Miss I Sayers, known to her friends as ‘Tim’, was an enthusiastic member of the society and served on the
committee for many years until her death in 1999. She left a considerable collection of local history
books to the Society, to which have been added a number of books purchased by the Society to aid
research for members acting as town guides.
The books are housed in the Bury St. Edmunds branch
of the Suffolk record Office in Raingate Street, and are available, on application, for use by current
members of the Past & Present Society.
Here is a list of the books in the Library:
| Author | Title |
| Anderson, G M | Times Remembered |
| Aston, M | Interpreting The Landscape |
| Bacon, J | The Suffolk Shore Line |
| Barnardiston, K W | Clare Priory |
| Barrett, C R B | Essex |
| Betterton, A & Dymond, A | Lavenham |
| Bishop, P | Ipswich |
| Braun, H | Parish Churches |
| Bryant, T H | County Churches: Suffolk |
| Brooks, E C | A Thousand Years Of Village History: Somerleyton |
| Clegg, M | Street Names In Ipswich |
| Cook, O | Breckland |
| Cooper, F | Chevington |
| Dewes, S | A Suffolk Childhood |
| Dunn, G | Simon’s Last Year |
| Dunning, R | Local History For Beginners |
| Dymond, D | The Churches Of Stanton |
| Fletcher, R | The East Anglians |
| Freeman, R | I Mind The Time |
| Harvey, W E | The Life And Times Of A Saxmundham Man |
| Insall, D | Lavenham |
| Jennings, C | The Identity Of Suffolk |
| Jennings, C (Ed) | Suffolk For Ever |
| Leveridge, E | Looking Back At Suffolk |
| Malster, R | Ipswich: Town On The Orwell |
| Malster, R | Wherries And Waterways |
| MacCulloch, N J H | Haughley Past And Present |
| McCutcheon, E | Bury St Edmunds, Historic Town |
| May, P | The Exning Story |
| Mills West, H | Suffolk Tales |
| O’Connor, J | Memories Of A Market Trader |
| Paine, C | The Culford Estate, 1780 - 1935 |
| Rackham, O | The History Of The Countryside |
| Ravensdale, J R | History On Your Doorstep |
| Robinson, H | Afore I Forget |
| A Sermon In Stone | The 500th Anniversary Book Of Long Melford Church |
| Spall, G D | My Village: Stonham Aspal |
| Smedley, N | East Anglian Crafts |
| Smedley, N | Life And Traditions In Suffolk |
| Statham, M | The Book Of Bury St Edmunds |
| Statham, M | Victorian Bury St Edmunds In Photographs |
| Statham, M | Yesterday’s Town: Bury St Edmunds |
| Strickland, M | I Am Southwold |
| West, T | The Timber-Framed House In England |
| Weston, D | The Lark Navigation |
| Ward, Z | Curtsy To The Lady |
| Webb, B | Exploring Old British Churches |