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Caught Knapping

There is one thing certain, and that is, that you will not nod off when listening to Will Lord, probably the best knapper in this country. Will was born in 1970 when his father was the custodian of Grimes Graves, near Thetford, Norfolk. Grimes Graves is the site of a series of Neolithic Flint mines that produced some of the best flints available. If you wander through Thetford Forest you are likely to come across flint mines which were made by the Stone Age people searching for good flints, which they ultimately found at Grimes Graves some 4,000 years ago. These flints were fashioned into survival tools: axe heads, arrow heads, scrapers, burins and other associated essential tools for living in this period of the late Stone Age. Some 500 years later saw the start of the Bronze Age when ancient man began to smelt bronze to make axe heads etc.

If we go further back in history some 55,000 years ago, we find Neanderthal man hunting mammoth and there is evidence of this in a quarry at Lynford outside Swaffam. Will personally owns the only unfinished hand axe out of 70 hand axes that were discovered at Lynford amongst the bones of a significant mammoth hunting site, and is able to demonstrate a story within schools as to why this may not have been completed.

Happisburgh beach on the North Norfolk coast has become significant for Will as he is able to demonstrate how our evolutionary timeline has been shifted back to one million years due to sedimentary based flint artefacts.

When I arrived at Will’s house he noticed that I had, on the front seat of my car, two pieces of flint, which he examined and announced that they were Neolithic hand tools. Colchester Natural History Museum, and its archivists, had said they were just bits of flint. However, I was not convinced and had kept them to show to a greater authority, and Will demonstrated, that due to the shape of the shock waves caused by the influence of flint knapping, man had been involved in their production. I was encouraged to learn this as I was convinced that they were man-made due to their shape. I had unearthed them in my garden in Lamarsh.

From an early age, Will became fascinated by flints, and their ancient usage, and by 1975 he was known at school, as “Nipper Knapper”. He started to learn the art of knapping flints to make facing stones for buildings. In 1987, after leaving school, he became a mechanic, but at the same time he joined his father, who had relinquished his role as Custodian at Grimes Graves, in the production of flints for facing buildings, and he worked with his father for seven years. Throughout the next few years Will ventured into various territories, some more successful than others. However Will always knew in his heart of hearts that he wanted to recreate the skills of Stone Age man. In order that he could pass this knowledge on to future generations, he set about refining his skills working on flints and exploring the ways our forebears had lived and hunted.

In 2008, Will set himself up near Bury St Edmunds as a prehistoric re-enactor and at exactly the same time an opportunity presented itself for him to supply flints to the black powder industry making gun flints, where he went on to provide vast amounts, in excess of 60,000 hand- made gun flints per year. As well as supplying the UK market, these were exported mainly to Europe, the USA and Australia. On a good day he could fashion up to 300 gun flints.

He used the manufacture of gunflints to finance what he had always envisaged: recreating and demonstrating the way our ancestors had lived. So began his “acting” career, which combined his many skills of creating Stone Age and Bronze Age tools, hunting, and living off the land.

In Will’s garden, behind his house, is a wooden chalet, in which he shows some original, and some copies, of two million year old fashioned stones, from Africa, and other tools as well as reproduction bows and arrows, deer skins, and paintings on stretched hides. He obtains natural pigments for the colouring, for example, lumps of ochre from The Forest of Dean, where it has been being mined in the Clearwell Caves for over 4,000 years. There is also a collection of reproduction Bronze Age implements made on site. Just across the lawn from the chalet is a re- creation of a Neolithic hut with a fire in the centre, surrounded by seats bedecked with hides. Just behind the hut is a large pile of flints ready for Will to demonstrate his skills. While we were talking he collected one flint measuring about 10 inches by 6 inches by 3 inches and began to chip away at it gradually reducing it in size and creating a point and a rounded end to fit the palm of one’s hand. Bit by bit he knapped away until the two sides were sharp to create a Palaeolithic hand-axe. After no more than ten minutes he handed me this implement. It could have been the real thing!

