (HD2328) Bury Town Football Club: photographs of players and officials 1936-1961 (K975) Bury St Edmunds: negatives and contact prints of premises of E F Scott & Son, Brentgovel Street, before closed to traffic (K976) Bury St Edmunds: photographs of traffic calming and environmental improvement work, Eastgate and Mustow Streets 1997-1998 (K977) House: photograph album, Rhodes family 1912-1916 (HD2317) Postcards: Bury St Edmunds, Fornham All Saints, Rattlesden, Stanton, c1907 (K979) Suffolk churches: 8 photograph albums c1977-1997 (K974)

MISCELLANEOUS

Great Barton: photocopy of register of trees planted in Great Barton Hall park and gardens (1812-1884) (P907) 5

Bildeston: photographic survey of footpaths 1966 (HD2328) : reminiscences of Mrs Dorothy Chapman relating to visits in the 1920s and 1930s 1996 (HD2311) Bury St Edmunds: programmes for productions at theatres in Bury 1930-1983 (HD2313) Cockfield: accounts, notes and papers relating to church, school and parish, collected by Rev Cornwell Robertson (vicar of Cockfield 1929-1957) 1856-1958 (HD2303) : scrapbooks of cuttings 1944-1996 (HD2312) Hadleigh: sale particulars for house in George Street 1801 (HD2327) Mildenhall: sale poster relating to old workhouse 1897 (HD2194) Poslingford: inventory of furniture, furnishings and household goods supplied to H Dennis, Clopton Hall 1912 (HD2199) Stanton : enclosure Act (1798) (P909) : village history and scrapbook, c1980-1996 (HD2306) Tuddenham St Mary: survey of churchyard inscriptions compiled by Womens’ Institute 1981 (HD1179) Walsham-le-Willows: tithe agreement 1734 (HD2308) Walsham-le-Willows: Walsham Observer, cuttings 1986-1997 (HD1320) Alfred Hicks Collection: minute books, correspondence, diaries, photographs and printed matter relating mainly to organisations and activities in Wickhambrook 19th-20th cent (HD2301) Miscellaneous records: minute book, manor of Newmarket, 1886-1932; papers relating to the will of William Bowyer of Clare, 1896-1926; papers relating to land in , 1905-1907; Ordnance Survey sheets 1884-1926 (HB510) Miscellaneous: Probate of the will of William Moseley of Fornham All Saints 1785; certificates of grant of Tontine Annuity to Nathaniel Hillier of Lavenham 1789 (HD2318) Sale particulars: Brent Eleigh, Kettlebaston, Milden, Monks Eleigh and Preston (1918-1950 ) (P906) Material collected by Local History Recorders: Fornham All Saints (1894)-1994 (HD2192); Glemsford c1900-1996 (HD2168); Risby 1995 (HD2154); Somerton 1941-1996 (HD2316); Stanton 1996-1997 (HD1582) Letter: letter commenting on the Poor Law medical service 1906 (HD2193) Suffolk Assizes: Grand Jury summons 1933 (HD2195) Norwich Consistory Court Probate Registers: microfilm (1408-1527, 1612, 1613), (J752) Commissioners for Taxes: decisions of the Babergh Hundred Commissioners relating to appeals from Long Melford and Great Waldingfield 1798-1807 (HD2314) Returns of places of religious worship: PRO microfilm RG31/3: Returns made by the Diocesan Registrar to the Registrar General of all places of public religious worship registered in the Bishops' Courts, Lincoln- Oxford Dioceses (1688-1852) (J758) Newspapers: microfilm copies of Suffolk newspapers (1996 ) (J755, J756))

IPSWICH BRANCH

OFFICIAL

Aldeburgh Borough Council: general district and water rate book 1940-1941, 1949-1950; general district rate book 1927-1928; poor rate book 1914 (EE1) Town Trust: files of correspondence 1948-1969 (EE6) Urban District Council: local board minute book 1887-1891; preliminary and general survey of Felixstowe UDC's activities and organisation 1887-1891, 1960 (EF12) Mid-Suffolk District Council: minutes of council, committees and sub-committees 1973-1991 (EH402) Blything Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1954-1964; court registers ( district) 1950- 1953, court register ( district) 1952-1953; justices' minutes 1959-1960; juvenile court registers 1948-1966 (BB2) Eye Borough Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1961-1968; justices’ minutes 1965-1969; probation case committee minutes 1949-1974 (BB12) Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1922-1974; list of presiding Chairmen 1823-1974; minute book 1863-1974; justices’ minute books 1967-1969; probation case committee 1949-1974; adoption registers 1927-1972; juvenile registers 1935-1973 (BB5) Hartismere Petty Sessions Division: juvenile court registers 1948-1977 (BB6)

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Hoxne Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1958-1968; juvenile court registers 1934-1973; probation case committee minutes 1949-1974 (BB7) Ipswich Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1970-1979 (BB15)

LOCAL PUBLIC

Eastern Electricity: further documents re Ipswich Corporation Electricity Dept. 1933-1948 (IK400)

