Browse Exhibits (9 total)

Audio and Visual

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We thank those who took the time to record events and memories through the medium of film and tape. 

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Businesses

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Events

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Religion and Belief

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At the centre of the village is All Saints Church with The Baptist Church near by in Church Street.

The village also has houses with witch marks and the history of Doll Bartrum - a convicted witch.

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Transport

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Transport is very important to Stradbroke as the village is 10miles from the nearest town of Diss and 7miles from the next  large village of Eye.

Stradbroke is a rural farming village and as such needs vehicles to farm the land and to get the produce to market.

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Buildings

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Stradbroke is a busy working village. There are four main roads leading into the centre of the village - New Street from Eye, Queens Street from Diss, Wilby Road from Wilby and Church Street from Laxfield. There are new homes but most of the houses and shops have stood here for more than a hundred years and many from as long ago as 15th/16th century. Stradbroke is very proud of it's heritage.

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Recreation

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Education in Stradbroke

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1587 - Michael Wentworth of Mendlesham, gave Town House to the Parish of Stradbroke, part of which was to be used as “a school room for ever…”
1800 - A part of the schoolroom in Town House was converted into a workhouse for the poor
1818 - In the school there were 17 children and the schoolmaster was paid £20 per year from two charities set up in 1699 and 1746.
1820 – There were a total of 8 day schools in Stradbroke and 2 Sunday Schools A few were for “young gentlemen and young ladies” and were quite expensive…
…the schools for the poor were generally   “Dame Schools” where for a few pennies a week, poor children would get a basic education in someone’s house in the village
1836 – The part of Town House that was used as a workhouse was closed down.
1861– Revd. J.C. Ryle  became Vicar of Stradbroke and began to make changes. When Ryle arrived, the school room building at the back of Town House was in a very poor condition. There were only 15 boys who were being taught by a 77 year old master and their education was described by Ryle as having been “practically useless”
Revd. Ryle and his wife began a temporary school for poor girls and set about reorganising education in the village.
“Mr Ryle at once invited the co-operation of friends and neighbours to enable him to pension off the old master and establish a new school to be adapted to the requirements of both the farmers and tradesmen, and of the labouring poor”
13th October 1862 - Ryle sent off the paperwork to the government to ask for a grant to build the school. 
23rd September 1864 - The Stradbroke School was opened. At Stradbroke 23 out of 40 pupils were farmers’ sons who came in from the neighbourhood,  some on foot, some on ponies or donkeys,  for which stabling is provided at a cost of 1 shilling (5p today) per quarter
1864 - The part of Town House that was used as a parish school was closed down
1913 What was left of the old parish school building was demolished.
More to come...
Mike Readman, June 2011
 

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Wartime Remembered - The Stradbroke War Memorial

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As the years pass by and as the generations pass on, the names on our War Memorial will gradually become just that – names. There will be no one around to say who they were, what they were like or what they got up to.  Their names will still be remembered every year on Remembrance Day but the sense of who they were will have gone.

One of the most poignant sets of photos and letters, lent to Stradbroke Local History Group for inclusion in the “Stradbroke Village Archive”, related to Donald Moore who was killed in August 1944  aged just 20 years.  In putting the letters and photographs together for display we felt that at least one name on the War Memorial had become more than just a name.  We began to feel that we knew something of Donald as a real person.

We would like future generations to be able to share such knowledge – to know something of the real people behind the names.  To be able to feel a personal connection to Stradbroke’s young men who gave their lives for their country and for freedom.

Mike Readman. Chairman SLHG

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