Thanks to Neil Langridge's hard work we now a timeline with short histories for Stowupland's Holy Trinity clergy from the Rev Hollingsworth in 1839 through to Rev Whitefield in the 1980's. This engraving shows a view of Holy Trinity Church in the early 1840's, presumably not long after it was built when it was surrounded by fields and without any burials in the church yard. I am intrigued by what…
The above photo is from 1964 when Father Christmas visited local Children. Most years Stowmarket holds a Christmas Tree Festival, Christmas Trees are put up in public spaces around the town and local groups are invited to decorate them. SLHG usually decorate a tree in what was Abbotts Hall at the Food Museum. This year the museum staff took as their theme Christmas Around the World. We wanted to keep…
During the ‘Lockdown’ that was triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stowupland Local History Group committee began to consider the possibility of uploading our archived material onto a website. The restrictions of lockdown meant that only the archivist was able to search through our files to answer emailed enquiries. By the summer of 2021 SLHG committee members had started to plan what a website might look like and what needed…