SCHOOLS

Butley Modern School: newspaper cuttings, photographs, programmes of speech days and of official opening, tape of official opening speeches 1959-1972 (HD1849) Holton St Mary Charity School: rules for the governing of the school nd (P669) Ipswich St Matthew’s School: photographs of pupils and teachers and miscellaneous documents re 150th anniversary celebrations 1894-1998 (FB95) Thorndon, Kerrison Community Home (formerly approved school): memoranda of deposit of deeds 1928-1948, Board of Education orders 1935-1947; plans, specifications and miscellaneous documents 1937- 1988; log and punishment books 1944-1982; accounts and estimates 1938-1985; selected administrative files 1938-1991 (GB13)

CIVIL PARISH

Harkstead: minutes 1988-1991 (EG101) Mendlesham: parish council and annual meeting minutes 1894-1989 (EG135) : minutes 1991-1994 (EG8) Somersham: minutes 1932-1994 (EG157) Stonham Parva: register of burials 1924-1957; register of public graves 1924-1969 (EG137) Stratford St. Mary: minutes 1974-1981, receipt and payment accounts 1917/8-1962/3; `parish hall' accounts 1927-1937; financial statements 1944/5-1981/2; correspondence files 1924-1993; flower show programmes 1956-1961 (EG24)

ANGLICAN

Archdeaconry of Suffolk: Archdeacon's visitation: articles of inquiry; archdeaconry seal 1979-1980 (FAD) Archdeaconry of Ipswich: Archdeacon's visitation: articles of inquiry; archdeaconry seal 1975 (FAC)

PARISHES

Aspall: registers of burials 1813-1996 and baptisms 1813-1991 (FB 165) Little Blakenham: registers of burials 1813-1991 and marriages 1973-1989 (FB2) : register of burials 1939-1993 (FC105) : register of marriages 1837-1994 (FC118) Brundish: registers of baptisms 1895-1992 marriages 1837-1983 and burials 1813-1995 (FC89) Capel St Mary: register of burials 1884-1992 (FB197) Chelmondiston: PCC minutes 1966-1987 (FB196) : registers of burials 1813-1996 and marriages 1837-1996 (FC128) : register of marriages 1837-1996 (FC115) : registers of burials 1925-1997 and baptisms 1864-1997 (FC112) : PCC minute book 1981-1987 (FC124) Hoo: register of marriages 1837-1987 (FC108) Horham: registers of burials 1813-1991 and marriages 1837-1997 (FC85) Ipswich St Mary At Elms: overseers of the poor accounts and rates 1777-1811; register of owners and proxies claiming to vote 1890; register of services 1960-1966; poor rates and disbursements 1745-1766 and poor rate books 1745-1835 (FB104) Ipswich St. Mary Le Tower: PCC minute book 1980-1988 (FB91) Kenton: register of burials 1814-1993 (FB44)

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Kirton: minutes of the PCC 1964-1983 and standing committee 1969-1983, photocopy of conveyance of former Rectory 1996 (FC43) : vestry and PCC minutes 1949-1980; annual financial statements 1963-1976 (FC109) Metfield: papers re conservation of 15th century celure in nave roof and restoration of tower bells; abstract of title of John Whiteman to estate in Metfield, 1836-1993 (FC91) : register of marriages 1838-1991 (FC107) : registers of burials 1813-1993 and marriages 1837-1996 (FB41) Saxmundham: register of marriages 1975-1997 (FC137) Shelley: register of marriages 1941-1994 (FB83) Thwaite: register of banns 1823-1988; and PCC minutes 1946-1981, (FB153) Westhorpe: registers of baptisms 1813-1996 and burials 1813-1991 (FB152)

NONCONFORMIST

Bucklesham, Kirton and Methodist Chapels: trust minutes 1949-1953; Newbourne: register of baptisms 1963-1972, accounts 1930-1954; : accounts 1936-1954; Kirton: Bears Charity 1915- 1944 (FK1/1) Chattisham and Hintlesham Methodist Churches: registers of baptisms 1925-1980 (FK1/1) Felixstowe, Trinity Methodist Church: register of marriages 1896-1904; Wesley Guild Minutes 1898-1899; church building fund accounts 1893-1899; library loans register 1942-1945; Women’s fellowship minutes and register of members 1950-1986; Trinity Wesleyan church social hour account book 1927-1928; jubilee and centenary brochures 1956 and 1996 (FK1/1) Framlingham Methodist Circuit: plans for itinerant preachers 1819-1854 (FK1/1) Ipswich, Alan Road Methodist Church: minutes 1958-1994; accounts 1959-1995; (FK1/1) Ipswich, Landseer Road Methodist Church: minutes 1931-1980 extension fund account book 1959-1968; collection journal 1929-1940; register of baptisms 1930-1977; building plans etc. 1929-1977 (FK1/1) , , , Middleton, Peasenahall, Snape and Methodist Churches: accounts, Sunday school records, minutes, notice book, photographs and other records 1881-1995 (FK1/1) United Reformed Church: church meeting minutes 1973-1986; minutes re restoration work 1980-1986; church notices 1985-1988; notes re and photographs of ministers, abstracts and transcripts of registers, death certificates and stubs of marriage certificates, files of miscellaneous correspondence; photograph of Congregational Church c.1920-1997; membership register 1952-1992; photographs 1952-1997 (FK3/17) Woodbridge, Society Of Friends: monumental inscriptions and plan of burial ground at Turn Lane 1996 (HD1828)

