A look through 2023 in Wickhambrook
2023 Recorder Report for Wickhambrook
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2022 Recorder Report for Wickhambrook
The year began with continuing anxiety about the latest variant of Coronavirus which had caused many Christmas events to be cancelled. Masks were being worn again in the village shop. A shelter was constructed outside the Surgery for people picking up prescriptions from the pharmacy…
Welcome to Britain
Were you in West Suffolk in 1972? Do you remember the Ugandan Asians who came to Stradishall, fleeing from Idi Amin? You may be able to help with an exciting new project!
2020 Recorder Report
I have been History Recorder since 1996 and one of my tasks is to submit an annual report about the village. In the past I have been able to use the Scene, What’s On, newspaper articles and the village website to keep up with what is going on but I am finding more and more that Facebook is the place for information, although it is very fleeting!
Wickhambrook Remembers
The best thing about the events of 11th November in Wickhambrook was the way in which the whole day brought the village together to remember those who died in World War 1 and celebrate the Armistice in 1918…
Wickhambrook is waking up!
While working on the refurbishment of Pump Cottage in Coltsfoot Green, local builder Nick Jolland discovered a painted board being used for paneling an understairs cupboard. It is painted, with some skill, with the words ‘Wickhambrook is waking up’..
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Mystery Casualties [Solved]
Solved thanks to History Society member Tony Pringle… Does anyone have any local knowledge on this…
Old Sweats in Wickhambrook
This photo is definitely a group from the WW2 Royal Observer Corps and the owner thinks it may be from the Wickhambrook area. Does anyone recognise these fine chaps?…
Plane Crash in Spring Wood
Did you know that in 1942, a German plane came down in Spring Wood, Genesis Green, near where the mast is now?…
Memories of WI Life by the late Ivy Haygreen
Wickhambrook WI years ago was rather different to what it is now. Mrs Helen Medcalf remembers when it was held on Wednesday afternoons . Of course, mothers were at home in the daytime, so that made sense…
Diamond Champion Award
Dorothy Anderson is holding a Diamond Champion pin, designed by her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall, to celebrate the contribution volunteers aged over 60 make to organisations all over the UK…