Aunt Carrie: School Mistress at Framlingham, civilian on the town memorial
Day three of my week of ancestor blogs brings me to my first foray into my maternal family history and a civilian on Framlingham’s war memorial, my Aunt Carrie. Framlingham is close to my heart. It’s where I lived for the first two years of my life, where I went to high school and where […]
The Rise, Decline, and Rise Again (?) of Market Gardens
Last spring, some colleagues and I began a gardening group in the grounds of our workplace growing potatoes, onions, squash and a little bit of everything else we fancied. Some of us were completely clueless (myself included – I entered into the lunchtime activities armed only with an iPhone app) while others already knew a […]
Ipswich’s links with the Corset Industry
Corsets. I think most people like them. Personally, I love them, although I wouldn’t want to wear one every day. Now with connotations of glamour, weddings, burlesque, lingerie and (dare I say it ) fetish – we have moved away from the days when scores of women wore them daily. This is not a blog […]
The rise of the ‘monthly nurse’
Every time I come to write a blog I try and think of something that has interested me, and might interest others. Last weekend I was doing some research looking into a lady in Chatteris. In 1861, she was listed as a pauper, head of the household and sharing with her grown up son and […]
