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Architect drawing for the proposed new Retreat

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Read our December 2024 Newsletter as published in Telstar 382 with Jerry's review of Nicky Reynold's talk about the WW2 Lumber Jills or listen in to Jerry's Jabbas. For our last meeting of 2024, one of our trustees gave us a talk on local pubs. The image above shows the architect's view of our Retreat as it would look after the rebuild in the 1960s.     Neil has spoken…

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Have you checked out Jerry's Jabbas. Here you can listen to our secretary talking through his review of research our speakers have shared with us.Our SLHG Newsletter 32 for Ocotber's Telstar had a very woody theme. Our events organiser Neil gave us his review on Robert Halliday's talk to the group about carved bench ends in Suffolk churches. Unfortunately Jerry was away for this talk so there is no audio…

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Leslie Brame's memoir 'As I Remember It' is continuing to keep me busy. His memories are enriching our knowledge of what life was like in early 20th century Stowupland and the people who lived in Church Walk Hamlet. In September we were looking forward to welcoming Dr Anne Folan to give the group a talk about the start of Health Visiting in Ipswith in the early 1900s. (You can read…

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