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…
September 2023 has been hot and humid, but we had a good turn out for Don Mobley's talk on the USAAF in East Anglia. Don took us from WWI through to the present day. You can read a report on this in the next update. The house that Don lives in was home to one of the young men named on Stowupland's WW2 memorial. Wilfred Scarlett was one of the…
