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Memories of Stoke Ash
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 Stoke Ash.
The Baptist Chapel on Chapel Lane in 1920. Records shows that this handsome building dates back to the 1800s. The interior of the Baptist Chapel, c1910. Gas lamps were used to light the building. Rev Abner Morling lived in the village manse on Chapel Lane. Today, it has been restored to retain the decorative carpentry, wall and pulpit.
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Shown here in the 1930s, Stoke Ash Parish Church is All Saints, and flint, with dressings in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, and a tower containing four bells. The rector at this time was the Rev Frederick Perkins, who lived in the rectory. Stoke Ash Post Mill, in Mill Lane, c1920. It dates back to the early 1800s and was working until the late 1930s. Local vandals burned it down in 1959.
The village Post Office in the 1930s. It was run by Henry Lummis, who also ran the Village Stores alongside. Today, the Post Office is a private house. The population at this time was 248.
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Chapel Lane, in 1910, shows some delightful cottages, which were lived in by local farmworkers. These cottages have now been modernised and rebuilt.
The beautiful White Horse pub is on the A140 to Ipswich on the crossroads to Thorndon and Thornham. This 1922 postcard shows the stables at the back of the building, now a car park. The pub was a coaching inn dating back hundreds of years and is still serving customers today. Frederick Aldous was the landlord at this time. The Norfolk Postcard Club is now closed permanently. But if readers have any local postcards of Diss or the surrounding villages, please get in touch with Dennis after 7pm on 01379 651897
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