Books about Suffolk

[LizzieW]

I have bought the one about newspaper reports, which looked interesting.  Many of my ancestors were born in Norfolk and Suffolk, but moved away, so I haven't researched that area yet, but thought this was a good way to start.

Liz

[Suffolk Mawther]

Sounds like one of Pip's books 

This is his own web site with his other Suffolk books
http://www.pipwright.com/

I hope you enjoy your new book 

SM ...

[LizzieW]

Yes, it's the one called I Read It In The Local Rag.

Liz

[LizzieW]

SM - Thanks for the info re Poppyland - I have just been on the site and bought a book!

  SM - Delighted to say the book arrived with the lunchtime post, so if anyone else wants to use Poppyland, you can be sure of a good and speedy service.

Liz

[Suffolk Mawther]

 New book about the Workhouses.

I am just about to order a new book called At The Overseers Door, the story of Suffolk's parish workhouses

by Ray Whitehand of Saxmundham.

Tracing the existence of the Workhouses in the county from the middle of the 16th Cenruty to the 1830s.

Available from the author at his home address (contact me PM for details) or from bookshops in Suffolk.

It costs GBP 9.95 plus GBP 2.00 Post and Packing it's a softback with 112 pages.

Keep a look out on the East Anglian Daily Times Features page as this will probably be added to the web site very soon - at present you can read all about another new book about the trades and professions in a small Suffolk market town around 1900.

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/features/

SM ... 

[Suffolk Mawther]

Both books mentioned in previous message can be ordered from

http://www.aldeburghbookshop.co.uk/

for those of you who are not in the county 

SM ...

[hmallington]

Parson and People in a Suffolk Village
Richard Cobbold's Wortham 1824-1877

This is a wonderful book especially if you have ancestors from Wortham, (several of mine are mentioned). Even if you don't it gives a wonderful insight into village life.
It is published by Wortham Research Group and SFHS and puts together the Rev Cobbolds drawings of the village and it's people with his personal views on them.
The publishers have also added census returns and parish records as well as masses of historical data. A Wonderful Book.

Helen

[hmallington]

just to add, I brought my book from Ipswich Tourist information centre. It is also available to order from Suffolk Family History Society

http://www.suffolkfhs.co.uk/newpubs.html

If you have relatives from or around Wortham I guarantee it is money well spent.

Helen

[Joy Dean]

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
by George Ewart Evans

Blaxhall's Living Past: Snapshots of Village Life
Publisher: Blaxhill Archive Group