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Entrance to Buttermarket Ipswich from the Princes Street end circa 1930s. Source: IpswichStar

Entrance to Buttermarket Ipswich from the Princes Street end circa 1930s. Source: IpswichStar

Ipswich 1929: Jim & Polly (Part 6 of 10)

January 20, 2017

I can only imagine how Alice must have felt when she received each of these letters. Was her heart racing to hear news from back home? Did she unfold them quickly? Unwrap them slowly? Caress the paper as her friends shared details of their lives and those she left behind? How I wish I had the letters she had written in response! This delightful letter is filled with more changes to Ipswich and more.

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Image source: University of Leicester special collections.

Image source: University of Leicester special collections.

Ipswich: Jim & Polly (Part 5 of 10) 1927 Ipswich

January 10, 2017

Another lovely letter from Jim Witter from 1927 covering more changes in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. What a surge of growth! In the course of researching this letter I discovered even more about Jim Witter & his children (step-children!) and got completely sidetracked with the Harvey family. It happens. Family history is full of forks in the road and fascinating discoveries...

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Ipswich: Jim & Polly Witter (Part 4 of 10) 1924-1925

November 28, 2016

An empty envelope (well almost), a Christmas card, and news of more neighbors deaths from Ipswich 1925, including the town clerk struck by a truck. I do wonder what happened in Ipswich in 1924... 

Somewhere there is a letter looking for this 13 July 1924 envelope, at least, I hope so. To send only a name and address seems most curious given how chatty Mr. Witter tends to be. Hopefully the letter will appear...

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