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Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 12:38AM on 25th June, 2010. (82.24.xxx.xxx)
Hi
Sudbury, EnglandPosted by gogmagog at 1:52AM on 21st May, 2010. (86.4.xxx.xxx)
Have a cracking summer everyone ... next posting will be on Christmas Day.
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by THE WANDERER at 11:46AM on 5th April, 2010. (86.31.xxx.xxx)
Next message on her Whitsun ? -lmao!
Sudbury, U.K.Posted by GS at 11:26AM on 3rd April, 2010. (88.111.xxx.xxx)
Have a cracking Easter everyone
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by Notanumber at 5:39PM on 15th February, 2010. (79.75.xxx.xxx)
Hmmmmmm yourself GS-P!!....lol....
...Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2010-11.....to everyone on here!!..
Just thought I would do a bit of pre-empting?, you know, help the GUEST Book along with things?.....lmao....
....One more Year and the World Ends?, so the Mayans reckon??....lol
BCNU
Sudbury, U.K.Posted by GS at 12:36AM on 15th February, 2010. (88.110.xxx.xxx)
Hmmm, time to move on from the Christmas message....don't forget pancake day tomorrow!
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by Notanumber at 6:16PM on 17th December, 2009. (79.79.xxx.xxx)
...Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone on here!!..
BCNU
Sudbury, U.K.Posted by GS at 9:43PM on 16th December, 2009. (79.71.xxx.xxx)
Hi Gt - think everbody has decamped, it's so quiet on here these days. Don't undo the tin yet!! Happy Christmas. We had our first flurries of snow here today....
Orlando, USAPosted by Gtdreams@aol.com at 3:34PM on 15th December, 2009. (97.100.xxx.xxx)
Wher has everyone gone.....Just about ready for the holidays and I keep eye balling the tin of roses I have but cant open till Mocks gets here..wellllll......Happy Xmas everyone but come back as the camp fire is out...
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by Notanumber at 6:57PM on 30th November, 2009. (79.79.xxx.xxx)
This is about all I can now offer in a way of a final definative posting on this Chap?,gained from information that other party(ies) have divolged
Also not forgotten locally by some of us? (Details of which are to this date, ashamedly still sketchy in local circles and media!)
*********James (Jim, Jock) Thomson**********
Born 11th April 1956, Died 24th October 2009, Funeral took place 4th November 2009
Survived by 3 Children, 2 from his first marriage to Christine, and 1 with Partner ‘Lainey’
Died peacefully at West Suffolk Hospice, after succumbing to Terminal Pancreatic Cancer.
A Well known local Figure, Gentleman and Sportsman, having played extensively for Haverhill Rovers during the Seventies and into the Eighties, and in recent years before being diagnosed with his illness, being involved within the local Golfing fraternity.
In his foreshortened last years, he was also actively involved in a Charity for the Terminally Ill, which involved making and granting personal ambitions to come true via ‘Wish’ programs for Terminally Ill Adults before passing on. (Not too dissimilar to the ‘Make a Wish Foundation for Children’)
R.I.P.
Sudbury, U.K.Posted by GS at 5:37PM on 25th November, 2009. (79.71.xxx.xxx)
From Neighbourhood watch: In early November an elderly resident in Long Stratton received a telephone call purporting to be from the local council telling him that a revaluation was being undertaken of council tax payments over the preceding 16 years and that he was due a refund. They attempted to have him confirm his bankcard details but he did not do so. He described the person who spoke to him as male with a very strong Welsh accent. They also said that documents would be sent to him through the post. They might well ask, again, for personal details. This is not the way councils approach their residents. Please pass the message on. SCAMS – there’s a lot out there some are true, some are false. If you are worried about rumours or otherwise that come through on your computer or by word of mouth, please find below a couple of websites that can help: www.truthorfiction.com www.snopes.com
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by Notanumber at 6:05PM on 22nd October, 2009. (79.71.xxx.xxx)
*****WARNING ON PHONE SCAM********
If you receive a 'Dodgy' sounding phone call from the following number, HANG UP, and block it on your phones Security settings, it apparently originates from the Bolton area, and may display as 'Number Unavailable'.. ....the person will be quite persistent in trying to obtain your personal details!.....'3' Network?? .
