Framlingham in 2024

The Framlingham Co-op was open yesterday so it'll be open today.

Last chance saloon today at the Cake Bench Framlingham which is closing not just for Christmas but Forever!

♫ Despite miserable weather a very decent house yesterday in St Clare's Fram for a Framlingham Ladies Choir concert with free tuck and beverages afterwards.

Storm Bert yesterday shredded the Framlingham Station's PIZZA banner and now continues to blow today and Andy Fordyce reports the Saxtead Green windmill was taking full advantage of the wind.

Reluctantly like the rest of the UK most of Suffolk adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1752 but there is the anomaly that Framlingham town council thinks Christmas is in November.

♫ Tonight Crowd-Poppin, Boot-Stompin, Rabble-Raisin, Country-Rockin! from Man in the Hat at the Framlingham Railway and Folk Rock, Pop, Gypsy Jazz and Blue Grass from Mad Dog Mcrea at the Debenham Leisure Centre.

Infrastructure works on the Victoria Mill Road Framlingham green aren't to do with the proposed development opposite.

Surprisingly because he's not a Fram College boy film director Martin Scorsese took cufflinks to Woodstock.

The Southwold and Tour de France connection seems tenuous and as unlikely as Johnny Depp in Framlingham.

We've noticed the footpath that was closed on the Hopkins Homes development off Victoria Mill Road Framlingham has reopened with some of it now a road.  To our surprise there's room for cars to pass but no pavements so presumably no expectation that residents will walk anywhere ... even to walk the cockapoo.

 JOBS  Cleaner wanted in Framlingham and minibus drivers by the college.

Phone found in Castle Brooks Framlingham returned in the hour ... #SmallTowns eh?

Even allowing for it's always longer than you think we're still surprised that Detectorists is ten years old!  It's gentle humour is still endearing and tonight Radio 4s Screenshot will be celebrating the anniversary.

Our thanks to deputy town clerk Lydia Kindred for pointing out that the mystery post in the Fen Meadow Framlingham is a light which is waiting for UKPN to power it up ... presumably they're still searching down the sofa for a sixpence to put in the meter ...

We always assumed from the sound Lagonda were glamorously European, French or perhaps Italian cars so surprised to find they were and in a way still are British with an exotic history.  Here's a 1920s Lagonda saloon in Station Road Framlingham last month.

The Framlingham Bookshop is looking cosily autumnal.

Because the grey waist high post that has appeared in the Fen Meadow Framlingham by the bridge is attached to an unattractive galvanized metal box saying lighting we assumed it's a light but walked past it in the dark and nothing ...

Flipside in Framlingham mini observation on Twitter.

Local historian John Bridges has been kind enough to tell us the Framlingham shop John Self was bought by the eponymous John Self as a shoe shop from Charles Cone in 1916.  It was managed by John Self's son John Self ... looked like there were builders in there today.

Work in progress hopefully making it easier to navigate this web site if you're visiting on a mobile phone ... try it now Framlingham.

A Sunday afternoon on the Framlingham Market Hill.

Castle Shoes in Albert Place Framlingham has closed because of insurance claim difficulties from last year's flooding.  In it's previous incarnation the shop must have been John Self for at least a hundred years.

Sunday the usual massive field for the Framlingham Flyers 10k was sufficiently massive that the initial cavalry charge spilled over on to the pavement pinning us against St Michael's remaining Church Street brick wall.  An impressive very solo win by unattached Lloyd Biddell.

Sunday fortnight the last stage of the 2024 Tour of Britain Lowestoft-Felixstowe will pass through near the coast, signs have appeared in Framlingham.  Riders listed to start include Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel and our personal favourite the very entertaining Julian Alaphilipe.

♫ That there Ed Sheraton with a film crew on the Framlingham Market Hill today.

Overnight Wednesday/Thursday St Michael’s Framlingham was broken into and silverware stolen.  Police want to speak to this man, any info or help please contact Suffolk Police quoting crime reference 37/36918/24, you can call 101.

1969 Morris Minor 1000 convertible in the Framlingham Co-op staff car park.  Slightly taken aback when joining the A12 southbound from the Wickham Market - Campsea Ashe slip road being overtaken by a Minor 1000 saloon ... #ClassicCars eh?

