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Title
Abbey Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1870
Caption:
The trees in this avenue leading from Honey Hill to the Norman Tower were planted in the 18th century. The railings around part of the churchyard, to the south of St James' church, and which are shown in the 1886 O.S. map have not been erected. It is possible that K505/0089 and K505/0667 were also taken on the same day.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees
Date:
1870s
Caption:
Tree-lined avenue to the Norman Tower
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1870
Caption:
This image is taken further to the east and includes the ruins of the Charnel Chapel to the right.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1870
Caption:
This image shows the chancel of 1869. See 0581
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
The Bourne family tombs are the oldest surviving in the Great Churchyard. Edward Bourne, whose tomb is on the right, held many public offices during his lifetime. He served as Alderman, equivalent to the Mayor nowadays, 1633-1634. On his death in 1637, he left land to provide almshouses, clothing for the poor, and apprenticing children.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
View of St James' Church and Norman Tower
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1950
Caption:
View of the churchyard showing St James' Church. The rails were removed from the graves in World War 11 and the gravestones in 1958/9. Cars are parked between the Norman Tower and Tower House.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
before 1867
Caption:
This image shows the rear of 3-8 Crown Street. The nearer range of buildings were demolished and replaced by the present red brick buildings by June 1867. See K505/ 1735 and 1214.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1870
Caption:
The Norman Tower was built by Abbot Anselm [1121-48] as the gateway linking the town to the Abbey church. It was restored 1846-7 by L.N. Cottingham, who also designed the Savings Bank House to the left in 1846. The tower now serves as the belfry of St James's Church , which became the cathedral of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1870
Caption:
The tree lined avenue through the churchyard leading to the Norman Tower and behind it to the right is St James' Cathedral Church.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1870
Caption:
The trees in this avenue were planted in the 18th century.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
1956
Caption:
View of the Norman Tower from the east. The gravestones, except for the box-tombs, were removed c1975
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Samson's Tower
Date:
c1865
Caption:
This is the earliest image of this view which includes the Norman Tower, St James' Church and Samson's Tower in the foreground. The nave of St James' was given the gabled roof in 1864, Samson's Tower was converted into the Will Office, with new 'Norman' windows, and the avenue of trees planted in 1863.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Samson's Tower
Date:
c1875
Caption:
The trees in the avenue have almost doubled in height since K505/23 was taken.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Samson's Tower
Date:
c 1880
Caption:
Samson's Tower and adjoining buildings were altered to form the Bury St Edmunds Probate Registry in 1863
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Samson's Tower
Date:
c1880
Caption:
In 1863 the tower and adjoining sections of the west front were converted into the Public Registry or Wills Office for the Bury St Edmunds District. The architect William Rednall replaced the conical thatched roof [see K505/ 3624] with one of tiles. He also inserted 'Norman' style circular and round-headed windows in the Victorian Romanesque style.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Samson's Tower
Date:
c 1880
Caption:
Showing the Norman Tower and St James' Church. see 1760
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Tower House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Tower House, facing the Churchyard, was built by Thomas Farrow in the 1850s reflecting L N Cottingham's design of 1845/6 for the Savings Bank House. The latter is the building shown parallel to the Norman Tower with canopied entrance facing down Crown Street.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
1860s
Caption:
Samson's Tower is the base of the southern corner of the west front of the abbey. In the 18th century the building was used as stables for the Six Bells Inn [ now the Masonic Lodge] in Churchgate Street, and subsequently as a dye-works. Most of the grave stones were removed from this part of the Great Churchyard in 1958/9. The ladies' dresses suggest a date in the 1860s.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Shows the ruined west front of the great Abbey Church.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
nd
Caption:
West Front of the Abbey church. See k505/1760
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
late 1860s
Caption:
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
1870s
Caption:
The area has been planted with shrubs, but not yet fenced in.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
nd
Caption:
The image was taken from the Norman Tower. The west front of the Abbey was begun by Abbot Anselm (1120-41) and completed by Abbot Sampson (1182-1211). The three central entrance arches were flanked by chapels, with an octagonal tower and spire at each end. The west front was 246 feet across, making it the widest in Britain.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
1870s
Caption:
The area has been planted with shrubs, but not yet fenced in.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
1906
Caption:
This image was taken for the 1906 'Guide to Bury'.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Clopton's Asylum,
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Almshouse built in late 1730/1740s following charitable foundation established by the will of Poley Clopton who died October 1730. The building was sold in 1898 and became a residence for the incumbent of St James' Church, now the Cathedral.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
1949
Caption:
View from the east
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
1949
Caption:
View from east
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
The interior of the Abbey Gate, which is decorated with groins and stone tracery. Coats of arms also decorate the walls, and the portcullis can be seen at the front of the gate.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The Abbey Gardens are seen through the eastern arch of the gateway.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The east face shows the Decorated style window to the guard-room, the portcullis and the outer doors.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
c1870-c1890
Caption:
View from the east
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
1949
Caption:
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Friendly Society Gala
Date:
1879
Caption:
This photograph was taken on the morning of 22 July 1879. The flooding ruined the Friendly Societies Gala when flood water reached the level of the table tops in the refreshment tents. Some of the showmen narrowly escaped serious injury or even death when a large elm tree fell on to the caravans in which they were sleeping. Crompton was supposed to demonstrate electricity for the first time in the town. It is not certain whether this happened. The organisers apologised for the cancellation of the demonstration, but the newspaper accounts reported that they were 'fairly satisfactory'.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Friendly Society Gala
Date:
[21] July 1879
Caption:
See K505/1451
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, River Lark
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Boy fishing from a tree stump on the east side of the river.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, River Lark
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Boys fishing in the river Lark.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, River Lark
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Boys fishing adjacent to the bridge leading to King Edward VI Grammar School. Both bridge and school were built in 1883.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, River Lark
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Shows the junction of the Rivers Linnet and Lark, both of which were named in the 18th century.
Title
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, West Front
Date:
c1880
Caption:
The house is built into the West Front, behind the northern entrance arch. John Green, solicitor, lived here until c.1870. He was succeeded by his widow Catherine, and then his surviving unmarried daughters, the last of whom, Margarette, died in mid 1883. The image appears to show Catherine and two of her daughters.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Dovecote and Garden Walls
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The hexagonal two-storey dovecote formed the north-eastern corner of the garden wall of the Abbey Palace. There are remains of nesting boxes in the upper stage.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Dovecote and Garden Walls
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Ruins of the Abbey Palace
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Abbot's Bridge
Date:
c1906
Caption:
The late 12th century bridge is situated at the north east corner of the Abbey Precinct and carries the wall over the river Lark. The three arches once had portcullises and formed a water gate into the Abbey complex. On the inside the lower arches support a flat bridge to the Vinefields. The East Gate to the town joined to the right. The wooden footbridge leads to the 19th century Gardens House.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Crossing Tower
Date:
c1907
Caption:
Piers of the central crossing tower
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Crossing Tower
Date:
c1907
Caption:
Piers of the central crossing tower
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Crossing Tower
Date:
c1907
Caption:
Piers of the central crossing tower
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Crossing Tower
Date:
c1907
Caption:
One of the four piers supporting the central crossing tower of the Abbey
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Dovecote and Garden Walls
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Ruins of the Abbey Palace, showing Abbey Bridge in the background
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, General View
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Abbey Palace ruins with sheep.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Dovecote and Garden Walls
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Ruins of the Abbey Palace with grazing sheep
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, General View
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Abbey ruins with figures
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Crossing Tower
Date:
c1907
Caption:
Piers of the central crossing tower
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, General View
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Part of the Abbey Gardens with some remains of the Abbey buildings.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, showing the river Lark
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Ruins of the Abbey Palace showing the River Lark.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Abbot's Bridge
Date:
1906
Caption:
This image was taken for the 1906 Guide to Bury, and is similar to K505/0024
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Abbots Bridge
Date:
c1906
Caption:
View from inside the Abbey gardens.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Alwyn House
Date:
c 1892 -1902
Caption:
Mr Boggis' House
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Alwyn House
Date:
c1892-c1902
Caption:
A house of c1800, incorporating part of the Abbot's Palace. At the south end, in the early 19th century, an angular battlemented bay was added. The house was occupied by William Edmunds Boggis c1892-c1902, who was described in the County Directory 1896 as a 'Commercial Traveller'.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Magna Carta Inscription
Date:
C 1907
Caption:
See K505/80
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, Magna Carta
Date:
c 1907
Caption:
One of two tablets erected in 1849 to commemorate the meeting of the Barons at Bury Abbey during which they swore to compel King John to sign the Magna Carta. The tablet records the names of twenty five barons who were to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. Historians doubt that such a meeting took place. The image was most probably taken for publicity relating to the Pageant of 1907.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, excavations
Date:
1902-1903
Caption:
Research by Dr M R James in a 15th century register of Bury Abbey, now at Douai, led to the excavation of the Chapter House, Treasury and Prior's House from autumn 1902 to January 1903. In the Chapter House the coffins of six abbots were discovered. The remains were replaced in the coffins and covered with massive tops. This image shows the ruins of the Prior's House
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, excavations
Date:
c1903
Caption:
The skeletons of five of the Abbots of St Edmund were revealed on New Years Day, 1903. From the front they are Edmund of Walpole (1248-1256), Henry of Rushbrooke (1235-1248), Richard of the Isle (of Ely) (1229-1234), Samson (1182-1211) and Ording (1148-1157). The remains were replaced in coffins, with the new stone tops off to the left.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, excavations
Date:
1903
Caption:
The Abbots' skeletons have been removed as the excavation continues, 1st-27th January 1903
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, excavations
Date:
1902-1903
Caption:
Excavation of the Treasury
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, excavations
Date:
1902-1903
Caption:
Base of Pier
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds, excavations
Date:
1902-1903
Caption:
Base of Pier
Title
Stone Carvings, Abbey, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Property of Canon Warren
Title
Carved stone head, Abbey, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Pilgrims' badge, Abbey, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
St James's Parochial, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd c1900
Caption:
A group of helpers, in the Athenaeum, at the St James's church parochial, the parish's major fund raising activity for many years. It was first held in 1883. In addition to stalls and side shows, several entertainments were also offered.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, document, signature of John Milton
Date:
1669
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, document, signature of Elizabeth Milton
Date:
1680
Caption:
Title
The Borough Charter, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1606
Caption:
After struggling for municipal independence for centuries, King James I granted Bury St Edmunds a charter of incorporation on 3 April 1606.
Title
Warren's Map of Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1747
Caption:
Title
Painting by Rose Mead, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Painting by local artist, Rose Mead (1867-1946) whose studio was in Crown Street.
Title
Painting by Rose Mead, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1890s
Caption:
This painting by Bury artist, Rose Mead, shows elderly women leaving the south chapel of St Mary's Church ,probably after the Friday morning bread dole . It was executed before re-ordering of 1901. Mr Jarman took the photograph in May 1937. The picture belonged to Mrs Bullen.
Title
Painting by Rose Mead, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1890s
Caption:
Shows a Christening at the medieval font in the south chapel of St Mary's Church. The font was located here until 1909. The painting, by Rose Mead, dates from before the 1901 re-ordering of the chancel sanctuary.
Title
Painting by Rose Mead, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Rose Mead called this painting 'Friday Morning, St Mary's Church'. It shows the distribution of bread by the Lady Parish Visitor and the Curate in the south chapel of the church and is one of two of her paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition of 1899.
Title
Archdeacon Hodges, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Painting of Archdeacon Hodges by Rose Mead
Title
Painting of rural cottage, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Listed as one of Miss Blackhall's pictures
Title
Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an 18th century man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Noted as 'Cooper's copy of picture'
Title
Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of unknown man
Date:
18th/19th century
Caption:
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1800
Caption:
Copy of an oil painting looking west from Eastgate Bridge with the River Lark on the left. The Abbot's Bridge is to the left, the Fox Inn and Broadway to the right.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
1786
Caption:
Published by Jacob Kendall, local print maker and seller [April] 1786 to celebrate the removal of the property built into the ruins of the Charnel House, pictured left. The Norman Tower with its 17th century cupola provided the main entrance to the Churchyard. The Widow's Coffee House, between the Norman Tower and St James's Church was not removed until early 1840's. The thatched Sampsons Tower was used as stables.
Title
Abbey of St Edmund before the Restoration, drawn by W.K. Hardy, photographed by W.S. Spanton (copy)
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Magpie Inn
Date:
1868
Caption:
[Copy of a painting.] The Magpie Inn stood adjacent to the Shire Hall, the skylight of which can be seen to the left of centre. The proprietor of the Inn in 1868 was G.W.Baldry. The building was demolished , the area enclosed with rails and planted with shrubs in 1871. More recently it has become a car park, between the churchyard and Honey Hill.
Title
Abbey, Bury St Edmunds, conjectural drawing, Revd W Kimber Hardy
Date:
1883
Caption:
W.S. Spanton, whose sister, Sarah, married Revd Hardy, obtained the copyright of the drawing and sold photographic copies. This became the standard image of the Abbey, which appeared in town guides throughout the 20th century.
Title
Abbey Gate, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Late 18th cent
Caption:
Copy of a print of the Abbey Gate on Angel Hill
Title
Abbey, Bury St Edmunds, reconstruction by Revd. W Kimber Hardy
Date:
1883
Caption:
Title
Abbey, Bury St Edmunds, reconstruction by Arthur Lancaster
Date:
1898
Caption:
Lancaster was a bookseller, binder and stationer at 17 Abbeygate Street, later taken over by Groom's. He attempted to show the Abbey in 1415. However, he included the nave of St. James', which was not started until 1503. The photographic copy was made in 1898.
Title
Abbey Gate, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Copy of Davy's print
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Balloon Ascent, 1785
Date:
nd
Caption:
An illustration of the first balloon flight from Bury St Edmunds, taken by Captain Poole on 15 October 1785. The flight lasted 1 hr 20 minutes and covered a distance of 27 miles, eventually landing at Soham. It is believed that the buildings were drawn by Jacob Kendall, and the figures supplied by the well known artist and caricaturist, Henry William Bunbury.
Title
Abbey Ruins, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1779
Caption:
Copy of a print by Richard Godfrey, based on an earlier drawing of c1725. From left to right it shows the Dovecote, Abbot's Garden wall, the Abbey crossing, Chapter House, King's Hall, Abbey Gate and a granary.
Title
Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
1820
Caption:
Engraving by Henry Davy. The Widow's Coffee House and the low roof of St James's Church can been seen to the right.
Title
Arms of Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
The arms of the borough of St Edmunds as depicted on the grant of arms dated 29 November 1606. See K505/591
Title
Grant of Arms to Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
Bury St Edmunds was belatedly incorporated as a Borough on 3 April 1606. On 29 November, William Camden, the historian, as Clarenceux King of Arms, issued this document which granted these arms: Azure, three ducal crowns Or each transfixed with two arrows in saltire (points down) Or.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Balloon Ascent, 1785
Date:
1789
Caption:
An illustation of the first balloon flight from Bury St Edmunds, taken by Captain Poole on 15 October 1789. The flight lasted 1hour 20 minutes and covered a distance of 27 miles, eventually landing near Soham.
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
1780
Caption:
Engraving by Prickett. The tower has a clock and cupola, omitted by Davy [see 1788]. The cupola was removed and the ground level excavated to its original level at the 1845 restoration, but the battlements were not replaced.
Title
Norman Tower, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1820
Caption:
Engraving by Henry Davy of the west front of the Norman Tower from Chequer Square. The ground is built up below the tower. Houses in the west front of the Abbey can be seen, and there are carvings either side of the entrance.
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
March 1780
Caption:
Copy of a print by Richard Godfrey in 1780. This shows the Abbot's Bridge, the East Gate, the Fox, Broadway and Eastgate Bridge with an Almshouse. The East Gate, along with the other town gates, was demolished in 1761-5. The River Lark had both a bridge and a ford.
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, St Nicholas Hospital
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
This hospital was founded to care for lepers c1220. Following the Dissolution, part of the building was converted into a house. The window from St. Petronilla's Hospital (see 1711) in Southgate Street was moved here after 1781. The modern hospice in Bury takes its name from this medieval hospital.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Market Cross 1740
Date:
nd
Caption:
A print of Alexander Downing's map of Bury 1740, showing the Market Cross, which was built in 1620, and rebuilt in 1770s.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Market Cross 1740
Date:
Caption:
A copy of Alexander Downing's illustration from his map of Bury St Edmunds in 1840, made by Mary Hedley in 1885.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1748
Caption:
A drawing of the east wall before it collapsed in 1804/5.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1748
Caption:
View of the south east corner of Moyses Hall showing the original east wall of the building in 1748. The wall collapsed in 1804-1805 and was rebuilt the following year. The painting was presented to the Moyses Hall Museum by the Marchioness of Bristol in 1950
Title
The Traverse, Bury St Edmunds, Etching of Cupola House
Date:
c 1863
Caption:
Built by wealthy apothecary Thomas Macro jr and his wife Susan, the cupola is surmounted by a weathervane with their initials and the date 1693. The name 'Cupola House' dates only from the Victorian period. The doorway is flanked by late Georgian bow windows. To the left is a 'Chemist and Druggist' with late Georgian shop windows. To the right is the former 'Three Bulls' Inn'.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, print of unknown man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Print
Date:
1796
Caption:
A print of Sir Thomas Middleton
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1820
Caption:
Print of west front
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from west
Date:
1808
Caption:
Copy of a print dated 1808. The interior is almost unchanged from 100 years earlier ( see K505/2746 ). The differences are that the medieval rood screen has gone; the Royal arms are above the chancel arch; the pulpit has a new sounding board; the reredos has been painted with figures including Moses and Aaron.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from west
Date:
1707-1712
Caption:
This painting, originally in Cupola House, can be dated between 1707, when the north gallery was built, and 1917, when the window over the chancel arch was removed. Note the rood screen with two figures and the Royal arms of William and Mary; the box pews, the font with its tall cover surmounted with a dove; the pulpit with its surrounding board; the pre-reformation lectern; and the screens around St. Wolfstan's Chapel. The 17th century interior remained virtually unchanged, with the exception of a south gallery built in 1811, until the restoration of 1844.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Hospital of St Petronilla
Date:
1781
Caption:
Copy of a print, before the large 14th century window was moved to St Nicholas Hospital, where it stood at the junction of Hollow and Barton Roads.
Title
Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Skating rink
Date:
c1876
Caption:
Mr T B Robinson opened his skating rink in the grounds of his residence, Brooke House, Westgate Street on Easter Monday, 17th April 1876. The rink was 92 feet by 36 feet laid on concrete covered with Spanish asphalt, to provide a surface like ice. The south side and centre were open to the elements but the other sides were under cover. There was a practice room, called a 'Nursery', where clients could be taught how to roller-skate. One of the maltings of Greene King in Westgate Street was known as Rink Maltings in 1880.
Title
Entrance to the Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
15 -19 July 1867
Caption:
The site was part of Grange Farm, off Northgate Street, now part of the Eastern Way Industrial Estate. The proximity of the railway line enabled sidings to be laid to the site. A Guidebook described the entrance as '...an extended wood building, having central entablature, and on either side a pedimented wing with pilasters...in the building are offices for the Council, a Post Office...turnstiles for admissions will be in the centre and those for egress on the right and left.'
Title
Unknown venue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1867
Caption:
Possibly Suffolk Show
Title
Entrance to the Royal Agricultural Showground, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1867
Caption:
Visitors to the Royal Agricultural Society Show
Title
Bury St Edmunds, Town Football Team
Date:
1904-1905
Caption:
The club was founded by William Lake at a meeting held in the Suffolk Hotel in 1872, making it one of the oldest football clubs in the country. It took up residence in Kings Road, also known as the Cemetery Road Ground, in 1888, moving to the current Ram Meadow Ground in 1978. Players for the 1904/05 season included F J Wise, R Ridley, C Tilbrook, H G King, E F Wise, H C Sore, the Rev'd H M Mills, L C Smith, D Boby, H Younghusband, G Lacey-Scott and J Enoch.
Title
Bury St Edmunds Football Club
Date:
1919 -1920
Caption:
In the 1919 -20 season, Bury Town Football Club won the Ipswich and District League Championship. The man in the suit is Frederick Stutely, the Club Secretary. Holding the ball is W E Chetwood, the team captain. Further details of the club and this season can be found in 'The History of Bury Town Football Club 1874 - 1976 ' by John Wybrew.
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Bury St Edmunds Operatic and Dramatic Society, 'Iolanthe'
Date:
1920
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The Bury St Edmunds Operatic Society's first production was Gilbert & Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore' at the Theatre Royal in 1903. In 1920 it became the Bury St Edmunds Operatic and Dramatic Society, but its first dramatic production was not until 1923 with Pinero's 'His House in Order'. When the Theatre Royal closed in 1925 the Society moved its productions to the Playhouse in the Buttermarket which had opened in the same year. The Playhouse closed in 1959 and various venues were used until the Theatre Royal re-opened in 1965. The Society continues to present an annual musical production, but has not produced a play since 1974. This image shows the cast of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Iolanthe', which ran from 23rd to 27th November 1920. H I Jarman played the Earl of Mountararat.
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Bury St Edmunds Operatic and Dramatic Society, 'The Private Secretary'.
