SaxhamStreet, post '60s
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From the 1960’s some 30 bungalows were built either side of Saxham Street at the Stowupland Hall end. Previously only a few few scattered older properties could be found along here, surrounded by farmland. These photos show the bungalows and the garden of No 2 Saxham Street, with Stowupland Hall’s grain store in the background.
The 1960s saw increasing demands for housing and more traffic using our village roads.
In 1963 a press cutting from a parish council meeting reported that they had agreed to ask the County Council to ‘signpost three paths running through the parish’. One of these was decribed as running ‘from the boundary with Stowmarekt, from a point near Spoonmans’ Barn to Saxham Street’
And they also decided to ask the County Council to ‘erect appropriate signs. on the approach to two dangerous corners. One of these was near Water-run farm, the other was near Broomspath estate.
Ten years later in 1973, a strip of land along the road side of Stowupland Hall was purchased so a footpath could be built.
A group of mothers who had to walk along the A1120, which even then was busy, were successful in getting a footpath built to make it safer for them to walk with toddlers and prams from Saxham Street down to the village school.
Star Orchard, one of our older homes in Saxham Street, as its name suggests for many years it was surrounded by orchards.