CHARITIES

Boyton, Mary Warner Charity: trustees’ minutes (GB412) Ipswich, Poor Children's Outing Committee: photographs and notes 1931-1937 (GA404) Metfield United Charities: annual accounts 1958-1990; file of letters, receipts etc. 1967-1977; copy of placard enumerating origins and purposes of Metfield Charities 1891 (GB416) Needham Market and Barking Welfare Charities: file re restoration of Needham Market churchyard lych- gate 1994-1995 (GB427) Wetherden, Crawford's Charity: miscellaneous documents including copy will of Rev William Henry Crawford (1868) and scheme for distributing the Crawford's charity 1869, 1869-1976 (GB439) Wetherden, Margaret Chinery Trust: resolution made under Charities Act 1993 transferring property to Wetherden Townlands Charity 1996; statements of accounts 1873-1882, 1941-1983; typescript notes re Chinery's tomb and gift nd (GB438) Wetherden Town Lands Charity: minutes 1910-1990; account book 1879-1993; statement of accounts 1908-1914; rent receipt books, correspondence etc. (GB436)

SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Bramford Women's Institute: record book 1929-1937 (GH436) Copdock Cricket Club: accounts 1986-1995 (GC464)

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Copdock Cricket And Hockey Club: fixture booklets 1947-1997; cricket week fixture leaflets 1991-1997; newsletter 1982; 150th anniversary souvenir brochure 1989; papers and photographs re development of sports pavilion 1990-1997 (GC464) Copdock Cycle Speedway Club: committee minutes 1954-1958 (GC486) Creeting St Mary Local History Society: reports of society meetings 1985-1997 (GC494) Hadleigh Freemasons' Lodge of Virtue and Silence (No.622): photographic copy of Warrant of Confirmation of the Lodge (1 Mar 1811); photograph of lodge members with regalia nd (late 19c) (GC479) Framlingham, Lanman Museum: Framlingham parish overseers' disbursements 1706-1784; Thomas Mills Grammar School admission registers 1909-1964; Sir Robert Hitcham's Almshouses and Schools papers 1876-1914; Alston family travel journal and accounts 1843-1873; miscellaneous accounts and records 1809- 1952 (GB437) Ipswich Philatelic Society: general meeting minutes 1978-1995; committee and annual general meeting minutes 1978-1989; photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, programmes, commemorative covers and postmarks etc. re society events 1951-1995 (GC453) Ipswich and Suffolk Indian Association: programme, invitations and papers concerning the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the independence of India 1997; correspondence and papers concerning attempt to lynch Mahatma Gandhi in Durban, South Africa, in 1894 (GC427) National and Local Government Officers Association and Unison, Suffolk County Branches: executive committee minutes 1974-1994; opportunities committee minutes 1974-1994; annual reports and annual general meeting minutes 1981-1992; cash book 1990-1995; newsletters 1974-1993; welfare fund file 1974- 1991 (GG407) National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies: record of church furnishings for Theberton and Ufford parish churches 1997 (GC493) Rushmere Commoners: minutes of annual, special and committee meetings, including statements of accounts 1984-1991 (GC38) Women's Institute: Charity Commission Order vesting Shottisham Trust Hall in the official custodian for charities 1996 (GH465) Society of Genealogists: marriage settlement between John Clench and Dorothie Hurnard concerning property in Burgh 1627 (GC15) Stratford St. Mary and District Branch, Royal British Legion: minutes 1926-1968; accounts 1956-1972; and miscellanea 1963-1972 (GC487) Stratford and Higham Horticultural Society: minutes 1920-1927 (GC488) Stratford St Mary Men's Club: minutes 1927-1935; accounts 1922-1938 (GC489) Suffolk Agricultural Association: minutes 1855-1973; newspaper cuttings 1932-1990; photographs 1948- 1979; financial records 1831-1982; bound volumes of catalogues, programmes, schedule of prizes etc. 1833- 1976, membership book 1948-1950, farms competition judging books nd, prize certificates etc. (GC491) Suffolk County Guides Association: Ipswich East Division annual report and statement of accounts 1972- 1996; minutes of the Ipswich Guide Headquarters Committee 1982-1990 (GC483) Suffolk Local History Council: file re biennial `Societies Days' 1990-1994 (GC472) Wenhaston Village Hall Committee: minutes 1948-1966 (GC492) Women's Royal Voluntary Service, Home Counties/Anglia Division: Area 3 (East Anglia): correspondence and papers re Area 3 Office (Ipswich) and homes operated by the WRVS-Holly Lodge, Felixstowe, and Ilex House, Tuddenham Road, Ipswich c.1950-1997 (GC490) Woodbridge Shipwrecked Seamen's Benevolent Society: widow's pension register 1879-1910; miscellaneous papers 1853-1909 (GB417)

FAMILY AND PERSONAL see also ESTATE AND MANORIAL

Biddell Family of Playford: photographs of and letter re the Biddells of Playford and Edward Fitzgerald of , illustration of Hill House, Playford 1886-1950 (HD1820) Blois Family: evidences of title, estate papers re the Blythburgh Estate 1770-1920; marriage settlement re Charles Blois and Miss Clara Price 1778; testamentary, probate and executorship papers 1850-1931; papers re Blois v railway 1878-1881 (HB29) Brooke and Capper Brooke Families: records of the Manors of Brockley Hall, Talmages and Wyfolds and Melton with Ufford 1406-1767; evidences of title, marriage settlements and testamentary, probate and executorship papers 19th cent (HB29) 9

