Recent additions

This page gives a list of major changes, so that you can see quickly whether I have added anything substantial since your last visit. I am of course continually adding snippets as they come in...

• March 2011: to mark the 2011 census I prepared an article for the Elmswell Newsletter, taking a walk around the village 100 years ago; and then made a new page here with this text and a lot more pictures and links; also something about the garden fêtes from 1909-12.

• January 2011: papers about the Bacon Factory in the mid-seventies, kindly loaned by Neville Freeman, Chief Executive at that time.

• August 2010: still more on the local firm F.J.Nunn & Sons based on interviews with Peter and Edward Nunn; an interview with Charles and Doreen Rudland; and an attempt at a who-lived-where table

• July 2010: 1911 Census

• June 2010: where people lived in 1841 - map

• May 2010: more on F.J.Nunn & Sons; family history correspondence involving many 19th c. connections between Stevens and other Elmswell families.

• February 2010: added War Memorial research kindly contributed by Chris Clarke, head of history at Stowupland High School

• January 2010: Inserted some "then and now" comparisons in the street-scenes section of the picture archive - something I prepared for a talk to the Group.

• October 2009: Revised and updated the surnames index, which now contains virtually all references on the site - well over 12,000 of them!

• April 2009: Bob Barter's history of the Football Club.

• Jan/Feb. 2009: interviews with Gordon Goymer; Jim & Janet Baker; David Hawes; additions to the index of streets, meadows, etc.; two more directories - White's 1874 and Kelly's 1916

• More pictures in Paul Peachey's postcard collection, Page 4, nos. 119-134

• July/August 2008: addition of newspaper reports from the 19th century (BMD, courts, misc.), kindly contributed by Judy Woollams, of Auckland

• January 2008: more pages added to the history of the Bacon Factory, courtesy of Mr David Black, whose grandfather was an important figure in the life of the factory.

• November 2007: page on Pightle Close added; some more house pictures and general improvements to airfield page, links, etc; letter from Linda Berry in Australia

• May 2007: Granny Baker's diaries of 1934, 1937 and 1938; numerous photos added, including page 4 of Paul Peachey's collection, and Betty Rice's collection, as well as many bequeathed by the bacon factory when it closed.

• May 2006: Added 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1901 censuses, though there are a few omissions to be filled in. Baptisms extended, now covering 1851-73 (456 entries); catalogue material from Ipswich R.O.; several school photos; update of bacon factory and public houses pages; some more obituaries and tributes.

• January 2006: Added 1891 census.

• December 2005: Burials extended back to 1813, marriages from 1813 to 1899; thatched cottages in c.1920.

• November 2005: At last the new surnames index is in place! Kelly's directories 1908 and 1925; article on the old "Reading Room" (now a veterinary surgery); 1814 enclosure allotments; 1911 article on Elmswell Hall, and more on the Bacon Factory.

• October 2005: coinciding with a new issue of the CD, a substantial reorganisation of the material, including indexes to find specific items alphabetically, and incorporation of maps with features identified; some moves at last on the Oral History project - transcripts of several interviews.

• August 2005: Pease Transport Ltd; development of the Oral History section.
• June 2005: addition of burials from 1829-1889, and rectors of the parish.
• May 2005: addition of 1871 census and baptisms 1851-61.
• Feb.2005: some details of an important property sale in 1848, covering much of Elmswell, and photos from a manorial account of 1377; some more 20th c. press articles; marriages 1828 to April 1837.
• Oct-Nov. 2004: burials 1829-34 from the parish register, the 1841 census (householders only), and an index of surnames covering much (not yet all) of the pages of this website.
• April 2004: Added the Tithe Map and Apportionment, with alphabetical names; an article on St John's Church in 1872; changed "Elmswell Lives" to "Elmswell People", and put in there the correspondence concerning various families, from people out there doing their own genealogies; very old photo added.
• January 2004: contribution from the King family.
• March 2003: added an alphabetical listing of those who served in WW1 and those who died in both world wars, as recorded on the roll of honour hanging on the south wall of St. John's Church.
• March 2003: added a section on the railway.
• February 2003: started "Elmswell Lives" to hold contributions about people who lived here and may be buried in the cemetery.
• February 2003: added a transcription of a 1888-1912 school register, sorted by surname and date of birth.
• February 2003: Bacon Factory 1924 leaflet added, kindly loaned by Raymond Eyres.
• November 2002: having moved the website to a better place, I am happy to say that virtually all the material is now available on the Internet - notably all the postcard and other pictures, and the cemetery plans.
• June 2002: the Parish Cemetery list of names is now complete. In addition to recording (on minidisc) all the visible inscriptions and listing the people/dates/ages, I have used a 1991 document which contains a schematic of named plots, so including names whose grave markings have disappeared. The photos and the facsimiles of the 1980 plan and 1991 schematic will only be available on the CD.
• March 2002: added some preliminary work on the Parish Cemetery, though it will be quite some time before the list is completed and the photographs properly arranged.
• March 2002: added a For Schools page, trying to make it easier for small children to reach the interesting pages. This seemed the right moment for an Issue No.1 on CD, and a copy was given to Jenny Page at Elmswell Primary School.
• February 2002: added notes on pubs in the village, courtesy of Desmond Herring.
• February 2002: added Suffolk Parish Records Survey, and made the first entry in the Family History section. I have also had to remove some pictures because at present I have to keep within my allotted free space; however all the pictures are stored on the CD version of this database.
• 10th December 2001: Centenary leaflet of the Baptist Church
• 8th December: at long last, the Paul Peachey collection of postcards!
• 15th November: more photos relating to The Beeches (Old Houses section)
• Mid-August: programme for Elmswell's Coronation celebrations.