Date:
1924
Caption:
The image shows the cast of Charles Hawtry's 'The Private Secretary' which ran from 12th to 14th January 1924. This was an ad hoc production to raise funds for the Mayor's Unemployment Fund. The cast included many members of B O A Ds including H I Jarman. ô
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Bury St Edmunds Operatic and Dramatic Society ,'The Gondoliers'
Date:
1924
Caption:
The cast of Gilbert and Sulivan's 'The Gondoliers' which ran from 28 October to 1 November 1924. H.I.Jarman played Don Alhambra. The Society's last production in the Theatre Royal until 1965.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Charles Brandon
Date:
1907
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Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, played by Frank Riley Smith, Master of the Suffolk Hunt, of Great Barton Hall. Bury was one of several historic towns to stage a pageant, written and produced by the Edwardian 'Pageant Master' Louis Napoleon Parker. The local nobility, gentry, clergy, townsmen and women organised and supported the event, many taking roles amongst the 1800 performers, or singing in the 200 strong choir and chorus. Royalty, the Landed East Anglians and the national press attended during the weeks of 8th - 13th July. The 8 episodes ranged from the, so far undiscovered, Roman Villa at Bury, to the visit of Queen Elizabeth l, the death of Edmund, Magna Carta, Mary Tudor and King Edward's School. Music was provided by the 1st Batallion of the Suffolk Regiment and local musicians under ôMr C J H Shann, organist of St James' Church.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, group at Hengrave Hall
Date:
1907
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The pageant was filmed by local cinematograph pioneer, R H Bates. The official photographer was G C Cousins, but Mr Jarman took some shots of rehearsals or costume calls and some studio portraits. This group includes Henry VI ( Mr Dupoie), Queen Margaret (Mrs Lomax), Cardinal Beaufort (George Gery Milner Gibson) and the Duke of Suffolk (Mr Riley Smith).
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, group at Hengrave Hall
Date:
1907
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The group includes Henry VI (Mr Dupoie), Queen Margaret (Mrs Lomax), Cardinal Beaufort ( George Gery Milner Gibson), and the Duke of Suffolk (Mr Riley Smith).
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, unknown character
Date:
1907
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unknown player
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.
Date:
1907
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Played by Sir Frederick Adair of Flixton Hall, Bungay.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Chamberlain
Date:
1907
Caption:
Played by Herbert Norris, Assistant Master of the Pageant.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Jewish Family
Date:
8 - 13 July 1907
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Ruth played by Mrs Sunderland, Jurnet by Mr J Darkin.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Miss Hannah's group
Date:
1907
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Tudor Family
Date:
1907
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Chamberlain
Date:
1907
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Played by Herbert Norris, Assistant Master of the Pageant.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Lady
Date:
1907
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, King John
Date:
8 - 13 July 1907
Caption:
King John, in episode IV, played by Horace Ross Barker, (!863 -1941) of 41 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds. Curator of Moyses Hall Museum 1899-1933.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Widow of Bederic
Date:
1907
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Played by Miss Hilda Green.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Caia, a singer
Date:
1907
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Played by Miss Florence Goldsmith, a contralto and member of the Bury Operatic Society.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Madrigal choir member
Date:
1907
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Date:
1907
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Played by Mrs Wentworth Reeve of Livermere Park.
Title
Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
Date:
1907
Caption:
Mary Tudor played by Mrs Wentworth Reeve of Livermere Park
Title
Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, mounted messenger
Date:
1907
Caption:
Played by Mr Leofric Hunter.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Richard I
Date:
1907
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Played by Charles Terry, Vice Chairman of the Pageant Committee.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Richard I
Date:
1907
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Played by Charles Terry, vice-chairman of the pageant committee.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Robert FitzWalter
Date:
1907
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Played by Capt. Bramwell Jackson, The Fort, Southgate Street.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Robert FitzWalter
Date:
8 - 13 July 1907
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Played by Capt. Bramwell Jackson. The Fort, Southgate Street.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Robert FitzWalter
Date:
1907
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Played by Capt. Bramwell Jackson, The Fort, Southgate Street.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Queen Margaret
Date:
1907
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Played by Mrs John Lomax of Felixtowe.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Queen Margaret
Date:
1907
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Played by Mrs John Lomax of Felixtowe.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and daughters
Date:
1907
Caption:
Lady Francis and Lady Eleanor Brandon were played by the Misses Wentworth Reeve
Title
Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and daughters.
Date:
8 - 13 July 1907
Caption:
Lady Francis and Lady Eleanor Brandon were played by the Misses Wentworth Reeve.
Title
Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Lady Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
Date:
1907
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Lady Brandon was played by Miss Wentworth Reeve
Title
Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester
Date:
8 - 13 July 1907
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Played by George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum of Hardwick House, Mayor of Bury St Edmunds 1913-1914.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, unidentified couple
Date:
1907
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Taken at Hengrave Hall.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Earl of Oxford
Date:
8 - 13 July 1907
Caption:
Played by Mr Philip Browne, Hall Farm, Fornham All Saints (d. 29 July 1907). Philip Browne jnr. was Master of the Horse for the pageant.
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, unidentified lady
Date:
1907
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Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Lady in Waiting
Date:
1907
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, front
Date:
nd
Caption:
The Hawstead and Hardwick estates belonged to the Cullum family 1656-1921. The Stuart house is distinguished by the three projecting wings. In the mid 19th century extensions were built to the east and west of the earlier house. In 1878 George Gery Milner Gibson inherited the estate and took the extra surname of Cullum. The estate had been entailed and on his death in 1921, the land and houses reverted to the Crown and were sold off between 1924 and 1926. Hardwick House was sold for demolition in 1926. Many of the contents, including collections of china, manuscripts, paintings and books were bequested to the Borough of Bury St Edmunds, forming the basis of the museum, Library and Archives services.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Front
Date:
1924
Caption:
Picture taken for the sale catalogue of 1924
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Front
Date:
nd
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Front of house and park
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, front
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, front
Date:
nd
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Carriage drive to porch with Drury heraldic greyhounds and mullet
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, front from carriage drive.
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view from across pond
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, front with Hunt meet
Date:
nd
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This photograph of a meet at Hardwick House gives a closer view of the exterior of Hardwick House, which was demolished in 1926. Being lords of the manor the Cullums would have played an important role in organising traditional local events such as this. The hunt meets on the terrace and along the carriage drive. Non-hunting ladies watch from above the central porch.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, eastern end, gardens
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
The three- tiered fountain was the focus of various avenues and walks in these formal gardens, which lay to the south east of the house. The yew avenues and iron arches gave height to the gardens.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, western end
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, eastern end, gardens
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, gardens
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, eastern end with gates
Date:
nd
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These gates at the eastern end of the garden walk have the Cullum crest over the entrance.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, gates
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, eastern end, garden
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, looking towards formal gardens
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, views across lawn and ha-ha
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, eastern end, gardens
Date:
nd
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This view includes the clock-tower over the Indoor Riding School.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, western end
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, western end
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, eastern end, gardens
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, rear, eastern end, gardens
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, lodge gate
Date:
Nov 1881
Caption:
Group outside the lodge gate
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Lodge gate, group outside
Date:
November 1882
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum, front left
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Lodge Gate, group outside
Date:
Nov 1882
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum, front left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group
Date:
1878
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum's coming of age. Taken at the western end of rear of house, George stands centre, behind his mother Susanne Arethusa Milner Gibson ( nee Cullum )
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
Dec 1880
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group with carriage
Date:
1890
Caption:
Group outside porch, George Gery Milner Gibson on far left, holding horse.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group on terrace
Date:
1889
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum seated on a chair.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group on terrace
Date:
1890
Caption:
George GeryMilner Gibson Cullum, standing third from left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group on terrace
Date:
1890
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum on left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group on terrace
Date:
Jun 1890
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum ,third from left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1883
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum standing inside porch, left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1883
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum seated centre
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, theatrical group
Date:
1883
Caption:
Susanna Arethusa Milner Gibson seated, right
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1883
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum seated left with dog
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1883
Caption:
George Gery seated left with dog.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1883
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum, standing centre.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group at western end of terrace
Date:
nd
Caption:
George Gery with walking stick left of centre.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, riding group outside porch
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, riding group outside porch
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group at western end of terrace
Date:
1885
Caption:
George Gery standing on right.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group at western end of terrace
Date:
1885
Caption:
George Gery standing on right.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1885
Caption:
George Gery seated left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
1885
Caption:
George Gery seated centre
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group in carriage.
Date:
nd
Caption:
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum, standing right.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group at road junction
Date:
1887
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Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group outside porch
Date:
Oct 1887
Caption:
George Gery second left.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, theatrical group at western end of terrace
Date:
1887
Caption:
George Gery front left.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, theatrical group in gardens
Date:
Oct 1886
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group on terrace by carriage drive
Date:
1886
Caption:
George Gery standing right
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, theatrical Group at rear of house
Date:
1886
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, waxworks group
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, waxworks group
Date:
nd
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Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group
Date:
1878
Caption:
Susanna Arethusa Milner Gibson, seated centre
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, ghost group
Date:
16 Oct 1884
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Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, group
Date:
Nov 1884
Caption:
George Gery seated front
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, theatrical group, 'Scraps of Paper'
Date:
Dec 1887
Caption:
George Gery standing centre left.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, entrance hall
Date:
nd
Caption:
This hall leads left to the staircase and ahead to the statuary gallery.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, entrance hall
Date:
nd
Caption:
The hall leads left to the staircase and ahead to the statuary gallery.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Statuary Gallery, from eastern end
Date:
early 20th century
Caption:
Described in the 1924 sale particulars as the 'Statue Corridor', indicative of the grandness of this large Elizabethan mansion. Shows a triptych, now with the FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge, on the left, and stained glass on the right.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, statuary gallery from western end
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, statuary gallery from eastern end
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, drawing room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, drawing room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, drawing room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, drawing room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, drawing room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, china gallery
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, china gallery
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, study
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, study
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, study
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, study
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, library
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
This is probably the main library at Hardwick House, there was also a 'Little Library'. Most of the library collection, the Cullum Collection is now at the Bury Record Office.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, dining room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, billiard room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, billiard room
Date:
nd
Caption:
See K505/1005
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, billiard room
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, staircase
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, bedroom
Date:
nd
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One of the bedrooms in Hardwick House, which had seven principal bedrooms, nine bachelor rooms and secondary bedrooms, twelve servants' bedrooms and three bathrooms.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, bedroom
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, bedroom
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, boudoir
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, boudoir
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, boudoir
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, interior, boudoir
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Lady Ann Drury's Oratory panels.
Date:
nd
Caption:
These panels were part of Lady Ann Drury's Oratory, painted by herself c1600. Most of the painted imagery and latin texts are copied from emblematic books and were used as a focus for spiritual devotion and meditation. The seven foot square oratory or 'closet' was moved from Hawstead Place to Hardwick House c1612. After the 1924 sale the panels were purchased by Ipswich Borough Council. The oratory has been reconstructed and is on display at Christchurch Mansions, Ipswich.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, dish with Cullum Crest
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, silver tankard
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, table with clock
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, 18th cent French table
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, painted panels
Date:
nd
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Religious scenes painted on panels
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, stained glass window
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, conservatory
Date:
nd
Caption:
15th century corner post now in Moyses Hall Museum
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, stained glass window
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, stained glass window
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, stained glass window
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
The grand lime and sycamore avenue into the woods, terminating at the stone figure of Hercules. The statue of Hercules was originally from Hawstead Place, and was made for Queen Elizabeth's visit there in 1578.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
nd
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, avenue of trees in Park
Date:
1924
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
1930
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
c1930
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, view in Park
Date:
c1930
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, entrance with Lodge cottage
Date:
nd [c 1920s?]
Caption:
The Lodge gate in Hardwick Lane was the main entrance into the Park. The building was subsequently extended to the left in the ?1970s. The gates were moved, after the 1926 sale, to form the entrance to the drive to the new Hardwick Manor.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, gardener's cottage, 'The Bothy'
Date:
nd [c 1920s?].
Caption:
The Cottage has a plaque inscribed 'TGC 1837' (Rev Sir Thomas Gery Cullum). This building was enlarged into Hardwick Manor after the sale of the estate in 1926. One of the distinctive properties on the Hardwick House Estate built by the Reverend Sir Thomas Cullum who owned the estate between 1831 and 1855.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, gardener's cottage
Date:
nd
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Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, gateway and garden
Date:
1924
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, gardeners cottage
Date:
1924
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, walled garden
Date:
c1930
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, fountain in kitchen garden
Date:
1924
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, thatched sheep sheds
Date:
1924
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These stood on the 'green' now bounded by Broadland Road and Hickling Drive
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, thatched sheep sheds
Date:
1924
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, thatched sheep sheds
Date:
1924
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These stood on the 'green', now bounded by Broadlands Road and Hickling Drive.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, thatched sheep sheds
Date:
1924
Caption:
These stood at the 'green', now bounded by Broadland Road and Hickling Drive.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, The Home Farmhouse
Date:
nd
Caption:
The Agent's House situated on the east side of the park with the Model Home Farm. The house is built of cut flint with white brick facings, inside it has a drawing room, morning room, breakfast room, large kitchen and four bedrooms, bathroom. Patrick Fulcher offered the following information:- I think this photograph was taken around 1925, as this is the year that my grandfather, Lionel Fulcher, moved from Grange Farm, Eastgate Street, to Home Farm, Hardwick. The British Sugar Corporation purchased his land for the construction of the sugar beet factory.
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Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, The Home Farm, outbuildings
Date:
nd
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Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Park Lane Cottage, Hawstead
Date:
1924
Caption:
The cottage has a plaque inscribed 'TGC 1845' ( Revd. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum ). This is one of several estate cottages with three wings.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Dairy Cottage, Home Farm Lane
Date:
nd
Caption:
This cottage was copied from a Swiss model in the 1840s. The circular plaque with the Virgin and Child was removed in the 1970s.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Horsecroft Farm
Date:
1924
Caption:
The farmhouse of Horsecroft Farm in Horsecroft Road.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, lodge gates
Date:
1924
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Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Gamekeepers cottage
Date:
1924
Caption:
Gamekeepers cottage in Hardwick Lane.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting, 'Connoisseur's Studio'
Date:
1679
Caption:
Oil on canvas 58 x 87. ' Connoisseur's Studio' by Jacobus Smeyes in 1679 Bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting, View of Venice
Date:
nd
Caption:
'View of Venice' by E.W. Cooke RA
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting
Date:
nd
Caption:
View of the Pantheon in Rome
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting
Date:
nd
Caption:
View of the Colosseum in Rome
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting
Date:
nd
Caption:
View in Rome
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting
Date:
nd
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Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting
Date:
pre 1921
Caption:
This painting of Christ, the Virgin and St Anne, from the school of Albrecht Durer, (1471-1528) was left to St Edmundsbury Cathedral by G G M Gibson Cullum. It now serves as the reredos to the altar in St Edmund's chapel.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting
Date:
nd
Caption:
Possibly Ancient House, Ipswich
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Painting, Wolves Attacking A Boar
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Thomas Cullum 1st Bart.
Date:
Caption:
Oil on canvas 113 x 94cms, attributed to Gerard Soest. Sir Thomas Cullum, Sheriff of London in 1646; Lord of the Manor of Hawstead and Hardwick; created Baronet in 18th June, 1660. Married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas Crispe of the city of London. Died in 1664 aged 77 and is buried in Hawstead. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921 by the last surviving member of the Cullum family.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Thomas Cullum 2nd Bart
Date:
c 1680.
Caption:
Oil on canvas 75 x 62 cm. The painting is attributed to Peter Lely [1618 - 1680] and shows Thomas, eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Cullum 1st Bt. and Mary (nee Crispe] . He married, in 1656, Dudley, daughter of Sir Henry North of Mildenhall. Died in 1680 aged 47 and buried in Hawstead Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Dudley, Lady Cullum (1637-80)
Date:
c 1670
Caption:
Oil on canvas 74 x 62cm. Peter Lely (1618-1680). Dudley, daughter of Sir Henry North of Mildenhall and Sarah, daughter of John Rayney of Kent. Married Sir Thomas Cullum 2nd Bt. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Thomas Cullum, Bart.
Date:
nd
Caption:
Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm. Attributed to Mary Beale, [1633-1699] Britain's first professional woman artist.. Thomas (1662-1700) was the second son of Sir Thomas Cullum 2nd Bart. and Dudley, daughter of Sir Henry North of Mildenhall. Thomas was a friend of John Hervey (later 1st Earl of Bristol) and a suitor of his sister Isabella. He died unmarried and his love letters to Isabella form part of the Cullum archives in the Bury St Edmunds Record Office. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Dionesse, daughter of William Cullum [1660-97]
Date:
nd
Caption:
Oil on canvas 74 x 62cm. Edmund Farrer [Portraits 1908] identifies this as a copy of the original, by Verlest, at Brent Eleigh Hall. Dionesse, born 1660, was the daughter of William Cullum of Thorndon and Mary , daughter of Edward Colman of Brent Eleigh. She married Robert Colman of Brent Eleigh, her mother's first cousin, and died there in 1697. .A similar portrait is in the ownership of the Borough of St Edmundsbury.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, John Cullum
Date:
nd
Caption:
Oil on canvas 127 x 99. British (English) school of painting. Second son of Sir Thomas Cullum, 1st Bart. Born 1635 and died in 1710. Married Anne, daughter of Thomas Lawrence of Woodborough, Wiltshire. Father of Sir Jasper. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough Council in 1921
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Mrs John Cullum
Date:
c 1690
Caption:
Oil on canvas 123cms x 100cms. British [English] School. Anne, daughter of Thomas Lawrence, of Woodborough, Wiltshire. Married in 1662 when she was about aged 18 to John Cullum, draper. Died March 1698 and is buried with her husband at the Church of All Hallows, Lombard Street. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Dudley Cullum
Date:
nd
Caption:
Miniature, Sir Dudley Cullum, 3rd Bart. (d. 1726).
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Dudley Cullum
Date:
nd
Caption:
In the collection of miniatures the lower one is of Sir Dudley Cullum, 3rd Bart. [died 1726]
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, portrait, Anne , Lady Cullum
Date:
c 1690
Caption:
Oil on canvas 72 x 60cm. Artist Olive Munro. ( After Godfrey Kneller ) . Portrait bequeathed to St Edmundsbury in 1921
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Anne, Lady Cullum
Date:
nd
Caption:
Oil on canvas 72 x 60 cm. By Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) Anne Wyatt [1700-36] of Burseldon, Hampshire, married Sir Jasper Cullum 4th Bart.in 1728. Died 9th of February 1736 aged 36 and is buried at Hawstead. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St. Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir John Cullum 5th Bart.
Date:
nd
Caption:
Sir John Cullum, 5th Bt., oil on canvas 75 x 62 cms by Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland. John was the only child and heir of Sir Jasper Cullum of Hawstead and Hardwick. He died in 1774 aged 75 and is buried in Hawstead. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Jane, wife of Sir John Cullum
Date:
1729
Caption:
Oil on canvas 74 x 62 cm. by Michael I Dahl (1656/9 -1743). Jane, daughter of Thomas Deane of Hampshire, married John Cullum, later 5th Bart. in 1728. Died in 1730. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Lady Susanna Cullum
Date:
c 1780
Caption:
Oil on canvas 75 x 61 by Angelica Kauffman. Daughter of Sir Thomas Gery of Great Ealing, Middlesex, she married, as his second wife, Sir John Cullum, later 5th Bt. She died 1783 and is buried at Hawstead. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Rev Sir John Cullum 6th Bart.
Date:
1778
Caption:
Oil on canvas 75 x 62cm. By Angelica Kauffmann (1714 - 1807). Rev. Sir John Cullum FRS., FSA., 6th Bart. [1733-1785]. Eldest son of Sir John Cullum, 5th Bart. and Susanna, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Gery. This portrait was engraved as the frontispiece to his early local history book 'The History and Antiquities of Hawstead and Hardwick' 1784. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum 7th Bart.
Date:
c 1800
Caption:
Oil on canvas 75 x 62 George Keith Ralph 1752-1811. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, second son of Sir John Cullum, born 1741, married 1774 to Mary, daughter of Robert Hanson. Died 1831 and buried at Hawstead. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Lady Mary Cullum
Date:
1773
Caption:
oil on canvas 75 x 62. Painted by Joseph Samuel Webster. Lady Mary Cullum, wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum 7th Bart. Died in 1830 and buried in Hawstead. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum 8th Bart
Date:
1824
Caption:
Oil on canvas 92 x 67 cms by Ferdinando Cavalleri. Revd. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th Bart. Died 1855 Portrait bequeathed to St Edmundsbury Council in 1921
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Mary Ann Eggers
Date:
1830
Caption:
Lady Mary Ann Cullum, nee Eggers (d.1830), first wife of Revd. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, (later 8th Bart.), whom she married in 1805.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th Bart.
Date:
c 1830
Caption:
Oil on canvas 95 x 74 by John Whitehead Walton. Revd Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th Bart. Eldest son of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 7th Bart. Died in 1855 in his seventy-ninth year. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Lady Anne Cullum
Date:
nd
Caption:
Lady Ann Cullum, nee Lloyd (d. 1875) second wife of Revd Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th Bt., whom she married in 1832. Painting by Sir William Boxall.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Mrs Milner-Gibson 1840
Date:
1840
Caption:
Oil on canvas 45 x 35cms. by Sir William Boxall R A (1800-1879). Susanna Arethusa, only child of Revd. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum 8th Bt. and Mary Anna, daughter of Henry Eggers of Woodford, Essex; married Thomas Milner Gibson of Theberton House, Suffolk in 1832. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921..