Rev G D Castelden and the parish of Dennington: miscellaneous papers, programmes and newspaper cuttings including induction papers and papers re Dennington's participation in the coronation celebrations of King George VI, war weapons week and warship week 1909-1942 (HD1834) Mrs Elizabeth Randall Chaplain: papers and agreements re annuity and property 1775-1780 (HB77) Lord : marriage settlement of Frederick Archibald Charles, Baron Rendlesham and Dolores Olga Williams 1931 (HD1619) Donnan Family: pedigree of the Donnan, Reveley, and collateral families (1403-1963) 1964; copy of `verses for the times' by Col. William Donnan, 1916; monograph by George Keeney on the Journal of Hugh John Reveley, c.1970 (HA228) Sir Robert Harland: probate and related deeds 1848-1861 (HB77) Una F Harrison: selected files of notes on Suffolk and Norfolk local and family history, including two binders on the history of and an extended essay on poor relief in Playford, c.1940-1971 (HD1845) A Hugh Pavitt: office diaries (engineer and surveyor to Felixstowe Urban District Council) 1932-1965 (HD1846) Saumarez Family: correspondence of Mrs Anna Maria Broke (widow of Captain Charles Acton Broke), Albinia Maria Lady Broke (wife of Sir George Broke, afterwards Broke-Middleton), Jane and Freda Broke (daughters of Charles Acton Broke), and Sir George Broke-Middleton, 1855-1872 (HA93) Rev Vincent John Stanton: probate will (rector of Halesworth with ) 1891 (HB77) P J O Trist, OBE, MA, MRAC, FLS: files of working notes and papers concerning the ‘Survey of Agriculture of Suffolk’ 1963-c.1971 (HD285) Turner family: diaries and correspondence of Canon John Hudspith Turner and Canon Arthur Turner, 1929- 1953, with associated family papers 19th-20th cent (HA204) Air Commodore The Hon. Sir Peter B R Vanneck: addresses, photographs, programmes, official diaries, newscuttings and other papers during years of office as Sheriff of City of (1974-1975) and Lord Mayor of City of London (1977-1978) (HA428)

BUSINESS

Aldeburgh Water Company: notices, reports, contracts, Aldeburgh Corporation (Water) Act and Bill and other papers 1878-1932 (HC456) Blacksmiths, Forward Green, : ledgers 1919-1959 (HC458) Messrs. Bridges and Garrard, ironmongers etc., Market Hill, Framlingham: letter books 1898-1918; day books 1906-1908 and 1957-1966, ledgers 1897-1912 and c.1924-1961 (HC455) Cocksedge and Co Ltd of Ipswich: portraits, photographs, trust accounts, genealogical papers, deeds and agreements 1803-1979 (HC457) Smiths Suitall, Ipswich: staff records 1899-1957; inventory of photographs and negatives 1904-1952; die book 1899-c1936; correspondence re British Industries Fair 1927-1929; Patent Office registration of trade marks 1958; photograph nd, certificate of incorporation 1940; albums of photographs and postcards, block books, pattern books, window bills, advertisements and promotional material, copyright book 1893-1972 (HC453) Fisons, : notes, photocopies etc. used in the compilation of ‘Fertilisers to Pharmaceuticals: Fisons the biography of a Company’ 1980s (HD1825) Gooderhams of Monewden: farming diaries 1912, 1956-1961 record of movement of animals 1957-1959; farming record for Monewden 1917-1938; sales particulars 1879-1897; photographs nd; charity commission records re Bedfield charities 1883-1887; sale of furniture of the late Alfred Pulham of Southolt 1909 (HD1841) G and J Cutting, Roller Mills, Pettaugh: ledgers 1912-1950; statistical returns to the Ministry of Food 1939- 1950; annual accounts 1916-1936; sales, day, wages, grain receipts, purchase, production and market books 1929-1956 (HC454)

ESTATE AND MANORIAL see also FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Manor of Battisford cum Batley: survey of tenements 1724-1743 (HD1837) Manors of Bentley Hall and Copdock: records of the manors, records re conveyance of Cullingham brewery to the Tollemaches, abstracts of title to Cullingham beerhouses and miscellaneous evidences of title 17th cent-20th cent (HB112)

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Manors of Framsden, Overhall in Otley and Abbots Hall in Pettaugh: Manor of Framsden: court books 1631-1875 and minutes 1714-1892 (including rentals 1716-1732); manor of Overhall in Otley, court books 1685-1881 (including courts for manor of Otley 1632-1640) and rentals 1821-1870; manor of Abbot's Hall in Pettaugh, court books 1765-1888; rentals and accounts of the Hon S.A.Tollemache’s estate in Bentley 1900- 1933; other records 1881-1918, (HB112) Hall Estate: photographs of plans and drawings of the relandscaping of the estate held at Heaton Hall, Manchester (c1781-2), reports and correspondence, aerial photograph 1975-1983 (HD1843) Manor of Kettleburgh: schedule of copyhold tenants, their lands and tenements [Oct 1677] (P670)

