As well as assisting needy Freemen, the Sudbury Freemen's Trust is a charity which serves the town and community of Sudbury. The Trust has continued to provide grants to (exclusively) local charities and worthwhile organisations. These include some of the...
The First Hundred Years by Sara Knight The book is full of memories, photographs and cuttings from an extensive archive. Originally the Society performed at the Victoria Hall in Prince Street, also in the Gainsborough Theatre, now the Infinity Nightclub,...
The story of the inns, pubs and clubs of Sudbury and Ballingdon. Pub crawls are impossible due to Covid but a new book offers a virtual experience. A Pub Crawl through Time delves into the history over two centuries of Sudbury's pubs, inns...
This is an example of a Sudbury Freemen's Trust project which has been recently renovated. The project to mark the final resting place of remains from the Gainsborough family vault in the old Friars Street Congregational Church was carried out...
When this photograph was taken, Joseph Parsonson, (standing in the centre), employed 5 men to cut, peel and sort the osier rods, (species of willow used for basket making). The image shows the osier sheds in the Edgworth Road garden,...
