Our featured image relates to the 1960s when Stowupland villagers were concerned that the Lady of the Manor intended to sell off the Green for housing. The reality was that, yes, a developer was buying land but only so a road could be built to give access to a road that was not on the Green. The parish council later were able to buy the Green and protect it from any development.

See our newsletter as published in May Telstar Jerry writes about our March meeting talk by Sarah Doig on some famous Suffolk Women. One of the women Sarah talked about lived at the same time as a local lady, Jessie Tagg, who lived at Columbine Hall. She has left us some memories of her Victorian life at the hall.