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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.
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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.
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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
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hotel
Date:
1890
Caption:
Interior view of entrance and staircase
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