In this same hut Will smelts bronze in the same manner as over 3,000 years ago. He grinds pottery and mixes it with horse dung and fresh clay to create a furnace measuring about 15 inches in diameter and about 20 inches high, with a small hole at the bottom into which he can insert a pair of bellows made from skins. (see photo) The temperature in the furnace can reach 1400 degrees and can smelt bronze in forty five minutes.

To create the moulds for the axe heads, he can fashion a head in wax, which is then encased in clay after which the wax is melted out and the liquid bronze poured in. Malachite is the primal source of copper, the main ingredient of bronze, and this was originally obtained from Llandudno in North Wales after people from ancient England were educated by foreign travellers from Europe that it could be extracted through the use of intense fire.

Will has gained the title of one of Britain’s leading reconstructive technology experts and he is also seen as a true bushman. Will explains that to be a real bushman/hunter we need to revisit stories of the past where young passionate children, who wanted to hunt, were not allowed to hunt a deer until they had gained the skill to stalk it to a point where they actually touched the deer’s back. This may be something that seems unreal and unachievable to many modern hunters.

Will also describes that when walking through woodland, you have to accept that your presence is noticed by all of the woodland residents who will naturally recede from your approach. This will always hinder your hunting, until such time as you learn to drop away from the end goal of hunting, and find some peace with your environment.

After a successful hunt, which would today provide our modern world with venison for the plate, Will uses the skin, the brains, the bones, the tendons and the stomach for a massive wealth of tools and opportunities to take on further hunting trips, warm clothing, glues and water proof vessels.

During 2014 he was approached by a producer from The Garden Production Company, who were working with Channel V to produce a film about life in 10,000 BC, to be filmed in Bulgaria. They needed the reproduction clothing essential for the film. He made the garments for twenty people, leather trousers, leather tunics, reindeer skin coats, loin cloths, and shoes as well as two reproduction Mere Heath sinew bound longbows from the Neolithic period and, believe it or not, six arrows, when in reality they would have needed not less than sixty. In order to meet the tight production schedule Will took on a helper, Simon, who is now full time and part of Will’s act when it comes to school visits and workshops. When giving demonstrations to groups Will, the inland hunter/gatherer, and Simon, the coastal forager, dress up in full primitive clothing consisting of deerskins, fashioned expertly into clothing, including deerskin boots (see photo) Their aim is to give a serious look back in time and offer a much clearer understanding of our fore- bears and how they lived, using the age old techniques of brain tanning and smoking, and he and Will intend to run workshops making reindeer coats and shoes. One of Will’s aims is to educate children at schools and summer camps and holiday clubs by offering a day described as “a caveman in the classroom”: a full day of prehistoric fun. Will and Simon will come dressed as cavemen wearing real skins with their faces painted with ochre and whilst they will speak modern day English they will make the guttural sounds from the past. They use a story type approach that emphasises that they live in a vastly different way to how we live to-day, with the need to go out to hunt to get the next meal for the table. Will demonstrates the tools he uses to survive, such as flint spears, daggers, ropes made from stinging nettles, and he will create a flint axe head from a large flint stone.

The story will go on to show how to make a fire using a bow drill and dried grasses, then adding wood over which to cook.

Children are given ochre to paint their faces, or for cave art. Natural fibres are on hand to make string. However the biggest thrill is to share the caveman’s lunch of venison or freshly caught fish cooked over the open fire in front of them. Dried fruits, berries and seeds, including “jerky”, described as dried mammoth, are also available to try out.

