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Archaeology
Richard Taggart

Bridge Street Dig 2025

Take a look at some of the photos and images from the Bridge Street Dig 2025 – media courtesy of Trevor Rix and University College London

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Long Melford Heritage Centre
Graham Dupree

Long Melford School

Long Melford School   This account of Long Melford Primary School is an attempt to show what it was like going to school in Melford during the late 1950s and

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Archaeology
Graham Dupree

Excavations June 2023

Archaeological Excavations June 2023 Our excavation team will start their season in June with further investigations in the area adjacent to the 2021 successful dig.  With permission from the Hyde

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Football Ground Dig 1.7.2022

Football Ground Dig 1 July 2022 The Long Melford Heritage Trusts Archaeological Unit have opened a new excavation in our continual investigation into the villages Iron Age and Roman past. 

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Geophysical Survey

Geophysical Survey Cricket ground and Football pitches – 24 June 2022 The long awaited archaeological geophysical results have now arrived having been commissioned by the Long Melford Heritage Trust Archaeological

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Great War
David Gevaux

Long Melford Great War Archive

LONG MELFORD GREAT WAR ARCHIVE Standing before the War Memorial in Long Melford in 2013 a question came into my mind, and it is one that I have been trying

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Long Melford Heritage Centre
Melford Heritage

A Child’s Memory Of WW2

A Child’s Memory Of WW2 by David Ford 2005 ‘Three lights and a bung’ I was born and was living in Hall Street, Long Melford when World War 2 began.

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Long Melford Heritage Centre
Melford Heritage

The Railway and Long Melford

All Change For Melford!  By the middle of the nineteenth century much of England was in the grip of railway mania as different individuals and companies sought to develop new

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Long Melford Heritage Centre
Kenneth Dodd

The discovery of the Iron Age Coin

https://melfordheritage.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Coin-v2.1-16×9-White.mp4 Our Logo represents an Iron Age Coin recovered during an archaeological excavation by the Heritage Trust Archaeological Team in 2019 on the site of the new Football Club building. 

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