Its been a busy summer putting together a Stowupland Stories presentation about Saxham Street. There may have only been 30 houses in Saxham Street in the 19th century but that is still a lot of families to try to find out interesting details about. Most of what I spoke about in the presentation can be found in the web pages of SLHG. The image is one of our older properties…
In March two of our group presented some research on education in Stowupland. Looking at education in the early 19th century in Dame schools and how many children and adults learned their reading and writing skills in Sunday School classes. In the 1860s Stowupland school was first built, it has been extended many times but most of the original building is still in use. In the late 1970s Stowupland gained…
Do you recognise this view of Stowupland Primary School. Over the century and a half since our Elementary school was first built it has needed many extensions to accommodate the increasing number of local children. We are settling into our new venue at the meeting room of the URC Chapel. We still meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30 p.m. Members have just renewed their annual membership…
