ACCESSIONS 1 OCTOBER 1999 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2000 BURY ST EDMUNDS BRANCH OFFICIAL Lakenheath and Brandon Great Fen Drainage Board: minutes 1924-1946 (EK502) Sudbury Poor Law Union: Guardians’ minutes 1895-1927 (ADA501) LOCAL PUBLIC Jane Walker Hospital, Nayland: East Anglian Sanatorium Company Ltd: minutes, accounts, photographs, films, correspondence and papers 1900-(1988) (ID507) Walnuttree Hospital, Sudbury Sudbury Union Workhouse/Sudbury Poor Law Institution/Walnut Tree Hospital: male ward report books 1934-1939, female ward report books 1934-1939; ward diet books 1935-1939; admission and discharge register 1970-1979; miscellaneous volumes and papers 1937-1973 (ID502) SCHOOLS Great Barton VCP School: Millennium time capsule details 2000 (ADB731) Bury St Edmunds, County Grammar School for Girls: school magazines 1956-1959; photocopy of form photograph (1957) (HD2349) Bury St Edmunds, St Alban’s Catholic First School: photographs and miscellaneous material late 20th cent. (ADB732) Risby CEVCP School: admission register 1943-1993; log book 1989-1998; governors’ minutes and related papers 1988-1999; photographs 1971-1999; certificates 1969-c1971 (ADB524) Great Whelnetham VCP School: log books 1980-1999; punishment book 1907-1936; Friends’ minutes 1979-1982 (ADB526) CIVIL PARISH Haverhill Town Council: council/committee minutes 1989-1998; correspondence and papers relating to setting up the council in 1989 (EG714) Kedington: minutes 1978-1991 (EG546) Rattlesden: minutes 1894-1975; declarations on acceptance of office 1926-1962; Burial Board cash book 1931-1947 (EG706) Thurston: annual parish meeting minutes 1894-1999; parish council minutes 1986-1996; accounts 1973-1995 (EG518) Wickhambrook: minutes 1894-1990 (EG519) Withersfield: minutes 1931-1979; Heylyn Charities correspondence and financial papers 1957- 1989 (EG577) PARISHES Great Ashfield: registers of baptisms 1886-2000 and marriages 1985-1996 (FL520) Badwell Ash: register of marriages 1837-1999 (FL507) Barrow: registers of banns 1969-1992 and services 1966-1978 (FL525) Boxford: registers of marriages 1978-1992 and burials 1958-1999 (FB77) Bury St Edmunds, St George: registers of baptisms 1973-1995, marriages 1972-1990 and banns 1984-1990; PCC minutes 1952-1970 (FL543) Bury St Edmunds, St Mary: parish magazines 1905-1966; photographs of internal workings of organ with notes mid-1980s (FL545) Culford: PCC accounts, correspondence and papers 1963-1990 (FL557) Hitcham: vestry book 1840-1987 (FL586) Hunston: registers of baptisms 1813-1989, banns 1824-1990 and burials 1813-1999 (FL591) Lackford: register of marriages 1976-1999 (FL598) Langham: registers of baptisms 1813-2000, banns 1824-2000 and burials 1813-2000 (FL599) Lawshall: registers of marriages 1983-1997, burials 1988-1993 and services 1982-1998 (FL600) Long Melford: accounts 1929-1963 (FL509) Rattlesden: watercolour of church [post 1892] (FL500) Stanton All Saints: register of burials (with entries for Stanton St John) 1897-1981; PCC minutes 1920-1964; terriers and inventories 1929-1983; miscellaneous papers 20th cent (FL629) Stowlangtoft registers of banns 1823-1986, burials 1813-1999 and marriages 1837-1999 (FL511) Thorpe Morieux: registers of marriages 1837-1984 (FL637) Troston: register of marriages 1837-1999 (FL643) Little Waldingfield: register of marriages 1983-1999 (FL645) Walsham le Willows: registers of marriages 1950-1999 and burials 1890-1992 (FL646) Whepstead: PCC/vestry minutes 1962-1986; churchwardens’ bills 1753-1919; deeds [1491], 1675 (FL651) Wissington: register of marriages 1837-1999 (FB65) Little Wratting: registers of marriages 1837-1993 and burials 1813-2000 (FL502) NONCONFORMIST Bury St Edmunds Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends: annual accounts 1987-1990; miscellaneous papers 1987-2000 (FK6500) Haverhill Methodist Circuit: Barnardiston church council minutes 1983-1997, accounts and miscellaneous papers c1874-1989; Withersfield church plans, correspondence and papers c1894- 1989 (FK1508) Long Melford Independent/Congregational Church: photocopies from church book: births/baptisms (1836-1909), marriages (1893-1894) and deaths/burials (1847-1909) (P923) CHARITIES Bury St Edmunds MENCAP Society: minutes, accounts, year books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers 1963-1996 (GB568) Alice Dix Charities and Fuel Allotment Charity, Icklingham: minutes, accounts and financial papers, correspondence and miscellaneous papers c1859-1997 (GB566) Rede Village Hall: minutes 1974-1998; miscellaneous papers 1978-2000 (GB567) Suffolk Regiment: miscellaneous records and papers 19th-20th cent (GB554) SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS Suffolk Golf Union: minutes, accounts, scrapbooks and miscellaneous records c1924-1998 (GC570) Suffolk Local History Council: album of photographs, newspaper cuttings