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Thomas Milner Gibson
Date:
1843
Caption:
Watercolour by Charles Allen Duval. Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884) came from a Suffolk family. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where is father was an army officer. In 1837 Gibson was elected to Parliament as a Conservative member for Ipswich, but resigned 2 years later having adopted Liberal views, and became a supporter of the Free Trade movement. He re-entered Parliament in 1841 and became President of the Board of Trade (1859-1866) in Lord Palmerston's government. He married Arethusa Susannah, daughter of Thomas Gery Cullum, in 1832.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Mrs Susanna Arethusa Milner-Gibson
Date:
nd
Caption:
Watercolour by Charles S. Forbes. Susanna Arethusa, only child of Rev. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th and last baronet. Died 1885.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Thomas Milner Gibson
Date:
nd
Caption:
Watercolour by C S Forbes.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Susanna Arethusa Cullum
Date:
1850
Caption:
Oil on canvas 29 x 24 by Spiridione Gambardella. Susanna Arethusa Cullum [1815 - 1886], only child of Revd Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th Bart. She married Thomas Milner Gibson in 1832 and was the mother of George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Jasper Milner Gibson
Date:
c1854
Caption:
Miniature, Jasper Milner Gibson (1852-98), child as Cupid. Miniature painted about 1854 . Copy from a miniature by Mme Lamuniere. Jasper Joseph Alexander, son of Rt. Hon Thomas Milner Gibson by Susanna Arethusa, only child of Revd Sir Thomas Gery Cullum; born 1852, educated at Eton; married Elizabeth Isidore Parsons of Columbus, Ohio. Died 2 April 1898 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Thomas Dudley Milner-Gibson
Date:
nd
Caption:
Miniatures of Thomas Dudley, son of the Rt Hon Thomas Milner-Gibson and his wife Susanna Arethusa. Born in 1845 and died in China in 1863 and was buried in Happy Valley Cemetery, Hong Kong.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sydney Isabella Milner-Gibson
Date:
1872
Caption:
Oil on canvas 126 x 99 by James Tissot 1836-1902. Portrait of Miss Milner-Gibson painted during the artist's residence in London in 1872. Sydney Isabella was the daughter of Rt. Hon.Thomas Milner-Gibson M.P. and Susanna Arethusa, daughter of Revd. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum 8th Bart. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, George Gery Milner-Gibson Cullum, aged 3
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, George Gery Milner-Gibson Cullum
Date:
1885
Caption:
Oil on canvas 72 x 49 cms by Charles Stuart Forbes. Son of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Milner-Gibson by his wife Susanna Arethusa, daughter of the Revd Sir Thomas Gery Cullum. He adopted the name Cullum in order to obtain title to his Grandmother's estates at Hardwick House, which he occupied as his chief place of residence when he was of age. The painting was commissioned for his 21st birthday. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921..
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, George Gery Cullum
Date:
c1880
Caption:
Portrait by George Forbes. George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum[ 1857-1921]. Succeeded in 1875 to estates of Hardwick and Hawstead, and granted by Royal Sign Mauel, name and arms of Cullum, 13 December 1878. Despite his inheritance and adoption of the family name, certain technicalities prevented him from bequeathing the estate as he chose. After his death it devolved to the State and the house was subsequently demolished.
Title
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1913
Caption:
Mr Cullum, (1857-1921) of Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds. Mayor of Bury St Edmunds from 1913-1914
Title
George Gery Milner Gibson Cullum, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1913
Caption:
Mr Cullum, (1857-1921) of Hardwick House, Mayor of Bury St Edmunds from 1913-1914. (See 3935 as Cardinal Beaufort in the Pageant of 1907)
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Robert Harland 2nd Bart.
Date:
c 1850
Caption:
126 x 102. Oil on canvas. After Charles Cole. Sir Robert Harland married in 1801, Arethusa Vernon, (1777-1860) daughter of Henry Vernon and Jane Cullum. This portrait had previously been identified as Sir Thomas Cullum 8th Bart. but more recently recognised as a copy of the portrait of Sir Robert Harland 2nd Bart. by Charles Cole in the collections of Ipswich Museums.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sydney Milner Gibson
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, James l
Date:
1610
Caption:
James 1 [1566-1625] King of England 1603-1625 Portrait painted in 1610
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Elizabeth Drury
Date:
nd
Caption:
Miss Elizabeth Drury, second daughter of Sir Robert Drury Knt of Hawstead, by Anne his wife, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon Bart of Redgrave. She died in 1610 aged 15.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Charles Howard
Date:
nd
Caption:
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, [ 1536 - 1624 ] Lord High Admiral of England.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Louis de Bourbon II
Date:
nd
Caption:
Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, 1621-1686
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, General George Fleetwood
Date:
nd
Caption:
Right side, General George Fleetwood, regicide, one of Cromwell's Upper House. Miniature pale blue enamelled locket by Samuel Cooper, 1647. Purchased by Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (possibly the figure in the miniature on the left).
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, George Monk, Duke of Albermarle
Date:
nd
Caption:
Small portrait on copper. George Monk, celebrated general under Cromwell, who, for his exertions in restoring the monarchy was created, by Charles ll, on 7 July 1670, Baron Monk of Potheridge in the county of Devon, and Duke of Albermarle. He died in 1670.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Colonel John Strode
Date:
c 1675
Caption:
Oil on canvas 124 x 100cm. attributed to John Hayls(1600-1679). Col. John Strode, son of Sir George Strode of Westerham, Kent, and Rebecca (nee) Crispe, sister-in-law of Sir Thomas Cullum 1st Bart. He married Mary Savile of Methlay, Yorkshire, and their daughter Savilia married Thomas Cullum of Ealing, Middlesex in 1717. The painting may have been commissioned to commemorate Strode's appointment as Governor of Dover Castle (which appears in the background) and Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Unknown Gentleman
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown man with crown
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown lady
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait
Date:
nd
Caption:
With rose and skull
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of unknown man
Date:
17th century
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, 17th cent clergyman
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Mrs Thomas Levett
Date:
nd
Caption:
Joanna, daughter of John Jaques of Epworth in Lincolnshire. Died 1708
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Sir Robert Davers Bart
Date:
c 1756
Caption:
Sir Robert Davers, 5th Bt, by Pompeo Battoni, Rome. Robert, eldest son of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Bt. Born 1731 and died in 1763, killed by Indians in America.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, portrait, Prince James Francis Edward Stuart
Date:
nd
Caption:
Prince James Francis Stuart, Chevalier de St George, son of James ll and Mary of Modena, styled 'The Old Pretender'. Born 1668. Died in Rome, 1766, after various abortive attempts to regain the Crown of England
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Prince Charles Edward Louis
Date:
nd
Caption:
Prince Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart, 'The Young Pretender', 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', Grandson of James II and son of Prince James Francis. Died in 1788
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Admiral Augustus John Hervey
Date:
c 1770
Caption:
Oil on canvas. 125 x 103 cms by Joshua Reynolds. Admiral Hervey is depicted in the uniform of a Captain in the Royal Navy. In the background is a representation of his most notable naval action, the bombardment of the fort of San Sebastian in Cuba. His left hand holds a map of the fort with the dispositions of the British squadron, including the names of the principal ships involved. He later became 3rd Earl of Bristol Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury 1921..
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown Lady
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an unknown lady
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Arethusa Vernon
Date:
1796
Caption:
A miniature by Peter Paillou. Arethusa (1777-1860), daughter of Henry Vernon and Jane Cullum, married Sir Robert Harland in 1801. They lived initially at Wherstead Lodge, which Sir Robert built in 1792, later moving to Orwell Park. In 1812 Sir Robert was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of a young lady
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an 18th century clergyman
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Dorothea Ray, Lady Rawlinson
Date:
nd
Caption:
Died 1743. Portrait by Thomas Hudson.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of an 18th century lady
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Henry Eggers of Woodford, Essex
Date:
nd
Caption:
Water-colour copy by Miss Cruickshanks of a picture by Henry Richter, nephew of Henry Eggers' wife. Henry Eggers was Father-in-law of Rev'd Thomas Gery Cullum, later 8th Bart. of Hardwick. Died 1806.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Margaret Eggers, nee Haig
Date:
nd
Caption:
Water-colour copy by Miss Cruickshank of a picture by Henry Richter, Margaret's nephew. Wife of Henry Eggers of Woodford, Essex. Mother-in-law of Rev'd Thomas Gery Cullum, later 8th Bt. of Hardwick.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of a Victorian lady
Date:
1900
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of unknown man
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait of a Gentleman
Date:
nd
Caption:
Portrait of a gentleman, 1850. Artist is Henry William Pickersgill. Oil on canvas 63 x 52. Portrait bequeathed to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in 1921.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Unknown Naval Officer
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait, Mrs Archibald Robertson
Date:
nd
Caption:
Giovanna, wife of General Archibald Robertson, one of the Governors of the East India Company. Watercolour, showing her dressed in eastern costume, with a fan in her hand and an eastern temple in the distance.
Title
Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds, Portrait , Isabella Glover, Mrs Wootton
Date:
nd
Caption:
Water colour by Anna Bradstreet. Isabelle, daughter of Henry Glover, married first Thomas Milner-Gibson, Major in the army; and second, William Whiting Wootton, Captain in West Suffolk Militia. She died in 1856
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Following the death of the last male member of the Cullum family in 1921, the estate was sold, in lots, between 1924 and 1926. Mr H W Hewitt, a High Court Judge, of Kensington, purchased the gardener's cottage and 50 acres of the former park. The cottage was rebuilt and enlarged in 1926-7 into a mock-Tudor mansion. The interior incorporated the staircase timbers and panelling from Hardwick House. The cottage was somewhat confusingly called Hardwick Manor, to reflect its enhanced status. A new drive was laid from the junction of Hardwick Lane and Vinery Road. The walling and gates from the drive to Hardwick House, adjacent to the lodge gates, were moved to the new entrance, where they remain today.
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
Nov-36
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, front of house
Date:
1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front
Date:
1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden front with gates
Date:
nd [c 1926 - 1930s?]
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Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, walled garden
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, walled garden
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, fountain in garden
Date:
1924
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, sundial
Date:
c1930
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Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c 1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c 1930
Caption:
see K505/0159
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, ground floor room
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, first floor landing and staircase
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, first floor landing and staircase
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, first floor landing and staircase
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bedroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bedroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bedroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bedroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
see K505/159
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bedroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bedroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
see K505/159
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, bathroom
Date:
c1930
Caption:
see K505/0159
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, Elizabethan chest
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, French mirror
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, view in garden
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, view in garden
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick, Bury St Edmunds, estate house
Date:
c1930
Caption:
There were several of these three winged houses built by Thomas Gery Cullum around the estate. This one might be in Hardwick Lane.
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, estate house
Date:
c1930
Caption:
One of several such houses built on the estate by Thomas Gery Cullum. This one might be in Horsecroft Road.
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, gates from drive to Hardwick Lane
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, gates from drive to Hardwick Lane
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, entrance gates
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Hardwick Manor, Bury St Edmunds, garden urns
Date:
c1924
Caption:
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1890
Caption:
The house, originally called 'St Edmund's Hill', was designed by Robert Adam for John Symonds (1730-1807), Recorder of Bury and Professor of Modern History and Languages at Cambridge. The foundation stone was laid on 12th April 1773, a year before Adam's other Bury building, the Market Cross.
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
South front - meet of hounds.
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
19th century hallway and staircase.
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
The house was designed as a cube with an entrance on the south and a rounded two-storey bay on the west front. A mid-19th century two-storey wing was added on the east side, with a Jacobean style staircase. The name changed to Moreton Hall in August 1890. It has been a Roman Catholic Prep School since 1962.
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
West and South fronts
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
South front, meet of the hounds.
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Ground floor room.
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1890
Caption:
Ground floor room
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Hall shown with Jacobean style staircase
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Ground floor room
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Interior
Title
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Ground floor room.
Title
Beech Hill House, Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1895
Caption:
House was built in 1850 and was known locally as Mr Nunn's house. According to the Directories, Henry Turner lived there from c1855 to c1879 and Mrs Sarah Turner from 1883 to 1885. At various times Henry Turner is described as Curator of the Botanic Gardens and Hon Librarian of the Mechanics Institute.
Title
Beech Hill House, Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1895
Caption:
Title
Beech Hill House, Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Photo shows that the house has been greatly altered. Original small-paned sash windows have been replaced on the west and east sides with double-height bay windows. The house was later sold in 1947/8 to the Health Authority.
Title
Hawstead Place, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Hawstead Place was the home of the Drury and Cullum families from the 16th to the 18th centuries, until they moved to Hardwick House. The gate piers form part of a walled garden and commemorate the marriage between Thomas Hanmer and Peregrine North in 1675. This took place in the private chapel and the Cullum nieces of the bride were bridesmaids.
Title
Highbury House, Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Rear view of the gardens, which, in 1915 included a vinery, pleasure and kitchen gardens. The house is timber framed, part dating from the 17th century, which was Georgianised in 1820. It is difficult to date this image, but documented evidence indicates somewhere between 1886 and 1926. The house continues to be in domestic use, but in the 1950s served as a Nurses' Hostel for the West Suffolk Health Authority.
Title
St Mary's Square House, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Rear view. Grade 11 listed building. Mrs Frances Marion Blake lived there c1885-c1908. In the mid 20th century the building became the Square House Hotel. Since 1981 it has been St Edmunds Nursing Home.
Title
Westgate House, Bury St Edmunds, Westgate Street
Date:
1866
Caption:
From at least 1836 until June 1866 this was a private school run by Sarah Ann Winkfield. Edward Greene, brewer, purchased the property in 1865 and, following the transfer of the school, had it rebuilt in 1866. Westgate House now became the town house of Edward Greene M.P. and was occupied in turn by members of the Lake family, also partners in Greene King Brewery. Sometime between 1916 and 1925 the Lakes moved out of the building, which was subsequently used by various departments of the West Suffolk County Council, eventually becoming Peatling and Cauldron, wine merchants in the 1960's.
Title
St Andrews House, 13 St Andrews Street North, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Home of William Chapman, tailor and outfitter of Cornhill and Buttermarket. Directories show that he was living here from 1879 to 1908. The house stood back from the street and a semi-circular drive leading to the front door. It has since been demolished and replaced by an office block also called St Andrews House.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1880s
Caption:
The Depot of the Suffolk Regiment in the 1880s, soon after its opening, viewed from the Westley Road. The Suffolk Regiment was formed in 1685 when King James 11 ordered the Duke of Norfolk to raise a regiment against the threatened Monmouth rebellion. The regiment included men from Norfolk and Suffolk and had often depended upon the Suffolk Militia for recruits. These links were formally recognised in 1873 when the depot of the regiment was established in Bury St Edmunds, and the barracks to house the depot were built in 1878. In 1881 the regiment became the Suffolk Regiment with the West Suffolk Militia.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1880s
Caption:
The Depot of the Suffolk Regiment in the 1880s, soon after its opening, viewed from the Westley Road.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1880s
Caption:
Soldiers on duty outside the Barracks
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Parade
Date:
1912
Caption:
The 2nd Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, on parade on one of its very rare visits to the Regimental Depot. Behind them are the 3rd Militia, Battalion, a contingent of the Suffolk Yeomanry and (in civilian dress) men of the National Reserve. The photograph was taken on 21st September 1912, when the 2nd Battalion happened to be in East Anglia on annual Army Manoeuvres. ôThe 'toy fort' design was typical of these buildings and was no doubt meant to impress the local population. The Keep is one of the few Keeps from the 1870s to survive in military use; it, and the surviving boundary walls, are Grade II Listed Buildings. The Keep today (2010) houses the Regimental Headquarters of the Royal Anglian Regiment, the local Army Recruiting Office and the Suffolk Regimental Museum.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Parade
Date:
1908
Caption:
The Third Suffolk Regiment at Gibraltar Barracks
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Officers Group
Date:
1907
Caption:
The officers of the Suffolk Regiment Depot, outside the Officers' Mess, with two survivors of the wreck of the troopship 'Birkenhead': Pte. John Smith (front row, first left) and Cpl. William Smith (front row, second left). Six of the officers are wearing their South African (Boer) War medals. ôSee K505/2545
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Group
Date:
1914
Caption:
The Battalion lined up on the parade ground at the Suffolk Regiment Depot, around 1914. The identity of the Battalion is unknown but is believed to the 5th Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, the Territorial Battalion recruited in West Suffolk.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Group
Date:
c 1922
Caption:
A group of Suffolk Regiment soldiers in front of one of the two barrack blocks at the Regimental Depot. They are believed to be the permanent staff of the Depot together with a squad of recruits under training. The photograph was taken around 1922.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Group of Sergeants
Date:
c 1920
Caption:
A group of Suffolk Regiment Sergeants in the early 1920s. All are Great War veterans and at least one is wearing campaign medals of the South African (Boer) War. The photograph is taken in front of one of the two soldiers' barrack blocks at the Regimental Depot.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Group of Corporals
Date:
c 1925
Caption:
A group of Suffolk Regiment Corporals in the mid-1920s. The photograph is taken in front of one of the two soldiers' barrack blocks at the Regimental Depot.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Officers Group
Date:
1920s
Caption:
A group of Suffolk Regiment Officers outside the Officers' Mess at the Regimental Depot in the 1920s.
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, Officers Group
Date:
1920s
Caption:
A group of Suffolk Regiment Officers outside the Officers' Mess at the Regimental Depot in the 1920s
Title
Barracks, Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, exterior from North
Date:
Dec-59
Caption:
Taken for Colonel Hopking. If the date is correct, this photograph was taken a few months after the merger of the Suffolk Regiment with the Royal Norfolk Regiment to form the 1st East Anglian Regiment. Curiously, however, the Suffolk Regiment flag is still flying. The building to the left of the Keep was the gymnasium; the building to the right of the gateway was the Guard Room. Both were later demolished.
Title
Regimental Cottages, Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1904
Caption:
This pair of red brick cottages was built by subscription in memory of the officers and men of the Suffolk Regiment who lost their lives in South Africa 1899-1902. They also commemorated Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, who died in South Africa. Accommodation was offered to aged or disabled pensioners of the regiment. A plaque above the door shows the Regimental Crest and the date 1903, when the building was completed. It was officially opened on 12th April 1904 by HRH Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, third daughter of Queen Victoria, and founder, in 1907, of the Princess Christian's Army Nursing Reserves, who tended the sick and wounded in the Boer War. The photograph was taken before modernisation in 1963, in memory of Capt Robert de Z Mansen, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, killed in action near Dunkirk 1940.
Title
Militia on Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Military Cycle Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25 May 1893
Caption:
The Suffolk Yeomanry, later the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, was formed in 1793 by Arthur Young of Bradfield Combust. In celebration of the centenary, the Duke of York, later George V, reviewed the Hussars on Angel Hill, 25 May 1893. He also conferred on them the title of the 'Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars'. The Duke joined officers for lunch at Warwick House in Hatter Street, which was later named York House. Earlier in the day a review was held at Ickworth Park. Mr J P Clarke and Mr Spanton took photographs at Ickworth and Angel Hill. Mr Clarke took photographs at Warwick House.
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25 May 1893
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25 May 1893
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25 May 1893
Caption:
Officers and wives at Warwick House, Hatter Street.
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25 May 1893
Caption:
Officers and wives at Warwick House, Hatter Street
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Ickworth Park, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25th May 1893
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry, Ickworth Park, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
25th May 1893
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Militia, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Yeomanry Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
In the years before the Great War, the Regular Army was supplemented by volunteer units. In Suffolk, the Infantry volunteers were, from 1908, a formal part of the Suffolk Regiment, as its 4th, 5th and 6th Battalions. The Suffolk Cavalry volunteers, however, remained separate: they were the Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars, known popularly as the Suffolk Yeomanry. During the Great War they fought at Gallipoli, in Egypt and France; in January 1917 they were absorbed into the Suffolk Regiment for the duration of the war and fought as dismounted infantry as the regiment's 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion (territorial forces).
Title
'D. Squadron' (Cavalry), Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Yeomanry Memorial, St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
May-28
Caption:
The Yeomanry lost 14 officers and 171 men during the Great War and they are commemorated on a white alabaster plaque mounted on the wall behind the Suffolk Regiment Cenotaph in St. Wolstan's Chapel in St Mary 's Church in Bury St. Edmunds. The plaque was designed by the Craftsmen's Guild of London; it was unveiled on 3rd June 1928 by the Duke of Gloucester (a younger son of King George V) and dedicated by the Revd Canon A.R.H. Grant, Chaplain to the King. ôThe memorial plaque is at the rear left of the photograph, below the left-hand window. The Duke stands in front of the plaque; the figure with his back to the pillar on the right is Major-General Sir John Ponsonby, Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment.
Title
Suffolk Military Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1931
Caption:
The first battalion Suffolk Volunteers with Archdeacon Hodges, chaplain of the Territorial Forces for 24 years.
Title
Sargt Springett on horse
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Guildhall, Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
pre 1887
Caption:
Exterior from the south, taken before the Constitutional Club was built in 1887. The Guildhall was built in the first half of the thirteenth century, but the coursed flint work of its walls on the north, west and south sides are now covered with early nineteenth century brick work. It was at first the home of the guild merchants, but, after this guild was suppressed in the litigation following the 1327 revolt, it subsequently became the home of the guild of the Purification of Our Lady, commonly known as the Candlemas guild..
