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Secret Gardens of East Anglia – Polstead Mill

Lucy Bartlett began her gardening life in mellow and moist South Wales. When newly settled in Suffolk, she thought she had moved to a desert.

Now it feels like her terroir, but in the beginning it was a real journey of discovery. “I learned that going East means you actually have to water plants,” she says. Lucy and her husband Richard found Polstead Mill in 2002. The house dates from 1785 and was incorporated with the adjacent mill in 1947. Up until then, this was a working mill, complete with a mill race, weir and pool leading off the River Box, which runs through the garden. Features such as the swimming pool, built over the former mill race, and the terrace, path and steps in front of the house, were put in by their immediate predecessors. By the time the Bartletts arrived, however, there was plenty of scope for renewal and expansion. The garden at Polstead Mill covers around 4.5 hectares/11 acres and now includes a tree-fringed lawn and herbaceous borders near the house, and a kitchen garden, woodland and wildflower meadow reached by crossing either of the two bridges over the river.

Plant Palette

The garden is very much Lucy’s domain. She describes herself as a selfish gardener: ‘My parents were passionate gardeners, martyrs to their garden you could say. But I need the garden to do what I want, rather than it dictating how we live.’ While Richard supports Lucy wholeheartedly in this, he does not intervene in the garden except to pleach the limes.

Early on, Lucy attended classes run by Frances Mount, a legendary Polstead plantswoman who when young had gardened with Cedric Morris at Benton End, near Hadleigh. It was thanks to these tutorials that Lucy came to understand the plant palette that would work well here. But first things first – and this meant doing battle with some unwanted elements.

The initial assault was on 35 overgrown Leland cypresses (x Cuprocyparis leylandii) that, by dint of their girth, had effectively shrunk the informal lawn to a fraction of its size. The felled Leylands still have a place in ther garden, as Lucy recycled them almost immediately to replace the old footbridge that had floated away during a storm in the winter of 2002. Freeing up the informal lawn has made space for more shrubs and trees, which make a gentle curve along the line of the river, across the far edge of the lawn and back towards the pond. In the late spring and early summer the grass close to the road and riverbank is left unmown to froth with the white of cow parsley.

The Bartletts put in a better approach to the house, replaced all laurel hedges with beech, and gave the garden a consistent look by installing wooden gates and metalwork made to Lucy’s specifications by Lavenham Joinery and Gedding Mill forge. It was at this time that Lavenham garden designer Janey Auchincloss proved invaluable, for her ability to turn Lucy’s ‘scribbles’ into workable designs.

During this rebuild time the Bartletts restored many of the walls, as well as the main bridge over the River Box. On finding the newly renovated bridge suddenly too stark, Lucy felt wisteria would be the answer and bought several. It took six years for the plants to flower, and the Bartletts trim them back quite fiercely at regular intervals, but they always make a wonderful show in the early summer.

Foliage With Texture

Once the heavy work was done, Lucy could re-garden in earnest and concentrate on the herbaceous borders. She felt it was important to give the garden a ‘backbone’ by using structural plants, as well as a variety of foliage and texture. ‘I am relaxed about plants that become a bit wayward, providing there is an underlying structure,’ she says. The view from the kitchen takes in her flamboyant new plantings alongside the pond, a relic of the mill race. Lucy admits that the mix of purples, reds and yellows ‘is pure whimsy’, formed exclusively of plants she likes.

Although there is an emphasis throughout the garden on foliage and a green tapestry effect, Lucy confesses to loving once unfashionable but nonetheless bright and boisterous lupins, dahlias and hollyhocks before they began ‘trending’. She grows these in deep borders devoted to cut flowers in the Kitchen Garden.

This playfulness belies the fact that Lucy is secretly a ‘provisional catastrophist’ in the garden – she tries to future-proof important elements of it, an approach perhaps derived from her former career as a stockbroker. Waiting in the wings is a young specimen of a rare Polstead black cherry, ready to replace the mature tree that looked about to keel over in 2002 (but which, against the odds, is still going strong). Nor does Lucy want the garden to be a burden as time progresses. She prefers to anticipate change, even if it means contemplating a reduction in size. ‘At least if there is a good structure you can shrink down a border or two if necessary,’ she says.

It would be a tough call, though, as each party of the garden has its own character. The Yorkshire terrace in front of the house, softened by two lozenges of closely mown lawn, is a set piece combination of formality and gently flowing plant structure. Flights of steps with randomly self-seeding Alchemilla mollis sashay out from the terrace into the generally gravelled entrance court adjacent to the river. Against the house are ample borders where lines of box, shaped into cones, are softened by repeated Alchemilla mollis, other perennials, and roses including ‘Bonica’ and ‘Buff Beauty’. The house walls here are clad with rambling Rosa ‘Alberic Barbier’, whose apricot to lemon blooms perfume the air in summer.

