Welcome to Wickhambrook
Wickhambrook is one of the parishes of West Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council
A big thank you goes out to Kingfisher Noel Micallef and the 1st Wickhambrook Beavers, who recently put up 8 bird boxes in Wickhambrook Cemetery from kits put together by our Chairman, Mike Lavelle – thanks also go to Mike and everyone who contributed wood for the project…
Martyn Taylor, local author and Chairman of the Bury Society, was our speaker at the March meeting and his talk was entitled Lost Bury St Edmunds.
For our March Meeting we were joined by Paul Roe and Holly the Wellness dog. An ex police officer of 30 years standing Paul had come along to talk about his experience of dealing with PTSD. Paul had been attacked on New Year’s Eve 1998 when he was knocked to the...
We had a very lively and interesting talk by Michelle Bullivant, a local historian and archaeologist…
Have you ever wondered which colours really suit you and which ones you should avoid? Mandy Wild gave an interesting and sometimes humorous talk on “The Power of Colour to Effect Wellbeing and Success” to our members…
December and January have been busy months for the History Society Committee.
Our upcoming field school, “Prehistoric Suffolk,” offers an immersive experience for students and enthusiasts alike to explore the fascinating world of archaeology…
What better way to start off a new year than with some gentle stretching, waking up our bodies after the Christmas break, and a relaxing guided meditation…
The title of this month’s talk did not prepare us for the harrowing tale we were to be presented with. Jeannie Bloomfield, a member of Walsham Le Willows WI and the National Federation told us her life story…
On a sunny September day, over twenty members of SLHC made their way to Wickhambrook in the west of the county. The Focus On Day was being hosted by the local history society and tea and home made biscuits were ready for us in the WI Hall…
Our monthly meeting was about stained glass and the speaker, Christopher Parkinson, who is presently co-authoring a book on stained glass in Essex was the perfect person to guide us through local examples of this art and craft…
This month we welcomed two very different speakers on the theme of “Saving Water”. Lesli Tunbridge is the WI Climate Ambassador and Richard Farrow is Delivery Support Manager for Water Recycling Maintenance at Anglian Water…
Once a year the committee are given a break and the members take over the running of the monthly meeting. We never know what to expect at these meetings and this year was no exception! At the start of the meeting we were sitting in groups around tables with a quiz to...
I am researching evidence of football prior to 1860 and it has become clear to me that it is likely that there is far more than hitherto believed. The British Newspaper Archive has already unearthed a multitude of references from c 1740 that have upset the orthodox...
Geoffrey Kay’s talk, entitled ‘Overpaid, Oversexed and Over Here’ was subtitled ‘The Friendly Invasion’ and that seems to me to be a kinder description of the events in East Angila during the Second World War. Over three million American troops came to Britain during...
At the August Meeting we welcomed our local GP from Wickhambrook Surgery, Dr Khan, together with Caroline George who is the Deputy Practice Manager…
A group of more than 30 members and friends gathered at All Saints Church on a beautiful summer evening to have a tour of the building with Churchwarden Paul Bevan…
Our July trip to Lowestoft was a great success with easy travel in the CLASP minibus, good weather and lunch in a unique venue…
The July meeting of Wickhambrook WI found us at the Suffolk Archives in Bury St Edmunds where we spent a fascinating two hours looking at documents relating to the village of Wickhambrook and records of the WI…
Unlucky for some but this year’s 13th Literary Lunch was deemed an all out success! The two WI Reading Groups hosted a successful event in the WI Hall on Saturday 17th June…
Making the most of the warm summer evening, this month the WI threw open the doors and took the meeting outside…
On the Bank Holiday Monday of the Coronation weekend members of Wickhambrook WI were busy taking part in several schemes intended to improve areas of the village…
Although we are a local history society, it is good to be taken out of our Suffolk world occasionally and our May meeting did just that…
With two consecutive Bank Holidays to choose from Wickhambrook WI decided to host a pre- Coronation Tea Party on the 29th April in the WI Hall…
At the AGM, the present committee were all re-elected, with the addition of Jenny Barley. The speaker for the evening was Geoffrey Robinson who talked on the Worlingworth Jubilee painting…
This was the title of the March Meeting of Wickhambrook WI. Kate Osbourne came and launched into a passionate and damning description of what is happening to our beaches…
Our planned speaker for the evening was laid low by Covid so we were very lucky to have Martyn Roper to talk to us at very short notice. His subject was A Guide to Anglo-Saxon East Anglia, and we had a whistle-stop tour of many sites, some well-known and others more obscure…
For our February Meeting our local artist, Amanda Barrett came to give a demonstration on how to compose a small oil painting…
Richard Heap who works for the firm of Stephen Walters &Son in Sudbury as Quality Manager was the very interesting speaker at our meeting this month. He gave us an overview of the history of the company and of its continuing success in the modern world…
Our first meeting of the New Year welcomed two representatives from the My Wish Charity which is attached to local hospitals in Suffolk. We have previously supported this charity by donating money raised from our Friday Tea Parties…