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1860
Caption:
Exterior, the porch. The straight edges in the masonry on the south side of the porch show that it has been enlarged. It was remodelled between 1481 and 1492 to provide safe storage space, in the upper room, for both the money arising from the charities which were administered by Candlemas guild and for the title deeds of the land with which these charities were endowed.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1860
Caption:
Exterior, showing garden area to the north. Since the 16th century, if not earlier, there has been a chamber wing at the back of the Guildhall. It seems probable that the medieval arrangements of the space included an undercroft, which could have afforded storage space for large items, such as the pageants on which the medieval mystery plays were performed. A chapel may well also have been provided in the medieval Guildhall.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
pre 1887
Caption:
Exterior, from the north, showing the garden area to the north of the Guildhall on which the Constitutional Club was built in 1887. ô
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
post 1887
Caption:
Exterior from the south. After 1887, but probably early 20th century.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Exterior, from the north in Guildhall Street.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd [mid 20th century]
Caption:
Interior of porch, showing the inner entrance arch, which dates, along with the walls from the first half of the thirteenth century.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
After 1877
Caption:
Interior, the south hall or banqueting room. From 1848 until the early years of the twentieth century, the Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk Library hired this room. This photograph was taken after 1877, when the Corporation began to use this room for their monthly meetings and bought the council table and chairs, which are shown in this image.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
Interior of the north hall or court room. The room is arranged for a sitting of one of the borough courts, with the maces displayed on either side of the portrait of James I and the sword of state on the table in front of the bench. This photograph should be compared with K505/2186, which is an earlier view.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Interior, north hall or court room. The room arranged for a court, with Alderman John Ridley Hooper, mayor, seated behind the bench. 1893-94 or, possibly, later.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
post 1887
Caption:
Interior, south hall or banqueting room. From 1848 until the early years of the twentieth century, the Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk Library hired this room. This photograph was taken after 1877, when the Corporation began to use this room for their monthly meetings and bought the council table and chairs which are shown in this image.
Title
Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Interior, north hall or court room, possibly mid-nineteenth century. From the incorporation of the borough of Bury St Edmunds in 1606 until 1966, the Corporation met in the Guildhall, and the borough courts were held there.
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[1945]
Caption:
The Suffolk General Hospital, Hospital Road, opened on 4 January 1825 in a former Napoleonic Ordnance Depot, the 'footprint' of which is the central range and flanking towers. The hospital was extended in 1861, the balconies being added in 1908. Until 1948 the hospital was voluntary and wards were named after local benefactors, such as Bristol (of Ickworth) Praed (of Ousden) and Hasted (of Bury). A new hospital opened at Hardwick Lane in 1974 and these buildings were demolished for housing in 1979. Some of the buildings became Cornwallis Court, a Masonic Retirement Home, in 1981
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1940s
Caption:
A very spartan looking room, probably dating from the 1940s, it appears to be have been used for eye-tests. Note the ashtray on the table.
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
An operating theatre at the Suffolk General Hospital with patient and medical staff. The name of the surgeon is recorded as Dr H M Bird and the anaesthetist, Dr E J Cockram. At this hospital one of the earliest uses of anaesthesia in an operation was made by Dr John Kilner in 1847.
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
View of operating theatre
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
The immaculate but spartan maternity ward at the Suffolk General Hospital. The beds have a frame at the bottom for attaching the baby's cot.
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
External view of Outdoor Patients Department
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
This room is recorded as being the 'Outdoor Patients Department' presumably what we now call 'Outpatients'.
Title
The Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
External view of Outdoor Patients Department
Title
West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Feb-56
Caption:
View of ward
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1902
Caption:
Exterior of Moyses Hall Museum in the early 1900s. The Museum opened in 1899 and for a few years the Great Eastern Railway Co used the western part of the ground floor as a parcels receiving office. On the right, workmen are erecting a pole for the National Telephone Company's Service which opened c1902.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Moyses Hall
Date:
c1902
Caption:
The lack of notice boards may indicate that the photograph was taken after the building became the Borough Museum.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Carving of the head of St Edmund below the upper window. Provenance of the carving is unknown but the window was inserted in the 15th century.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1890s
Caption:
The West Gallery 1892-1896 when used as a parcels office for the Great Eastern Railway
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1899
Caption:
The undercroft c1899-1900. Probably photographed at or just after opening as a museum. The opening ceremony was performed by Lord John Hervey 31st May 1899.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1890s
Caption:
Although use of building as a fire station was proposed, it was never fully taken up, as the proposal would have required the removal of stone work and columns in order to accommodate the fire engine. Luckily public outcry was heeded and plans were then developed to use the building as a museum. This picture may have been taken when the building was in use as a police station, prior to the police move to the new station in St John's Street in 1892 or shortly after.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1899
Caption:
Shows 'Solar' with first floor west-end window facing south. Dressed with furniture loaned by local collectors for the opening exhibition of 1899.
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
early 1900s
Caption:
Bronze objects in Museum seem to be from early catalogue possibly 1903
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1973/1974
Caption:
A view of the undercroft. The dust sheet in the distance dates it to 1973-74 when access to 41 Cornhill [formerly Townsends shop] was facilitated. The china is part of the Cullum bequest. The megamorphic chair-table and gate leg table were made by the poet Robert Bloomfield
Title
Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1905
Caption:
The undercroft of Moyses Hall in the first decade of the 20th century. The photograph illustrates the Norman column with cushion capitals supporting the transitional arches, dated to c 1180.
Title
Fire Brigade, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Jul-06
Caption:
The Headquarters of the Borough Fire Brigade opened in 1899, in the southern end of the former Provisions Market. The poster in the window advertises a demonstration by the Brigade on 'Lifeboat Day', 21 July 1906. The 1908 County Directory records that the Fire Brigade 'consisted of a captain, sub-captain, Lieutenant and 24 men, was formed in 1885; the Brigade is well-equipped having one steam and two manual engines and a fire escape'. Everyone and everything seem to have turned out for the photographer.
Title
Sicklesmere Road, Bury St Edmunds, Bury Gaol
Date:
Caption:
Designed in 1805 by George Byfield and enlarged by William Wilkins in 1821. The plan is based on Jeremy Bentham's 'Panopticon' with an octagonal Governor's house and chapel [now 'The Fort'] at the centre; with radiating cell block and exercise yards in between. The first Governor, until 1844, was John Orridge who became a respected authority on prison management. Here, he introduced a tread wheel to grind corn, and classification of prisoners. He was invited by the Government in 1819 to write a book about prison management for the Emperor of Russia. ô
Title
Sicklesmere Road, Bury St Edmunds, Bury Gaol, gatehouse
Date:
c 1880
Caption:
The impressive facade, with a central raised gatehouse, is constructed of stone blocks carved with vermiculated rustication [worm casts]. The flat platform over the doorway was used for public executions, the last of which occurred in 1851. John Orridge was a governor here. His son-in-law, Patrick MacIntyre, was the governor when the gaol closed in 1880 and the prisoners moved to Ipswich gaol.
Title
Railway Station, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1853 - 1854
Caption:
The Railway linked Bury to Ipswich in December 1846, and the line extended to Newmarket in April 1854. Only one platform was in use until this time. Perhaps the photograph was taken to commemorate the opening. The station building was designed by Sancton Wood (1816-1885) and the main contractors were Brassey and Ogilvie, with the wooden roof covering the tracks built by local builder, John Trevethan. Information already published suggests the date can be deduced by the arrival of the telegraph in Bury in December 1853; one telegraph pole can be seen at the east end of the roof, the service was extended in 1854 creating a need for a pole at each end.
Title
Railway Station, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1870]
Caption:
Since 1853-4 a roof has been erected over the three arches. The locomotive is a 'Little Sharpie' 2-4-0 built 1867-72. Note the cabs and omnibuses awaiting customers.
Title
Railway Station, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
The roof was removed in 1893 and replaced with the present canopies over the platforms, which were extended westward to accommodate longer trains. The station master's house now has a two bay-windowed extension. A long canopy has been erected over the passenger entrance.
Title
College Street, Bury St Edmunds, Workhouse
Date:
1878-1884
Caption:
Looking north towards the 'Factory' wing, which was converted to dwellings c2002. The lower gable on the left, and the single storey building on the right, both survive as dwellings. Modern housing has been built over the area of the four-gabled building.
Title
College Street, Bury St Edmunds, Workhouse
Date:
1878-1884
Caption:
The Borough Workhouse was established in 1748, in a 17th century four-gabled building. In 1783 a northern wing, called the 'Rookery' or 'Factory' was erected. This was later to become the Schoolroom. [see K505/1742 and 1922]. The single storey pitched roofed building was the straw and oakum storehouse [K505/1742]. In 1848 an Infirmary was added at the southern[ left] end. The workhouse closed in 1878 and the paupers moved to Thingoe Union Workhouse in Hospital Road. In 1884, the complex, with the exception of the northern wing, was sold.
Title
College Street, Bury St Edmunds, Workhouse
Date:
1878-1884
Caption:
Inside the main entrance flanked by the porter's room and with the gabled earlier range of workhouses ahead.
Title
College Street, Bury St Edmunds, Workhouse
Date:
c1878-1884
Caption:
The main entrance to the workhouse was through this door on College Street.
Title
College Street, Bury St Edmunds, Workhouse
Date:
c1878-1884
Caption:
Looking west from College Street, with the 'factory' on the right and the oakum storehouse on the left.
Title
Borough Offices, Bury St Edmunds, Borough Insignia
Date:
May-66
Caption:
Title
Borough Offices, Bury St Edmunds, Borough Insignia
Date:
May-66
Caption:
Two maces and sword used during civic processions and ceremonies. The maces shown were commissioned in 1663 and the sword presented to the 'Corporation' by Sir Thomas Hervey in 1684.
Title
Enthronement of Bishop A A David, Cathedral Church of St James, Bury St Edmunds,
Date:
1921
Caption:
Albert Augustus David, whose advanced educational ideas had made him a rather unpopular headmaster of Rugby School, was appointed Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1921. He only stayed in Suffolk until 1923, when he became Bishop of Liverpool and remained there until 1950. This photograph, taken in the grounds of Abbey House, Angel Hill, and can safely be assumed to have been taken on the day of his enthronement. Photo: H.I.Jarman, 29 September 1921
Title
Cathedral Church of St James, Bury St Edmunds, The Enthronement of Bishop A A David
Date:
1921
Caption:
Group taken in the grounds of Abbey House, Angel Hill. The vicar, Canon R F Wilson is on the bishop's right. On the back row, the Diocesan registrar, J W Greene, is fifth from the left, and the Chancellor of the Diocese, F K North, is sixth from the right. Photo: H I Jarman 29 September 1921
Title
Bishop David with Diocesan Group
Date:
29-Sep-21
Caption:
The Diocesan group, with Bishop David, taken in the grounds of Abbey House, Angel Hill, includes, on the back row, from left to right, John W Greene, Diocesan Registrar, Canon R F Wilson, Vicar of St James's church, and F K North, Chancellor of the Diocese. Photo: H I Jarman 29 September 1921
Title
The Enthronement of Bishop A A David, Cathedral Church of St James, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Sep-21
Caption:
This group is probably of Canon Wilson's guests at the luncheon party before the enthronement.
Title
St James' Clergy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
St James' Clergy Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Bishop Walter Whittingham
Date:
c1923
Caption:
Walter Godfrey Whittingham [1861-1941] Third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, 1923-1940. Previously Archdeacon of Oakham, he retired in 1940 and died in 1941. He was succeeded by Richard Brook.
Title
St James' Choir, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds, Choir Group
Date:
1937
Caption:
Title
St James' Choir, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Archdeacon Hodges' Family Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Archdeacon Hodges, Vicar of St James' Church 1882-1912, and his family are posed on the steps of the former Clopton Hospital now the Deanery. When the hospital closed the building was sold and given as a vicarage for St James' Church, later becoming known as Provost's House and eventually the Deanery 1900-1912.
Title
Revd John Richardson, St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Vicar from 1857 to 1874
Title
Revd John Richardson, St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Vicar from 1857 to 1874
Title
Revd John Richardson, St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Vicar from 1857 to 1874
Title
Jarman Family, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[early 20th century
Caption:
The small boy at the left front of this photograph is Oswald Jarman, the last of the photographers whose work is represented in this collection. It was he who took steps to ensure that the more important negatives were saved. His father, Harry Isaac Jarman, sits at the head of the table towards the right. It is thought that this picture of the Jarman family at table was taken above their shop, 16 Abbeygate Street, in about 1920.
Title
Miss D. Jarman, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Suffolk Provincial Grand Masonic Lodge, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1918
Caption:
A group photograph of the Suffolk Provincial Grand Lodge taken in the Abbey Gardens. The annual meetings of the Lodge moved around the county, and in 1918 met in Bury St Edmunds. Owen Aly Clarke, the Deputy Provincial Grand Master, is seated in the centre of the second row from the front and can be identified by the slimmer collar than those seated beside him. He held this office from 1917 until his death in May 1924. He would have been deputising for the third Earl of Stradbroke, who with his son, the fourth earl, between them held the position of Provincial Grand Master for eighty years. Apart from his political and masonic career, Clarke was a working chemist, a church organist, choir master, amateur actor, prominent member of the Red Cross Society and patron of a number of local groups and Societies.
Title
William Lucia, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1878 - 1883
Caption:
William Hubbard Lucia (1821 - 1883) as past Sword Bearer of the United Grand Lodge of England, a rank he was invested with in 1878. Born in Great Yarmouth, he moved to Bury St. Edmunds in 1856 to manage a wine merchants shop. His brother, Thomas Lucia, founded the Bury and Norwich Post in 1855. William was a founder member of the Masonic Royal St. Edmunds Lodge no. 1008 in 1864, and later, the Abbey Lodge no. 1592.
Title
Railway Station Staff, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1894
Caption:
Group photograph of the station staff taken outside the north-side building, in Northgate Street. Probably taken to mark the retirement of the Station Master, Thomas Hayward in 1894. Note the clerks in their bowler hats, and on the extreme left the lowliest and youngest members of staff, i.e. the Rat Catcher and his dog and the boy.
Title
Supt William Clarke, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Superintendent of Bury District of Suffolk Police 1878-1900. From 1st January 1899 he became Divisional Superintendent and Chief Clerk of the newly formed West Suffolk Constabulary. It appears that he held the latter office in order to assist the Chief Constable in the reorganisation of the force. He lived at 26 Wells Street.
Title
West Suffolk Constabulary, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1899
Caption:
Superintendent Clarke and other officers of the Bury St Edmunds Division, of the newly formed West Suffolk Constabulary. The helmets are without badges, which were introduced in 1900 by the Chief Constable, Major A F Poulton, a former naval officer and major in the Suffolk Regiment. The officer second from the right is Stephen James Self who served in the West Suffolk Constabulary from 1889 till 1921.
Title
Thomas Hayward, Station Master, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Thomas Hayward (1832 - 1912). Retired in 1894 after 25 years as Station Master, and 46 years in the railway service.
Title
Sir Walter Greene, Bt.
Date:
nd
Caption:
Sir Walter Greene [1842 -1920] only son of Edward Greene [1815 - 1891]. He followed his father as Chairman of Greene King from 1891 to 1920. He was M.P.; J.P.;High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1897 and created a Baronet in 1900. A passionate huntsman, he was joint Master of the Suffolk Hunt in the early 1870s and Master of the Crome Hunt in Worcestershire, 1883 -88, near to his then home at Wolverton Hall Worcs. Edmund Farrer, in his 'Portraits in Suffolk Houses [west] records that the portrait is by E.R.Smythe and dated 1868. The identity of the building is unknown, but it could be part of the Ixworth Abbey estate, which Edmund leased in the 1860s.
Title
Mr O Clark, Bury St Edmunds, Mayor
Date:
1906-1907
Caption:
Alderman Owen Aly Clark, Mayor of Bury St Edmunds 1906-1907. He was a partner in the business of Nunn, Hinnell and Clark, chemists, 12-13 Abbeygate Street.
Title
Edward Greene, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Edward Greene, borne in 1815, was the first chairman of Greene King following the merger of 1887, until his death in 1891. He was also M P for Bury St Edmunds from 1865 until 1890. He purchased and rebuilt Westgate House in Thurston in 1874 and subsequently lived there. He was, for many years, Master of the Suffolk Hunt.
Title
Sergeant A. Bishop, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1884-1889
Caption:
Sergeant A. Bishop, Armoury Sergeant of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, based at Bury St. Edmunds from 1884 to 1889.
Title
Bank Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Staff of the Bank of Oakes Bevan in the Buttermarket. The gentleman seated second from the left is Oliver George Brand (1858-1930) who worked all of his life in the bank, which was later acquired by Lloyds.
Title
Mr Robert Boby, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1870s
Caption:
Born in Stanford, Norfolk, c 1816. Robert Boby's name appeared in Bury St Edmunds in 1843 where he occupied a house and buildings at 7 Meat Market (now known as 7 Cornhill) and traded as an ironmonger. In 1851 he was given the contract to install a gas lighting system in St James's Church. In 1855 he and associate Thomas Cooper Bridgman sought a patent for an invention for 'Improvements in Corn Dressing and Winnowing Machine' which had universal success. In 1859 he married his second wife, Elizabeth Garrett of Downham Market. His business success saw him acquire Home Maltings in St Andrew's Street South in 1861 and which is still part of the present company's site, and led to the name St Andrew's Work. He moved to 17 Lower Baxter Street in 1871 and died there in 1886, leaving a widow, four daughters and a son.
Title
Colonel John Robert Collins, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1894
Caption:
Colonel John Robert Collins commanding 12th Regimental District, The Barracks. He lived in 13 Northgate Street and died in 1891
Title
Volunteer cyclist group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Edward William Lake and family, Westgate House, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Edward William Lake, Managing Director of Greene King 1887-1919 shown with his wife Blanche Frapton and their six sons and six daughters, at their home, Westgate House in Westgate Street. The older, seated figure may be Catherine Dorothea Lady Haste, second wife of Edward Green and step-aunt to E W Lake. It is probable that the image includes the following members of the family; Edward William Lake [aged 49] his wife Blanche[43]. and children, Mary Blanche [23] Edward Lancelot and Muiel [twins, 19] Harold Walter [17] Phylis[16] Irene [14] Alan [13] Basil [Charles [11] Ronald [9] Henry Neville [7] Aileen Joyce [6] and Doreen Mary [2]
Title
Hospital Staff, West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Hospital staff, presumably from the West Suffolk General Hospital with a few patients. It looks like it may have been taken during the First World War, but there is no further information.
Title
Mrs Lloyd in Miss Mead's Studio, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Partington Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1881
Caption:
Thomas Wilding Partington, a member of a successful tailoring business in the town for many generations, with the family. From left to right, middle row: Anne, Jane Partington holding baby Lilly, Governess Agnes Parker and John. Front row: Grace, Florence and Alice. Missing from this photo is their last son, Frederick Gershom Partington, born 1886, and whose significant Collection of Time Measurement Instruments was bequeathed by him in 1953 to the Borough of St Edmundsbury in memory of his son.
Title
Mr Plumpton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Mr & Mrs Plumpton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Dr Robert MacNab F.R.C.S., Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Born in 1842 in Glasgow, Robert MacNab gained his medical qualifications at Glasgow University (M.D. 1861) and Edinburgh (FRS 1866) before moving to Bury St. Edmunds. In April 1867 he was elected Physician to the Suffolk General Hospital, one of three Medical Officers, the others being John Kilner and Frances Edward Image. He also acted as temporary surgeon to the Bury St Edmunds gaol. His marriage to Frances Anne, daughter of local surgeon Charles Case Smith took place on 18 June 1867. Directories show him at 86 Guildhall Street until 1894, when it seems he moved to Brighton where he was resident in 1903 and 1912.
Title
Dr Robert MacNab,F.R.C.S., Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Mrs Riley Smith, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Wife of Frank Riley Smith of Barton Hall. Her husband was Master of the Suffolk Hunt. (He appeared as Charles Brandon in the 1907 Pageant. See K505/2773)
Title
Frederick William King, St Mary's Square, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1900
Caption:
Frederick (1828-1917) was born into a Suffolk farming family from Gazely. In 1852 he married Emily, the eldest daughter of Robert Maulkin of Brinkley Grove. Emily's great grandfather was a maltster with considerable property interests in Bury St Edmunds. He had, in 1765, acquired a large Malthouse and Granary on the corner of Sparhawk Street and Westgate Street, and lived in adjoining premises in St Mary's Square. In 1855 Fred gave up farming to join the Maulkin maltings, which he managed with great success. He became a Brewer in 1868. Fred King's St Edmunds Brewery eventually merged with the adjacent brewery of Edward Greene in 1887 to form the Greene King Brewery, which continues as a significant business in the town to this day. The photograph was taken in his house in St Mary's Square in 1900.
Title
Unknown Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Caption:
.
Title
Dr and Mrs Kilner, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1895
Caption:
Dr John Kilner, MRCS, LSA, FRCS, (1820-1896) and his wife Anna Maria, nee Scott, possibly taken at their Golden Wedding Celebrations on April 16th 1895. In 1845 John moved to Bury St. Edmunds to join Dr George Creed in his Guildhall practice, also becoming Medical Officer to the workhouse. On 26th January 1847 he assisted in the first operation at Suffolk General Hospital where general anaesthetics were used. By 1849 he became surgeon to the hospital, a position he held until 1893. John and Anna had four children, founding a medical dynasty, with their son, Walter, a medical researcher in London and son, Charles, grandsons, Henry and Strangman, in practice in Bury St Edmunds. There remains a Kilner in practice here today.
