Memories of Oakley

Local historian, Dennis Cross from Diss, shares with us his fascinating collection of old postcards, focusing on a different village in every issue. This time, we take a walk down memory lane in Oakley.

 Soldiers on a motorbike in Oakley Park, in 1915. The photograph was taken by Earnest Abraham, who travelled with troops on manoeuvres.

 Oakley Park soldiers from the Staffordshire Yeomanry, in 1915, posing for the camera with their goat mascot.  Oakley Street on the Hoxne to Stuston Road, taken in 1910, with a very early motor car in the distance.

 The Lincolnshire Yeomanry at Oakley Park, taken in 1914 by Earnest Abraham, who travelled with the troops.

 This 1915 postcard shows billets for solders at Oakley Park, who trained there before going to France.

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