31 images found.
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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.
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Miss D. Jarman, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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Suffolk Provincial Grand Masonic Lodge, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1918

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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.
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William Lucia, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1878 - 1883

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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.
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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.
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Supt William Clarke, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1890

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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.
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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.
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Thomas Hayward, Station Master, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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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

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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.
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Edward Greene, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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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.
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Sergeant A. Bishop, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1884-1889

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Sergeant A. Bishop, Armoury Sergeant of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, based at Bury St. Edmunds from 1884 to 1889.
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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.
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Mr Robert Boby, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1870s

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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.
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Colonel John Robert Collins, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1894

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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

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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]
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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

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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.
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Mr Plumpton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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Mr & Mrs Plumpton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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Dr Robert MacNab F.R.C.S., Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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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.
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Dr Robert MacNab,F.R.C.S., Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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Mrs Riley Smith, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd

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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)
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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.
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Unknown Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:

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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.
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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.
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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.