Wickham Market is a town in Suffolk that used to be on the A12

th 6 no 08

1942 The Church of England ended its rule obliging women to wear hats in church

A shotgun and cartridges were taken in a Wickham Market house burglary this morning and a teenage girl was accosted in Framlingham last night.

tu 14 oc 08

1066 The Battle of Hastings

Burglary on the Wickham Market industrial estate Thursday night.

tu 17 jn 08

1860 Brunel's ship The Great Eastern began her maiden voyage

Here's a new one, Pink Sky Cycling is a business offering relaxed and informal cycling tours for women only and usually centred on Wickham Market. Pink can supply the bike, helmet, dayglo, snack ...

th 29 my 08

1950 The first episode of The Archers broadcast

The Wickham Market Resource Centreis not as difficult to find as Radio Suffolk but it is a bit hidden away. We went there for a retinal scan yesterday and discovered it's a pleasantly straight forward, clean building with disabled access and a library stuffed with books, PCs, DVDs and talking books. The library is about eight times the size it was when in that flint stone shed across the road that is now the vets ... but it still doesn't seem to open that much.

we 30 ap 08

1980 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicated in favour of her daughter Beatrix

The historic Harwich Electric Palace Cinema is a bit of a trek but worth the effort and at the end of next month it's showing Peter Hall's Akenfield. Made in 1974 the film was shot on location in villages west of Wickham Market and using local people as the cast.

we 9 ap 08

1961 King Zog of Albania died in exile

Pay and Display has arrived in the Wickham Market car park at a very reasonable £100 for 2-4 hours (we're not kidding) and yet the toilets are still locked! It might be a warning that like the Wickham car park both the Elms and Fore Street car parks in Framlingham are run by Suffolk Coastal District Council ...

fr 29 fe 08

1956 Muffin the Mule made his tv debut

... and from the people who brought you the Saxmundham-Aldeburgh branch line another 24 carat piece, the 1958 Aldeburgh Carnival with a brief glimpse of Wickham Market Junction (yeah, yeah we know it's at Campsea).

tu 26 fe 08

1935 RADAR was first demonstrated

What pond life! Chocolate has been stolen in Wickham Market!!

fr 23 no 07

1852 The pillar box first came into use

When Cake bought in Wickham Market we were in Wickham Market last Saturday the car park toilets might have been locked but we did buy this cake, not from the bakers but from Seagers the hardware store ... when we were back in Wickham Tuesday the toilets were still locked.

tu 04 se 07

1957 In the USA Ford launched the Edsel

It seems Wickham Market is going the same way as Sax, next to the frock shop and about to open is Catherine Hadden ~ interior design.

tu 31 jl 07

1970 Black Tot Day: The end of the daily rum ration in the Royal Navy

Here's a great freemans from the Wickham Market dentist. It's a two minute egg timer to encourage proper teeth cleaning by children, but when you turn it upside down instead of sand falling from the top to the bottom the tiny green beads bubble up from the bottom to the top! To get one we had to lie and say it was for our niece, actually it wasn't lying, she will get it ... eventually.

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