Lifestyles Today
As the new millennium approaches one becomes aware that our life style has changed enormously in the last decades. Earlier contributions in this volume reveal this clearly, and it was decided to explore these changes a little more thoroughly, so later generations reading this text will have an idea about our current life style. Interviews […]
The Village Shop: past and present
Thurlow Village Stores, 1976 – 1992 Having been accepted as tenants by Thurlow Estates, we moved into Thurlow Village Stores late in May 1976. The shop was once named “London House”, presumably because of the post-run to the capital. It is very old, with small rooms, low ceilings with beams and uneven floors. A very […]
The Women’s Institute
Thurlow W.I. has twenty members and meets on the second Tuesday of each month. The committee consists of the President (Mrs. Sylvia Robinson), Vice President (Mrs. Dorothy Clark), Treasurer (Mrs. Jean Lansdell), Secretary (Mrs. Margaret Ince) and seven others. The W.I. was formed in 1946 with many more members than today there were, for […]
A Village Policeman
Having served in the Navy for sixteen years, at the ripe old age of 32 (ripe for a police recruit) I joined the West Suffolk Constabulary, and for the first two years served as a foot patrol officer in Bury St. Edmunds. At the end of this probation period I was told that I would […]
A Village Doctor
In 1957 I joined Drs. Rupert Barrington and Peter Dagger immediately after the death of Ben Sunderland, who had practised from Haverhill since 1918. So what was it like in Thurlow then? We had a village surgery “next to The Cock”, in the stables of Lavender Cottage. You climbed an outside wooden staircase to enter […]
The Parish Council: the first hundred years
There is an old leather-bound Minute Book which faithfully records the proceedings of Little Thurlow Parish Council meetings from their very beginning in 1894. It’s worth looking through, if you are interested either in local history or human nature. Some things have changed greatly in the village over the last hundred years, it transpires, but […]
First Impressions of a New Rector
Nestling in the Upper Stour Valley lie Great and Little Thurlow. What does a prospective Rector do when it is suggested that he may look at these as part of his future “care of souls”? Well, to be quite honest, you have a quiet snoop around. In the first instance I thought I would be […]
The Church
The Church of St. Peter’s Lt. Thurlow is now part of the Stour Head Benefice which was created on 30 October 1977, with H.M. The Queen signing the oYcial order. This means that we no longer have our own rector but share one with Gt. Thurlow, Gt. and Lt. Bradley, Gt. and Lt. Wratting, Kedington […]
The Cock Inn
When we took over the Cock in 1971 from my father Syd Rowlinson it was the first change of name over the front door since 1912. My great grandfather, John, handed on to his son Orris, then my grandfather John took it in 1921 (he was brother to Orris), and then my father Syd in […]
The School: past and present
Thurlow School 1967-1990 Pam Pearman Reflecting on my twenty three years at Thurlow School the overall impression is one of a busy, happy and swift passing of time. Looking back, the first thing that impressed me in 1967 was how light the new building was, after the old school at Gt. Thurlow where I had […]