Title
Kilner Family Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1906
Caption:
The Kilner family surrounding Lucy Usher Kilner, mother, probably taken in the garden of York House, 4 Hatter Street. Behind her stands her husband, Dr Charles Scott Kilner, MBE MB CM DPH 1853-1930, son of the famous Bury surgeon, John Kilner. BACK ROW left to right: GILBERT KILNER M.C 1887-1960 - engineer: SUSAN CHRISTINA KILNER, aka Chrissie, 1882-1975, eldest child. CHARLES USSHER KILNER, aka Ussher, 1883- 1916, eldest son. STRANGMAN DAVID KILNER (aka Taddy) MD DR ME 1888-1961 youngest son. FRONT ROW left to right: HENRY GOFF KILNER BSc MB BCL MRCS LRCP, honorary surgeon and radiologist at the West Suffolk General Hospital. LETTICE L'ESTRANGE KILNER MA (aka Lettie) 1900-1967, youngest child. LUCY USSHER KILNER 1855-1923 married Charles Scott Kilner in 1882. ANNA SCOTT KILNER 1884-1957, third child. Married in 1915 to Revd Leonard Elliott-Binns. DOROTHY LUCY REBECCA KILNER 1895-1974, seventh child.
Title
Kilner Family Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1906
Caption:
Extended family group as 3517 with the addition of : BACK ROW second left WILLIAM JAMES CAIE MA ChB MD 1874-1927, husband of Susan Kilner. He came to Bury in 1902 as an employee of Dr Kilner and by 1904 he was part of the practice of Kilner and Caie in Hatter Street. He served on the Town Council for 20 years, becoming mayor twice, 1923 and 1924. FRONT ROW far left UNKNOWN LADY, possibly governess to the young girls.
Title
Revd and Mrs Leonard Elliot- Binns, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1915
Caption:
Anna and Leonard were married on the 12th of August at St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds. The service was conducted by her cousin Francis Kilner, Bishop of Richmond, and her uncle, Revd Henry Ingate Kilner, Rector of Little Saxham. The couple opted for a quiet wedding as it took place in the First World War - Anna was working for the Red Cross. The picture is probably taken by Harry Jarman in the garden of Anna's home, York House, 4 Hatter St. Leonard Elliott-Binns, was the son of a commercial clerk from Salford. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Leonard was ordained in 1913, serving as chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He worked as a parish priest and he also became a theologian and historian of some note. He died in 1963, six years after his wife.
Title
William Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1860
Caption:
William Spanton (1822-1870). Founder of the photographic business. His repository of Arts and West Suffolk Photographic Establishment housed in the building of his design at 16 Abbeygate Street was operating by 1864. The business initially encompassed a variety of building and decorative trades, but by the late 1860s he concentrated on photographic framing and gilding.
Title
Spanton Family Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1865
Caption:
William Spanton seated with his wife Sarah. Standing behind are their three children, Sarah Rebecca, William Silas and Hannah Kate.
Title
The Misses Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Daughters of William Spanton. Seated Hannah Kate and her sister Sarah Rebecca.
Title
Mr & Mrs Hardy's Wedding Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1870
Caption:
The wedding of Miss Sarah Rebecca Spanton and the Rev. William Kimber Hardy took place in Bury St Edmunds in September 1870. The picture shows William and Sarah seated. Sarah's brother William Silas Spanton is standing on the left of the photograph and the Rev. Hardy's brother, Charles K Hardy, the best man, is standing on the right. The bridesmaid to the far right is Sarah's sister, Hannah Kate Spanton. The other two bridesmaids are sisters of the groom.
Title
Mrs Hardy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Mrs Hardy, nee Sarah Rebecca Spanton and sister of the photographer William Silas Spanton.
Title
Revd W.K. Hardy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
n d
Caption:
William Kimber Hardy was born in Yorkshire in 1840. He spent his childhood in York, where his father, Charles, was a Fancy Goods Dealer. Census returns of 1861 show that William had moved to Lambeth with his widowed mother, Sarah, and siblings. He was listed as an architect's pupil. He later became a Wesleyan Methodist minister and in 1870 married Sarah Rebecca Spanton in Bury St Edmunds. The photograph was taken by his brother-in-law, W S Spanton. See K505/698 for William's conjectural drawing of the Abbey in Bury St Edmunds.
Title
Revd W K Hardy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Miss Hannah Kate Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Born in 1852 .Youngest daughter of William Spanton.
Title
W.S. Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1870
Caption:
A gifted artist, William Silas gave up his place at the Royal Academy of Arts in London to take over the business on the death of his father. He diversified into the sale of art materials and ran the business successfully for 30 years. William was prominent in local affairs and involved in the conversion of Moyses Hall into a museum. His interest in painting continued and he gained a reputation as a copyist (his copy of Sir Joshua Reynold's portrait of Augustus John Hervey was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in 1919). In 1901 he sold the business to Henry Isaac Jarman, and he and his family returned to London where he pursued his career as an artist and writer. He died aged 85 after a motor accident on Christmas Eve in Blackheath.
Title
Mrs William Spanton, Bury St Edmunds.
Date:
nd
Caption:
Sarah King was born in 1821. She married William Spanton in 1843
Title
Mrs Spanton Senior, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Hannah Spanton, mother of William. Born 1804. Census records show her living with the family at 16 Abbeygate Street in 1861 (shopwoman) and in 1871 as grandmother.
Title
Miss Hannah Kate Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Hannah, youngest daughter of William Spanton. Born 1852. Married Harry Tarrant in Bury St Edmunds in 1876
Title
Cemetery Chapel, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
In 1855 the Burial Board purchased c.11 acres of land for a cemetery. Two thirds of the area was for Anglican burials, and the remaining third for Non- Conformists. Two identical chapels and a lodge were designed by Cooper and Peck of London. The cemetery opened 10 October and the Anglican chapel was consecrated 23 October 1855.
Title
St Edmunds Roman Catholic Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
St Edmunds Roman Catholic Church, Bury St Edmunds, High Altar
Date:
nd
Caption:
The semi-circular apse behind the altar of the Roman Catholic Church on Westgate Street is decorated with a painting of the Ascension.
Title
St Edmunds Roman Catholic Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
The interior of the St Edmunds Catholic Church designed by Charles Day in a Jesuit style and built in 1838.
Title
St Edmunds Roman Catholic Church, Bury St Edmunds, Shrine
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
The shrine with statue of St Edmund. At the west end of the church is an alms box made, it is said, with the wood of the tree to which King Edmund was bound at his martyrdom (at Hoxne).
Title
Roman Catholic Church, interior from north
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
St John's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1872-76
Caption:
The church was built 1840-1, to designs by William Ranger, who had earlier designed Westley Church in 1835. Ranger here designed an aisled church in the 13th century Early English style with a two-storey tower and a spire with flying-buttresses, in all 160 feet tall. The entire church, in urban-style, was built with red and white bricks. This image shows the interior before the rebenching of 1876..
Title
St John's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
after 1889
Caption:
Interior from the west
Title
St John's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
after 1880
Caption:
This image shows the rebenching of 1876, the new reredos and altar of 1878 and the pulpit of 1880.
Title
St John's Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
post 1880
Caption:
This image shows the re-benching of 1876, the new reredos and altar of 1878 and the pulpit of 1880.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Interior, looking west to the nave, from the chancel. Nothing of the medieval church of St James remains above ground level. The nave, ascribed on stylistic grounds to John Wastell, was begun in 1503 and completed in the 1550s. Between 1861 and 1864 the nave was restored by Sir Gilbert Scott, when the original low pitched roof ( against Scott's advice and in the face of much local opposition ) was replaced with a high pitched roof. A medieval chancel, which had roof decorations indicating a date of c1470, was demolished in 1711 and the Corporation, who were then patrons of the living, replaced it with a very small chancel in the classical style. This was demolished and replaced in 1869 by a chancel designed by Sir Gilbert Scott .
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
post 1869
Caption:
The east end of the chancel.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1899-1918
Caption:
Interior, looking east. Between 1899, when the mosaics in memory of Beckford Bevan were placed above the reredos at either end of the east window, and 1918, by which date it is known that this photograph had been taken.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
The Susanna window at the west end of the south aisle, which contains 16th century Flemish glass.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds.
Date:
1869-1899
Caption:
Chancel, viewed from the nave. Between 1869 when the chancel was opened and 1899 when the mosaics given in memory of Beckford Bevan were placed above the reredos at either side of the east window.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Interior, looking east. Taken between 1869 and 1899.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds, stained glass window
Date:
nd
Caption:
One of the collection of stained glass windows by Clayton and Bell situated on the north wall. This is a memorial to Anne Katherine, wife of Algernon Beckford Bevan, died 1918. Also to their sons Godfrey Beckford, died 1904 and Clement Beckford, Temporary Captain of the Suffolk Regiment, who fell in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Inscription, formerly above the west door, recording King Edward VIs contribution towards completing the nave, no date, perhaps c 1923 when the Old Burians gave the modern stone plaque in the north aisle to replace this painted inscription.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
n.d.
Caption:
Processional Cross ornamented with symbols of St James and St Edmund. Given in 1890.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
post 1869
Caption:
Exterior from the south east.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
Caption:
West front from the north west. Probably early 20th century. In 1914, St James's church became the cathedral church of the newly formed diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Since the end of World War II, the east end of the church has been totally rebuilt to fit it for its role as the cathedral church of the diocese, which has involved the demolition of Scott's chancel.
Title
St James' Church, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
This image appeared in a 1906 Guide to Bury St Edmunds.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, exterior from south west
Date:
after 1864
Caption:
St Mary's is one of the largest parish churches in England. The chancel and tower survive from the 14th century; naive and aisles rebuilt 1420s-40s; chancel chapels and sanctuary added in 1460s and 1470s. The church is noted for having the second longest aisle and largest west window of any English parish church; the magnificent 1440s hammer beam angel roof; John Baret's chantry chapel of 1467, with pardon grave and unique reflective glass in the roof, and the tomb of Princess Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk. ( d.1533)
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, exterior from south-west
Date:
19th cent
Caption:
The west front with the largest west window of any parish church. The cottages to the north were purchased by the church in 1864, demolished, and the ground laid open to the Great Churchyard.. The new high-pitched roof of St James' church is just visible in the centre of the photograph.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, exterior from north
Date:
pre 1897
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, from the north
Date:
pre 1897
Caption:
St Mary's from the south west showing the offset tower which is aligned with the original abbey precinct wall.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, from north
Date:
post 1897
Caption:
The clock on the tower was installed in celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1897.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, exterior from the north
Date:
nd
Caption:
Children with basket and trolley in the foreground.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, exterior from north-east
Date:
post 1924
Caption:
View from across the Great Churchyard.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Notyngham Porch
Date:
pre 1924
Caption:
Porch founded by bequest of John Notyngham, grocer (d.1441). Inscription over the entrance asks for prayers on behalf of John and Isabel Notyngham. The porch was restored in 1924.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Notyngham Porch
Date:
post 1924
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Notyngham Porch
Date:
post 1924
Caption:
The porch is unusually located about half way down the north side of the church, but the tower is offset and therefore in the way of a more conventional arrangement. .
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, west door
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1867 - 1880
Caption:
Shows poppy-headed benches of 1867 and the galleries, which were removed in 1880.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from west
Date:
1867-1880
Caption:
Shows small altar, galleries and central benches
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1867 - 1880
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1867 - 1880
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1867 - 1880
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1867 - 1880
Caption:
Taken from top of the inner porch, showing the angel roof of 1440s. There is also a text over the chancel arch, not shown in any other view, for which no closer dating evidence exists.
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, east end of nave and chancel
Date:
1844 -1867
Caption:
The box pews and poppy-headed benches with doors were installed in 1844 and were replaced in 1867. The glass in the east window dates from 1847 and was removed in 1914.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, east end of nave and chancel
Date:
1844 - 1867
Caption:
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, east end of nave and chancel
Date:
post 1913
Caption:
Shows the Suffolk Regimental Boer War Memorial Rood Screen of 1913 and the Reredos of 1910.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from the south
Date:
pre 1901
Caption:
Showing the tomb of Sir Willliam Carewe (died 1501)and his wife, Lady Margaret (died 1525)
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1880 - 1901
Caption:
Shows 1844 pulpit which was moved to this position in 1880. The pulpit steps were moved to the north in 1901.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1880 - 1901
Caption:
Showing the chancel with its richly decorated roof. The panels of the chancel roof illustrate traditional medieval themes and are carved with intricate cusping and bosses. The stalls below have finely carved tracery and grotesques on the arm rests. Two large tombs are situated at the far east end.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1910 - 1913
Caption:
Shows pulpit steps which were removed to the north in 1901 and the pre 1910 Reredos.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
c1910 -1913
Caption:
Shows the Reredos of 1910, but not the Rood Screen of 1913
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1913 - 1935
Caption:
The Rood Screen dates from 1913 and the gas standards were replaced with electricity in 1935. The Font was subsequently moved to the south aisle.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave from west
Date:
1913 - 1935
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east,
Date:
1867 -1880
Caption:
The nave benches date from 1867 and the gallery in the south aisle was removed in 1880.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1880 - 1901
Caption:
The pulpit was moved to this position in 1880, the chancel and sanctuary were re-ordered in 1901.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1880 - 1901
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1880 - 1901
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1880 - 1901
Caption:
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Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1880 - 1901
Caption:
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Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1880 - 1901
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1901 - 1909
Caption:
The chancel and sanctuary were re-ordered in 1901. Screens were placed in the south bay, shown with a heater in 1909.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
1909 - 1913
Caption:
Looking towards the west window, which was erected to give thanks for the abundant harvest of 1854. Shows the south bay screen of 1909, but not the Rood Screen of 1913.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior from east
Date:
post 1913
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south aisle, interior from east
Date:
pre 1880
Caption:
Shows the entrance to the south gallery, removed in 1880.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south aisle, interior from east
Date:
pre 1880
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south chapel from west
Date:
1909 - 1935
Caption:
Shows the screen erected in 1909, and the chapel with Regimental flags. The north chapel became the Suffolk Regimental Chapel in 1935. The tomb of John Baret (d.1467 ) is on the right.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south chapel from west
Date:
1909 - 1935
Caption:
Shows the sanctuary of 1909 with regimental flags.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south chapel from west
Date:
1909 - 1935
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south aisle, tomb of John Baret
Date:
nd
Caption:
John Baret was a wealthy clothier who lived in Chequer Square. He had close links with the Abbot, the monk poet John Lydgate, and received the collar of SS. His cadaver 'pardon' tomb was part of a chantry chapel which retains its unique roof, set with circles of mirror glass.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south chapel from the west
Date:
c 1891 - 1901
Caption:
The medieval font had been 'relegated ' to the south chapel by at least 1891. It was moved again when the sanctuary was created in 1909. The two central monuments and the east wall were moved in 1909.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, south chapel, font
Date:
c 1891 - 1909
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave roof
Date:
Early 20th cent
Caption:
This magnificent single hammer-beam roof has eleven pairs of 'life sized' angels, which alternate with arch-braced trusses. The pairs of angels represent the procession to High Mass. The 42 wall posts are carved with figures of saints and prophets. The cornice has a double band of angels holding musical instruments and liturgical symbols. The roof was probably paid for by John Baret and constructed in the early 1440s.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, nave roof
Date:
nd
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
pre 1887
Caption:
The arcaded Reredos dates from 1844 and was painted as part of Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations in 1887. The five steps were removed in the 1901 re-ordering.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1887-1901
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1907-1910
Caption:
The tomb of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) sister of Henry VIII and Queen of France, is in the left corner of the Sanctuary. The marble curb dates from 1907. The high Reredos of 1910 is still to come.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1907-1910
Caption:
The painted reredos dates from Queen Victoria's 1887 Jubilee, the oak chair from 1844, the flooring of the sanctuary from 1901 and the marble curb of Mary Tudor's tomb from 1907.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1901-1907
Caption:
The sanctuary was re-ordered with black and white marble flooring in 1901. The 1907 curb around Mary Tudor's tomb is not there. The tomb is that of Sir William (d.1501) and Lady Margaret Carewe (d.1525)
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1901-1907
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Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1901-1907
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Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1910 - 1914
Caption:
Shows high Reredos of 1910 and the east window glass replaced in 1914.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, chancel
Date:
1910-1914
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Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, The Cenotaph
Date:
1920
Caption:
The former St. Wolstan's Chapel became the site of the Suffolk Regiment's Cenotaph, dedicated on 15 March 1920. It was designed by William Pite and carved in alabaster by C Wiffen. There are also memorials to the Suffolk Yeomanry, a Book of Remembrance to the 360 officers and 6513 warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Suffolk Regiment and Colours of the Regiment's Battalions.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, The Cenotaph
Date:
1920
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, The Cenotaph
Date:
1920
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St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Mary Tudor memorial window
Date:
nd
Caption:
This window in the south chapel was presented by Queen Victoria in 1881, in memory of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk ( 1476-1533 ). This panel shows the 'secret' marriage between Mary and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk in March 1515. Mary was buried in the Abbey in 1533 and, after its closure in 1539, was re-interred in St. Mary's on the orders of Henry VIII.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Miss Harrison's window
Date:
Aug 1868
Caption:
Shows former St. Wolstan's Chapel with the memorial window of 1868. The font was designed by Lewis Cottingham, as part of the 1844 restoration. The medieval font was relegated to the south chapel until 1909. The 1881 font was eventually given to Great Ashfield church.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, H.M.S. Birkenhead Memorial
Date:
nd
Caption:
The transport ship sank off Simon's Town in South Africa in 1852 with a large loss of life, including the 55 men of the Suffolk Regiment commemorated here.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Regiment , Boer War Memorial
Date:
c 1903
Caption:
Marble plaque in St Marys Church to the Officers and Men of the Suffolk Regiment who lost their lives in the Boer War. It was designed by J Whitehead and Son of Lambeth and Westminster and unveiled on the 24th of September 1903 by General William Gatacre, who had commanded the 10th Division. The place names on the border are the previous Battle Honours of the Regiment, to which would later be added 'South Africa 1899-1902' Source: Bury and Norwich Post, 22nd November 1904.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, choir
Date:
1906
Caption:
Taken in the angle of the tower and north aisle. Revd Francis L'Estrange Fawcett, vicar 1896-1907, with beard, centre of third row.
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, choir
Date:
1906
Caption:
Title
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, choir
Date:
1917-1926
Caption:
Reverend Dr Herbert Branston Gray, vicar 1917 - 1926, in the centre of three clergymen in the second row
Title
King Edward VI Grammar School, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Founded by Royal Charter in 1550, the school moved to this house in Northgate Street in 1665, and remained here until 1882 The original building to the right has a central door surmounted by a bust of Edward VI and a Latin inscription. The original brickwork was covered with roman cement to resemble portland stone. On the first floor were the dormitories for boarders. In 1762 the building was enlarged [left side of the picture] to hold 180 pupils including 30 boarding, with a 'genteel new built house' for the Headmaster adjoining the school.
Title
King Edward VI Grammar School, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
King Edward VI Grammar School, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Rear view of the Northgate Street building occupied by the Grammar school until 1883. The school stood in 3 acres of land. Conditions in 1850 were described by a pupil as very spartan with little or no heating and outside washing at a pump.
Title
King Edward VI Grammar School, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
When the school moved to the Vinefields in 1882 the Church Schools Company opened a Church of England girls high school in the old building; listed in 1891 and 1902 County handbooks under the Headmistress Miss Babington, whilst Timms 1916 Guide lists St Michael's College, where the Community of St Michael and All Angels educated gentlemen's daughters ( boarders only). In the 1970s the property was converted to luxury apartments, known as St Michael's Close, and as such it still remains.
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1 June 1882
Caption:
June 1882 Lord Bristol laid the memorial stone of the new Grammar School in the Vinefields ( Illustrated News 8 July 1882). The red brick building in Queen Anne style was designed by AW Bloomfield. The Bury Guide of 1906 describes 2 dormitories, a headmaster's house, four classrooms, a fine dining room, science laboratory, museum, gymnasium, sanatorium and workshops, with playing fields, five courts and a pavilion. The main building has been converted to private apartments, whilst some later classrooms are used by the King James Church of England Middle School
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, Hockey Group
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, Hockey Group
Date:
1922
Caption:
T H Gould, B S Lipsett, D Waugh, F S Wayman, J E Stearn, A W Best ôR C Gooch, J N B Ashton, G Hatt-Lipscomb (Capt), H A Conlan, S S Strickland
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, Hockey Group
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, Football Team
Date:
1922
Caption:
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, 1st Cricket Xl
Date:
1921
Caption:
N Shaw, J Dixon, M Conlan, de Basagoiti, C Steed, P Wayman, J Ashton, G Hinnell, R Dowse (Capt), G Lipscomb, ôL de Chateleux, J Stearn, T Gould.
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, 1st Xl Hockey Team
Date:
1921
Caption:
M L Morton, R C Gooch, D Waugh, P de Basagoni, J Ashton, C F Steed, R E Dowse, Hinnell ( Capt), Lipscomb, H A Conlan, L de Chateleux, S Strickland.
