earlier in Earl Soham

Haven't done one of these for a while and this time it's Earl Soham; the Falcon pub which was certainly still open in the 1980s, Brundish Lodge and a 1933 cricket match between the village and the East Anglian Daily Times.

Some house sales in Framlingham, Earl Soham (including what was Thorolds the corner shop), Woodbridge, Saxmundham and Aldeburgh.

Mr and Mrs Hugh Creighton have lived in Lacey Cottage on that nasty corner in Earl Soham for 26 years.  Hugh has been and then not been a parish councilor.  They have raised three daughters, seen the Falcon, Thorolds the corner shop and the post office (after over a century) close, Tastebuds open become Eat Anglia and then close, and Earl Soham Brewery move from Maurice's chicken shed to the garage and then to Debenham.  We're surprised there hasn't been more change in 26 years ... at the end of the month they move to the south coast.

The Earl Soham Victoria won this year's Fill Dyke race in Cretingham yesterday ... their mothers will be pleased.

The Earl Soham Brewery is moving to the Debenham Bloomfield Industrial Estate and right by the entrance are the breweries' (Cliff Quay are joining them) offices and what will be a very attractive shop.

The Earl Soham war memorial in the 1950s?, Framlingham Market Hill definitely

in the 1950s, the Thorpeness House in the Clouds with a windmill next to it and Wickham Market Hill with a water pump.

Dennington when it appeared to have at least two policemen of its own, the Earl Soham Slog which doesn't seem to have much to do with Earl Soham and the Aldeburgh town steps half a century apart.

An Eastern Counties bus outside the Dennington Queen's Head, CF Dowsing of

Double Street Framlingham, Earl Soham when you could walk down the middle of the road and with 1950s big hockey sticks a Framlingham College hockey team.

A 14 year old girl was accosted in Earl Soham last night.

Not sure where this turn of last century is in Earl Soham, that lane behind the shop on the bend?  But Mrs Bridges thinks this is probably the 1905 five house fire in Fore Street Framlingham.

2pm:  Tree down half blocking A1120 at the top of Earl Soham hill near the business centre.  (Thanks Farctum)

Christmas 2006 in Earl Soham with Whitewater and Ed Sheeran.

Adam Wolley's final stitch count is 38.

Saxtead boy and Earl Soham Vic barman Adam Wolley is cycling from London to Capetown to support the Malaria Consortium.  In Rwanda he now has more than 20 stitches in his face and mouth after going through a car's rear windscreen.

Malcolm and Lucie Walker ran Tastebuds in Earl Soham at the beginning of the decade and Malcolm would mildly irritate the keys of an electric piano, primarily on Sunday evenings in the Framlingham Station.  They were clearly attracted by a caravan lifestyle living for a while in a Winnebago lookalike at Kettleburgh and now on a barge in France.  Their blog is called Tillers and Tastebuds.

The weekend before last a blue Fiat in Earl Soham was vandalised.

Earl Soham Brewery are looking for staff pretty much right away at what was the Tolly Brewery Tap in Ipswich.

There has been an attempted burglary in Low Road Earl Soham.

... and perhaps you remember Malcolm Walker?  Behind The Brewer in the pic?  With his wife Lucie ran Tastebuds in Earl Soham 2001-05?  We assume they are still cruising the canals of Europe and celebrating today his 67th birthday.

On Saturday Mr and Mrs Michael Fogg-Elliot opened their home for a coffee morning to raise funds for the Earl Soham village hall.  Their house used to be the Falcon pub which, when discussed, was thought to have closed around ten years ago.  We knew that post for the pub sign now lives outside Earl Soham Brewery and that the front garden used to be the car park but we were surprised to find there were petrol pumps to one side ... don't know why but we were, surprised.

... and cards from a handbag stolen in Earl Soham have been used to get cash.

Earl Soham Lodge is gorgeous!  It actually is a moated (farm?)house, that standing water goes all the way round it's not just a medieval fish farm, and we're told some of the cellar is Roman.  When we arrived around 11 this morning for Paddy and Scott's Coffee Morning Scott had already served 160 coffees (Paddy was on a sabbatical) and Scott reckoned the event would raise some £500-600 for the village hall.  As with all similar events one of the great pleasures is to blether with your neighbours and by the way this nipper was supping it might have been hot chocolate.