20 July 2016
The war time work of one of East Anglia’s most well-known artists, Colin Moss, is to be featured in an exhibition celebrating the inventiveness of Britain’s camouflage officers - often known as ‘camoufleurs’ - which opens in Leamington Spa on 22nd July.
16 July 2016
Robert and George Boby established their Station Hill Works in 1871-2 on a site previously occupied by Thomas Prentice & Co, timber, slate and coal merchants.
16 July 2016
This photo was taken in October 1989 as record breakers from all over the country converged on one of the smallest pubs in Britain – The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds – to celebrate the launch of the 1990 Guinness Book of Records.
09 July 2016
Bury St Edmunds was honoured with this event which took place just off Eastgate Street, in Bury St Edmunds, near today’s Eastgate Industrial Estate.
09 July 2016
This week’s photograph was taken in February 1992 during a ‘send-off’ for sister Jean Williams at West Suffolk Hospital.
02 July 2016
Built around 1795 for Ezekiel Sparke – James Oakes’ attorney – when it was known as Sparke’s Castle, George Boby lived here in the mid-19th century.
02 July 2016
This photograph was taken in January 1987 during the Stowmarket United Reformed Church Players’ panto rehearsals.
18 June 2016
Charles William Tozer, painter, plumber and sign-writer, is recorded in the County Directories as trading from 15 Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds, from at least 1896 until c 1902.
18 June 2016
This picture of the Bury 20 road race was taken by a Bury Free Press photographer in February 1987.
12 June 2016
St Edmundsbury Borough Council are seeking people aged 18 and above to train as Green Badge tourist guides.
12 June 2016
The Masonic Hall on the north side of Chequer Square occupied the site of the former Six Bells Inn from 1890 until recent years.
12 June 2016
Members of Lakenheath Playschool on their June 1986 Lakenheath Carnival float.
03 June 2016
Tickets are now on sale for the Hidden Gardens of Bury St Edmunds, which is marking its 30th anniversary this year.
21 May 2016
Tower House, facing the Great Churchyard, in Bury St Edmunds, was built by Thomas Farrow in the 1850s reflecting L N Cottingham’s design of 1845/6 for the Savings Bank House. The latter is the building shown parallel to the Norman Tower with canopied entrance facing down Crown Street.
21 May 2016
This photo was taken in January 1997 when the Bury Free Press learned that Stowmarket news was to travel overseas with copies of the paper being sent to France.
14 May 2016
Thomas Gocher had owned this impressive corner site on Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, since the 1830s.
14 May 2016
This photo, taken in July 1991, shows pupils at Ickworth Park Primary School at an opening ceremony for their newly-dug pond.
07 May 2016
Henry Stanley, auctioneer, is listed at No 5 Hatter Street in the directories from 1879 to 1891.
07 May 2016
This picture is taken from a photo album which is thought to have belonged to nurse Mabel Cousins.
30 April 2016
George Cullum’s appointment as mayor in 1913 was unusual as he was not a councillor.