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, 2nd Xl Hockey Team
Date:
1921
Caption:
Second Xl hockey team, taken from; L C Chateleux ( Capt), A S Waugh, J E Stearn, C J Hinnell, M J Birmingham, T H Gould, J M Dixon, A W Best ( goal), W L Shaw, E D Boby, D B Montgomery, G C Bacon, B S Lipsett. Hockey was introduced into the school in 1909 by the Assistant Master Mr Leather.
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, Second XI Football Team
Date:
1921
Caption:
Hinnell, Stearn, Strickland, Cook, Waugh, de Chateleux, Wayman, Best, Fulcher, Alston, Norham
Title
King Edward Vl Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, Football First X1
Date:
1921
Caption:
First XI Football team taken from, Gooch, Conlon, Waugh, Hindle, Tobin, Steed, Manley, Gould, Boby, Mackrrell, Ashton, Lipscomb, Lipsett, Stearn and Basagoiti
Title
King Edward V1Grammar School, Vinefields, Bury St Edmunds, OTC Annual Review
Date:
Caption:
Officers and cadets from the Cadet Training Corps with the Headmaster , army and civic dignitaries on the occasion of the Annual Review. Possibly 1921 or 1927. Reformed by 1920, the OTC Reports in the Old Burian list activities as annual training camps, frequent route marches with band, field days, and instruction from Suffolk Yeomanry and their Sergeant and CO in compass use, morse and semaphore. A 'keenness on musketry' was reported. Equipment provided included miniature rifles, and short rifles with long bayonets. The 1921 War Office Report compliments drill discipline and turn-out, and 1927 reports smart saluting, slow handling of arms, but battle drill well done.
Title
Convent of St Louis, St Andrews Castle, St Andrews Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1927
Caption:
A Roman Catholic School was opened in Bury St Edmunds in 1892 adding an infant school in 1894. From 1924 the school was run by the Sisters of St Louis, and in 1929 they moved their convent and school to the fantasy St Andrews Castle, built in 1815 for the Boby family, and sold in 1927. The building housed the living quarters for the Sisters with classrooms for their Convent school, and was surrounded by gardens and playing fields. The gatehouse remains, while the main house has been adapted for commercial use, with houses and flats on the adjoining land to the north. Some of the buildings in the grounds remain in use as the modern St Louis Middle School.
Title
Convent of St Louis, St Andrews Castle, Bury St Edmunds, St Andrews Street
Date:
nd
Caption:
Title
Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, County Grammar School
Date:
nd
Caption:
In 1904 the West Suffolk Education Committee established the County Grammar School ,which moved in 1907 to a large Georgian red brick house built for a local banker, opposite the old Grammar School, and extended in 1907. Boys and girls received general grammar school education, with Domestic Science for girls, manual craft for boys, and an Officers Corps. In 1964, when the County School for girls moved to Beetons way, the premises were use by the Technical College before alteration to commercial use.
Title
County Grammar School, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
early 1900s
Caption:
Domestic Science class at West Suffolk County School and Pupil Teacher Centre in Northgate Street. The girls made their own aprons and sleeve guards before learning cookery, table etiquette and household duties.
Title
East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1930
Caption:
Upper playing field with school, Headmaster's house on the far right, and cycle sheds and workshops on the left. In 1881 the Wesleyan School for Middle Class Boys moved to Highlands House, a new villa and 11 acres redesigned by W Eade FRIBA, on Thingoe Hill [Northgate Avenue]. In 1935 the boys moved to Culford Hall to be replaced by girls until the amalgamation of Culford in 1972. The Headteacher's House and adjoining part remain within a prestigious residential development extended over the grounds.
Title
East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1930
Caption:
Founded in 1881 as the Wesleyan Boarding and Day School for middle class boys, 'where the religious training should be soundly Protestant, the teaching thorough and terms moderate ......' and a full staff of resident masters for Music, Shorthand, Drill and Carpentry.
Title
East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Assembly Hall surrounded by classrooms and a large gymnasium with corridor leading to staff rooms, dining and cloakroom facilities and stairs to first floor classrooms, art room, laboratory and sickbay. Advertised in 1900 as buildings 'well ventilated and drained ,and in every respect admirably designed to their purpose...the diet is good , liberal and varied and every effort is put forth to ensure the health and comfort of the boys.'
Title
East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Laboratory in the Wesleyan Boarding and Day school, with workbenches furnished with sinks, gas bunson burners and jars of chemicals, with locked cupboards for dangerous substances.
Title
East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1930
Caption:
Classroom with standard wooden desks and dais with blackboard for the teacher who would wear his scholastic gown. Advertised in the Kelly Directory 1935 as providing 'a completely efficient education on modern lines with sound training for the professions, Universities and business careers'. Headmaster, John Skinner 1924-51.
Title
East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Laboratory in the school with pupils on stools at workbenches, furnished with sinks, gas bunsen burners and jars of chemicals. Pupils were prepared for London and Cambridge University examinations, Scholarships, Higher and School certificates in Science.
Title
Miss Girdlestone's School, Whiting Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Mistresses Minnie Hungress and Eliza Staff (sisters ) and pupils , with a small stage in the background, at Miss Girdlestone's private school for day pupils at 82 Whiting Street.
Title
Guildhall Feoffment School, College Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1865
Caption:
In 1842 the Guildhall Feoffment Trust set up a Poor Boys School in Bridewell Lane, and the nearby commercial school fronting on College Street was built in 1846. This school provided non-denominational secondary education for 150 Bury boys to fit them for ' business pursuits, the Professions and Civil Service' and educating them in 'English and other languages, in writing, arithmetic, geography, history ' ( White's Directory 1844) with practical tuition in book-keeping and surveying. The building was designed by Henry Kendall, with two small stepped gables, now gone. On the left were the arms of Bury St Edmunds and on the right, those of Jankyn Smythe, founder of the Guildhall Feoffment Trust. In 1931 the Feoffment Schools amalgamated and in 1936 incorporated the Poor Girls School in Wells Street.
Title
Guildhall Feoffment School, Bridewell Lane, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1865
Caption:
By 1842 the Guildhall Feoffment Trust set up a Poor Boys School on Bridewell Lane, followed by the Commercial School in 1846. Three hundred Bury boys of all denominations received elementary education in 3Rs, history, geography, and practical subjects such as gardening. The building was designed by Henry Kendall in red brick and flint in domestic gothic style. In 1931 it amalgamated with the Commercial School as the Guildhall Feoffment School, incorporating the Poor Girls School in 1936.
Title
Miss Amelia Hitchins' School, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1865]
Caption:
Pupils at Miss Amelia Hitchins' select establishment for young ladies, having a game of croquet on the lawn. There had been a school here (no.42 and 43 Southgate Street) before Miss Hitchins took it over in 1864.
Title
Miss Amelia Hitchins' School, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1865]
Caption:
Title
Miss Amelia Hitchins' School, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1865]
Caption:
Close up group photograph of the pupils and school mistresses of Miss Amelia Hitchins' school. The photograph shows very well the fine dresses and hairstyles of the period.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
First half of 20th century
Caption:
View from a roof in Abbeygate Street, looking towards the Abbey Gate. The building on the west corner of Angel Lane, and those from Angel Lane to Angel Hill can be seen.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1887
Caption:
Abbeygate Street decorated with flags for the celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
Title
1 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Walkers Stores
Date:
post 1922
Caption:
This shop display of tinned goods may have been taken for an advertisement. Walkers Stores were part of World Stores Ltd, which had six branches in Suffolk in 1925, but none in 1922.
Title
2 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1906
Caption:
Thomas Cross established his Florist, Seed merchant and Nurseryman's shop opposite, at number 58 in 1892. The same year he moved to no 24 and between 1896 and 1900 to this building where the business continued until 1969. The Nursery garden was at Chapel House, Barton Road, beyond Eastgate Street. The niche may have some antiquity and is shown in 1887. The image was taken for a guide to Bury in 1906.
Title
11 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Olivers and Sons, Grocers
Date:
post 1900
Caption:
The three-gabled roof is Olivers, beyond at nos 11-13 is Nunn Hinnell and Clark, chemists, with a mortar and pestle over the door. The clock , of 1900, hangs outside no 14 Thurlow Champness, watchmaker and jeweller.
Title
11 & 12 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Oliver's Shop
Date:
Pre 1900
Caption:
Shows Oliver & Son, grocers, tea-dealers and coffee roasters. Beyond, is Nunn Hinnell and Summers, family and dispensing chemists. Further on, is the Thurlow Champness building with no clock, which dates the image to before 1900.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Thurlow Champness' shop
Date:
early 20th cent
Caption:
Although the clock, which dates from 1900, remains, the shop front has now been thoroughly modernised, hiding the fact that there has been a silversmith's shop on this site for very many years.
Title
16 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, H I Jarman, Photographer and Art Stockist
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The central building [no.16] was designed by William Spanton for his home and his..' Repository of Arts and West Suffolk Photographic Establishment.'. He hoped the four -storey building would set a trend, which would transform Abbeygate Street into the Regent Street of Bury St Edmunds. To the left is Dunn's Restaurant and to the right is Grooms' bookseller and stationers.
Title
17 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, FW Groom
Date:
c1900
Caption:
F W Groom, Bookseller and Stationer, traded from this shop from c 1880 when he succeeded Arthur Lancaster. The business continued into the 1980s. To the left is H I Jarman, photographer.
Title
25 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Taylor's Music Warehouse
Date:
1885-86
Caption:
The music business was founded in 1849 by James Last, who was succeeded by his nephew Alfred in 1866. By 1883 it was owned by John Cookman Roberts ' .... pianoforte and music dealer and tuner to Her Majesty ....' He was also manager of the Theatre Royal. William Taylor ran his Music Warehouse and Pianoforte Saloon and agency for the 'Daily Journal' from No 25 from mid-1885 to mid-1888. In October 1886 he founded the 'Bury and West Suffolk Journal', which is not advertised here. Between June and September 1888, he moved down the street to No 27 and Jonathan Bulling became the owner of No 25. To the right at No 26 is Emma Afford's baby-linen warehouse.
Title
35-36 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Ridleys Grocers
Date:
c1910
Caption:
The buildings date from 1700-4 and was a grocers shop from at least 1758 when Edward Ely was recorded as a grocer. The firm of Ridley succeeded Ely in 1801 and traded here until October 1996. Images of the shop were taken for advertisement in the 20th century guide to Bury St Edmunds.
Title
35-36 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Ridleys Grocers
Date:
1906
Caption:
Title
35-36, Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Ridleys Grocers
Date:
Aug-60
Caption:
For earlier views see 0648 and 2273. The shop closed in 1996 and became a restaurant.
Title
39 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Barwells Butchers Shop
Date:
c1910
Caption:
The firm of Barwells traded from no 39 following the fire of 1882. Robert Newman Barwell founded the butcher and poulterers shop, which continues today [2010]. The image was probably taken for an early 20th century directory or guide to Bury St Edmunds.
Title
57 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Thomas London's Chinese Tea Market
Date:
c1880
Caption:
Thomas London traded from this corner site from late 1876 until autumn 1888. He was preceded in his business by John Denoven [ here at least from 1844-1876] and succeeded by Collen & Co from 1888 until the early 20th century. The three-gabled building to the right is Robert Kitson, tailor. The right gable was demolished in 1891-2 and the site incorporated into the Alliance Assurance office.
Title
49-52 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1870 - 80
Caption:
To the left, at no 49, is Henry Quant, shoemaker, trading here since 1858. No 50 is Gurneys Bank, designed by H F Bacon of Bury St Edmunds in 1856. J F Paul, printer and stationer, moved into no 52 in 1870 and left in 1880. The latter building was demolished and a new bank designed to match 50 -51, by J B Pearce of Norwich. No 50 then became the Post Office from 1881 until 1895. On the left corner is Plumptons and Sons, linen and woollen drapers.
Title
56-59 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1891
Caption:
On the far corner of Whiting Street, at no 56 is William Skoulding, chemist. On the nearer corner at no 57 is Collens Cash Stores. The three-gabled building is Robert Kidson, tailor and habit maker at no 58. The furthest gable block has been let to Thomas Cross, seedsman. The posters inform the public that the Alliance Assurance Office has purchased nos 58 and 59 and that Cross and Kidson have moved. The Alliance building was designed by J S Corder of Ipswich and illustrated in 'The Builder' on 27 August 1892. The new building occupies the area of no 59 and the nearest gable of no 58, which was reduced to a two-gable width.
Title
58-59 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1891
Caption:
The premises of R Kidson, tailor, and T Cross, seed merchant, on Abbeygate Street. The photograph was taken at the time when the Sun Alliance Insurance Company were about to build new offices on the site, demolishing some of the existing building.
Title
58 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Kidson's shop
Date:
c1891
Caption:
Robert Kidson moved out of these premises in 1891, when they were acquired by the Alliance Assurance Office. This series of images were probably taken to record the historic features of the building, many of which survive to this day. This image shows detail of the corner post of the south-east corner of the rear range of the building.
Title
58 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Kidson's shop
Date:
c1891
Caption:
Title
58 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Kidson's shop
Date:
1891
Caption:
Interior view of upper floor.
Title
58 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Kidson's shop
Date:
c1891
Caption:
Title
58 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Kidson's shop
Date:
c1891
Caption:
Title
60 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, National Provincial Bank
Date:
c1868
Caption:
The Bank was designed in 1868 by John Gibson of London, architect to the National Provincial Bank, 1864-81. The image was probably taken at the opening of the bank.
Title
59-61 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, National Provincial Bank
Date:
Feb-63
Caption:
The Bank opened in 1868. By 1963 the Alliance Assurance was still at no 59 and Bankes Ashton, solicitors at no 61.
Title
59-61 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, National Provincial Bank
Date:
Feb-63
Caption:
Title
60 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, National Provincial Bank
Date:
Feb-63
Caption:
Interior image of counters.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1880
Caption:
Mr Thompson's shop on the corner of Abbeygate Street and Hatter Street before the devastating fire which destroyed several buildings on 15 June 1882. See K505/0554 for details of the events.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
This image shows the area devastated by fire which began just before midnight on Thursday 15 June 1882 in the premises of Simon Norbert Last's tobacconist shop and spread rapidly through all the buildings, mainly timber framed, from the corner of Abbeygate Street and Hatters Street to the premises which are now Barwell's the butchers. At an emergency meeting of the Town Council concerns were expressed about the cause of the fire and delays in attacking it. The fire engine used on this occasion belonged to the Suffolk Alliance Insurance Company, and it seems likely that the establishment of the town fire brigade in 1885 may have been one result of this event.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
Four days after the fire Mr Last was arrested and charged with wilfully and maliciously setting fire to the premises in Abbeygate Street. Evidence was given to show that he had been in serious financial difficulties for some time. The fire had not ceased burning when he wrote to the insurance company claiming the whole sum insured, which he had recently increased. Mr Last appeared before the magistrates and was committed to trial at the next Suffolk Assizes, where the jury failed to agree. He was finally sent for trial in Norwich in November, where he was sentenced to five years hard labour.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
Looking west up Abbeygate Street, showing the extent of the fire, to the premises which are now [2010] Javelin's clothing store at the left of the picture and the premises which are now Barwell's the butchers, still standing but badly damaged. Photo: W.S.Spanton June 1882.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
The north side of Abbeygate Street from the site of the fire. The very tall building was the premises of W S Spanton who took these photographs.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
Local people gather at the junction of Hatters Street and Abbeygate Street at the scene to view the considerable damage to the buildings.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
This view of the damage on the corner of Hatter Street was probably taken the morning after the fire. Men had been stationed across Abbeygate Street to prevent sightseers from walking beside the destroyed or damaged buildings. For further details of the fire see K505/554
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
The devastation on the east of Hatter Street contrasts with the unharmed buildings on the west side. For further details of the fire see K505/554
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
Abbeygate street closed to allow the authorities to deal with the fire damage. This view is almost certainly taken from the window in Spanton's shop, no 16. The Bury and Norwich Post reported on 20 June that Mr W S Spanton had taken several very successful views of the ruins, and, in reporting Last's trial in Norwich, the Bury Free Press of 4 November noted that Mr Spanton spoke to the correctness of photographs of the premises taken by him. For further details of the fire see K505/554
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
The undamaged buildings on the north side of the street, including the tall one which was Mr Spanton's house and studio, from the area destroyed by fire. Photo: W.S. Spanton June 1882.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
1882
Caption:
The people in Abbeygate Street appear to be onlookers, but the four men standing at the top of Hatter Street could have been placed there to prevent people from entering that street. Photo: W S Spanton, June 1882.
Title
Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, fire
Date:
c 1882
Caption:
The newspaper accounts make it clear that the site of the fire was a great attraction to the people who came from quite a distance to see the devastation. On 15 July 1882 the Bury Free Press reported that the Town Council had proposed to set back the frontage on rebuilding. The front wall of Ridley's premises (without the shop windows) was taken as the line and it was anticipated that the two undamaged buildings at the corner of Angel Lane could also be altered to correspond with this line. The Bury and Norwich Post reported on the 20 June that several very successful photographs of the ruins were taken by Mr W S Spanton of Abbeygate Street and, in reporting Last's trial in Norwich, the Bury Free Press on 4 November noted that Mr Spanton spoke to the correctness of photographs of the premises taken by him.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, looking south
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
On the left are the Abbey Gate, Abbey House, St James' church, the Norman Tower and St Mary's church. Ahead is the Athenaeum with the brewery chimney in the distance. To the right is the Angel Hotel before its extension in 1921-2.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hotel
Date:
c1960
Caption:
Angel Hotel, viewed from the Abbey Gate. Built in 1770s on the site of earlier buildings. Medieval crypt under northern half. The hotel was patronised by Charles Dickens and appears in Pickwick Papers
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hotel
Date:
after 1921
Caption:
The left hand extension over the courtyard entrance was added 1921-22
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1865
Caption:
An unusual, perhaps unique, photograph of voters openly declaring their votes at the hustings on Angel Hill, as was the custom before the introduction of the secret ballot.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Reading of the Borough Charter
Date:
Apr-06
Caption:
Bury St Edmunds became an Incorporated Borough in April 1606. The original Charter granted by James l is now in the care of the Bury Record Office. On 3rd April 1906 the 300th anniversary was celebrated by reading extracts from the Charter from the steps of the Angel Hotel. Every school pupil was given a bun and a medal to mark the event.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Looking towards the Athenaeum
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, The Athenaeum
Date:
c1900
Caption:
A group of helpers at the St James's Church parochial, the parish's major fund raising activity for many years. It was first held in 1883. In addition to stalls and side shows, several entertainments were also offered.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Royal Visit
Date:
17th December 1904
Caption:
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited Bury on 17th December 1904 en route to London, having been at Culford Hall since the 12th. Two large grandstands were erected either side of the Abbey Gate, with the motto 'God Save the King and Queen' on the front. The escort to the carriage was provided by the Duke of York's Own Loyal Hussars, whilst members of the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, formed the guard of honour. Mr H. J. Jarman was the official photographer for the Royal Visit.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Royal Visit
Date:
17-Dec-04
Caption:
The King and Queen arrived at the Abbey Gate at 12.40 where the Mayor presented an Address of Welcome to the King. Miss Joyce Lake, the Mayor's daughter, presented a bouquet to the Queen. The Royal party drove to St. Mary's Church to see the tomb of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, to meet Crimean War veterans and to sign the Visitors' Book. As they left the church, 2,000 schoolchildren sang the National Anthem
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Royal Visit
Date:
17th December 1904
Caption:
Lord Cadogan's barouche is drawn up outside the Abbey Gate. Ald Edward Lake, the Mayor, is greeting the King, Earl Cadogan stands to the right and further right is Sir Stanley Clerke. Miss Joyce Lake holds the bouquet of flowers in front of her mother, the Mayoress. Others in the reception group are: the Lord Lieutenant, the Marquis of Bristol, Sir Edward Green, Archdeacon Hodges, Vicar of St James', the Recorder, and the Town Clerk of Bury.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gate
Date:
pre 1913
Caption:
The Abbey Gate, the entrance to the Great Court and Abbot's Palace, was built c1340, in the Decorated style, after the original Norman gateway was destroyed during a riot in 1327. The new gateway was built further to the right (south) so it was no longer at the foot of Abbeygate Street. It was also designed to be defended, with arrow slits behind the statues, an outer portcullis and gates, inner doors and a guard-room on the upper floor. The damaged corners of the battlements show that the image was taken before the restoration of 1913-14.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, view of Abbey Gate
Date:
post 1913-1914
Caption:
See K505/2654
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey House
Date:
nd
Caption:
The north wall of the former Hall of Pleas with a doorway and carved head. The rest of the hall was later demolished leaving the wall as a boundary in the garden of Abbey House. St James' Church, now the Cathedral, can be seen through the archway. This now connects the herb garden to the Cathedral Centre and car park.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Abbey House
Date:
nd
Caption:
An earlier view of the wall and gateway shown in 566.
