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Sounds of South Africa come to Bury Festival

Play is a witty take on Dickens tale.

Mr & Mrs Charters lived at Brooke House, in Manor Lane, Horringer. Before World War Two they owned one of the four motor cars in the village; an elegant Rolls Royce. Can anyone identify the model?

This picture from 2008 is of trumpet soloist Mark Kesel, centre, filling Stowmarket Middle School’s gym with the sound of music, with help from youngsters at the school.

These almshouses in Hawstead were provided for the village by Philip Metcalfe, a prominent village landowner.

The USAF’s 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath has warned that its aircraft will be busier than usual this week.

Work being undertaken to extend the Lark Navigation System with a new lock and bridge at the Tollgate Inn created a traffic diversion at Fornham All Saints.

This picture was when Bobby Charlton came to Bury St Edmunds in 1993 to promote his sports school he was holding there in the summer.

Travel expert Tracey Strand has launched her own travel company Tailor and Made after 30 years in the travel business.

I have a sneaky suspicion that this photo found in the Echo archive has much to do with Haverhill’s Centre Stage Company.

Following a piece in the Bury Free Press on Thursday, April 3, 1969, that said a four-engine World War Two Lancaster bomber had temporarily landed at Lavenham Airfield, reader Mike Baker, from Hopton, could not miss the opportunity.

Here, the Fox Inn is shown after the road widening scheme for Mustow Street was completed.

We have had this photograph sent in by Marion Duncan, who thought, after the fire at Cycle King in Bury St Edmunds, it would be of interest to many.

This image shows Ampton Hall immediately after the fire of 1885 which destroyed all of the original building, with the exception of the stables.

Paula Harber (nee Sunshine) sent us this photograph from the 1980s from a business called Sunshine Beauty Salon in Garland Street, Bury St Edmunds.

Tiny 13th century All Saints’ Church, in Chedburgh, been has practically rebuilt during its long history.

Suffolk firemen received their awards for 20 years’ long service and good conduct at Bury St Edmunds Fire Station in 1992.

The Rev E R Benyon commissioned Arthur Blomfield to design this Chapel of Ease for the remote community of Culford Heath, three miles from Culford Hall.

This three-storey building was built in 1701 for Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely.

Many summers ago, our mature greengage tree fell to the ground just minutes after the children had come in from the garden. Branches blotted out the light in the sitting room as the tree lurched towards the windows, its bulk landing just short of the back wall of the house with an almighty thud.