and other printed material relating to Boxford, compiled by Local History Recorder 1983-1990 (GC564) West Suffolk County Club: Suffolk County Ball minutes 1953-1968 and related papers 1934-1976 (GC508) Suffolk West Federation of Women’s Institutes: records of closed Institutes, viz. Assington, Bardwell, Botesdale, The Bradleys/Great Bradley, Brettenham, Chelsworth/Chelsworth and Monks Eleigh, Coney Weston and District, Great Cornard, Edmundsbury, Elmsett and Aldham, Fornham St Martin with St Genevieve, Icklingham, Layham, Moulton (with Kennett and Kentford), Ousden, Rattlesden, Rougham, Sudbury Afternoon, Tostock, Tuddenham St Mary, West Row 20th cent (GH503) Bradfield St Clare Women’s Institute: record books 1983-1998; minutes 1985-1996; programmes 1972-1997 (GH503) Bury St Edmunds branch, Suffolk Deaf Association: minutes, correspondence and related papers c1961-1992 (GC568) Bury St Edmunds Past and Present Society: programmes and miscellaneous papers c1979- 1998 (GC521) Long Melford, Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, Shepherds’ Success Lodge: proposition/minute book 1873-1965 with notes 1980-1984 (GF514) Long Melford, Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, Independence Lodge: minutes 1897-1950; resolution book 1935-1962; accounts 1924-c1971; miscellaneous papers 1961-1971, undated (GF513) Long Melford Women’s Institute: minutes 1994-1998; record book 1994-1998 (GH506) Stanton Women’s Institute: minutes 1969-1994; record books 1972-1994 (GH515) Sudbury & District Chamber of Commerce and Industry: minutes (GC571) Sudbury Townswomen’s Guild: minutes 1961-1980 (GC569) Wickhambrook Women’s Institute: scrapbooks 1997-1999 (GH518) FAMILY AND PERSONAL Brinkley family: copy photographs and miscellaneous material temp First World War-1979 (HD2398) James Corder: printed enquiry re marriage in c1665, 1899 (HD2371) Roy Turner Durrant, artist (1925-1998): diaries, correspondence, exhibition catalogues, sketch books and miscellaneous papers 1947-1996 (HA) Thomas Mariner Felgate: brass rubbings made in various in various West Suffolk churches mid- late 20th cent (HA565) Dr William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855): photocopy of article by Hugh Norwood 2000 (P922) Hervey family of Ickworth: sale catalogue including property from Ickworth East Wing taken to Little Horringer Hall 1999 (HD2387) Graham Jones: miscellaneous photographs and papers 1949-1989 (HD2375) Polly Leeks of Long Melford: letters written while working as a servant in London 1897 (HA565) Ian Everett Moore (born 1910): typescript autobiography, ‘I Wouldn’t Have Had It Otherwise’; childhood in Witnesham, ministry/teaching in Halesworth and Newmarket c1987 (HD2396) Simpson family of Sudbury: family history notes and print 20th cent (HD2367) Arthur [?Turner/Last of Chevington]: birthday card to mother 1917 (HD2388) Wolton and Biddell families: deeds and related papers for properties mainly acquired by the Wolton family in Bradfield St Clare, Cockfield, Felsham and Lavenham 18th-early 20th cent; account books, some or all kept by members of the Biddell family as land/estate agents and auctioneers for clients including the Wolton family, including accounts relating to Sutton Hall Farm, Bradfield St Clare and Lavenham Hall Estate 1868-1953; accounts re the Biddell family and Bertha Taylor 1866-1940 (HA564) ESTATE AND MANORIAL see also FAMILY AND PERSONAL, MAPS AND PLANS Estates of the Barker family in Clare and Poslingford: deeds, tithe and other accounts, correspondence and related papers 1637-1954 (HA563) Manor of Mickfield (Hall), Stanton: court roll c1560-1586 (HD2390) BUSINESS Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk Division of the Suffolk and General Country Fire (or Amicable Insurance) Office, later amalgamated with the Alliance Assurance Company: Bury St Edmunds Board minutes 1954-1975 (HH500) Andrews & Plumpton Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, ironmongers: price book c1977-1997 (HC562) Lawsons (Bury St Edmunds) Ltd: financial and employee records and promotional photographs re refrigeration and general electrical business and re garage business c1946-c1973 (HC558) United Manufacturing Company (Bury) Ltd, oil importers: letters, printed material and miscellaneous papers 1938-1942 (HC559) W J Ford & Sons, West Row, Mildenhall, agricultural engineers: account books, rough day books and miscellaneous papers1891-1987 (HC556) H Ray Hills, Sudbury, ophthalmic optician: prescription books and miscellaneous papers 1927- 1973 (HC561) Justin Brooke Ltd, Wickhambrook, farmer: ‘Slate Club’ minutes 1943-1987 (HC560) DEEDS see also FAMILY AND PERSONAL Beyton: 1 The Green 1845-(1978) (HB515) Bildeston, Elmsett, Hintlesham and Whatfield: 1820-1838 (HD2372) Bury St Edmunds: 13 Cadogan Road 1956-2000 (HB515); 59 Churchgate Street 1897-(1990) (HB515); 15 Well Street 1925-1958 (HB515);