Lifestyle

The remains of a 12th century church, dedicated to St Thomas a Becket, stands at the end of Old Church Lane, Westley.

This photo shows the instructor and students of the Bury St Edmunds Taishindo Karate association after they raised more than £1,000 for charity on October 20, 1989.

A frieze beneath the cornice in the central bay of this building has the inscription: “These Alms Houses were erected and endowed for the benefit of the Aged, and Deserving, Poor, Anno 1811 by Philip Metcalfe esq.”

This week’s picture was snapped by a Bury Free Press photographer at the Haughley Medieval Fayre on June 4, 1982.

Bardwell Mill was built in the late 1820s and, at the date of this picture, was owned and run by Charles Harrison.

This photo of Dr Keir Fisher and his wife Joyce was taken in July 1993.

Members of the Cooper family pose for Mr Spanton in front of the south front of Fakenham Magna Hall, some time before 1890.

This was a performance of great music making and happily one with plenty of political comment running through.

Natalie Blofeld is November’s featured artist at Guat’s Up bar in Bury St Edmunds.

This picture from the Spanton Jarman collection was taken at Culford Hall in 1904 and shows King Edward VII with ‘the royal party’.

Tilly is a three-year-old cross breed who is looking for an adult home with no other pets.

This happy band of smiling youngsters from the Academy of Dancing stepped out in style in 1986 in a bid to raise over £1,000 for charity at their biggest ever sponsored dance.

Bury St Edmunds Round Table is running an artwork competition to select the lucky young person who will start this year’s firework spectacular in the Abbey Gardens.

The Maharajah Duleep Singh adopted the life of an English country gentleman at Elveden Hall and was a crack shot, playing host to a number of shooting parties, and other sporting activities.

Thurston Primary School pupils swapped school uniform for smocks, tunics and long dresses for a Vikings project and turned up dressed for the part to celebrate a special feast day in October 1987.

Work being undertaken to extend the Lark Navigation System with a new lock and bridge at the Tollgate Inn near Bury St Edmunds, created a traffic diversion at Fornham All Saints, with tragic consequences.

Pictured are members of the Bury St Edmunds Small Bore Rifle Club after they had achieved success in the Greene King-sponsored Suffolk County Leagues in October 1990.

Culford estate, with Culford Hall at its centre, was owned by Richard Benyon de Beauvoir from 1824-1889.

County, town and borough councillor Tony Brown visited the Befriending Scheme’s Haverhill Hub last Friday to present the volunteers’ with certificates to say thank you for their support during a special lunch at the new Café at the Chalkstone Community Centre.

Teddy and Misty are sweet natured brother and sister who are being cared for by Bury St Edmunds Cats’ Protection.