Transport, and The Railway
See also Stowupland’s garage and engineering, road traffic incidents, or the River Gipping.
1885 (Whites) Robert Baker was the coachman
27/11/1847, John Moss (age 43) a labourer was accidentally crushed by a steam carriage (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
The image below shows men from the Gun Cotton factory on their works outing in 1909. It was reproduced in a 1978 newspaper article following publication of an earlier article about Barnards Garage in Station Road. The founder of the Barnard’s business is in the driving seat wielding the whip.
In 1909 Barnard’s was within the boundary of Stowupland.
Railway
The railway came to Stowupland in the 1840s although the station was always called Stowmarket Station. Then in 1939 following boundary changes the station was sited in Stowmarket. The line has had various names e.g. the Eastern Union Railway and by 1904 it was known as the Ipswich and Bury Railway.
This map was Drawn up to circa 1840 to show wayleaves of land being bought up for the coming of the railway as it cut across the area known as ‘Cardens’. You can see it also coincided with a proposed new road leading from Bury Road to Regent Street which eventually became Crown Street. I have added the text to show Pound or Sickhouse Lane as well as Ham Row now Hamilton Way. This was before Bond Street was built and the lane linking Ham Row with Regent Street at the junction what is now Union Street is roughly where the back alleys of the Bond Street Houses are.
The yellow area is ‘Cardens’, the area outlined with the turquoise line is the proposed route of the railway through that piece of land.
Ena Carter noted from H.E. Wilkes ms Vol 1, ‘the railway was opened 1846 (14th Sept, Eastern Union Railway) and the timetable for 5th Sep 1850 was given as;
Up – trains;- 9:15, 12:55, 2:45, 6:30, 9:30. Sunday 8:50, 10:10.
Down trains;- 8:45, 12:25, 2:30, 6:25, 9:50. Sunday 8:10, 9:50.
Whites 1855 – Thomas Will. Bloomfield is Vict. at The Railway Hotel. Geo Crawley is the station master.
22/05/1858, William Sparrow (age39), was working as a railway porter was run over by a railway train. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams)
17/03/1864, James Reeder (age 24)working as a guard on the Great eastern Railway died having been accidentally crushed between some trucks and a break ( Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams)
The 1903 Godfrey Edition of the Ordnance Survey Map of Stowmarket carried a short description of the problems encountered in laying the track to the SE of Stowmarket. {SLHG/maps}
Plan of Stowmarket station sidings copied from original document in SLHG Archive.