A Framlingham detail from Ordnance Survey sheet 6226 1947 shows the slightly unlikely infirmary, two windpumps by Fairfield Road and labels the college Albert Memorial College, this is Albert out front.

Two public services on the Market Hill Framlingham yesterday.  PCSO Christian Hassler said yes, they could security mark bicycles.

Throwback Thursday: 19 years ago today people were voting in the St Michael's Rooms Framlingham, they didn't need photo id or even their polling card and a teller was seated outside.  For the local elections a notice by the poll entrance about tellers (see 1.23 here). JUST VOTE!

When the florists in Bridge Street Framlingham was butchers Ray Kent you served yourself with free range eggs by moving them from corrugated trays to cardboard boxes printed Akenfield.

Next Friday it's the Framlingham Flyers Friday 5, five miles for seniors on open but marshalled roads around Fram ... there are junior races too.

Yesterday the rain was kind enough to hold off for most of the Framlingham Gala.  The Gala Princesses have become the Gala Stars and have a safety belt on their float but there were still traditional happenings like an egg and spoon race.

Needed in Framlingham a bee keeper because of a retirement.

Ah, that's what a police car was doing outside Framlingham library yesterday ... next street meet Saturday morning 8 June.

Free come and try day Sunday at the Framlingham Bowls Club at it's splendid but discrete location hard by the castle.

A vehicle parked in Pageant Place Framlingham had a door and quarter light damaged to gain entry last weekend, crime ref 37/19394/24.  Same weekend same place a Transit van was entered and power tools stolen, crime ref: 37/19457/24.  Same weekend but a vehicle on a driveway in The Knoll Framlingham was entered and nothing stolen, crime ref:37/19522/24, you can call 101.

♫ Backstreet are a rock covers four piece and they are back at the Framlingham Sports Club TONIGHT.  Your ticket entitles you to a half price drink.

The third and last (for the time being) Meet the Author at Framlingham Library is tonight with Louis de Bernières.  He wrote Captain Corelli's Mandolin, lives in Norfolk (we can forgive him that:) and no doubt will will talk about his most recent novel Light Over Liskeard.

Around 4:33am the Saturday before last two men poured liquid from a petrol can onto a front door in College Road Framlingham and set light to it.  Any info please contact Lowestoft CID Team 3 quoting reference 37/11924/24, you can call 101.

The Pryke Trust makes one off grants to folks in Framlingham who could do with some financial help, requests are confidential.  A friend who had quite serious surgery in Ipswich General was helped ... ill health always causes extra expense.

Road closures and diversions make it feel like Framlingham is being cut off from the outside world.

Victoria Mill Road Framlingham after yesterday's yellow warning rain.

Early Sunday morning in Fairfield Road Framlingham a resident woke to a 'large figure' walking past her bedroom door and quietly leaving by the front door, nothing was taken.  Any info contact police crime ref 37/6523/24, you can call 101.

Sunset in Fairfield Road Framlingham.

Tragedy!!  Really it is, Bradlaugh's Electrical halfway up Fore Street Framlingham has retired.  It wasn't just that despite their small size their stock was enormous but helpful advice was always available ... gonna miss them.

The Fen Meadow Framlingham during storm Babette added to Suffolk Gentlemen.

Saturday the East Anglia Poker Club is starting weekly games in Framlingham.  Players need to register 48 hours beforehand ... so you need to do it today.

That's now four years since John Grose Framlingham became vacant, it'd make an impressive card shop ...

The Framlingham chippy seems to have changed hands ... chips are still £3.50 ...

Major building work in the Framlingham post office after storm Babette and the river Ore flooded it back in October.

Remember the temporary traffic lights in Fairfield Road Framlingham that were there for two years because of the pavement subsiding into the River Ore?  Looks like they could be back and the two trees impeding the flow are still there ... riparian rights eh?

Christmas the very excellent Advent Windows in Double Street Framlingham raised £1,473 for three charities.  The GISS was this year was the busiest ever.

The Framlingham Prancing Stoat will be back from Christmas on Monday.