Nostalgia

This photograph was taken in January 1987 during the Stowmarket United Reformed Church Players’ panto rehearsals.

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.

This picture of the Bury 20 road race was taken by a Bury Free Press photographer in February 1987.

The Masonic Hall on the north side of Chequer Square occupied the site of the former Six Bells Inn from 1890 until recent years.

Members of Lakenheath Playschool on their June 1986 Lakenheath Carnival float.

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.

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.

Thomas Gocher had owned this impressive corner site on Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, since the 1830s.

This photo, taken in July 1991, shows pupils at Ickworth Park Primary School at an opening ceremony for their newly-dug pond.

Henry Stanley, auctioneer, is listed at No 5 Hatter Street in the directories from 1879 to 1891.

This picture is taken from a photo album which is thought to have belonged to nurse Mabel Cousins.

George Cullum’s appointment as mayor in 1913 was unusual as he was not a councillor.

This week’s photograph shows members of the Bury St Edmunds Squash Club ladies’ team in April 1992.

This pair of red brick cottages was built by subscription in memory of the officers and men of the Suffolk Regiment who lost their lives in South Africa 1899-1902.

This photo shows members of the West Suffolk Health Authority bidding farewell to their retiring chief executive, John Melleney, in April 1993.

This image appeared in the Bury Free Press of January 17, 1914, and may have been commissioned by the newspaper.

Charles Henry Bullen, cabinet maker, upholsterer, decorator, estate agent, auctioneer and furniture remover, traded from this shop in Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, c1875-c1920.

This week’s photograph appeared in the Bury Free Press on March 19, 1982, and shows committee members of the Mildenhall branch of the Royal British Legion during a weekend of fund-raising.

This photograph first appeared in the Bury Free Press on January 30, 1987.

This week’s photograph takes us back to May 1990 when American boy band New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) were popular.