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A village with a big story
Little Holland cottages at top of Green no longer there
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Claypits Pond with Horses 1905
Long Melford Coronation fancy dress competition at the British Legion in Cordell road1953
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Spicer

Spicer, Dorothy Chippett – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 23.3.1901.[1]  Parents: Thomas Spicer of Faucett St Marys, Norfolk (Grocer & Draper) [see details below] and Mary Jane Hutton ‘Jennie’ [née King].  Home: Hall Street, Long Melford (1901 to 1911), 145 Valley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk (1939), Alice Kirkland Nursing Home, Undercliff Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk [1991].  Service Record: Dorothy was a member of the Mobile First Aid Squad in Ipswich during the Second World War.[2]  Died Felixstowe, Suffolk on 6.1.1991.[3]

Spicer, Thomas – Born: Faucett St Marys, Norfolk on 6.4.1871.[4]  Parents: Thomas Spicer (Farmer) and Martha [née Ludkin].  Family Connections: Father of Dorothy Chippett Spicer [b1901].   Home: Wymondham, Norfolk [1871], Bush Green, Pulham St Mary Magdelene, Norfolk (1881 to 1891), Hall Street, Long Melford (1901 and 1911) and [1915], Melford House, 147 Valley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk (1939) to [1943].  Occupation: Grocer and Draper (1891 to 1911), Retired Grocer (1939).  Married: Mary Jane ‘Jennie’ Hutton King in 1900.  Service Record: Thomas was a member of the Long Melford Volunteer Training Corps in 1915.[5]  Died: Ipswich, Suffolk on 25.11.1943.[6]

Notes – [1] 1939 Register.  [2] 1939 Register.  [3] National Probate Calendar.  [4] 1939 Register. [5] For Training Corps articles see Suffolk and Essex Free Press 10.3.1915 and 29.12.1915. [6] National Probate Calendar.

Thomas Spicer’s shop on the west side of Hall Street in Long Melford circa 1920. Now known as Waterloo House, the timber-framed core of this property dates to the early eighteenth century.

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