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Crescent House [Mr Gocher's House]
Date:
c1860
Caption:
Mr Thomas Gocher had owned this impressive corner site since the 1830s. After his death in 1873, his widow was listed in the Rate Books as owner until 1880. The Crimean Gun arrived in Bury in April 1858 and was placed '...diagonally at the corner of Angel Hill, pointing to Mr Gocher's ..' in June 1859. By May 1864 the gun had been moved to Cemetery Road [later Kings Road] Militia Barracks. The three photographs seem to have been taken on the same day. [see K505/0039 and K505/1758]
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Crescent House
Date:
1859-1864
Caption:
Title
Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Crescent House
Date:
nd
Caption:
see K505/1757
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Moyses Hall
Date:
c 1865
Caption:
An early photograph showing part of the market place on either the Wednesday or Saturday market day. The stalls were set out in a more casual way than the markets held today. In the background is Moyses Hall, and on the right is the cabinet maker Samuel Sale's shop.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, with decorations
Date:
May 1871
Caption:
This image records the Oddfellows Annual Moveable Committee meeting in May 1871. The Triumphal Arch is inscribed 'Success to the Town and Trade of Bury'. The building to the left has the Oddfellows motto 'Love, friendship, truth'. The Suffolk Hotel will be refronted in 1873.
Title
Buttermarket , Bury St Edmunds, with flags
Date:
c1887
Caption:
Henry Joseph Gibson, tailor, clothier, outfitter and boot maker, first appears in Kelly's Directories for 1883. He is last mentioned in 1892 but not in 1896. Given these dates the most likely occasion would seem to be Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. A similar photograph of Abbeygate Street confirms this
Title
2-8 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Mr King's house
Date:
1875-1879
Caption:
The building under reconstruction has been vacated by Henry King, 'haberdasher, hosier, Birmingham and Sheffield goods warehouseman'. The notice states, 'removed to no 31, selling off œ3,590 of stock'.
Title
1 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Keeble's shop
Date:
1887
Caption:
The image shows the rebuilding carried out since 1875-79. [see K505/1749] George Keeble's shop, with three gables on the corner site, looks to have closed. Keeble has a pawnbroker's shop at 1 Abbeygate Street and a furniture shop on the corner. In between are Brain Brothers, chemists and druggists. The pawnbroker's three balls and a mortar and pestle are over the doorways.
Title
25 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Staff's window display
Date:
1920
Caption:
John Staff, outfitter, traded from number 25 from c1894, when he took over F W Dight's tailoring business, until the post war period.
Title
20 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Bullen's shop
Date:
1906
Caption:
Charles Henry Bullen, cabinet maker, upholsterer, decorator, estate agent, auctioneer and furniture remover, traded from this shop c1875-c1920. The image was taken for the 1906 Guide to Bury.
Title
13-15 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1896
Caption:
Thomas Henry Tinkler, draper, milliner, etc., appears in the directories from 1883 to 1896. The business seems to have started at 10 Guildhall Street under Mrs Ellen Elizabeth Tinkler and moved to 15 Buttermarket c1874. By 1883 number 14 was included, and Thomas had taken over the business, and by 1888 no13 had been taken over. The last entry was in 1896 when 'Bon Marche' was included. These words appear in the photograph so it must have been taken around that date.
Title
16-18 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Chapman's shop
Date:
before 1883
Caption:
William Chapman's merchant tailors shop traded from this corner site from 1829 until after the first world war. To the left is George Goldsmith's butchers shop which closed in mid 1883, following George's death. His widow Emma moved the business to 16 Cornhill the same year.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hotel
Date:
c1868 - 1872
Caption:
Originally the Greyhound, the Suffolk Hotel name was adopted after the re-build in 1833. The early design shows 6 rectangular windows and a single archway, which was the coaching entrance. As the Greyhound, the hotel had acquired the Royal Mail coach contract in 1730, and even after coaches had disappeared from English roads they could still be rented from the Suffolk Hotel. The landlord was licensed to let post horses, and the coach on the right of the image took hotel guests to and from the railway station. The Manager at this time was Thomas Cox.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hotel
Date:
1873-87
Caption:
The hotel was refronted in 1873. The coaching entrance has been replaced with 2 conventional doorways and the rectangular windows replaced with 3 sets of arched windows. By 1874 the hotel proprietor was G J Oliver. To the left, Henry King has returned to his enlarged premises.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hotel
Date:
c1890
Caption:
In the mid 1880s the advert for the hotel read 'Suffolk posting house and wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchant, commercial and family hotel'. In the directories of 1885 and 1888 it is recorded that the proprietor was Frederick William Turner.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hotel
Date:
c1890s
Caption:
The new frontage is now enlivened by the plant pots on the ledge over the ground floor. For the first time, chimney pots are visible - a single pot to the left and 4 on the middle chimney stack. Evidence from gas lamp standards shows the image to have been taken before 1898. The site is now occupied by The Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Waterstones Bookshop.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hotel
Date:
1890
Caption:
Interior view of entrance and staircase
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, bank
Date:
c1899-1918
Caption:
The bank was built c1794 as Spink and Carr's Bank, which closed in 1797. The premises became Brown, Bevan & Co. 1801-29, Oaks, Bevan and Co from 1829- 99; Capital and Counties Bank from 1899-1918; and finally, Lloyds Bank from 1918.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, bank
Date:
c1899-1918
Caption:
The building on the Buttermarket, built as a bank for Spink and Carrs and taken over in 1829 by the prominent Bury banking families of Oaks, Bevan and Co, later to become the Bury and Suffolk Bank. It changed again in 1899 to the Capital and Counties, and finally Lloyds Bank in 1918.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, bank
Date:
c1918
Caption:
Showing interior
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, bank
Date:
c1918
Caption:
Interior view of the Capital and Counties Bank.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, bank
Date:
c1918
Caption:
Interior of the Capital and Counties bank, showing the memorial to colleagues who died in the First World War.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Half Moon Yard
Date:
c 1870
Caption:
The Half Moon Yard and Inn stood between the Buttermarket and High Baxter Street. This image shows the south side of the yard, looking towards High Baxter Street, prior to demolition and alteration works that took place in 1870. This site is now occupied by nos 27-29 Buttermarket. No 29 became the Playhouse Cinema in 1925, remaining till 1959 when the Co-op took over the site, now in 2011, occupied by Argos.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Half Moon Yard
Date:
nd
Caption:
View looking towards the Buttermarket
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Half Moon Yard
Date:
nd
Caption:
This view shows the north side of the yard looking towards High Baxter Street.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Half Moon Yard
Date:
nd
Caption:
The timber framed building and galleries of the Half Moon in the Buttermarket before they were demolished c 1870.
Title
34 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Moyses Hall
Date:
1879/88
Caption:
The left side of Moyses Hall was part of the Castle Inn. The right half was the Borough Council Police Station, 1836-92 and then the Great Eastern Railway Enquiry and Parcel Office. In 1899 both parts of the building were reunited and became the town museum. The publican at the Castle Inn was Elizabeth Baker, who held the licence from June 1879 until September 1888.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Moyses Hall
Date:
1890s
Caption:
View looking east from near the Post Office, taken before Moyses Hall was restored and reopened as a museum in 1899 and probably still in use as the Police Station. Ahead, behind the cart, is the shop of Charles Bullen. To the right, on the corner of Skinner Street, is Gibbs the confectioners.
Title
34 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Moyses Hall
Date:
1960
Caption:
Many changes are to take place before the end of the 20th century. The Castle Inn closed in 1985, eventually becoming 'Superdrug'. In Brentgovel Street the White Lion and the Odeon cinema of 1937 were demolished to make way for the Cornhill Walk.
Title
Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1910
Caption:
A view of the Buttermarket at the turn of the 20th century. On the left, Fox and Mawe, the boot and shoe shop occupied nos 3-5, from 1898-1910 . On the right is the Suffolk Hotel and on the extreme right a shopkeeper struggles with the blinds at Plumptons. In the distance is Moyses Hall. The electric street lighting was introduced in 1900.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Post Office and Bell Buildings
Date:
c1896
Caption:
The Post Office taken shortly after it was opened on 27 May 1896. The architect was Sir Henry Turner [1848-1935] of the Office of Works, and the contractor was Everett & Sons, Colchester. The Bell Buildings were built in 1886 for David Thomas, ironmonger, on the site of the Bell Hotel. The architect was John Codd [1834-1911] and the contractor was Everett & Sons, Colchester. By 1896 the Cornhill frontage had been leased to Stead and Simpsons and Liptons. It was demolished in the 1960s. The passage-way called Market Thoroughfare is still referred to as the Bell Arcade.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Old Curiosity Shop
Date:
c 1865
Caption:
This business was first listed in 1830 when it was run by Thomas Fenton, furniture broker and dealer in curiosities at 9 Great Market, until his death in 1846. His son George took over until 1868, followed by his nephew Rueben until c1890. George's address was 5-6 Market Hill, and Rueben's 13 Cornhill. This photograph is traditionally dated to c1865, the objects being arranged by the artist E.R.Smythe, possibly inspired by the illustrations of 'Phiz' for Charles Dickens's novel [1841]. Later, 5-6 Cornhill was Ransoms Sims and Jefferies. The building was demolished for a Sainsbury's supermarket in 1960, became a shopping precinct in 1987 and is now Iceland food store.
Title
15 Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Boots' shop
Date:
c 1910
Caption:
Boots' Shop under construction. Built on the site of Floyds chemist shop, it was opened in 1910. Designed by Sir Michael Treleaven [b 1850] the company's architect and built by Hinnel & Son of Bury St Edmunds. The figures at the first floor level are said to represent Agricola, St Edmund, Edward I and Edward VI. When Boots new store was opened in 1977 the old shop became Martins, newsagents, then Menzies and then W H Smith. On the far left of the picture is part of the Three Kings Hotel which was later replaced by Burtons.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, market and Moyses Hall
Date:
c1914
Caption:
Ahead is the shop of Charles Bullen, cabinet maker; the three story building is Simpson and Son, auctioneers , and to the right, the International Stores [opened in 1896]. Moyses Hall is now a museum. The South African War Memorial had been dedicated in 1904, and on the left the Castle Hotel with a row of carriers' carts outside.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, War Memorial
Date:
c1910
Caption:
View looking west from the Buttermarket. In the centre is the South African War Memorial, dedicated on 11 November 1904. On the left is the Market Cross/Town Hall. At the back, L to R: part of the Three King's Hotel, later replaced by Burtons; Floyds the chemist, replaced by Boots in 1910; and part of the Post Office opened in 1895.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, the Town Hall
Date:
c1890
Caption:
The Town Hall, formerly the Market Cross, from the north in the early 1890s. The first Market Cross building was destroyed in the 1606 fire and its replacement built in 1620. In 1734 the first floor was converted into a theatre and in the 1770s the building was rebuilt to the design of Robert Adam. Later the theatre became too small and a new theatre opened in Westgate Street in 1819. On the extreme left is a gap in the buildings which was presumably the site of the new Post Office of 1895.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, the Town Hall
Date:
Late 19th cent
Caption:
The Town hall from the south. Alterations to the building took place 1839 - 40 when the ground floor was completely enclosed and the panels either side of the door replaced the windows. Following a fire in 1908 more alterations took place and the panels were replaced. In 1972 after further work the building reopened as the Market Cross Art Gallery.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Town Hall
Date:
1919
Caption:
Alderman A Mitchell, Deputy Mayor, giving details of the Peace Celebrations to be held on Saturday 19 July at a public meeting held in the Town Hall (now Market Cross)on Monday 7 July 1919.
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Town Hall
Date:
1919
Caption:
Title
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, corner of Skinner Street
Date:
nd [1890s?]
Caption:
This image was taken for the 1906 Guide to Bury. The firm of Gibbs, Confectioners, traded here from the early 1860s. Joseph William Gibbs took over from his father in 1892 and the business continued until c1910. The adjoining building is Chapman, Merchant Taylors.
Title
Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Traction Engine accident
Date:
c1870s
Caption:
A traction engine crashed into a building on the east side of Northgate Street near the junction with Mustow Street and Angel Hill. The shop with the blind on the extreme left is the clock and watchmakers business of Alfred E Tollady at no 116. Number 117 is sometimes listed as a Beerhouse also run by Mr Tollady. By 1879 Tollady had moved his business to no 27 Hatter Street, so the date would be in the 1870s. The street numbering has been changed since then so it is difficult to identify the exact site, but no 117 could have been repaired and still stand as nos 123-4 with the shop replaced by the modern flats at nos 121-2. Alternatively, the buildings could have been demolished to make way for Thingoe House.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Northgate House is an imposing red-brick building of c 1713. This was the home of the Bevan family c1857-1915. From 1829 the family were partners in Oaks, Bevan and Co Bank in the Buttermarket. The historical novelist, Norah Lofts, lived here from the 1950s until 1983.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
This image shows the three-storey recessed gabled centre, with a venetian window over a decorated frieze.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Garden front.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House, Revd Bevan's house
Date:
c1905
Caption:
Garden front.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House, Revd Bevan's House
Date:
c1905
Caption:
Garden front. Three images 1820, 1821 and 1823 are listed as 'Revd Bevan's house', referring to Revd Ernest Charles Bevan, recorded here in the 1908 Directory.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Interior, entrance hall and stairway.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House, Mr Bevan's house
Date:
c1905
Caption:
Interior of Drawing Room, with Jacobean style ceiling and fireplace overmantle.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
nd
Caption:
Interior, library
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
nd
Caption:
Interior, sitting room. The house was home to several members of the Bevan family, for example, Beckford Bevan is recorded living at no 8, and James Johnson Bevan J P at Northgate House, 1874-96. Both were partners in the Bank.
Title
8 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Interior, entrance hall and staircase.
Title
8, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
Interior showing Dining Room.
Title
113 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Girardot's House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
This house, of which only the central section and left wing are shown, was the home of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum and Lady Mary Cullum c 1790-1831. Frederick George Giradot lived here c1890- 1906. His company, Giradot and Co, owned Northgate Maltings in Bury, with others in Woodbridge and Brentwood, with a London Office in Seething Lane.
Title
113 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Giradot's house
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Rear view of the house, with a wing and greenhouses along the right boundary.
Title
Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Northgate House
Date:
nd
Caption:
Eaton Goldsmith, of Goldsmith Bros Corn and Seed Merchants, lived at Northgate House from c1888 to c1900. The house was on the west side of the street, almost opposite the ruins of St Saviours Hospital. The house was later demolished and the whole site is now covered by commercial premises.
Title
Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
This Victorian house on the west side is now (2/011) known as Ounce House.
Title
Brentgovel Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Cambridge's House
Date:
1890s -1920s
Caption:
No 34 Brentgovel Street, a Grade 11 listed timber framed building of the late 16th century was owned and occupied by a Mr John Cambridge, father and son from c1823 to the latter's death in 1892. The house was then purchased by Mr William Sneezum who owned no 33, which he ran as coffee and dining rooms. No 34 became a shop, for many years, a tobacconist, and later a commercial hotel until 1963. In the 1980s the whole block of buildings was acquired by Glasswells Ltd, the furnishers. Today, no 33 is a travel agent, whilst no 34 appears to have been incorporated into the restaurant at no 35.
Title
Cemetery Road (now King's Road), Bury St Edmunds, Clarke's Open-Air Studio
Date:
1870s
Caption:
The photographer John William Clarke began to work in Bury c1868. The 1874 County Directory records that he had a studio at 65 King's Road, shown in the foreground. Beyond the studio are the parallel roof-lines of Prospect Row. Further away on the right is West Mill (see K505/0635) and to the left in the far distance is the Nonconformist Cemetery Chapel.
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
nd
Caption:
Details of the entrance arch.
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
nd
Caption:
Details of the left [north] inner capital of the western entrance arch.
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1890
Caption:
see K505/0092
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1890
Caption:
See K505/0092
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890
Caption:
View across Chequer Square, showing the Masonic Lodge, St James' Church, the Norman Tower and former Savings Bank
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c 1890
Caption:
See K505/0092
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1890
Caption:
See K505/0092
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
nd
Caption:
Detail of the entrance arch to the tower.
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1920
Caption:
The Masonic Hall has occupied this site of the former Six Bell's Inn since 1890. The Lodge purchased the adjoining no 37 Churchgate Street in 1957. To the right of the Norman Tower is the 1846 Penny Bank designed by Lewis Cottingham. The obelisk was moved further to the right in the spring of 1977.
Title
Chequer Square, Bury St Edmunds, Masonic Lodge, interior
Date:
c 1910
Caption:
Interior of the Lodge room, a first floor room ,with windows facing Chequer Square. The room is set out for a meeting of a particular Masonic degree, that of the Holy Royal Arch. It is interesting to note that there are only a handful of chairs set out, some fourteen or so, and this corresponds with the low number of members of the degree at this time, only twelve members in 1900, increasing to twenty one in 1920, being now (2007) nearly one hundred. The small banners are the ensigns of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the larger, at the western end of the room, are those of the Saints, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The chequered square carpet is an essential part of every Masonic Lodge, and it has, as does every item of furnishing and artefact in the Lodge, a particular meaning or symbolism.
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
c1890
Caption:
On the left is the Six Bells Inn, which closed in 1885 and became the Masonic Lodge in 1890. The clock on the Norman Tower was replaced by the Jubilee Clock on St Mary's church tower in 1897.
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
nd
Caption:
see K505/0092
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Unitarian Chapel
Date:
[late 19th cent.]
Caption:
This late Victorian picture shows the Unitarian Chapel built in 1711 as the Presbyterian Chapel, the first non-conformist church in Bury St Edmunds. Restored in 1991 it is now used for worship, concerts and meetings.
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
(1920s)
Caption:
A 1920s photograph looking east down Churchgate street from the Unitarian Chapel towards the Norman Tower. No 16, on the left, was occupied by Arthur Rosier, zinc-worker 1905/8 - 1929/33. The pair of houses on the extreme right of the photograph were demolished in 1958 and replaced in mid 1990s. This street is full of historic buildings, including, on the right of the corner of College Street the core of a 13th century timber framed structure.
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Norman Tower
Date:
1790
Caption:
see K505/0092
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
View from base of Norman Tower looking west up Churchgate Street
Title
Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1920
Caption:
A late 1920s or early 1930s photograph looking down Churchgate Street from just east of Hatter Street towards the Norman Tower. This street is full of historic buildings and, at the time, was even more commercial than it is now. The building on the left, no 23, is a tobacconist run by Augusta Clausen 1922-33, next door was Mrs E Bridges, dressmaker in 1925. On the right is the Queen's Head, run by the Percy family, one of only two premises ( the other being Bloomfields shoe shop, just off the photograph) which were trading in 1896. Also on the right is the mock tudor building, designed by H S Watling in 1903 to replace Herveys grocers shop, destroyed by fire. This building became Marlow's builders merchants 1925-75.
Title
1-7 Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
This image shows the edge of Tower Cottage, the early 19th century facade to the 16th century nos 3-4, and the replacement buildings no 5-7 of 1867. On the corner of Chequer Square are the Regency style buildings of c1840, probably built by William Steggles.
Title
44 Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds, Three Tuns Inn
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The Three Tuns had been an inn since at least the late 18th century. It was closed in 1903. [Because at that time it was not considered suitable to have an inn so near a church!]. The building then became St Mary's Institute until it was purchased by the local Labour Party in 1949. It was named Landsbury House and continued as the party's headquarters until about 2000 when it was sold and renovated as a private house.
Title
5-9 Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
pre 1867
Caption:
These houses were demolished and replaced by the present 5-8 Crown Street before June 1867. See K505/1736 for rear of buildings and K505/1214 for replacement buildings.
Title
29 Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds, Dog and Partridge
Date:
before 1879
Caption:
William Land was landlord from 1872 until the early 20th century. In the late 19th century Greene King added external timbers to many of their pubs including the Dog and Partridge and the Fox [see k505/3135], which was removed from the latter in 1923.
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Fox Inn, interior
Date:
1923
Caption:
Public bar shown when Fox reopened in June 1923 following extensive renovation work by Greene King.
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Fox Inn
Date:
c1923-1924
Caption:
Shown after the road widening scheme for Mustow Street was completed. Distinctive inn sign designed by Basil Oliver and made by Messrs F Chubb. Located on the corner of the property, it depicts a stylish gilt Fox set in a frame topped with decorative wrought iron work. This sign was exhibited at the National Inn Signs Exhibition in London, November 1936.
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Fox Inn
Date:
nd
Caption:
Wedding reception, 26 October 1920, of Hilda, daughter of Fox's landlord Joseph Pamplin, on her marriage to Joseph Ballington. Late 19th century 'mock' timbered exterior visible; removed when Fox renovated by Greene King in 1922/3. Bitter controversy surrounded the demolition of the buildings in Mustow Street which divided the Star, when a road widening scheme commenced in 1922.
Title
Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Fox Inn, interior
Date:
1923
Caption:
Extensive structural alterations and restoration work by Greene King's architect Sidney Naish was carried out in 1922/3. Naish uncovered the splendid Jacobean panelling after removing several layers of paint. The Fox reopened to acclaim by the local press in June 1923.
Title
Fornham Road, Bury St Edmunds, Babwell Friary
Date:
nd
Caption:
A house of Franciscan Friars moved here, from Friars lane in 1262. The buildings were converted into a dwelling after the Reformation, of which this is the red-brick gable end. The 16th century chimney stack was widened and given shaped gables in the 17th century.
Title
79 Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds, Norman House
Date:
nd
Caption:
The hallway of 'Norman House' has 12th century Norman walling and a typical Norman archway with round columns, carved capitals and semi-circular arch. The door and wall either side marks the original rear wall of the property, which may have been one of the 'stone houses' erected by Abbot Sampson.
Title
Corner of Guildhall and Westgate Streets, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1878
Caption:
George Rutter had a butcher's shop here. In February 1878 the Borough Council decided to widen Guildhall Street corner by five feet. As a result, the corner of this timber-framed building was 'rounded' and given a brick fa‡ade, which can still be seen to-day. .
