Memories of Little Waldingfield?

Little Waldingfield, do you have connections with the village?

At the end of January Little Waldingfield’s  History Society, which was formed last year, welcomed around 40 people to the Little Waldingfield Parish Room to launch their “All Our Stories” sponsored project - “Little Waldingfield into the Future” – generously supported by Heritage Lottery funding.

The enthusiastic audience watched a slide show and heard details of the group’s plans to research and write a book recording the history of the village from 1840 to the present day.

The idea was inspired by Harry Clive’s book “Beyond Living memory”, which was published in 1979 and recorded the history of the village from 1300 to 1840.

An exhibition of newspaper and other locally held information and photographs, presented decade by decade, prompted a lively and stimulating discussion and additionally produced a number of possible new leads for the group to follow up.

Several people expressed an interest in becoming involved with the research necessary to gather information for the book, and in participating in future training sessions the group is currently organising.

The project team is also most keen to hear from anyone who has or has had a link to the village or who knows someone (a relative, friend or work colleague) who had or may have had such a link. 

For more information please contact Di Langford on 01787 248298