The History Group in Ixworth is planning to publish a suite of articles on Ixworth History through the 20th & 21st century which will all be listed in this section.
It is proposed that articles will fit into the categories below and we welcome submissions from any interested parties. Please email contact@ixworthvillage.co.uk.
- 19TH & 20TH CENTURY
- ORAL RECORDS
- SCHOOLING
- WORLD WAR TWO
- BUSINESSES
- 2000 ONWARDS
Ixworth’s Bathing Place
The earliest written reference to bathing in Ixworth comes in newspaper reports of August 1892. William Nichols had committed suicide in the river at the Abbey Meadows and the East Anglian Daily Times identified the spot as being near to Ixworth’s Bathing Place. What was probably quite a casual arrangement became more formal in July […]
The Ixworth Gang
In February 1852 the Bury & Norwich Post said this: “The neighbourhood of Thetford has for several years been infested by a formidable gang of poachers, whose exploits have from time to time been referred to in our pages. It is supposed to consist of as many as thirty, whose homes are chiefly in […]
The ‘New’ Greyhound – 100 Years Young
The earliest reference to the Greyhound Inn that I can find is in an advert in the Suffolk Mercury in March 1728. At that time it would have looked like many of the timber-framed, plastered buildings in the High Street. Then, early in February 1916, Mr H W Lake came along to the Ixworth […]
Drovers through Ixworth
Cattle in the High Street? (or even geese or turkey for that matter) It’s funny how something seemingly random sets off an interesting train of thought, is it not? In my case it was the discovery in a shed, of a seemingly unloved, though undeniably, battered old paperback dating back to the 1970s. It concerned […]