Title
18 Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds, Misses Wing's house
Date:
c 1880
Caption:
Local directories show that the Misses Sophia, Louisa and Helen Wing had their home here from at least 1874-1885 or after.
Title
Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
Hatter Street, looking towards Abbeygate Street. On the west side can be seen the buildings demolished to create Langton Place.
Title
15 Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Tozer's house
Date:
c 1898
Caption:
Charles William Tozer, painter, plumber and sign-writer, is recorded in the County Directories as trading from here from at least 1896 until c 1902. By 1904 he had moved to 17 Whiting Street. The range of styles of lettering used on the shopfront advertises his skills.
Title
Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Stanley's house
Date:
nd
Caption:
Henry Stanley, auctioneer, is listed at No 5 Hatter Street in the directories from 1879 to 1891. The house was later known as York House following a visit from the then Duke of York (later King George V) in 1893. In the 1920s the southern half of the house was demolished and replaced by the Central Cinema, opened in 1924. After many alterations and name changes the cinema is still open, with two screens and a bingo hall under the name Abbeygate Picture House. The northern half of the building is being converted into a cafe for the cinema. The single storey building to the south was demolished in the 1960s and replaced by a three storey block.
Title
Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Court House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The Manor House was built 1736-8 by Sir James Boroughs, for Lady Elizabeth Hervey, wife of John 1st Earl of Bristol. From at least 1851 the house was used as the Judge's lodgings during the Assises, when it was known as the 'Court House'. From 1993 until 2006 the building housed St Edmundsbury Borough Council Museum of Fine Art and Horology. Now it is a private residence.
Title
Horringer Road, Bury St Edmunds, Horringer Mill
Date:
pre 1918
Caption:
This complex was later known as West Mill. The buildings shown are the two-gabled miller's house; the L-shaped steam mill dated 1846; and the post mill, which was demolished in 1918. The Cockrill family were millers from at least the 1840s to c 1880. The initials of William Cockrill and the date 1846 are on the steam mill. The Catchpole family were the millers from c 1880 until c 1922..
Title
Horringer Road, Bury St Edmunds, Horringer Mill
Date:
pre 1918
Caption:
.
Title
Kings Road, Bury St Edmunds, windmill
Date:
1914
Caption:
This image appeared in the 'Bury Free Press' of 17 January 1914, and may have been commissioned by the newspaper. It shows the demolition of a smock windmill on the north side of Kings Road, and to the west of Chalk Road. The mill dated from c1800 and formed part of the West Mills complex, including a steam mill, occupied by the Limmer family, who gave their name to the nearby terrace. Between 1880 and 1914 ownership passed from H Barton to W Clarke, to Benjamin S Jennings and lastly to Mr King of Burlingham and Sons who transferred the business to Station Hill.
Title
147 Kings Road, Bury St Edmunds, Linden House
Date:
c 1880
Caption:
Until the renumbering of the road, this was no 64 Cemetery Road, later to be renamed Kings Road in 1911. The taller part of the property dates from 1880 and fronts an earlier building of 1813. The stable, to the right, behind the double gates, was built in 1877. This was not originally part of Linden House, being owned by Thomas Baldwin, a Fly-proprietor. The front building was owned in the 1860s, along with the garden on the left, by Thomas Ridley, grocer, wine and oil merchant of Abbeygate Street, who in 1876 acquired the whole complex. In the 20th century, Linden House was converted into offices, and the garden replaced by a car park.
Title
Looms Lane, Bury St Edmunds, R Boby's House
Date:
pre 1883
Caption:
An image taken before the Glasshouse (see 2215) was erected against the Looms Lane boundary.
Title
Looms Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Boby's House
Date:
before 1883
Caption:
This property, known as 'Bloomfield House', stood on the corner of Lower Baxter Street and Looms Lane, and was the premises of a private school run by Mr Bloomfield. It was the home of Robert Boby, whose agricultural machinery works was in St. Andrews Street (south). The family lived here from the 1860s until the 1920s. The 1883 Ordnance Survey map shows two bay windows on this side, which dates the image to before 1883. It is now a medical centre.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Similar view to 0536.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, during road widening
Date:
1923-1924
Caption:
Looking east, showing new houses set back from the earlier building line. The original description of the image was 'demolition work on Smith's shop'. The 1922 Directory records at No 10, Mustow Street - 'Cecil Herbert Smith, boot repairer'.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Similar view to 0535 but taken further down the street.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Looking east towards Angel Hill from site of the Eastgate. Abbey Precinct Wall on the left. The Old Corner House and shop on the right. There was much protest locally and nationally over the Borough Council's proposal to demolish this house and sell off the historic timber work. Eventually the Council were persuaded to keep the timber work and incorporate it into the new building. Mr Jarman was in the forefront of the protest over the road widening scheme. This series of images were probably taken to provide publicity against the scheme. The block of buildings from here to Cotton Lane were compulsory purchased by the Borough Council and demolished in 1923-4 for road widening.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Similar view to 0535.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Looking east showing Abbey Precinct Wall on right.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Looking east towards the site of the Eastgate. Entrance to Cotton Lane with corner shop on left. Similar view to 0664.
Title
Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds, before road widening
Date:
c1922
Caption:
Similar view to 0533 but taken further up the street. The block of buildings on the right included the long established Star Inn, closed in 1923.
Title
Orchard Street, Bury St Edmunds, St John's Church
Date:
[1871]
Caption:
The original orchard was purchased by the Bury St Edmunds Building Society in 1866. The first houses were erected in 1867 and had to cost over œ110. The church spire is under repair following a lightning strike on 27th May 1871. St. John's Infants School was built in 1841 and was designed by William Ranger, who also designed the church.
Title
Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
View of the south side of the street looking east towards the junction with St Andrews Street and Brentgovel Street. Three doors from the junction with the large lamp is The Market Tavern (formerly The Wagon). Most of the buildings are now in commercial use.
Title
Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
A similar view to K505/0029 but showing both sides of the street. In the distance on the corner of St. Andrews Street North and Brentgovel Street is The Grapes Inn (formerly The Cock), which also marks the site of the Risby Gate. Most of the building on the north side of the street, like those on the south, are now in commercial use.
Title
Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Clarke's Butcher's shop
Date:
c 1910
Caption:
This is the corner of Risbygate Street and St Andrews Street South. Frederick Henry Clarke traded from here from c 1880 until c 1910. The electric street lights help to date the image to after 1900. The image shows a typical butchers shop display, with the large cuts elaborately decorated and hanging outside the shop. The carcasses labelled with the breed and farm where they originate from. Six of the staff pose outside the shop, one with knives at the ready.
Title
Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Pattles House
Date:
nd
Caption:
Home of the Pattles family 1825 - 1896. William Pattle and his young family moved from Wickhambrook in 1825 to Bury St Edmunds where he established a grocers and cheesemongers business at 1 The Traverse, [ now Croasdale's]. On his death in 1875, the business and house, then known as Paradise House, passed to his son Henry, who continued to live there until c1896. The house looks very much the same today, with its distinctive first floor balcony, although the palisaded parapet and decorative ridge tiles have been removed. It is now a dental surgery.
Title
St Andrew's Street to Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds, aerial view
Date:
1880-1891
Caption:
This image was probably taken from a ladder above Clarke's studio in King's Road (see 1761) or a building nearby. In the foreground to the front of the building, to the right, is the edge of St Andrews Street South. The front of the Wool Warehouse marks the line of the former town wall. The three-storey building to the left is the rear of Everard's Hotel, with the urns on the Corn Exchange parapet showing above it. Changes to the buildings in Abbeygate Street enable us to date the image to between 1880, when Barclays Bank was extended, and 1891, when the Alliance Assurance building replaced part of Mr. Kidson's shop (see 1756).
Title
St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds, Royal Show Arch
Date:
July 1867
Caption:
The Royal Show was held at Grange Farm, Eastgate Street 15th-19th July 1867 . The motto over the arch reads 'God giveth the increase'. The iron-works are on the left and the 'Britannia' beyond the arch.
Title
St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds, north view from St John's Church Spire
Date:
1871
Caption:
This photograph was taken from the steeple of St John's Church when it was covered in scaffolding to undertake repairs after it was struck by lightening in May 1871. In the distance the railway station can be seen with the glass roof that covered the platforms until 1893. In the distance are Boby Bros. and the Station Works under construction on a site previously occupied by Thomas Prentice & Co.
Title
St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds, south view of St John's Church spire
Date:
1871
Caption:
In the distance to the left is the Market Cross; to the right Robert Boby's iron-works and the Water Tanks on the Corporation Field to the far right. In St John's Street men are repainting the roof of the buildings now behind the 'Golden Chip' range. At the top of the street the raised parapet marks the position of the 'King's Head'. On the right, trees indicate the garden of the Quaker Meeting House..
Title
St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds, Matthew's shop
Date:
c 1875
Caption:
Joseph Matthew traded from this corner site from c1855 until 1880. The windows of the outfitter's shop are filled with hats, collars, jackets, trousers and suits. The road is unmade, with stone walkways across Brentgovel and St. John's Street.
Title
St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1870
Caption:
On the left is the Georgian-fronted house, which was purchased as the Vicarage for the new parish of St. John's after 1841. The crossing leads to St. John's Place. On the right is the hipped roof of the 'Hunted Stag' opposite the church.
Title
6 St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds, F Johnson's butcher's shop
Date:
Dec-05
Caption:
Ready for the Christmas trade, Mr Johnson and his staff of six men and a boy pose in front of the shop display. Many of the beasts had won prizes at the Bury Christmas Livestock Market. The notices either give details of the prize winning beasts or the local farm or estate where they were grazed or bred.
Title
St Mary's Square, Bury St Edmunds, north west corner
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The house with three dormer windows was no10, owned from 1765 by the Maulkin family of brewers until 1875. It was then acquired by Frederick William King [of Greene King] who had occupied it from at least 1860. The building was demolished prior to World War l when the barley store complex was erected.
Title
St Mary's Square, Bury St Edmunds, St Mary's Vicarage
Date:
c1900
Caption:
The house is not shown on Warren's map of 1791, and it is believed to date from the first decade of the 19th century. It is possible that the porch was added to designs of Francis Sandys, the architect of Ickworth House, who certainly lived in the square. The property was St Mary's vicarage from 1857-1995.
Title
The Traverse, Bury St Edmunds, Cupola House
Date:
c 1895
Caption:
Known as 'The Victoria' by 1881,the property was acquired by the Jennings family in 1882. They were wine and spirit merchants and agents for Allsopp's Burton Beers [on sash window glass] The bow window on the right [see K505/0622] has been replaced by a second doorway. To the left is E. Youngman, Chemist and Druggist, with a new shop front and trade sign of pestle and mortar over the doorway. To the right is the brick facade of the 'The Exchange' public house. Below the lamp on the fanlight is A[lfred] T[homas] Woodhurst, the landlord.
Title
The Traverse, Bury St Edmunds, Cupola House
Date:
c 1900
Caption:
The building looks very much the same as K505/0623, except that the gable has a cladding of clay tiles. The image is virtually identical to that published in Basil Oliver's 'Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia' in 1912.
Title
The Traverse, Bury St Edmunds, Cupola House
Date:
c 1925
Caption:
By 1905 Clarke's brewery had purchased the building. Their alterations included the discovery of the Oak Room in 1906 and replacing the bow windows in 1911. There is no evidence to substantiate the 1907 plaque linking Daniel Defoe with Cupola House. In 1917 Clarke's brewery amalgamated with Greene King to whom the ownership passed until 1992. The motor vehicle parked outside the shop of George Goult, clothier, helps to date the image.
Title
Well Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Hooper's house
Date:
nd
Caption:
No 20 Well Street ( Grade 11 Listed ) was occupied by a Mr Hooper, father and son from c1868 to c 1900. Mr William Hooper, senior, was manager of Benjamin Hyam & Sons, clothing manufacturers in Lower Baxter Street. In 1896 the business appears under William Hooper's name and by 1900 son Frederick had taken over both the business and the house. By 1908 Frederick and the firm had disappeared from the Directories. Somehow, the cast iron railings and gate survived the salvage drive of WW1 and are included in the Listings entry.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Browning's Blacksmith Shop
Date:
early 20th cent
Caption:
Alfred and Charles Browning, father and son, worked here from at least 1892 until the 1940s. The photograph could have been taken any time in that period. The section of the blacksmith's shop with the horses outside is now no 81, and the plain gable to the right is the former 'Plough'
Title
84 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house
Date:
1910
Caption:
Revd Edward James Griffiths ran a Boarding and Day School here in the 1870s and 1880s. He is recorded in the Directories as living here in 1892 and 1896. His widow is listed between 1900-26 but not in 1922. The 'Plough' is to the left and the Grindle footpath to the right.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house
Date:
c1910
Caption:
Title
84 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house
Date:
nd
Caption:
View looking north along Southgate Street
Title
84 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house
Date:
c1910
Caption:
Rear view showing the garden
Title
84, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house
Date:
c1910
Caption:
Rear view showing garden.
Title
84 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house,
Date:
c1910
Caption:
Rear view showing garden
Title
84 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mrs Griffith's house
Date:
c1910
Caption:
View looking north along Southgate street, from the rear of the house.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's House
Date:
c 1875
Caption:
This house, known as Southbridge House, stood at the corner of Maynewater Lane and Southgate Street, opposite the present Pine Shop. It had been purchased in 1869 by Edward Greene, of Westgate brewery, and sold to William Pead, his manager, in the same year. It is one of 33 very similar photographs of the house and its garden in the collection, which may indicate that the photographs were taken not long after that. William Pead died in 1903 and there is a memorial to him in St Mary's church. The house remained as a residence until WW2 when it was occupied by the Royal Corps of Signals . From 1948-1964 it became the Area National Assistance Office. The house was demolished on the widening of Maynewater Lane in 1970.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
View from the north east, corner of Mainwater Lane
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
View in garden. See K505/652
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Bridge in Mr Pead's garden.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Ornate stone bridge
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
View taken from the river with Mr Pead's house in the background.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's House
Date:
c1875
Caption:
View of the garden, showing rooftop of Mr Pead's house.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c 1875
Caption:
Brick bridge in the garden of Mr Pead's House.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Ornate iron bridge.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Brick bridge, with houses in the distance.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Garden , showing a brick bridge, with house in the distance.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Brick bridge with iron grill.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
nd
Caption:
Wooden bridge in the garden. See K505/652
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
A bridge in the garden .
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Bridge in the garden.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Bridge similar to K505/906.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Wooden bridge, houses in background.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
nd
Caption:
River and wooden bridge, rear of Mr Pead's house.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house.
Date:
c1875
Caption:
View from Mr Pead's garden.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
c1875
Caption:
View from Mr Pead's house.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house
Date:
nd
Caption:
Mr Pead's view, garden with houses in background.
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Mr Pead's house.
Date:
c1875
Caption:
Mr Pead's garden
Title
Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Linnet House
Date:
c1900
Caption:
This was the home of the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson [d.1867]. He was a literary and theatrical critic and a friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. In 1907, as part of th Bury Pageant celebrations, a commemorative plaque was placed over the door.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
The Flax Factory opened in March 1919 and closed in 1923-4. Flax was an important element in the war effort, being used to cover the wings of aeroplanes. Although plans by the government began in 1917, by the time the factory opened the war was over. The move for Home Rule in Ireland also had implications for the importance of flax manufacture in England which was not resolved until 1921. The end of the war and resumption of flax imports from Ireland combined to render the factory unnecessary, hence its short life. This image shows how extensive the factory site was. Note the hopper at the corner of the building. In the foreground is flax drying after being retted.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory interior
Date:
c1919-1923
Caption:
The factory employed mainly women. Here they are putting the dried flaxon a conveyor belt to be combed by a deseeding machine. The seed was then bagged, the best kept for next year and the inferior ground into linseed oil. The pith was bundled for 'retting', soaking in water for several days to separate out the the fibres by a fermentation process. The women have shorter skirts than in the other photographs, suggesting that this was taken at the later date.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
Machinery is being installed, probably for a new scrutching line. Note the short pieces of flax on the floor, typical of the waste from scrutching, and the rollers lying around; in the scrutching department the flax straw, retted and dried , was put through rollers, thus separating the inner stalk from the outer pith or 'shrive'. The long fibres, known as 'line' were twisted into 'stricks', graded and bundled for the spinners. The short fibres, or 'taw' were used in feedbags or papermaking.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory exterior
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
This exterior view shows either an engine or furnace house on the right of the picture. In the middle ground are the retting tanks. In the forground the retted flax is laid out to dry and bleach. Usually, retting was only carried out when fine linen was required, which suggests that the factory was not fulfilling its original purpose of making the courser linen used for aeroplane wings. When the factory closed in the early 1920s local children used these tanks as swimming pools.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
This interior view of the flax factory shows an engine room with lockers and a man in attendance. Note the belt going from the engine to drive machines elswhere.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
View of a long corridor with what looks like a fire at the end. There are sacks in the foreground, probably of flax seed.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory interior
Date:
c1919 - 1925
Caption:
Note the electric lights, an innovation at the time, and the large number of women workers; women went to work in vastly increased numbers during the First World War. Although in this case they seem to have been allowed to retain their jobs when the men returned, this was probably because the work was poorly paid The men in the picture are obviously in a supervisory role The manager or foreman in the right foreground is wearing a collar and tie, jacket and waistcoat. Notice his hat; it was impolite for a gentleman to wear a hat indoors, which suggests he was wearing it as protection against the dust from processing the flax. The women are also wearing headgear as protection. The final product is seen here - bundles of flax fibre, sorted into bundles of the longest fibres and combed or 'heckled' ready to go to the spinners to be used for rope or twine or woven into linen.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
These very large stacks of flax are awaiting processing. The flax was harvested once a year and had to be stored until the factory was ready to process it. There was probably a furnace to help with the drying if the flax became damp in the winter.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
This is a good overall view of the site, with the flax drying in the fields after being retted.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory furnaces
Date:
nd
Caption:
An overall view of the site which gives an idea of the scale. There are barns for storage of the flax as well as the factory in view. The site looks a little deserted, apart from the dog in the centre of the picture, so this could have been taken at the time of closure.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory furnaces
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
The boilers for the steam engine which ran the machinery for the flax factory. They may also have been used for drying the flax before processing after retting. It is quite possible that they were Bellis and Morcan furnaces, popular at the time.
Title
Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Flax Factory
Date:
1919-1923
Caption:
Part of the factory works where the power ,taken off from the steam engine, ran down to the machines on the floor. The small railway may have been used for transporting the flax at different stages or coal to the boilers, or it may be a rope walk for flax rope making. Notice the bucket and hydrant; dry flax and flax dust would have been highly flammable.
Title
Sugar Beet Factory, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1925
Caption:
A report in the Bury and Norwich Post, 7 January 1925, states that' Messrs Tate and Lyle Ltd are cooperating with Hungarian interests in the building of the factory at Bury St Edmunds on which work is soon to commence. Each group will find half of the œ350,000 involved and an Hungarian expert has been chosen as organiser (Dr. R. Jorisch) A site of 45 acres has been acquired for the factory. It is hoped to commence construction next month.' Work began in February and the factory opened in December 1925. A new road, Holderness Road, was constructed to give access from Hollow Road and 16 pairs of houses built by Bury Town Council for essential workers. The three images were taken between August and September 1925.
Title
Sugar Beet Factory, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1925
Caption:
Title
Sugar Beet Factory, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1925
Caption:
Title
Station Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Boby Bros, Station Works
Date:
c1890
Caption:
Robert & George Boby established their Station Hill Works in 1871-2 on a site previously occupied by Thomas Prentice & Co, timber, slate and coal merchants. The single-storey building on the left has a stone with the inscription B B 1872. In the trade directories, Boby Bros are listed as beer finning manufacturers ( for clarifying beer), malsters and hop merchants. They were also coal merchants from 1908 - 1937 and appear to have ceased trading c1950
Title
Station Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Boby Bros., Station Works
Date:
nd
Caption:
This was taken a little later than K505/1958, as the painter working on the gable end has moved on. Also, as the photographer has moved further back, we can see the wooden Great Eastern Railway Goods Shed on the right. This lasted until the early 1950s when British railways replaced it with a modern structure. Today, the Boby buildings remain, although the tall chimney has gone. The large building at the back has lost its chimneys and the turret with the weather-vane.
Title
The Lark Navigation
Date:
1890
Caption:
The first lighter, horsedrawn from Mildenhall, arrives at St Saviours Wharf in 1890.
Title
The Lark Navigation
Date:
after 1892
Caption:
One of the Eastern Counties Navigation & Transport C0.'s steam tugs, near Bury St Edmunds.
Title
The Lark Navigation
Date:
after 1892
Caption:
The Lark Navigation, from Mildenhall to Fornham, opened in 1715. With the expansion of the railway system it began to fall into disrepair, until it was taken over, in 1899, by the Bury St Edmunds Borough Council and the Eastern Counties Navigation and Transport Co. They started to restore and extend it from the Fornham Basin to St Saviours Wharf near the railway station in Bury. Part of the route opened in 1890 but regular traffic did not start until 1892 after further work had been done. The enterprise was not a success and soon closed. This image shows a view of St Saviours Wharf with lighters and a steam tug
Title
Waterworks, West Road, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1900
Caption:
New water tower and reservoir under construction, West Road c1900
