Ipswich, Cemetery Road, Suffolk, England UK

cemetery road
ipswich suffolk england
(1960's By Memory and Responses We Have Received)

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The Neighbours:

TO WOODBRIDGE ROAD

CEMETERY ROAD
'LITTLE' CEMETERY ROAD:

..1 - MCKENZIE;

..9 - BRADLEY;

... - REEVE GENERAL STORE; George (corner Christchurch St)
CEMETERY ROAD:

Here are Blanche St & Samuel Rd.
Here is Hervey St.

38 - TAYLOR; (kept General Store & Greengrocers, next to newsagent)

40 - HALL; Bert and Winnie (Bungalow, owner General Store)

41 - PULHAM; Margaret (across from newsagent)

42 - GROVER; Dougie

44 - CATCHPOLE; Albert, Mary, and David

46 - GAMMAGE; Ely

48 - BEECROFTS; George & Peggy, Paul (Dec S.Africa), Russell

49 - WARNER; Daphne

50 - MORGAN; Cliff(Dec) & Ruth(Dec), Yvonne, Brian, Keith
Here is Finchley Rd.

51-53 - KEEBLE; (Ran Off-Licence, next to Warner)

.. - AIREYS; Phyllis (dec) and Ray

58 - RUDGE; Gordon

60 - LEEK; Rita (Watts), Marjorie (Driver)

.. - THURLOW; Ivan & Lily

62 - WINCUP; Ivy

65 - GARROD; (opposite Finchley Rd)

66 - SMITH; Doris, Diane, Joy

67 - SHEPHERD; Barry, Colin, (across from Finchley Rd)

.. - HUDSON; Jeffrey

69 - TABER; Yvonne

.. - SPINKES SWEET SHOP; (corner of Finchley Rd)

73 - SAWYER; Bob (across street from Leek)

77 - GRAHAM; June & Grandmother (across street from Leek)

.. - GLANFIELD;

79 - MACEY;

.. - OXENHAM; Jillian (flats)

.. - FELGATE; Melvin(flats)

.. - CULLUM; Ada (married and living in Coleman St), John, Frank, Tony
Here is Finchley Rd.

.. - EADY; Sandra (corner Finchley and Cemetery Rd next to stonemason)

120 - LAVALLE; Margaret, Joyce, Ada, (across from Suffolk Rd)

122 - THORPE; Ada, John and George

132 - BARKER; Billy (corner of Hayhill Rd)
Here is Hayhill Rd.

133 - WRIGHT; David

... - CAMEL;

... - WHEELER; Mary & Fred (deceased), Latisha

... - SMITH; David

142 - TITLOW; Mr & Mrs (deceased), Son & Daughter Now living there
Here is Suffolk Rd.

154 - SHAMANS

155 - HOLE; Gwen and Michael

... - MCGUIRE; Paddy

157 - BUCKLEDEE; Marion

168 - BARBER; Doug, Sid

171 - Fox, (part owner of a paper shop in Fore Street now part of Martin Newby iron mongers)

172 - HEWITTS; Phillis and Sid

174 - SCOTTS; David

174 - later SINGH;

175 - GRANT; Rose (Granlund), Brian

176 - WRIGHT, Pamela (Wowk)

176 - later HARMON; Edie and Jack (d. 30 Sep 00, aged 81)(gnomes in backyard)

178 - CLARK; Brian, Pearl

180 - WASH; Edna Muriel Minna (nee Ward), Ashley Charles, Pickles (Deanna), Biddy (Wendy), Edie (Edna), Peggy (Alfie), Doreen, Kate (Pansy), Sylvia Jean (Podge), Don. Go to: Andre Grimwood

181 - EDMUNDS; Beryl (married Jimmy Faulkner in 1956, lives in Abilene, Texas, USA)

182 - JARRETT; Audrey (d. Apr 2007), & Reginald (d. 1986), Maureen(Tansey) (married to Jim, living in Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA), Graham, Robert, Anthony

183 - BARNES; - Frank & Margaret (2nd Wife), Muriel, Olive (Johnson), Percy, Phyllis (Wepner), Doris (Bass(married Margaret's son) (2 houses down from Peck)

184 - LONG; Daisy & Fred, Janice, Tracey (GDaughter), John, Ann,

186 - BURRELL; Mr & Mrs, Barbara (Married to Bill Quentin), Pat, Brian, Sylvia
187 - FROST; (Parents Dec) Richard and John

