24 September 2016
there is a move to bring back Thetford carnival and this picture was taken at the 1985 Thetford Carnival on May day bank holiday and raised ‘a magnificent £1,500’ for Lions Club charities – that’s worth about £4,560 today.
17 September 2016
In October, 1995, Bury Free Press readers took an abandoned German shepherd dog to their hearts after he was found at the roadside in Lawshall in terrible condition, with three-inch long claws, pressure sores and other problems.
17 September 2016
This house on the green at Drinkstone was owned by Major Duncan Webb, whose son, Captain Duncan Vere Webb was killed in France whilst serving in World War One in the Leicestershire Regiment.
10 September 2016
Now called Brockley Place, this house was once the village rectory.
10 September 2016
This week’s photograph was taken at the Bury Free Press office in November 1994.
03 September 2016
The village church, pictured here from the south west, is named after St Clare, a friend of Francis of Assisi who founded a monastic order.
03 September 2016
This week’s photograph was taken in January 1988 at the Bury St Edmunds sweet manufacturer Van Melle.
27 August 2016
Situated in 200 acres of parkland and woodland and surrounded by a moat, Boxted Hall has been in the ownership of the same family since the 14th century, though the date of this picture is unknown.
27 August 2016
This photo was taken in April 1998 when volunteers turned out in force to take part in a litter pick at Aspal Close in Beck Row.
20 August 2016
The Bear public house is in the distance, in this picture taken around the start of the last century.
20 August 2016
In August 1986, members of Bury St Edmunds Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (YCND) drew curious glances from shoppers but failed to get their argument across to their main target.
13 August 2016
The newspaper accounts of the time make it clear that the site of the fire in Bury St Edmunds was a great attraction to the people who came from quite a distance to see the devastation.
13 August 2016
This photograph shows pupils at Stanton Primary School in December 1991.
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.