The Blythburgh Society History Notes

The Blythburgh History Society have written 30 articles on different aspects of local history, they are reproduced below, generally organised by subject (rather than when they where written). Click on the titles to view each page of locally researched history.
There is a link to this index at the bottom of each page.

Blythburgh History Notes

• A Brief History of Blythburgh - By Alan Mackley

• Bulcamp House of Industry to Blythburgh Hospital
• Blythburgh in 1792
• Selling a Wife in Blythburgh
• Isokon and Blythburgh
• Railways to Southwold
• William Morris and Blythburgh Church
• Blythburgh Shops in the Twenties
• Crime around the Blyth
• The Question of a Mint at Blythburgh
• A Nineteenth-Century Bazaar
• Blythburgh’s Poaching Priors
• How Rich was Blythburgh?
• Building a New Bridge for Blythburgh
• The Lambeth Life, St Walstan, and "Blyborow" Town

• Writing about Blythburgh History. A Select Bibliography

Historical Notes on the Wider Area

Local Things of Interest

• Building a Bridge in 1794 on the Heveningham–Ubbeston Road
• The Old Rectory Ubbeston
• Saint Felix School (Historical notes 1897 to 1999)
• The Huntingfield Oak
• Henham Hall – A Lost House

Historical Local People

• Humphrey Jennings – a genius of the British cinema
• Witness to the First Kennedy Tragedy
• Joe Kennedy Jnr’s Last Mission
• Ale, Sail and School – The Pattman Family
• The Walberswick Enigma. Artists Inspired by the Blyth Estuary
• Ernest Read Cooper & the Transformation of Southwold Harbour, 1891-1914

Wenhaston History

• Bad Behaviour in Wenhaston
• The Wenhaston Millions
• The Wenhaston Smuggler
• All Change in Wenhaston