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Number of Topics indexed 248

Archives	Archived topics no longer current	Newspaper Reports 1	Newspaper Reports 2
	Village Life 1965	Village Life 1840 -1914	BBC Christmas Broadcast WW2
	WI Book 1951 - History of Bures

Local Information	Local Information	Directory of Services
	Community Services	Origin of the name Bures

Bures Development, Historical	Church`s Granary, High Street	Packing Shed land opposite Pikes Marsh
	Persimmon Development on the land to the rear of Friends Field	Gladmans planning application for recreational facilities in Bures Hamlet (Denied)
	Colchester Road, New Development (Denied)	Proposed Development Parsonage Hill (Approved)
	Council House Construction, Nayland Rd 1964	Colchester Rd Garage demolision and development

	Sale of land adjacent to the river, Colchester Road	Sale of Agricultural land to the left of Normandie Way

Bures Development, Current
	Colchester Rd, Garage (Approved)	AppleTreeMews, Development (approved, waiting completion)
	Proposed Development at Ferriers 2021 (See application 2023))	Bank House, Proposed Coffee Shop (Approved)
	Chambers Bus Site (Approved)	Change of use of Agricultural Buildings to Residentail at Ferriers 2023( Refused)

History Bures Hamlet
A
B	Blacksmith/Forge	Brickworks	The Boat House	Butlers Farm
C	Bures Meadow/Common
F	Ferriers	Fire devastates newly-weds house	Ferriers Barn It`s History	Ferriers Manorial Court
G	Gas Works	Garage, Colchester Road
L	Listed Buildings	Local Ginger Beer Dispensers
M	Malting on an industrial scale in 2007	The Maltings
P	Police House
R	River House
S	Secretaries
W	White House (1914-1918 Hospital)
3	3 Ways Cafe Fire

History Bures St Mary
A	Almshouses
B	Bank House, Bridge Street
B	Bures Bowling Green	Baptist Church	Bures Free Church	British Restaurant
C	Chapel Barn or St Stephen's Chapel		Church`s Drying Kiln	100 Years of Cricket History
C	Chambers	Chambers Fire 1928	Cuckoo Barn	Chambers Bus site sold
C	Community Centre	Coffee Tavern	Corn Hall	Church`s Seeds, High Street
D	The Dairy, Nayland Road	Drake Butchers & Slaughterhouse	Dramatic Society	History and Demolition of Slaughterhouse along Cuckoo Hill
D	Dunstead, Sudbury Rd Major update August 2017	Samuel Death, Blacksmith
E
F	Football Ground extension 2013	Fire Station	Fysh House Farm Fysh House Farm Fires	Factory, Nayland Road Spinning Mill Destroyed by Fire Cheese Production Finally Demolition
G	The Great Fire of 1845 at Little Ropers Farm
H	Hold Farm
I
J
K
L	Listed Buildings	Village Lock-up
M	Moat Farm	Mill & Lock
N	The Night Soil Man
O	One Bell PH
P	Post Office	Planters	Pilgrims Garage	Property Sale 1898
P	Police House
R
S	St Mary`s Parish Waldegrave Connection	St Marys Church Tower catches Fire	St Mary`s Parish Church (external web site)	St Marys Church origin
S	Smallbridge Hall	Slaughterhouse
T	Tanning Factory
U
V	Victory Hall
W	Waldegrave Family Tree	War Memorial

Bures Common

Michaelmas Fair on the Common

Bures Common 2011 > present

New building for the Common

History Misc	Bures Home Guard	What came after the Night Soil Man	Press Cuttings taken from local Newspapers 1759 > 1956	Bures Token
	Hydraulic Rams	First Coffee House in Bures	Stanley Deaves, Builders	Life in Bures 1965

Smallbridge Hall	Smallbridge Hall	Smallbridge Scam	Smallbridge Pont Data
	Smallbridge School	Smallbridge Water Mill	Smallbridge & Stour Lighters
	Smallbridge Mystery Rail track	Waldegraves of Smallbridge Hall	Smallbridge Retirement Home
	NA Carriage Company	Henry Liam Ward MS

Waldegraves

Wormingford Hall & Church

Waldegraves and
St Mary`s

Waldegraves and The Mayflower

Waldegraves Family Tree

Puritans & the Mayflower inc Ferriers	Ferriers	Pelham family	Petre family	The Mayflower to New England	Puritans
	Rebecca Fraser author of "The Mayflower", publication, visited Bures on Jan 9th 2018 in order to view Gt Bevills, St Stephens Chapel and Smallbridge Hall Link to book review

Archaeology and History within in the adjacent parishes of Wormingford and Mount Bures		Colchester Rd Field	Tudor Hunting Lodge at Lodge Hills	Carenza Lewis on The Common
	Lodge Hill Brick Kiln	Wormingford Hall	The Mount at Mount Bures	Land at the rear of Friends Field

Listed Buildings

Bures St Mary

Bures Hamlet

Mount Bures

Bures Primary School	History of the Schools in Bures including our own Primary School
	School Photograph 1953

Links to the USA	What did we export ? Huntingtons Chorea	MayFlower to America
	Herbert Pelham from Ferriers	Waldegrave and Pelham family

History of the Public Houses	Public Houses	Eight Bells Public House	One Bell PH
	Eight Bells Refurbisment 1974	One Bell Little Cornard

Europa

Europa 2009

"The Great Orchard or Nursery Field"	History of the Land to the rear of Friends Field
(2014 renamed Pikes Marsh)	History of the Orchard and its eventual destruction	Planning Applications
	History of the Packing Sheds that once stood on the Orchard	Suffolk County Council Archaeological Dig 2012
	Developer moves in	Why is it called Pikes Marsh ?