Will has a captivating manner and it is impossible not to be fascinated by his skills and his wish to demonstrate these. As to the future, Will naturally wishes to expand his business so that he is known as the pre-eminent re- creator of prehistoric man. I suggest that anyone wanting to see Will visit his website www.will-lord.co.uk If you are a school then use the following www.will-lord.co.uk/will-lord-schools.html

Will has suggested that I take along a small group of members and he will cook venison over an open fire for a summer supper and will demonstrate flint knapping. As you will have read above, Will’s way of life and acting provides for his wife and family and to take part in one of these experiences involves a charge of £15 per head, which is a one off special price for the CSCA. If you would like to be part of a Neolithic experience then email me mark@markpadawson.co.uk and I will put you on a list and organise a date after which I will then confirm to you. Numbers will have to be limited.

Mark Dawson

 

2023 - Read about the wonderful new gallery being built in Sudbury for Gainsborough's masterpieces; follow the trail of a tireless local environmental campaigner; get ready for the second EA cultural festival, the Bures music festival and Opera at Layer Marney; discover the beautiful garden of Holm House with its wildflower meadow and lake; travel through the Colne valley along the Gainsborough line; find out where you can get local financial advice; enjoy an illustrated walk in the Stour Valley; and read our Chairman's update on proposed housing developments, solar farms, and the National Grid's Bramford to Twinstead electricity grid reinforcement project. 

2022 - Read about the wonderful new gallery being built in Sudbury for Gainsborough's masterpieces; follow the trail of a tireless local environmental campaigner; get ready for the second EA cultural festival, the Bures music festival and Opera at Layer Marney; discover the beautiful garden of Holm House with its wildflower meadow and lake; travel through the Colne valley along the Gainsborough line; find out where you can get local financial advice; enjoy an illustrated walk in the Stour Valley; and read our Chairman's update on proposed housing developments, solar farms, and the National Grid's Bramford to Twinstead electricity grid reinforcement project. 

2022 Magazine
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Chairman’s Letter
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Rebel with a cause
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A National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough’s Masterpieces
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EA Festival at Hedingham Castle
Category: Culture
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The Gainsborough Line
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Year: 2022
Music, Mischief and Mayhem – Opera at Layer Marney
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Bures Music Festival
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Holm House Gardens in Suffolk
Year: 2022

2020 - Welcome to our 2020 lockdown edition - only published ONLINE. Read about the wonderful Alfred Munnings Exhibition "Behind the Lines"; find out how the beavers have been getting on at the Spains Hall Estate in Finchingfield, introduced back into Essex after an absence of 400 years; explore the link between Ferriers in Bures and the Voyage of the Mayflower, the Salem Witch trials and Wampum belts; read a fascinating interview with Carl Shillingford, talented Michelin chef and keen local forager; and enjoy a celebratory update from Ken Forrester on South African wines and his support for a wonderful local school.  

2020 Magazine
Year: 2020
Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2020
Behind the Lines: Alfred Munnings, War Artist
Category: Art, Culture
Year: 2020
The Foragers Retreat – Michelin chef in Pebmarsh.
Category: Food, Nature
Year: 2020
Dam Good Job – Beavers back in Essex after 400 years.
Category: Explore Colne Stour, Nature
Year: 2020
Ferriers – a Bures house and its connection to the Mayflower.
Category: Adventure. Travel, Architectural Interest, Culture, History
Year: 2020
Three special milestones for Ken Forrester Wines  
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2020

2019 - Read about Tudor living on a grand scale at Alston Court, how Samuel Courtauld & Co. shaped our towns and villages, hear inspiring stories of local vineyards Tuffon Hall and West Street, get an update on the Dedham Vale AONB extension, and take a tour round Polstead Mill, one of East Anglia's beautiful secret gardens. 

Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2019
Dedham Vale AONB extension
Year: 2019
The Tuffon Hall Transformation
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2019
A Hong Kong racehorse in an Essex field
Category: Nature
Year: 2019
Andy Gentle – A chainsaw love affair
Category: Business
Year: 2019
A vivid insight into Tudor living on the grand scale.
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2019
Underground Moats & Zinc Cathedrals
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2019
Secret Gardens of East Anglia – Polstead Mill
Category: Gardens
Year: 2019
Repairing the damage of a supermarket delivery van
Year: 2019
How Samuel Courtauld and Co. shaped our towns and villages
Category: Architectural Interest, Culture, History
Year: 2019
Ken Forrester
Year: 2019
CSCA Photography Competition
Year: 2019
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens
Year: 2019
Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2019

2018 - Read about Hedingham Castle, a new National Centre for Gainsborough in Sudbury, award-winning new Gins from Adnams, aspects of our Industrial Heritage, the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, the Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project, and take a look at the proposed new Constitution for CSCA.. 

Chairmans Letter April 2018
Category: Annual, News, Planning Issues
Year: 2018
History of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Category: Architectural Interest, Art, Culture, History
Year: 2018
Another Suffolk Success Story – Time for a G & T?
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2018
Some more aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: Agricultural, Brewing, distilling and wine, History
Year: 2018
An Earl’s Tower
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2018
A Castle Reborn
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2018
Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project
Category: Explore Colne Stour, Nature, Planning Issues
Year: 2018
A National Centre for Gainsborough set within the town where he was born and the landscape that inspired him
Category: Architectural Interest, Art, History
Year: 2018
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens, History
Year: 2018
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2018
New Constitution
Year: 2018
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2018

2017 - Read about our local industrial heritage, Paycocke's House history, why heritage matters, the art of Alfred Munnings, a haunted house in Lamarsh, celebrating Gainsborough, the beauty of recreating Cedric Morris's Iris collection and a small wine snippet from Ken Forrester. 

Chairmans Letter April 2017
Category: Annual, News, Planning Issues
Year: 2017
Heritage Matters
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2017
Some aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: History
Year: 2017
Paycocke’s House: a witness to history
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
The House of his Dreams: Reimagining The Munnings Art Museum
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
‘The Haunted House’ of Lamarsh – Some Early Reflections
Category: History
Year: 2017
Gainsborough’s House: Celebrating the Past and Looking to the Future
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
Another, highly unusual, Suffolk Success Story
Category: Gardens, Nature
Year: 2017
Garden Visits 2017
Category: Gardens, Nature
Year: 2017
Dirty Little Secret
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2017
Website
Category: News
Year: 2017
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2017
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2017

2016 - Interesting articles on medieval graffiti, farming in the Stour Valley, exploring our AONB, early settlers from the Stour Valley to America, the archaeology of a local farm, a wonderful catalogue of British birds, celebrating a Suffolk joinery business, the weather from a South African winery. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2016
Medieval Graffiti: the hidden histories…
Category: History
Year: 2016
Stour Valley Farming
Category: Business
Year: 2016
The Godly Kingdom of the Stour Valley
Category: History
Year: 2016
Keeping It Special in the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Stour Valley Project
Category: Nature
Year: 2016
Lodge Farm, Rectory Road, Wyverstone Street, Suffolk
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2016
A Miscellany of Information about British Birds
Category: Nature
Year: 2016
Another Suffolk Success Story
Category: Business
Year: 2016
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens
Year: 2016
Harvest, Fires and Fynbos
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2016
LOOKING FORWARDS, BEFORE I GET LEFT BEHIND….
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2016
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2016
Annual General Meeting and Summer Party
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2016
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2016

2015 - The life and times of a flint knapper. A continuation about the history of the ancient farm at Henny and a visit to the inside of Alston Court, Nayland as well as an insight into The Antiques Roadshow.  