DEEDS see also PARISHES, ESTATE AND MANORIAL and MISCELLANEOUS

Boyton: cottages 1773-1860 (HD1839) Claydon, Mockbeggars Hall Farm: Mockbeggars Hall Farm in Claydon, Whitton and Bramford 1615-1902 (HD1840) Manor of Dennington: 1791 (HD275) Great Finborough: conveyance 1702 (HD1847) Felixstowe, and Woodbridge: Ranelagh House, Felixstowe 1865-1940; 10a Quay Street, Woodbridge 1699-1885; Biddell property in Grundisburgh including Hill Farm 1768-1915; papers re estate of Peter Schuyler Bruff 1900-1939 (HB9) Framlingham, Double Street: property 1759-1902 (HD1838) Framlingham: Broadwater 1928 (HB79) Ilketshall: property with land and a garden called Guggers Pond 1874 (HD1608) Ipswich: 13 and 15 Tower Street 1805-1963 (HD1835) Ipswich: abstracts of title, deeds and copy will of Robert Butcher re property in Woodbridge Road (1735- 1825) 1826-1904 (HB450) Ipswich St Lawrence: The Wagon, 1615 (HD1830) Mendlesham: Cay Hall, cottages and land, Back Street 1729-1940 (EG135) Ringshall: land and premises 1681-1815 (HD1836) Rushmere: land and cottages 1809-1866 (HD1826) Stradbroke: Lime Tree Farm (formerly Barley Green Farm) 1872-1952 (HD1817)

MAPS AND PLANS see also NONCONFORMIST and ESTATE AND MANORIAL

Barham, Claydon, Coddenham, Crowfield, Hemingstone and : maps and plans relating to the Broke Hall (Nacton) and Shrubland Park (Barham, Claydon, Coddenham, Crowfield and Hemingstone) estates 1584-1928 (HA93) Lodge Estate: plan, schedule of land and premises and tenant details 1953-1968 (HH403) , , Clopton, , and Melton : plan of lands belonging to the curacies of Hoo and in Debach, Clopton and Charsfield 1865; Bromeswell altered apportionment 1909 and Melton altered apportionment 1911 (HD1833) Ipswich, architectural drawings of Colonel Harold Ridley Hooper, ARIBA (1886-1953) and others: drawings from the practice of Colonel Hooper (1913-1939) including also Hill House, Ipswich by Brightwen Binyon (1882-1883) and Cliff Quay Brewery, Ipswich by William Bradford (1903) (HG404) Ipswich, Crown Street: plans of reconstruction of the Cricketers Hotel by Cautley and Barefoot, architects, Ipswich 1935 (HD1827) Leiston: plans and papers re provision of drainage in Leiston 1891-1895 (HB29)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS see also SCHOOLS, NONCONFORMIST, CHARITIES, SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS, FAMILY AND PERSONAL, BUSINESS and MISCELLANEOUS

Ipswich : black and white and colour prints of buildings, streets, development sites and new developments taken on behalf of Ipswich Borough Council 1949-early 1980s (K638)

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Ipswich and East Suffolk: photographs of the jubilee of Odd Fellowship in Ipswich and East Suffolk 1893; Oddfellows' procession c1900; interior of Unitarian Chapel, Friars Street c1900; St Peters St c1905; notes re Charles Warn (1838-1915) (K648) Sproughton: album of photographs of grounds and house at Abbey Oaks, Sproughton 1932-1949; newspaper cuttings re sale 1975 (K650)

MISCELLANEOUS

Burgh Local History Recorder: newspaper cuttings re properties for sale and local events; souvenir programme of royal silver jubilee celebrations; ‘Burgh Bugle’ magazine 1977-1994 (HD1850) History of Framlingham: evidences of title (1862-1962) to Ancient House, Framlingham; study of trades in Framlingham 1600-1937; extracts from Lambert's Almanack re Framlingham 1872-1916 (HD1477) Records re : rate book 1917; valuation lists 1897-1912; Suffolk Provident Society contribution book ( agency, Hollesley) 1908-1942 (HD1844) Ipswich Minstrel's Book of 15th century: microfilm of Bodley MS Eng. Poet. e. 1., 15th cent (J479) Ipswich Town Football Club: photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings, programmes, Supporters Association handbooks etc., 1892-1982 (HD1831) Ipswich: letter re naming of a destroyer ‘Ipswich’ 1940 (P667) Otley Local History Recorder: file of newspaper cuttings, photographs and programmes re local events 1929-1995 (HD1832) W.I. transcripts of churchyard inscriptions: Otley 1994 (HD1023) The Dictionary of Suffolk Architects (1800-1914): printing master copies, working copy, publicity material, computer discs and files 1988-1995 (P668) Ordination of Women to the Anglican Priesthood: papers of the "Movement for the Ordination of Women" and "Priests for Women's Ordination" 1984-1993 (HD1829) Free Church Notes of Oswald Job: scrapbooks of articles on Free Church activities, written in Plymouth 1938-1941 and in Ipswich 1941-1984 (HD1842) Museum of East Anglian Life: report on WVS work in the East Coast flood disaster 1953; WVS for civil defence monthly narrative reports 1941-1942; biography of electrical supply pioneer Napier Prentice nd, Stowmarket rate book 1913 (HD1848) : Common Places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfgang Muscul, translated from the Latin into English by John Man of Merton College, published London 1578 (FC111)

