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    Featured articles
    • 1945 VE Day in Hadleigh

      1945 VE Day in Hadleigh

      Celebrations of Victory in Europe, the background.
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    • A French View of Daws Heath 1921

      A French View of Daws Heath 1921

      Daws Heath for longevity?
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    • A Thundersley Mystery of a Quiet Man

      A Thundersley Mystery of a Quiet Man

      Fergus Hume (1859-1932)
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    • SA Railway Booklet

      SA Railway Booklet

      Updating and extending H W Paar's excellent article
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    • The Choppens

      The Choppens

      Beautifully produced in 64 pages with many pictures
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    • The Hadleigh Heritage Information Pack

      The Hadleigh Heritage Information Pack

      Project and timeline.
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    Latest articles
    • Thomas Stapel, Sergeant-at-Arms to Edward III

      19/02/2021
      Successful installation of the Thomas Stapel Brass
    • Do you recognise anyone in this picture?

      15/02/2021
      Were you there, can you help?
    • The Ecclesiastical Census of 1851

      10/02/2021
      Ecclesiastical Census; Sunday 30 March 1851
    • Hadleigh & Thundersley Museum

      08/02/2021
      Noble person sought to donate a suitable property!
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    Latest comments
    • Thundersley & Hadleigh Football Club 23/02/2021 Front left is my Dad...Donald Cook...sadly passed away 12th March 1991. Dad loved football and supported Ipswich with his brother...
    • War Time Memories of Thundersley 21/02/2021 The Spitfire incident at Nutt's Oakleigh Poultry Farm is one of the incidents that can be read about on the...
    • War Time Memories of Thundersley 20/02/2021 Hi; My grandfather actually owned that poultry farm. I grew up hearing stories of that day. Apparently many chickens died...
    • Thundersley’s Biggest Christmas Tree 20/02/2021 I was born in a caravan at White Hart caravan park.
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