August 2026 Meeting – Alice de Bryene
12 August 2026 Lady Alice de Bryene Pip Wright gave a fascinating historical talk which brought the remarkable life of Lady Alice de…
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July 2026 Meeting – On the Trail of St Edmund with Chris Parfitt
Saint Edmund, the original patron saint of England, was the 9th-century Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia. He became King in 855 and was…
June 2026 Meeting – “History of the Co-Op, Making a Difference… since 1844” and “The Saddest Sunday”: Two Talks by Anne Grimshaw
On 10th June, Anne Grimshaw gave us two excellent talks in her usual inimitable style…
May 2026 Meeting – The Stour Navigation
Established by a 1705 Act of Parliament, the River Stour Navigation was an early statutory waterway stretching from Cambridge to the estuary at Manningtree.
April 2026 Meeting – Sign of the Times
Village sign at West Dereham, Suffolk [Adrian S Pye licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence]
March 2026 Meeting – Millenium of Mills in Suffolk
Along the River Stour on the border of Suffolk and Essex, a chain of watermills has served local communities for roughly a millennium.
February 2026 Meeting – The Mystery of the Gestingthorpe Roman Villa
Ashley Cooper, local historian and farmer, returned by popular request to give us another fascinating talk, this time about the mystery of the Roman villa found on his farm in Gestingthorpe.
Talks Programme for 2026
Meetings are on the second Wednesday of the month, 10 am to 12 noon at The Granary, Quay Lane, Sudbury, CO10 2AN (except…
November 2025 Meeting
“We’ll Meet Again”, by Bryan Thurlow. This talk was originally written by Bryan to help Primary school children understand what life was like…