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
Category: Long Melford History
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