01204749010
(If in doubt, put the number into your search engine to verify)
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by Notanumber at 7:39PM on 20th October, 2009. (79.71.xxx.xxx)
...Oblige..!!
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by Notanumber at 7:11PM on 20th October, 2009. (79.71.xxx.xxx)
Before it gets LOST in translation.....This is what 'Debbie' (New to site posted on banter earlier....IF anyone could oblidge her?..
Posted by debbie at 4:42PM on 20th October, 2009. (195.93.xxx.xxx)
hi i`m trying to trace a Michael Field on behalf of mrs Gladys Wardle his aunt . I know he was living at betony walk and did have a phone number for there but getting no answer from the number . i think he was married to wendy and they have a little girl called sarah and i know his sisters name was valerie , if anyone knows of him could they please ask him to get in touch with debbie on pyuff68@aol.com many thanks for any help given
Eltham, UKPosted by Histericos at 5:42PM on 20th October, 2009. (82.24.xxx.xxx)
Sorry wrong board...
Eltham, UKPosted by Histericos at 5:42PM on 20th October, 2009. (82.24.xxx.xxx)
I have just been looking at Haverhill TV ( Haverhill Memories) It seems very odd to me that there does not seem to be anyone on that video speaking the Suffolk accent I knew when I came to Haverhill in 1962. The local people spoke with a strong Suffolk accent. Very nice . A bit hard for us Londoners to understand as I suppose the local Haverhill people found it hard to understand some of the words we were saying . But the people on this video seem to be speaking in a plain ordinary accent . Except for the very old chap - and he seems not to be speaking in the Suffolk accent I remember. JD
paignton, EnglandPosted by homgar at 3:25PM on 19th October, 2009. (90.206.xxx.xxx)
Have tried to watch the 1960s video,but got onto the site,but cannot get it to play,what am I doing wrong! can anybody help!!!! Homgar
paignton, EnglandPosted by homgar at 3:00PM on 19th October, 2009. (90.206.xxx.xxx)
Hi The wanderer ( Maureen.) Yes, in answer to your question Charles Rutter was the local baker in LT.Thurlow in the 1330s/40s, I should know as he was my grandfather,my mother is still alive and living in LT.Thurlow she is now 95years old,and moved to LT.Thurlow after spending most of her life in GT.Thurlow,having been married to my father who was the local butcher until his untimely death in1971 aged 65.Hope this will be of interest to you,if you need any more information I will gladly help. HOMGAR
Cambridge, CanadaPosted by Wenger at 12:46AM on 19th October, 2009. (99.236.xxx.xxx)
Hey Titch...Heavy Frost this morning,but a nice day in the forecast..going on a school trip today with one of my granddaughters,going to the Police Headquarters,looking forward to it..Yes Dear old Hundon,had many a pint in Hundon Plough
Sudbury, U.K.Posted by GS at 9:10AM on 19th October, 2009. (88.109.xxx.xxx)
Hi titch - you can see the memories video if you click on 'communities' on the left hand side of this page, and then you'll see the link to the vidoes on the right of the communities page, or use this http://www.haverhill-uk.com/pages/haverhill-tv-853.htm
Vancouver, CanadaPosted by titch at 8:59PM on 18th October, 2009. (70.68.xxx.xxx)
Hey GS: Dear old Hundon, I know it well, used to go round there picking up people with my dear old dad on the bus to take them to Sainsbury's to work etc. when I was on school holidays. He used to treat me to a bacon sarny in the canteen there sometimes! Can someone please send me the link again to the "Havherill memories video" so that I can have another go at viewing it please! I'm very intrested after reading some of your comments. Mild and damp here Wenger - what's it like over there?
Dunpressin, Ottn'sticky,Bath, EnglandPosted by topsy10 at 8:38PM on 18th October, 2009. (86.167.xxx.xxx)
Sorry forgot to add the Walkers and Boydens all have this connection all the way through I believe there was quite a lot of first cousin marriages Martha boyden married Ernest Walker early 1900s and Martha had sister Beatrice,Lilly,Gertrude,Kitty,and emily I think and they all lived at 15 Duddery rd Haverhill 1881...All daughters were born in Lavenham. Thanks.
