" Newspaper Archive 1745-1950 from the Ipswich Journal, Bury and Suffolk Herald, Bury & Norwich post, Norfolk Chronicle, Suffolk and Essex Free Press, South-West Suffolk Echo, Sudbury Post & Long Melford Gazette, and Haverhill Echo "

This archive contains newspaper stories from various newspapers covering the two hundred years from 1745 to 1950 that feature the people and places of this part of East Anglia in Great Britain. Although the parishes of the Suffolk-Essex borders feature heavily in the archive, we include stories from further a-field, particularly where they would have been of interest to local readers at the time. We reckon that a day's walk from Foxearth represents the Local Area for the local residents. For the typical person living around here, East Anglia was 'Local', the rest of England was 'The Shires', London was a mystery, and everywhere else was 'furrain'.

These records have been transcribed from the records office in Bury St Edmunds by a member of the society over an eighteen year period. They were available at the records office as a microfiche, often so worn as to be almost unreadable. Our member transcribed them in a note form in longhand, and then went home and typed them into a wordprocessor. They were recently transferred from wordprocessor format into PC format and re-formatted into HTML to enable them to be made generally available.