A Young Person’s Memories
My early memories of Thurlow only go back as far as the early 1970s but even since then I can see that life has changed quite considerably. I have many fond memories of Thurlow school. As the majority of the pupils lived in Thurlow and the immediate neighbouring villages, quite a few of the pupils […]
Lavender Cottage over Four Centuries
I feel somewhat defensive in writing on any aspect of Lavender Cottage; after all, it’s our house temporarily. I use that word because having, with others, done some research on the house, I am very aware of its past (and, indeed, its future) owners. But more of them anon. For the moment, perhaps I […]
Memories of arriving at Lavender Cottage
Major and Mrs. Bartholomew lived at Little Thurlow Park. Major Bartholomew was chairman of the Almshouse Trustees and involved in the exchange of the old almshouses for the new ones in The Square. He attended Little Thurlow Church and always sat in the Soames Chapel pew. Brigadier and Mrs. Frink lived in the Grange. Brigadier […]
Life in Little Thurlow 1919 – 1939
I was born in July 1919 at Myrtle Cottage, which is next door to The Cock Inn, but is I believe now called Lavender Cottage. My father was Rev. F. W. Taylor, rector of Little Bradley until his death in 1929. He was also Chaplain of the Risby Institute at Kedington. His means of transport […]
Memories of Thurlow between the Wars
My father (18561942) bought the Little Thurlow Estate in 1898 from the Soame family. Eight years later he bought the Great Thurlow Estate from the W. H. Smith family (Lord Hambledon). On my father’s death in February 1942 his executors sold all his considerable estates in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire (and later Yorkshire) but his children […]