February 2025 meeting.
The Real Basil Brown. By Sarah Doig. Not many people had heard of Basil Brown until the film “The Dig” starring Ralph Fiennes…
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Talks Programme for 2025
Meetings are on the second Wednesday of the month, 10 am to 12 noon at The Granary, Quay Lane, Sudbury, CO10 2AN (except…
December 2024 Meeting
Christmas Quiz and “The Day I interviewed Prince Rupert of the Rhine”. Talk by Anne Grimshaw on 11th December 2024. Our meeting started…
Harvest and Horsemen.
13th November 2024. By Ashley Cooper. The Sudbury History Society were very pleased to welcome Ashley back and he began his talk by…
9th October 2024.
“Nurse, Screens please !”A History of West Suffolk Hospital. Terry O’Donoghue, a Green Badge Town Guide from Bury St Edmunds, gave us a…
Discoveries in a Suffolk Graveyard
Ann Grimshaw, 11th September 2024. One of Ann’s many interests is a group visiting different graveyards in Suffolk and transcribing the memorials for…
July 2024 meeting: Suffolk Ghosts and Hauntings.
A talk by Robert Halliday. We had a good turn out for Robert Halliday’s talk on Suffolk Ghosts and Hauntings. Heintroduced himself as…
Red Sails on the Orwell.
Chris Turland 12th June 2024. Barges on the Orwell have been a familiar sight since the late 1890’s. The box likedesign was easy…
“Orlando Whistlecraft – a Suffolk Weather Prophet”.
Talk by Kevin Pulford May 8th 2024. Kevin Pulford has extensively explored the life of Orlando Whistlecraft, a farmer’s son born in 1810…