From everyone at Stowupland Local History Group we wish our readers a Happy Christmas and a Wonderful New Year. Unfortunately we can't share much about the people enjoying this event, presumably a Christmas party, possibly in the 1950s? Its not in Stowupland Village Hall or the Primary School hall so either the Parish (Iron) Rooms or the BB Hut. If anyone can help with information we would love to hear…
Following on from last months updating of our pages about the war memorials we have been endeavouring to upload images and documents from our archives relating to Stowupland's spaces for worship: Holy Trinity Church and the U.R.C Chapel. This has been time consuming, as even though the time period covered is less than 200 years, village life and church affairs were so entwined that there were many links that needed…
With November and Remembrance day just around the corner it seemed appropriate to focus our updates on our war memorials.Over the last few decades several local people have helped to increase our knowledge of the stories behind the names listed on the memorials. Unfortunately, despite the internet, there are some individuals that beyond their name, parents and date of death we know little more.Sadly for one soldier from WW2, all…