LOWESTOFT BRANCH

OFFICIAL see also BUSINESSES

Beccles Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1939-1964, juvenile court registers 1933-1966; adoption register 1933-1976 (1199) Blything Petty Sessions Division: Halesworth court registers 1949-1951; Southwold court registers and minutes 1951-1955; Southwold juvenile court register 1933-1955; Halesworth and Southwold courts: adoption register 1928-1949 (1214, 1200) Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1925-1964; juvenile court registers 1934-1966; adoption register 1930-1967 (1198) Borough Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1918-1972; justices’ minutes 1933-1939, juvenile court registers 1926-1967; combined juvenile court registers for Petty Sessional Divisions of Lowestoft Borough, Blything (Halesworth and Saxmundham courts), , Bungay, and Lothingland 1967-1972; register of conscientious objections to vaccination 1899-1907; adoption register including Mutford and Lothingland 1927-1935; adoption registers 1936-1968; adoptions (completed) files 1953-1987; adoptions file including Mutford and Lothingland 1945-1953; adoption applications (pending) including Mutford and Lothingland, Blything and Beccles 1954-1974 (350) Mutford And Lothingland Petty Sessions Division: court registers 1934-1964; justices’ minutes 1972- 1974; juvenile court registers 1934-1966; adoption registers 1950-1966; adoptions (completed) files including Blything, Beccles, Bungay 1953-1970 (351)

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Lothingland RDC (formerly Mutford and Lothingland RDC): record of civilian deaths due to war operations 1940-1944 (43) Lowestoft: proposed A12 relief road: planning consultation papers 1989-1990 (1160) Lowestoft Borough Council: schemes and agreements etc removed from registry of deeds 1945-1975 (01); postcards of buildings damaged by bombardment 1916, pictorial map of Lowestoft and nd [?c1948]; photographs and postcards (33) Council: plans of 3, 4 High Street Lowestoft 1877, 1880 (540)

SCHOOLS

Gisleham Middle School: governors’ minutes 1969-1974 (618) Halesworth Council School: managers’ minutes 1923-1946 (463) Henham with School: punishment book 1907-1964 (435) Parish School: admission register 1867-1901 (1102) County Primary School: copy of objection submitted to Secretary of State for Education and Science 1982 (1190) Southwold Infants School: admission register 1854-1856 (1122)

CIVIL PARISH

Mutford: minutes 1961-1985 (712); receipts and payments book 1960-1981 (712) Somerleyton: inclosure award and map 1805; minutes 1894-1967; parish meeting minutes 1894-1921; Somerleyton Reading Room minutes 1884-1923; photographs of listed buildings 1968; definitive footpath map 1951 (1201)

ANGLICAN

Beccles: vestry minutes 1858-1972; Burial Ground regulations 1855; St Michael Annual District Church Meeting minutes 1977-1996; District Church Council minutes 1977-1966; annual parochial church meeting minutes 1954-8; PCC minutes 1953-1989; finance committee minutes 1960-1968; Beccles St Michael’s Men’s Society minutes 1951-1970; Beccles St Michael’s and Deanery Men’s Society minutes 1970-1989; minutes of other committees 1961-1968; correspondence 1990-1993; St Michael’s with St Luke’s annual parochial church meeting minutes 1975-1994; finance committee minutes 1969-1995 (109) Benacre: correspondence on redundancy 1978-1987 (110) Brampton: register of burials 1813-1998 (114) Bungay Holy Trinity: Burial Board statement of accounts 1889-1890 (115) : papers 1986-1988 (119) Lowestoft St Margaret: papers concerning graves and memorials 1957-1978 (1006) : marriage licences 1943-1963; faculties 1947-1963; insurance policies 1917, 1932; register of services 1976-1992 (140) : register of marriages 1981-1994 (163) Weston: register of burials 1813-1897 (164) Weston with : register of marriages 1987-1994 (164) Wrentham: churchwardens’ accounts 1986-1988; fabric fund and building fund accounts 1982-1988; bequest of Mrs B M Sawyer 1984-1988; churchyard maintenance 1985; church room correspondence 1984-1987; Wrentham Primary School correspondence 1978-1989 (168)

NONCONFORMIST

Methodist Circuits and Churches: East Suffolk Circuit: directory; year books 1954, 1956-1958; quarterly guide 1946-1972; Lowestoft Circuit: circuit plans 1863-1871; Lowestoft and East Suffolk Circuit: quarterly plans etc 1972-1986; Wangford Primitive Methodist Circuit: preachers’ plans 1842-1853; Hulver Methodist Church: collection journal 1944-1979; notice book 1949-1960; Lowestoft Trinity (Yarmouth Road) Methodist Church: bill of quantities 1969; correspondence etc 1969-1975; Wangford Methodist Church: trustees’ minutes 1945-1992; Westhall Methodist church: quinquennial report 1989; correpondence etc c 1984-1995; centenary booklet 1978 (47, 228, 558)

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Wenhaston Methodist Church: leaders’ minutes 1935-1972, Women’s Fellowship minutes 1948-1990; Annual Society Meeting minutes 1949-1961 (558)

CHARITIES

Barnby Poor’s Allotment: trustees’ minutes 1906-1996 (1149) Beccles Townlands Charity: collector’s account book 1758-1914 (994) Waveney Area charity accounts: balance sheets and statements of account 1985-1995 (1192)

SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Beccles Festival: constitution 1991, minutes 1988-1994; statements of account 1988-1994; correspondence 1987-1997; programmes 1991, 1993 (1191) Beccles Music Society and Beccles Choral Society: Beccles Music Society: minutes 1925-1929; Beccles Choral Society: rules, constitution 1967-1997; minutes 1954-1997; attendence registers 1985/6-1989/90; printed history 1994; lists of works performed, conductors, officers, patrons, members 1934-1997; correspondence 1951-1991; programmes, press cuttings 1935-1997 (1175) Royal British Legion, Halesworth and District Branch: AGM minutes 1925-1958; committee minutes 1933-1983; band committee minutes 1932-1937 (1104) Halesworth and District Minature Rifle Association; Halesworth Territorial Club: minutes, 1932-1933 (1106) Ist Halesworth Boy Scouts: committee minutes 1949-1961; log books 1938-1959; (1107) Lowestoft Conservative Association: Minutes: Executive Council 1982-1990, Finance and General Purposes Committee 1982-1990, Women’s Constituency Advisory committee 1973-1977, Hopton Conservative and Unionist Association 1935-1939, Ward committee 1984-1989; election campaign papers 1979-1985; newspaper cuttings 1955-1992; Popular View magazine 1925-1930 (1127) Lowestoft Fishermen’s And Seafarers’ Benevolent Society: report and accounts 1996 (1195) Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Lowestoft Members’ Group): printed material 1970-1982 (1143)

FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Edmund Gillingwater: manuscript notes on county history, ecclesiastical history, Beccles, Flixton near Bungay, for his nd [c1790] (1180) Peter Aldred: testimonial by Samuel Richards, shipbuilder, ship’s chandler etc, of Lowestoft 1894 (1194) Ellen Crisp Of Beccles: transcript of autobiographical story nd [19th cent] 1997 (264) Mr J H and Mrs D M Esling (nee Benns) of Lowestoft, Beccles, Great Yarmouth: diaries 1952-1993, personal papers 1908-1948 including letters from Czech and other servicemen;correspondence etc concerning Lowestoft theatre, photographs late 19th cent- c1979 (1151) Fanny Foster of Southwold: personal and family papers c1800-1979: diaries (including voyage to New Zealand 1924-1925); personal correspondence and papers 1910-1975; correspondence on proposed developments in Southwold 1943-1965; literary, educational and historical manuscripts including history of Southwold and studies of Serbia and Yugoslavia 1932-1966; photographs including Yugoslavia, Foster and Cubitt families, Southwold and elsewhere in Norfolk, Suffolk and London (922) Walter Henry Lee: probate copy of will signed 1886 (1138) John Packard of : copy case in appeal against assessed taxes 1807 (1159) Palmer, Mann and Newson: family trees (1123) Miss D M Secret: RAF service and release book 1942-1946; RAF Manual of Cooking 1942; catering notes 1943; family tree nd (1165) Crowfoot family: executorship papers 1866-1945 (1150) James Beamish: photocopy apprenticeship indenture 1896 (1129) Walker family of Lowestoft: photocopied memorabilia c1726-1930s (1115) Rev Charles Lacon and Miss Nora Lushington: marriage settlement etc 1885-1953, (1215)

ESTATE AND MANORIAL see also BUSINESSES

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Blundeston Hall: inventory 1766; also inventory of 27 Finsbury Square, London 1795 (1185) Oulton Estate: agent’s notes concerning access 1816 (1146) Colman Estate: lease of brickyard etc in Corton 1893; probate inventory and valuation for probate of ‘The Clyffe’ and Clyffe Cottage Museum, Corton 1898 (1082)

DEEDS see also BUSINESSES

Barsham; Aldeby, Haddiscoe, Toft Monks (Norfolk): release of premises 1714/5 (1167) Beccles: Northgate Street 1875-1935 (1133) Beccles: Hadingham family papers: deeds of tower mill, London Road, 1855-1881; leases for premises in Northgate Street 1881-1882; lease of land on corporation wharf 1892; order book, probably for tower mill 1878-1879 (1217) Bungay, Ilketshall: including Upland Hall Farm in Bungay and Ilketshall 1600-1942 (1163) Heveningham, Raydon, Southwold, Walpole, : deeds 1523-1840, papers of Thomas Edwards c1898-c1926 (937) Lowestoft: Chapel Lane 1866-1889 (1184)

MAPS AND PLANS

Chediston: tithe apportionment and map 1839 (1156) , Benacre: estates 1688 and nd [early 19th c] (photocopies) (1121) Lowestoft: map by William Cubbitt showing the town and Lowestoft South Roads 1831 (1145) Lowestoft and Suffolk: Lowestoft 1847, South Lowestoft and Kirkley 1854; proposed tramways in Lowestoft and Kirkley 1901; Phillips New Map of Suffolk nd [20th cent] (1103) Hall and neighbouring farms: OS 2nd edition, coloured nd [?1910] (1130) Reydon Hall Estate: OS 3rd edition, coloured nd [c1927] (1025)