Low brick walls surrounding the swimming pool and its garden make a sheltering backdrop on the outer side for new borders to frame the Terrace Garden. These are packed with mounding plants with softly purple or grey foliage and pastel flowers. The colour scheme continues around the pool, where the shape of stately cardoons is echoed in a silvery sculpture by Tom Hitchcock of Gedding Mill.

The Cook’s Garden

In 2009 the Bartletts began more extensive work to create the Kitchen Garden and stylish glasshouse. This plot of 0.4 hectares/1 acre is the heart of family life throughout the summer, and also an enjoyable social space for entertaining friends. For Lucy, it is the best ‘out-sourceable’ part of the garden and is where she is at her most hands-on: ‘I am the cook and therefore the kitchen gardener.’ She sows and plants according to what is needed as and when – large harvests in August and September, less in the quieter month of July. The red brick walls of the Kitchen Garden provide support for pears, apples and figs, while wood-edged raised beds arranged in clusters create an attractive area for food production. At the centre of each group of beds are customised metal containers inspired by the old-fashioned oval cake tins used by Lucy’s grandmother. These are perfect for herbs and strawberries. The Kitchen Garden’s bounty is either served up fresh or processed and preserved in various ways in the wellequipped kitchen behind the glasshouse.

Beyond the Kitchen Garden is a gently sloping wildflower meadow sown on the depleted soil of a former commercial strawberry field. The informal grove of pear trees, crab apples, nuts and apples is valued both for produce and blossom. Spring bulbs including Lilly of the valley, snowdrops and bluebells bloom in profusion here and in the woodland adjacent – although, as Polstead Mill lies in a frost pocket, they tend to emerge later than in other gardens. The meadow is where the children enjoy camping and is also the site of one of Lucy’s favourite garden seats, with a view across the wisteria-covered bridge to the house beyond. ‘It is so important to have places within the garden where I can sit without thinking I have to pull out weeds,’ she says. The temptation, though is never to sit down.

Lucy’s garden is open by appointment for the National Garden Scheme www.ngs.org.uk

This article is taken from Secret Gardens of East Anglia by Barbara Segall, £20 Frances Lincoln. Photography by Marcus Harpur.

Ingredients for Cooks – Lucy Bartlett

“My husband loves sun-dried tomatoes in industrial quantities and being a dedicated kitchen gardener and cook I wanted the best we could find. I sourced them from a particular outlet and that was that: we enjoyed them and purchased them in quantity. A few years later for various reasons we owned the company. We took it over as it fell on hard times and it was in danger of closing. So mine was an accidental route into this business.” But there is nothing accidental about how her involvement with Ingredients for Cooks has developed. Lucy is a perfectionist and wants products that home cooks are going to use to be delicious and affordable in the more-than-daily-shopping quantities that they need. No wonder the byline of the company is “Purveyors of Deliciousness, Sharing Delicious Food made that little bit Easier”. “I am looking for the products that families want to use and need to purchase at a good price because they use or eat it in an out-of-proportion quantity. If they purchased from the supermarket they would be out of pocket and as they are not in catering they can’t purchase wholesale… so Ingredients for Cooks is the half-way point between those two”. “Every family has something that they devour in this way: it could be Manchego cheese, Parmesan, frozen clotted cream portions or Tiptree jams – some of our most popular lines”. Lucy describes herself as a passionate foodie and gardener and Ingredients for Cooks ties in with her own cooking and baking interests… she bakes huge quantities of cake, biscuits, scones, brownies etc for her ‘By Appointment’ garden visitors (see article). And it was also the need for more than a supermarket-shop’s worth of flour, icing sugar, cooking chocolate etc, that led her to appreciate a better price point, but for quality products. “I want to offer items that I can vouch for, that are restaurant-quality for cooks that are as discerning as chefs, yet the pricing is just as affordable for events of scale such as weddings or simply for home dining”. There is great demand from home wedding caterers for cheeses to make towering cheese wedding cakes, and if you love cheese anyway, Ingredients for Cooks has access to some 18,000 cheeses. Lucy says that if there is something that you are particularly looking for get in touch as they have access to so many products beyond those that are regularly in stock. “One of our most popular lines is frozen avocados. These are sold halved so you can see the quality of them. And you can use what you need… no waste!”

Visit Ingredients for Cooks website www.ingredientsforcooks.co.uk

Interview by Barbara Segall

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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