Dunpressin, Ottn'sticky,Bath, EnglandPosted by topsy10 at 8:32PM on 18th October, 2009. (86.167.xxx.xxx)
ELLA. I wonder if "your " Boyden lady Harriet was related to my Boydens that originated from Long Melford..perhaps there is a connection.I would be delighted if there was as i have very little info about my family in Haverhill and Long Melford and Lavenham...If anyone recognises the Boyden name and has any clues PLEASE let me know on duff420@btinternet.com I will be eternally grateful for ANY info on Boydens,Bashams and Walker names circa 1800 - onwards. OR before!! My Boydens and bashams were from the Mount road and Meeting Walk area of Haverhill in the 1900 and prior to that Long Melford ,Lavenham and possibly any of the surrounding villages...Hope this rings a bell with someone..Thanks for reading this.
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by THE WANDERER at 7:50PM on 17th October, 2009. (81.109.xxx.xxx)
****ATTN. HOMGAR !
Taken from the Little Thurlow 'Guest Book' ! I believe you to be in the best position to answer this query ?
‘Looking for the RUTTER family. I believe Charles had a bakery in the 1930's Thank you. Maureen ’
maureen | vancouver, canada
Added at 11:20 Thursday, 15 October 2009
http://www.littlethurlow.org/guestbook/
kitchener, canadaPosted by peter willems at 9:13AM on 17th October, 2009. (90.206.xxx.xxx)
wanderer and wenger sorry to hear about harold sizer its a shame that some of the old names of haverhill are (dying out) you mentioned the accent of harold that is something else that is dying out rapidly as you know wenger that i have worked in bury st edmunds for the last 15 years and it seems every day i come home there is less haverhill accent and more foriegn by that i mean notherners southerners scots welsh irish and a few others not from england but we still have johnny and babara if i need a bit of old haverhill. wow a blast from the past i forgot all about Mick Wright he must be as old as Mick Jagger but sings better.
Pete
Cambridge, CanadaPosted by Wenger at 0:14AM on 17th October, 2009. (99.236.xxx.xxx)
Thanks Wanderer....It was a while since I watched the Video,but I do remember now..I agree that there was really no need for his input to be subtitled..I understood everything he said..Was I correct in saying that he worked at gurteens,and sometime in hie early life did he go to Australia or somewhere like that? I also thought Jack Griggs was good as well. Regards Wenger
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by THE WANDERER at 8:40PM on 16th October, 2009. (82.20.xxx.xxx)
Sorry I remember now - his death was in the Spring of this year.
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by THE WANDERER at 8:38PM on 16th October, 2009. (82.20.xxx.xxx)
Wenger - Sorry to report Harold Sizer died last year. He lived into his nineties,I believe. His death is mentioned at the end of the video.
Must say I found it somewhat ironic, (if not somewhat amusing!),to find they found it necessary to 'sub-title' his authentic Haverhill accent !
Cambridge, CanadaPosted by Wenger at 7:37PM on 16th October, 2009. (99.236.xxx.xxx)
Hi Jass...I was talking to colin a couple of weeks ago,he was telling me about Bob Judd he lost his wife last year and he was taken very ill whilst on holiday abroad...Talking of that video,I really enjoyed Mr Sizer....is he still alive,he used to work at gurteens with my dad..The weather here is getting cold temperature is only 4 degrees,It is light till about 7.30 as we don't change our clocks until november...Well I have to go,every Friday about a dozen of us Brits meet up at our local Pub..have a few Beers and shoot the you know what....We are all doing well hope you are as well...I thought Jacko looked really well when he was over here in August...The surgery really helped.... Talk soon Wenger
Sudbury, U.K.Posted by GS at 7:23PM on 16th October, 2009. (88.110.xxx.xxx)
Hello Wenger, it's a small world, what a coincidence. We came to Suffolk when my 'better' half was transferred to Sudbury in 1990. That's a great story about the marmalade sign titch! I'm in Hundon and you can have a look at some pics if you want to on the village website - www.hundon-village.co.uk