BUSINESSES

Royle James Bird of Beccles, solicitor, and predecessors including Bohun, Rix: business records; client records including Bohun, Bailey, Boycott, Crowfoot, Dykes, Farr, Sheriffe, Suckling, Whittaker; Rix family papers including antiquarian material of S W Rix; local organisations including Beccles Burial Board, Beccles Petty Sessions, Beccles Water & Gas Company, enclosure, Oulton Drainage Commissioners etc 17th-20th cents; deeds, Walpole Hall, Weston, 1378-1675, Weston Hall 1641-1660; court books for manors of Henstead 1872-1906, Weston 1694-1932, Rose Hall and Ashmans in Beccles 1842-1934 (1150) Cooperative Wholesale Society Canning Factory, Lowestoft, and Great Yarmouth Fish Depot: Cooperative Wholesale Factory, Lowestoft: correspondence 1929-1949; wages account books 1932-1956; wage summary books 1936-1946; employment forms and medical reports 1930-1940; plans 1931-1940; Great Yarmouth Fish Depot: wages summary 1926-1927 (1189) L B S. Engineering Co. Ltd: telegram book 1941-1960 (1131) Lowestoft Harbour Building Society: deed of settlement 1856-1875 (1169) Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market Company, and East Anglia Water Company: Lowestoft Water Gas and Market Company: acts and orders 1950-1961; seal register 1917-1948; registers of share transfers 1928- 1960; directors’ minutes 1905-1921; shareholders’ minutes 1898-1917; accounts etc 1852-1977; papers 1886-1964; Barsham Bores Joint Committee: statutory financial statement 1956-1962; East Anglian Water Company: acts and orders 1961-1986, directors’ minutes 1985-1986, share and dividend records 1962-1986; papers 1962-1988 (1182) C W V and C D V Marjoram, taxi proprietors, Lowestoft: correspondence etc concerning taxi service 1929-1936, early motor cars 1974, 1986 (1193)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Captain H A Rowley RN, Fishery Protection Officer: photographs and souvenirs of Lowestoft and Hamburg c1935-c1939 (1172) James Webster: group photograph with other police, ?Lowestoft nd [c1877-1884] (1203) 15

Lowestoft Journal: photographs and ephemera, c1965-1987 (1176) Lowestoft and District: album 1900-1959 (1202) Lowestoft: Youngman Preston & Co Brewery; also Old Nelson Street, c1899 (1109) Lowestoft: modern photographic copies of photographs (1926), 1997 (1128) Southwold, , and local fishermen: taken by H E Grubb of Gidea Park, Essex c1930-1940 (1139)

MISCELLANEOUS

Microfiche of parish register transcripts: Debenham baptisms 1561-1900; Framlingham baptisms 1560- 1717, 1842-1920, banns 1754-1920, marriages 1560-1920, burials 1560-1920; Haverhill marriages 1785- 1901; Framlingham burials 1765-1920; Henstead baptisms, marriages, burials 1539-1709; Southwold marriages 1801-1837, banns 1801-1821 Stowmarket (St Peter & St Mary) baptisms1653-1692, burials 1654- 1692 (M62) Microfiche of will abstracts made by L H Whitehead: Broke-Gosnall nd (M68) Microfiche of monumental inscriptions: Carlton churchyard; Copdock St Peter; Friends Meeting House, Leiston; United Reformed Church, Saxmundham; Cemetery, 20th cent; Boxford United Reformed Church; ; Debach; Ewarton; Freston; Ilketshall; St Audry’s Hospital (Melton); Mettingham; ; Reydon; Redisham; Ringsfield; Shotley; ; Walsham le Willows; Wangford; Washbrook; 20th cent (M48) Microfiche index to 1851 census returns for Norfolk (M67) Microfiche index to 1881 census returns for Middlesex (including London) (M53) Bishop’s transcripts for : reader-printer copies from microfilms (reference M45) of entries not found in extant parish registers (1715-1750), 1997 (731) Hugh Lees Survey of Lowestoft 1784-1974: 103 volumes containing information on Lowestoft streets, with card index to personal names. Also Kelly’s Directories of Lowestoft and Kirkley 1907, 1909, 1912, 1922 (1113) Sale particulars, North-East Suffolk, and Norfolk parishes on border with Suffolk: 19th-20th cent (1117) : sales particular for the Uplands estate 1920 (1135) Sale particulars: Hall Farm Lands, Chediston, Grove Farm, Wissett, Cookley Grange Farm, Cookley, and Fen Field, Halesworth 1954 (1144) Ephemera: local government, businesses, education, entertainment, tourism, clubs, organisations, politics, elections, sports, twinning, war etc, 19th-20th cent (1147) Sparrow’s Nest Theatre, Lowestoft: programmes c1974-c1983 (1147) Beccles: photocopy of case concerning alterations to church services 1829 (1181) Reydon: Local History Recorder’s material including Parish Council copy minutes, accounts and agenda 1995; reminiscences of 1953 floods, etc 1992-1996 (1162) Southwold: Local History Recorder’s press-cuttings, photographs, correspondence, memorabilia 1995-1997 ( 808) Southwold: Local History Recorder’s scrapbooks 1989-1993 (1162) Theatrical programmes: Beccles Amateur Dramatic Society, 1930-1933; Beccles Amateur Operatic Society, 1932-1933; Beccles Orchestral Society, 1930-1931; Bungay Choral Society, 1930-1935, fair at Kirby Cane, Norfolk 1931 (1216)

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