The FEBUARY MEETING
We have secured a speaker for February
Kevin Boardman
Portraits, what is the artist trying to tell us ?
We have a request from All Saints Church concerning Ellen Hammond, wife of Charles Hammond, one time director of Hammonds Bank, now Barclays. It appears the church wish to learn more about Ellen as she is commemorated on the Rood Screen in the church and they would like if possible,to contact her family. It is all part of the Cornerstone project, which is intended to make the church more accessible and part of the facilities of the town. Please contact Sandra or Tony if you have any clues as to how we might contact the Hammond family. It may be that one part of the family moved to Stowmarket and another to Norwich.
We just greatly enjoyed Zooming in for the Suffolk Local History Council AGM, and talk. Dates for forthcoming events in the SLHC calendar were mentioned by the Chairman Dr Margaret Thomas:
5th March 2021 - Societies Day, (my husband and I have enjoyed this day in the past, as it has good talks, and gives a chance to meet members of other local history societies)
15th October 2021 - Peter Northeast Conference, (again we have enjoyed this event with its good range of talks)
17th September 2021 -"Focus On" Day: Stoke-By-Nayland,
and 19th November 2021 - AGM.
It was also mentioned that trips to view the ancient architecture of Bury St Edmunds, and to The Hold in Ipswich to view the collection of Suffolk archives would soon be resumed (COVID willing). (We had planned to go on both of these, when sadly COVID lockdowns crept in!)
The business when then followed by an extremely interesting talk from Val Dudley. Val had studied the Suffolk Coroners' records from the medieval period. These were records written in Latin (with occasional medieval English words creeping in, basically because the clerk couldn't think of the correct Latin word!). It consisted of 5 records because of the way Suffolk was divided at the time for tax collection (3 main areas, plus additional 'liberties'). Val had learned to translate the Latin (and promoted this area of learning, which can be undertaken in a course of 20 sessions), and had focused on all the personal stories surrounding the deaths recorded, e.g., drowning in ditches and village ponds, deaths from fires caused by chickens scattering "strewings" into hearths, knife and sword injuries obtained in brawls, scythe incidents, and falls from horses and carts.
I would recommend attending these events, even though it is not Newmarket local history.
Joanne Garner
NLHS, and SLHC member
Don't forget to check out the mystery picture
There are copies available again of the late Rodney Vincent's book about his childhood in 1920's-1940's Woodditton
Available by contacting either the Treasurer or Webmaster... cost ...including post/packaging ..£10
Special discounted price if you arrange to pick one up
Planned addition..a section for the history of Newmarket Schools...HELP NEEDED... with several projects.
Now that so many people carry a camera with them at all times (well most seem to have a suitable mobile phone in constant use), can you all please try to make
point of photographing your surroundings, not just selfies! Before this lock down it was was hard to keep track of the various businesses that had been
replaced along the High Street and other places in town. I fear that may well be accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 on commerce. It seems as if even a
half yearly record of the shop fronts is not sufficient, some ventures appeared and disappeared in a matter of weeks. If you see an unfamiliar name over a
shop, snap it, and pass it on please.
If you see a shop is about to change hands, or a premises are to be demolished, please record it while you can. If we do not record these changes now, there
is no way researchers in the future will be able to fill the gaps. The following will give you a clue as to some gaps we have come across in our own research.
Peter and Tony desperately need photos of Cheapside clothing shop and its successor, Woottons Hardware, in Wellington Street, Percy Hammond's articulated horse box, the Turf Tavern in Granby Street and the Albion Stores aka The Pelican on the corner of Albion Street and Wellington Street.
Copyright..the images on this site are mostly from the collection of Peter Norman, but hopefully all sources will be credited.
However so many were given
to us and to Peter by unrecorded persons or found on numerous websites with no source given. Anyone with concerns over their copyright should contact us so that hopefully all can be amicably agreed.
MEETINGS
If you know of someone whose talk would suit us, please let Sandra know.
COMMITTEE for 2021-2022
Newmarket Local History Society - Committee Members (from 21st September 2021)
Chair - Sandra Easom chair@newmarketlhs.org.uk
Vice-Chair - vacant
Secretary - Abigael Brand secretary@newmarketlhs.org.uk
Data Protection Officer - t.b.a.
Treasurer - Christy Argyroudi treasurer@newmarketlhs.org.uk
Committee Members - Joan Shaw, David Staff, Kathy Staff and David Rippington.
Other supporters (non-committee members): Researcher & Webmaster - Tony Pringle.
CONTACT US
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Newmarket Local History Society, c/o Newmarket Town Council,
Memorial Hall, High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 8JP