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A National Centre for Gainsborough set within the town where he was born and the landscape that inspired him

2018 is the diamond jubilee of Gainsborough’s House and marks sixty years since the purchase of Thomas Gainsborough’s family home by a group of local and national supporters, creating an extraordinary legacy that is now on the brink of becoming a national centre for the artist.

Front view of Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury.

In 1956, a house in the market town of Sudbury was advertised for sale in Country Life. Of late medieval origins, it had, like many other houses in the town, been developed in the Georgian period and given an elegant street façade. What distinguished it was that it had been the home of Thomas Gainsborough in his youth. A group of local supporters, including Sir Alfred Munnings, inspired by a recent campaign to save Renoir’s House at Cagnes-sur-Mer, got together and raised the funds to acquire the house; it was then opened to the public in 1961. Since then it has flourished as a museum dedicated to the artist, opening seven days a week, mounting temporary exhibitions and gradually acquiring a significant collection of paintings, drawings and prints by Gainsborough, as well as a large archive of material relating to the artist.

Back view of Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury.

In September 2016, Gainsborough’s House was awarded a stage 1 pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project that could radically transform its future. In recent years, funding has been in short supply for many regional museums and galleries. From 2011 to 2013 the House had to operate without a Director and other core staff, but, over the last three years, this situation has been reversed. Staff numbers have doubled, the programme of events has been far more ambitious, and this year the House achieved the highest visitor numbers in its history for the fifth year in succession.

Panoramic view from proposed new galleries at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury.

The Vision

Reviving an Artist’s Birthplace: A National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough is a plan to redevelop Gainsborough’s House and convert the building and land, recently acquired by Babergh District Council, at the back of the House. The aim is to radically improve how we present Gainsborough, through a gain of four new display areas, as well as a designated space for larger temporary exhibitions. This will benefit not only Gainsborough’s House, but also the town and the region.

Perspective section of proposed new galleries at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury.

House-museums devoted to individuals offer insights into the character and interests of the artist, writer or musician and can also examine the age in which they lived. The aim is to keep a balance between the two. The way in which this will be achieved at Sudbury is by converting the newly acquired building into a landmark gallery. Gainsborough’s art can then be shown in a purpose-built gallery environment. This would leave the House free to explore the artist’s life and character, and the period in which he lived. It will enable the House to present recently discovered material concerning hitherto-unknown aspects of Gainsborough’s life and background, while the new gallery will have the space to accommodate large-scale works and full-length portraits. Visitors, therefore, will be able to see a greater range of the artist’s achievements before entering Gainsborough’s House, which will provide a context for his art.

The development of the historic house is an important element of the project and this essays considers two further key themes, which form the backbone of the redisplay.

Early Gainsborough and the Creative Process

Gainsborough (1727-1788), Tomas Abel Moysey (1743-1831) 1771. Oil on canvas. On loan from a private collection. Gainsborough’s House.

Gainsborough was baptised at the Independent Meeting-House on Friar’s Street, Sudbury on 14 May, 1727, born into a weaving family that was predominantly dissenting. His mother was from an Anglican family, and it is generally thought that she was ‘a women of cultivation, and an amateur painter.’

Given Gainsborough’s natural instinct for landscape painting, it is perhaps not so surprising that Gainsborough was born into the rural market town of Sudbury in Suffolk, surrounded by countryside, which still evoke his paintings and drawings. Yet it was not just his mother’s side of the family that gave Gainsborough opportunities to develop his natural talent, and his namesake and dissenting uncle on his father’s side represented the wealthier side of the family. They could afford to commission John Theodore Heins (1697–1756) to paint all their immediate family with individual portraits in 1731 as well as bailing out Gainsborough’s father when he went bankrupt in 1733. The paintings by Heins must have been amongst some of the first paintings that Gainsborough would have seen at first hand.

Philip Thicknesse, Gainsborough’s first biographer, who published his anecdotal sixty-one page booklet within months of the artist’s death recalled ‘that there was not a Picturesque clump of Trees, nor even a single Tree of beauty, nor hedgerow, stone, or post, at the corner of the Lanes, for some miles round about the place of his nativity, that he had not so perfectly in his mind’s eye, that… he could have perfectly delineated.’ Thicknesse was not alone in emphasising the inspiration of nature to Gainsborough. Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745–1824), one of Gainsborough’s great supporters, wrote in his obituary of the artist, ‘That nature was his teacher and the woods of Suffolk his academy’. Sir Joshua Reynolds in his eulogistic Academy Discourse, which followed Gainsborough’s death, noted that his landscapes were ‘a portrait-like representation of nature, such as we see in the works of Rubens, Ruysdaal, and others of those schools.’

The idea of Gainsborough as an entirely natural and self-taught artist was prevalent in the late eighteenth century. Yet this is misleading, for even though he was possessed with a great deal of natural talent, training was undoubtedly necessary. Nature is a mass of fragmented colour, shade and forms, whereas a painting is a cohesive and harmonious whole. Only by studying the work of other artists, being trained by them, will enthusiastic observation of nature be translated into a successful and sophisticated painting.

