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Serving the communities of Bures St Mary and Bures Hamlet

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Historical Information
Tanning Factory
Fysh House Farm
Factory Site
Drake Butchers
St Mary`s Parish Waldegrave Connection
Bures Home Guard
Listed Buildings
Mill & Lock
Victory Hall
Fire Station

One Bell PH

Almshouses
Bures Free Church
MayFlower to America
Chapel Barn or St Stephens Chapel
Brickworks
Bures Token
Post Office
Waldegrave Family Tree
Blacksmith/Forge
100 Years of Cricket History
Baptist Church
Huntingtons Chorea
Bures Dragon
Gas Works
The Great Fire of 1845 at Little Ropers Farm
War Memorial
Church`s Seeds
Press Reports
The Dairy, Nayland Road
Village Lock-up
Bures to Borley Tunnel
Press Cuttings taken from local Newspapers
Public Houses
Bures Dramatic Society
The Maltings
Malting on an industrial scale in 2007
Church`s Drying Kiln
The Night Soil Man
What came after the Night Soil Man
St Mary`s Parish Church
The Boat House and River House Community Centre
Smallbridge Hall Bures Meadow/Common Local Ginger Beer Dispensers St Marys Church Tower catches Fire
History of the Schools in Bures including our own Primary School Bures Bowling Green Football Ground extension 2013    

Archaeological and History in the adjacent parishes of Wormingford and Mount Bures
  Lodge Hill Brick Kiln Tudor Hunting Lodge at Lodge Hills David Cowlins Field Land at the rear of Friends Field
    Wormingford Hall The Mount at Mount Bures  

Village Retail History
See the shops that traded in the village from 1840 until 2010
Village Retail History
Compare photographs of the village shops that traded in 1900 and today
Village Retail History
Pictorial record of Bures during 1965

 

Workhouses
Bures St Mary
Bures Hamlet
Assington
Mount Bures
 
Sudbury
Lt Cornard
Wormingford


Railways
History 1849 to 1989
History 1990 - 1999
History 2000 - 2005
History 2006
History 2007
History 2008
History 2009
Rail Crash
Lt Cornard 2010
History 2010
History 2011
History 2012
History 2013


Countryside Walks & Woodland Planting Millenium Tree Suffolk Wildlife Trust
"Spouses Grove"
Essex Wildlife Trust
"Sergeant`s Orchard"
Seven Circular walks around Bures
Download walks as a pdf file
Planting New Wood Water Meadows Arger Fen Woodland Walk


RIVER STOUR
River Stour & Bridges B1508 Roadbridge River Stour Roadbridge Repairs
Paul Heiney visits Bures Griff Rhys Jones Millennium Bridge

River Events Power Boat Rally 2004 Coracles on the River 2012
  Millennium Regatta 2002

The River at work Mill & Lock Wormingford Cut
  The River at Work Cambridge Brook & Hydraulic Rams
  Pitmere Lock, Lamarsh Environment Agency Work at Bures Mill
  Abberton Water Transfer Scheme  

What to see on the River River scenes

Boating on the River The Boat House and River House


Parish Council News Bures St Mary PC Bures Hamlet PC Mount Bures PC

Photographic Collection Regatta 2002 Millennium Bridge Photo Album
  Europa 2009 Diamond Jubilee  

Bures 2000 Centenary Calendar Photographs

Bures at War
Bures at War (external web site)  
  Fred Staples receives Bevin Boy Medal Womens Land Army Bures

Utilities Electricity Electricity in Bures
  Gas Gas Works
    Telephone Telephone Exchange
    Water Distribution Denver - Abberton Water Transfer Scheme
    Water Distribution Water Treatment Plant along Colchester Road
    Suffolk County Council Road Works in the High St

Biography Dr Thomas Wood John Constable Garrad Family
  Mrs St Osyth Wood Waldegraves of Smallbridge Hall  

Services to the Community
Ferriers Barn
  Bures Primary School extensions

Nostalgia
Do you recognise these faces ? (Sports)
Do you recognise these faces ? (School days)
Victory Village Hall 1935

Bures Development
Church`s Granary, High Street
History of the Land to the rear of Friends Field
New Development commences on the land to the rear of Friends Field

TV Celebraties visit Bures
Barbara Windsor
Griff Rhys Jones Paul Heiney Carenza Lewis


Have your say
On-Line Forum

Village Characters
Norfolk Bill
George (Quark) Baker Old Major
(Arthur Whiting)

Listed Buildings
Bures St Mary
Bures Hamlet Mount Bures


Village news
Michaelmas Fair on the Common
Air Ambulance lands
Almshouses get new roof

 

Local Information General information about Bures
Directory of Services Find your Doctor or local services here.
Village Links Links to other web sites.
Clubs & Charities List of all Clubs and Charities in Bures
Why the Site Why the site was established in 2001
"Bures" Origin of the name


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