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Village Life 1965 | Village Life 1840 -1914 | ||
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 (Approved) |
Packing Shed land opposite Pikes Marsh (Approved) |
Persimmon Development on the land to the rear of Friends Field (Approved) | 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 (Approved) | Colchester Rd Garage demolision and development (Approved) | |
Bank House, Proposed Coffee Shop (Approved) | Woodyard, Cuckoo Hill - Chnage of use (active) | |
Colchester Rd, Garage, Residential (Approved) | Sale of land adjacent to the river, Colchester Road (Approved) | |
Sale of Agricultural land to the left of Normandie Way (approved) | Change of use of Agricultural Buildings to Residentail at Ferriers 2023( Refused) | |
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Proposed Development at Ferriers 2021 (See application 2023)) |
Bures
Development, |
Chambers
Bus Site, Residential Properties(Approved) March 2024 Plans revised |
AppleTreeMews, Development (approved, waiting completion) |
Woodyard, Cuckoo Hill - Change of use (active. Nov 2024) | ||
History
Bures Hamlet |
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B | Butlers Farm | |||
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F | Ferriers
Barn It`s History |
Ferriers Manorial Court | ||
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L | 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) |
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3 | 3 Ways Cafe Fire |
History Bures St Mary |
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B | Bank House, Bridge Street | |||
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Chambers Fire 1928 | Cuckoo Barn | Chambers Bus site sold | |
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Dunstead,
Sudbury Rd Major update August 2017 |
Samuel Death, Blacksmith | ||
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P | Property
Sale 1898 |
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P | Police House | |||
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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 |
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Bures
Common
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Bures
Common 2011 > present
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New building for the Common |
Mount
Bures
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History
Misc |
Bures Home Guard | What came after the Night Soil Man | Bures Token | |
Hydraulic Rams | First Coffee House in Bures | Stanley Deaves, Builders | Life in Bures 1965 |
Waldegraves | Wormingford Hall & Church | Waldegraves
and St Mary`s |
Waldegraves and The Mayflower | Waldegraves Family Tree |
Puritans
& the Mayflower inc Ferriers |
Ferriers
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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 | Carenza Lewis on The Common | |||
Listed
Buildings
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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 House (all) | Eight Bells Public House | One Bell PH |
Eight Bells Refurbisment 1974 | One Bell Little Cornard |
Europa |
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"The
Great Orchard or Nursery Field"
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History of the Land to the rear of Friends Field | |
(2014 renamed Pikes
Marsh)
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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
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Workhouses
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Removal of the Poor to the Midlands |
Gainsborough Rail Line |
The Decline of Bures Station | |||
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 |
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 |
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 |
Queen Elizabeth 11, Coronation 1953 | Coronation |
Services
to the Community
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Ferriers Barn | Bures Grammar School |
Bures Primary School extensions |
Winston
Churchill
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TV
Celebrities visit Bures
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Carenza Lewis | |
Paul Heiney |
Notable
Village Folk
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Old Major (Arthur Whiting) |
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More characters | ||
Village news | Police Helicopter lands | ||
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 |
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September
2017, Frances Hart from Portland, Origon, USA Tracing her ancestors, the Harlackenden and De-Vere family.l More Information |
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your say
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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 |
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