With the encouragement of the Paul Mellon Centre, Gainsborough’s House developed a project called The Painting Room. This culminated in a two-day symposium, one day held in London and the second in Sudbury; and in a temporary exhibition co-curated with Giles Waterfield, in which we gathered together objects, such as Reynolds’s easel and sitters’ chair (loaned by the Royal Academy, London), as well as paint bladders, an écorché and a bust of blind Homer that would have been used in a Georgian studio. We even created a mock-up of what such a room might have looked like. This proved a useful exercise, helping us gain ideas as to how we might order the display of our rooms in the future. In the House, wall texts and labels will be used, but with discretion: there is always the danger of being visually intrusive and breaking the spell that can be evoked by sensitive historic re-creation.

Detail of the Gainsborough in His Own Words exhibition, RijksMuseum Twenthe, Netherlands 2016.

 

While pursuing these ideas for future displays, Gainsborough’s House developed an important partnership with the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, Holland. This was the first regional Dutch museum to acquire a Gainsborough painting and its curators were keen to mount, with our help, the exhibition at Enschede, Gainsborough in His own Words (2016), which set out to interpret his art, with the help of some of Gainsborough’s letters, to a Dutch public unfamiliar with his work. Voted one of the top five exhibitions in Holland in 2016 offered valuable lessons for Gainsborough’s House. We lent a large number of paintings, drawings and contextual material to Holland, and, in return, Gainsborough’s House borrowed from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe nine seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes from its golden age, including works by Jan van Goyen, Salomon van Ruysdael and Aert van der Neer. The fact that Dutch landscapes of this kind had a crucial influence on Gainsborough’s early development made their presence in Sudbury a moment of real importance to the House.

The Challenge

The challenge is to evoke the spirit of an artist, without the House becoming a static shrine or losing its sense of authenticity. Evocations of the past are attractive to visitors, but, as in the case with Gainsborough’s House, not many objects original to the Georgian period remain; and questions of security, as well as environmental concerns, can make it difficult to display objects as they would have been seen when the artist was alive. Should more ephemeral effects be recreated? There are house-museums where this has been done well, as at Charleston, the former home of certain members of the Bloomsbury group, where the visitor gains the sense that the room is still in use and its residents are merely temporarily absent. But all too often in house-museums it is necessary to employ minor interventions around individual objects for security reasons, which, however discreet, can alter their context and the experience offered to the visitor.

Gainsborough’s House is fortunate to have not only the house where the artist lived, but also his garden with its ancient mulberry tree. In Sudbury, we are also surrounded by the landscape Gainsborough loved, the ‘Picturesque clump of Trees…’ that Thicknesse recalled. This reminds us that, although art is often today shown within a vacuum or white space, it certainly was not created in one.

Detail of Creating a National Centre for Gainsborough exhibition 2017, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury

It is to be hoped that developing Gainsborough’s House into a national centre for the artist, and providing a major gallery for the region, will help to spearhead the redevelopment of this historic market town. Local pride and a centre that focuses on one of Britain’s greatest artists can encourage cultural tourism. Gainsborough’s House is grateful to all those trusts, funds and individuals who have supported its work so far. The artist himself once wrote: ‘What will become of me time must show; I can only say that my present situation with regard to encouragement is all that heart can wish but as all worldly success is precarious I don’t build happiness, or the expectation of it, upon present appearances. I have built upon sandy foundations all my life long’. Yet since his death in 1788 his reputation has remained consistently and deservedly high and at Gainsborough’s House we are able to build upon this firm foundation.

Cedric Morris

Cafe du Dome 1924, Cedric Morris.

One of the strongest themes of the redeveloped Gainsborough’s House is Suffolk artists. The new displays will explore the complex relationship between the extraordinary landscape of the region and the artists that it inspired. It is particularly exciting for us to receive a bequest of works from the studio of Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982), which represents a significant acquisition to our collection. Morris met the painter Arthur Lett- Haines (1894–1978) in 1918, and lived with him for the following sixty years, first in Paris and London in the 1920s before moving to Suffolk. In 1937, they founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex, with Morris as principal. Three years later the school moved to Benton End, Hadleigh, Suffolk, where they lived the rest of their lives. Whilst there they taught many students including Maggi Hambling and Lucian Freud.

The gift from Maggi Hambling and Robert Davey amounts to over 100 landscapes and portraits, which include 46 oil paintings and 58 works on paper. We are enormously grateful for the gift, which means that the legacy of Cedric Morris has a home in Suffolk that can be seen by all.

The exhibition, Cedric Morris at Gainsborough’s House, drawn from the collection and selected by his pupil Maggi Hambling is on between 10 February and 17 June 2018.

Mark Bills

Mark Bills studied at The Slade School of Art and at Birmingham and Manchester Universities. He is currently Executive Director of Gainsborough’s House. He has been very closely involved in the project to build a new gallery, behind the house, and raising the necessary funding. He has written several books and numerous articles about 18th and 19th century art.

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
Year: 2022
Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2022
Rebel with a cause
Year: 2022
A National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough’s Masterpieces
Year: 2022
EA Festival at Hedingham Castle
Category: Culture
Year: 2022
The Gainsborough Line
Category: Adventure. Travel, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2022
Music, Mischief and Mayhem – Opera at Layer Marney
Year: 2022
Bures Music Festival
Year: 2022
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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