Chairman’s Letter – February 2015
Category: Annual
Year: 2015
Caught Knapping
Category: History
Year: 2015
ALSTON COURT
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2015
ORGANIC MUTTERINGS
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2015
THE STORY OF SPARROW’S FARM, GREAT HENNY – PART 2
Category: History
Year: 2015
ON AND OFF THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Category: Business
Year: 2015
UNLOCKING THE ARTIST WITHIN: FINE ART LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2015
BADGERS – LOVE’EM, OR HATE’EM?
Category: Nature
Year: 2015
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Gardens
Year: 2015
FORRESTER VINEYARDS, SOUTH AFRICA
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2015
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2015
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2015

2014 - A hair-raising flight from UK to South Africa and an insight into the Wineries of Stellenbosch. An exceptional old mill just outside Bures and a most unusual chapel on the hill behind, as well as a time warp farm at Henny. 

Chairman’s Letter – February 2014
Category: Annual
Year: 2014
ST. STEPHEN’S CHAPEL, BURES
Category: History
Year: 2014
THE STELLENBOSCH WINE ROUTE – THE PEOPLE AND THE DOGS!
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2014
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A FLIGHT TO STELLENBOSCH AND BACK
Category: Adventure. Travel
Year: 2014
A SUFFOLK SUCCESS STORY – JIM LAWRENCE LTD
Category: Business
Year: 2014
HOLD FARM, BURES ST MARY; A RARE TUDOR WATERMILL
Category: Architectural Interest
Year: 2014
THE STORY OF SPARROW’S FARM, GREAT HENNY
Category: History
Year: 2014
YOUR COUNTRYSIDE – FIGHT FOR IT NOW! your Britain fight for it now
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2014
TUNBRIDGEWARE
Category: History
Year: 2014
EXTENDING THE DEDHAM VALE AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB) – UPDATE
Category: News, Planning Issues
Year: 2014
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2014
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2014
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2014

2013 - Watermills on the Stour. How Constable and Gainsborough would have seen many of the buildings in our area. Let’s protect the Stour Valley by extending the AONB from where we take over from The Dedham Vale at Wormingford towards Sudbury. 

Chairman’s Letter – February 2013
Category: Annual
Year: 2013
THE WATERMILLS OF THE RIVER STOUR
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2013
MANAGING A MASTERPIECE: THE STOUR VALLEY LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP
Category: Art, History
Year: 2013
EXTENDING THE DEDHAM VALE AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB)
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2013
BUILDINGS IN THE EAST ANGLIAN LANDSCAPE – AS SEEN BY JOHN CONSTABLE
Category: Art, History
Year: 2013
THE ROUND CHURCH AT MAPLESTEAD
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2013
THE FINE WINES OF ENGLAND
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2013
PROGRESS AGAINST PYLONS: A ROUNDUP OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PYLONS SAGA
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2013
TEA AND THE TEA CADDY A BRIEF STUDY OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF TEA AND ITS CONTAINERS
Category: History
Year: 2013
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2013
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2013
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2013

2012 - A walk through many of the churches along the River Stour and how the Romans once lived right here in our midst, and how your pint is brewed. Also the ongoing fight to rid the Stour of the blight of Pylons. 

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER – FEBRUARY 2012
Category: Annual
Year: 2012
TREES R US – AN AMATEUR ARBORETUM
Category: Nature
Year: 2012
GLIMPSES INTO SOME STOUR VALLEY CHURCHES
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2012
THE ART OF BREWING
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2012
PLANNING REFORM
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2012
‘ELF ‘N SAFETY . . . AND ALL THAT
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2012
BRINGING OUR PAST TO LIFE: GESTINGTHORPE ROMAN VILLA
Category: History
Year: 2012
MINIATURE OR APPRENTICE PIECE?
Category: History
Year: 2012
GAINSBOROUGH’S VIEW
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2012
NEW STOUR VALLEY ENVIRONMENT FUND
Category: News
Year: 2012
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2012
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2012
THE COLNE STOUR COUNTRYSIDE ASSOCIATION. MINUTES OF THE 46TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT FERRIERS BARN, BURES ON THURSDAY 12TH MAY 2011
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2012

2011 - The brewers of East Anglia. The gardens of Marks Hall as well as the paintings of Alfred Munnings on display in Sudbury. How a small church became the Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds and all you need to know about antique birdcages. 

