Back in 2021, I entered a competition to write ‘A story worth telling’ for the IHGS. For me, that story was about our former family business, H.A.Walne Ltd. The story describes how it evolved from earlier companies, and how it became Walnes Seeds, which still trades today (although no longer in family ownership). Later that year, I discovered I was runner-up!
I don’t think I’ve published the story here before. Recently, I’ve had an email saying the PDF has been removed from the IHGS website. Would I mind sharing it? As a result, I’m now posting my entry here, for anybody out there who is still interested in reading it.
Framlingham corn merchants: the farmers’ sons that built a business 1821-1939
Elizabeth Walne's Your Local History 