Storms and Flooding	St Judes Storm, November 2013	1956 Flooding
	February 2014 Storm

Dragons and Tunnels	Bures Dragon	Bures to Borley Tunnel
	Wormingford Dragon

Village Retail History	See the shops that traded in the village from 1840 until 2010
	Compare photographs of the village shops that traded in 1900 and today
	Pictorial record of Bures during 1965
	Meggs Meadow ( now The Common)
	Dupont and Orttewell. Ironmongers, High Street
	Deaves, Builders
	George and Sidney Eves, Builders
	Pilgrim, Builders
	Pudney Builders

Workhouses	Bures St Mary Bures Hamlet	Assington Assington 2	Mount Bures
	Sudbury	Lt Cornard	Wormingford
	Removal of the Poor to the Midlands

Gainsborough Rail Line	History 1849 to 1989	History 1990 - 1999	1968 Rail timetable	The Decline of Bures Station
	History 2000 - 2005	History 2006	History 2007	History 2008
	History 2009	History 2010	History 2011	History 2012
	History 2013	History 2014	History 2015	History 2016
	History 2017	History 2018	History 2019	History 2020
	History 2021	History 2022
	Tracks Works 1	Track Works 2	Track Works 3	Rail Crash Lt Cornard 2010

Countryside Walks & Woodland	Planting Millennium Tree	Suffolk Wildlife Trust "Spouses Grove" New photographs 2015	Essex Wildlife Trust "Sergeant`s Orchard"	Seven Circular walks around Bures Download walks as a pdf file
	Transistion Group. Planting New Community Wood	Water Meadows	Arger Fen Woodland Walk	My recommended walk. Bures to Arger Fen

River Stour (1)	B1508 Roadbridge	River Stour	Roadbridge Repairs
	Where has all the water gone?		Millennium Bridge

River Events(2)	Power Boat Rally 2004	Coracles on the River 2012
		Millennium Regatta 2002

The River at work(3)	Mill & Lock	Wormingford Cut
	The River Navigation with the Lighters and horses	Cambridge Brook & Hydraulic Rams
	Pitmere Lock, Lamarsh	Environment Agency Work at Bures Mill
	Bures Mill Weir Schematic Diagrams	Wind and Water Mills
		Bures Wharf

Wind and	Wind and WaterMills in Bures
Water Mills	Ferriers Two Water Mills	Ferriers Wind Mill

Water Treatment
Works

Colchester Rd

Denver - Abberton Water Transfer Scheme

Water extracted from the River Stour and pumped to Abberton Reservoir.
Photographic album of the construction work at Bures

What to see on the River

River scenes

Boating on the River

The Boat House

River House

Photographic Collection	Regatta 2002	Millennium Bridge	Photo Album
	Europa 2009	Diamond Jubilee	Bures 2000 Calender

Bures 2000 Centenary Calendar

Photographs

Bures at War	Bures at War (external web site)	Comrades of the Great War
	Fred Staples receives Bevin Boy Medal	Womens Land Army Bures
	VE Celebrations down at the Community Centre	Elizabeth Garrad writes to POW in Germany

Queen Elizabeth 11, Coronation 1953

Coronation

Biography & Deaths	Dr Thomas Wood	John Constable	Garrad Family
	Mrs St Osyth Wood	Waldegraves of Smallbridge Hall	Jack Bruce, Musician
	Dennis Ambrose, Fysh House Farm	Cansdale family	Alliston Family
	Witgar Hitchcock, Bures Mill	Margaret Hitchcock, Bures Mill	Cynthia Eves
	Selwyn Pryor, Little Mill Cottage	David Vango

Services to the Community	Ferriers Barn	Bures Grammar School
	Bures Primary School extensions

Nostalgia	Do you recognise these faces ? (Sports)	Do you recognise these faces ? (School days)
	Victory Village Hall 1935	Having Fun
	Football	Mill Workers
	Veterans rally	Bures Ballet Group 1965
	Bures String Band

Winston Churchill	Did Winston ever visit Bures ?

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

Notable Village Folk	Norfolk Bill	Old Major (Arthur Whiting)
	George (Quark) Baker	More characters
	Was he the worst neighbour in Suffolk	Charlotte (Busky) Laurie

Village news	Police Helicopter lands	Air Ambulance lands	Almshouses get new roof
	Archived News

Leisure	Quoits played on the Common
	Bures Bowling Green

Parish Council News	LINK
This information is no longer published on this web site

Mains Sewer arrives at Hamlet and St Mary	1950 Public Enquiry into the disposal of Sewage
	Night Soil Man
	Mains Sewer arrives in Hamlet
	Mains Sewer arrives in St Mary

Visits to Bures from the USA	A family from "Tuscaloosa" USA visits Chapel Barn in March, 2016 More information	May 19th, 2016- Michelle Coughlin, a researcher visits Bures from Boston USA, to trace the Pelham, Harlackenden and Waldegrave family More information
	January 2017. Visitor from California in Bures researching his descendants More Information	Will & Carol Kuberski from New Jersey, visited St Marys and St Stephens on 6th Oct, 2018 Related to the Cansdale, Cant and Parminter families More information
	September 2017, Frances Hart from Portland, Origon, USA Tracing her ancestors, the Harlackenden and De-Vere family.l More Information

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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
	Broadband	BT Supplier

Local Information	General information about Bures
Directory of Services	Find your Doctor or local services here.
Clubs & Charities	List of all Clubs and Charities in Bures
Why the Site	Why the site was established in 2001

index updated 02/03/2022