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 early 1960s. It is chiefly based on reminiscences, both my own and those of other children who attended around the same time, along with some local and national READ MORE
Category: Long Melford Heritage Centre
Remembering 1st Long Melford Girl Guides
Remembering 1st Long Melford Girl Guides by Sheila Cadge with additional reminiscences from Sarah Boosé Once a Guide Always a Guide Preface When I was tidying up in the loft a few months ago, I came across an old toffee tin containing all my Girl Guide badges and some READ MORE
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 Parker Estate a number of areas will be examined after an initial geophysical survey is complete using the very latest equipment. It is hoped that READ MORE
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. Based on the findings from a test pit in 2013 and part of the Michael Woods T.V. Programme (The Story of England) also supported by READ MORE
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 Unit covering the areas of the cricket and football pitches. The survey was conducted by Phase Site Investigations Ltd. and took two days to complete. READ MORE
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 to answer since that day, which is, if this is the record of the fallen where are the names of hundreds of other men who READ MORE
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. At the age of five I was too young to realise the seriousness of what was going on, but certain things, which eventually turned out READ MORE
Codling’s Forge: A Spiritual Midden Deposition
In August of 2018 Moyse’s Hall Museum assisted in the identification of not one, but a series of finds all from the same location; a void by an Inglenook in a property known as Codling’s Forge in Long Melford. This ultimately opens up the debate as to whether the deposed discoveries are accidental consignments READ MORE
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 lines across the country. Essex and Suffolk were no different but whereas today much of the rail networks’ trade is passenger driven in the nineteenth READ MORE
The discovery of the Iron Age Coin
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. The coin itself was rare in so much that it was recovered by excavation and from a place where it was lost in the Iron Age. READ MORE