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER – APRIL 2011
Category: Annual
Year: 2011
Pylons
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2011
THE PAINTED CHURCH BECOMES BURY’S CATHEDRAL
Category: History
Year: 2011
MARKS HALL AND THE PHILLIPS PRICE TRUST
Category: History
Year: 2011
BREWING IN EAST ANGLIA
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2011
BURES MILL OVER NINE CENTURIES
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2011
LANDSCAPES BY MUNNINGS EXHIBITION AT GAINSBOROUGH’S HOUSE
Category: Art
Year: 2011
BIRD-CAGES – A FASCINATION
Category: History
Year: 2011
DAWS HALL EVENTS 2011
Category: Annual
Year: 2011
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2011
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2011
TREASURERS REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2011
THE COLNE STOUR COUNTRYSIDE ASSOCIATION. MINUTES OF THE 45TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT FERRIERS BARN, BURES ON THURSDAY 6TH MAY 2010
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2011
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2011

2010 - An artist who enjoyed his port and a canoe adventure along the Stour. Sudbury’s history and Coggeshall Abbey and a fight to get rid of Pylons from the Stour Valley. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2010
A Pint of Port to Paint a Picture
Category: Art, History
Year: 2010
A Walk Round Coggeshall Abbey
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2010
By Canoe to Cattawade
Category: Adventure. Travel, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2010
Nocturnal Visitors
Category: Nature
Year: 2010
Sudbury New Town – c.1330
Category: History
Year: 2010
A Stay in a Nomad’s Tent
Category: Business
Year: 2010
Freeing our countryside of the blight of pylons
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2010
Hobbies on the Stour
Category: Nature
Year: 2010
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2010
Website
Category: News
Year: 2010
Annual General Meeting 2009
Category: Annual
Year: 2010

2009 - Norwich School art and the Maplesteads. Ancient wallpapers, and is Long Melford the epitome of a Suffolk village? and don’t throw away a rug before checking what it is. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2009
By Hook or by Crook
Category: Art, History
Year: 2009
Unwanted Wildlife – Some Handy Hints
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
East Ruston Old Vicarage
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
Squash a Squirrel – Save a Tree
Category: Nature
Year: 2009
Historic Wallpapers and Cole & Son
Category: Business
Year: 2009
Long Melford – ‘Suffolk in a day’
Category: Architectural Interest, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2009
Don’t throw away a fortune!
Category: Business
Year: 2009
Garden Visits. Away Days
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
Website
Category: Annual
Year: 2009
Editors Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2009
Annual General Meeting 2008
Category: Annual
Year: 2009

2008 - The bell founders of Sudbury and all about a rogue from our area, Sir John Hawkwood, and a Sudbury secret – Gainsborough’s House. 

Member’s Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2008
Cycling in Suffolk – An Environmental Holiday
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2008
The Sudbury Bell Founders
Category: History
Year: 2008
The CSCA Website
Category: News
Year: 2008
From Sible Hedingham to Florence. The Remarkable Life of Sir John Hawkwood
Category: History
Year: 2008
‘One of Suffolk’s Best Kept Secrets’- Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2008
Discovering Historic Wallpaper in East Anglian Houses
Category: History
Year: 2008
The not so humble Mole (Talpa Europaea) and how to catch him
Category: Nature
Year: 2008
Annual Report 2007.
Category: Annual
Year: 2008

2007 - Why a bell had to be chipped to get into the belfry at Lamarsh. Watermills on the Colne and Dragonflies. 

Water Mills on the Upper Colne
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2007
Dragonflies on the Stour
Category: Nature
Year: 2007
Lamarsh Bell Restoration
Category: Architectural Interest
Year: 2007
The CSCA Website
Category: News
Year: 2007
What is wrong with our Horse Chestnuts?
Category: Nature
Year: 2007

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