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…
As I write this we have had our August Archive evening. It was interesting to see what others have in their archives. There just was not enough time to to talk with everyone and study what they had brought. Some visitors from Stowmarket had material that is of interest to us in Stowupland, whilst local people shared photos of their relatives and the homes they once lived in.One visitor kindly…
For our April 2023 meeting we welcomed Gill Marchant who shared with us some research that she and her husband had been doing into the history of the Stowmarket National School. The Victorian era saw the birth of the educational system as we know it. Stowupland's first purpose built school for the education of its local children was built in 1865, though Sunday Schools had been instructing children and possibly…
