March is Women's History Month, at SLHG committee meeting we got thinking about local ladies who had played important roles in our village, such as Ena Carter, Ada Kinch and Mary Bloom. Without Ena's hard work researching Stowupland's local history would be a lot more time consuming, SLHG is extremely grateful for the foundations she laid down for us. Ada Kinch was an inspirational head teacher for our local children,…
Read our December 2024 Newsletter as published in Telstar 382 with Jerry's review of Nicky Reynold's talk about the WW2 Lumber Jills or listen in to Jerry's Jabbas. For our last meeting of 2024, one of our trustees gave us a talk on local pubs. The image above shows the architect's view of our Retreat as it would look after the rebuild in the 1960s. Neil has spoken…
Have you checked out Jerry's Jabbas. Here you can listen to our secretary talking through his review of research our speakers have shared with us.Our SLHG Newsletter 32 for Ocotber's Telstar had a very woody theme. Our events organiser Neil gave us his review on Robert Halliday's talk to the group about carved bench ends in Suffolk churches. Unfortunately Jerry was away for this talk so there is no audio…