... - PECK; Peter, Steven

... - LEGATE;

188 - KING; Brian (now lives in Florida)

188 - then CROUCHER, Gordon & May, Gary and Russell

189 - CULLUM;

190 - BENNETT; Ada May, children Evelyn, Ray, & Ron father of twins (b: 1954) David, & Susan

191 - SMIES (SMY); J(G)erry & wife, 2 sets of twins, son and daughter, Kathleen and son Kevin (Father died at age 97, was a sailor) - (Next House to Wiles)

192 - SCRUTTON; Jim, Phyllis, sister Queenie (moved to Suffolk Rd)

193 - WILES; (Mother) - (Across road from 176, next to 'brickey')

194 - SMY; Stanley, (191)-Harold(?), Mother & Father

196 - WILES; Gordon, Sheila (4 children) also HEWITT, Ingred, Sharon

198 - HOOD; Eileen (Brown), Joan, Daphne, Robin, Derek

198 - then - NELSON; Linda (after Hood's)

200 - COLEMAN;

202 - LaVALLE;

204 - HERESHAM; Mr and Mrs

206 - BOWMAN; Mr and Mrs

208 - CORNISH; Mrs, (gave piano lessons), 'Tots' (housekeeper)

210 - BARKER; John 'Jack' Holland Barker & Eileen May Callow Barker (1st wife), children: Hilda Barker (Carswell)(dec) and daughter Patricia Singleton(Jandt); Dennis Barker (lives in Doncaster); Brenda Barker (McNeil)(d. Jan 27 2008); Maureen Barker (Keeble)(dec)
John Holland Barker & Doreen (2nd wife); children: Wendy (Guimont); Jennifer; Jack (dec); Charles (dec); Bernard 'Bunny'

212 - WESTON; Mrs, Iris (Goring), Shirley (Iris's daughter, married an American living in Maryland, USA)
CEMETERY ROAD (ADDRESS UNKNOWN):

BUTLER; Pat;

BOONE; David;

WHEELER; Mrs, Theresa;

WRIGHTS;

ROBERTS; Charlie;

CARLEY; Peter

GOULD; Syd and Kitty (Park Butchers with shops in Orford St, Blanche St & St Margaret's Plain until mine dropped)

NEERS; Billy

MARSHALL;

REASON; 2 sons

ROZIER;

COE; Charlie

LUMPKIN;

COOKS; Joe and Chris

GRUMBERG; Robert

GUNUSKO; John

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CEMETERY GATE

Cemetery House - GROOM; Father was Supt of Cemetery, Vera, Zena, Joan, Pearl, Basil, Neville, Ray and Stella

Cemetery House then - REEVES; Ann (married Ipswich Town Football Player)
CEMETERY

NEIGHBOUR STREETS:
BLANCHE STREET

1 - BULLARD; Lillian (Grandmother), Sheila (Bullard) Wilson, Lynda Wilson, Donald Wilson (Now Flats)

3 - GORHAM;

5 - BROOM;

9 - LAUGHLINS; Christine

. - SMITHS BUTCHERS; then GOULD'S

. - CARTERS OFF-LICENCE; (Corner Little Cemetery Rd)

. - LYONS; Bobby
HAYHILL ROAD:

Four detached houses below at top of hill:
- NORMAN; Mr & Mrs, Pam, Alan later STEWARD; Mr & Mrs, Christine, Elizabeth, Sandra

- LOWES; Mr & Mrs, Tony, Daughter later couple with baby

40 - WATTS; Mr & Mrs, Kathleen, Margaret

- JACOB; Mr & Mrs, Jenny, Daughter, then OVERTON;

27 - FISHER; Charles, Doris (Roberts) (1935-1936)

29 - MORTIMER; Mr & Mrs

31 - DALES; Mr & Mrs, Bronwyn (Reeves), Owen

CULLEN; Frank, John;

TRENTER; Gloria(Driver);

SIMPSON; Carol(Rodriguez), Sue; Billy

GRAINGER; Wendy & Jackie (big hill faced you looking up from Cemetery Rd)

- ILOTTS; Mr & Mrs
- UNKNOWN; Charlie, Dawn, David

- MARJORAM; Mr & Mrs, Peter

- DOOLEY; Mr & Mrs, Paul, & Sons

- DONOVAN; Keith

- SIMPSON; Mr & Mrs, Dinky

- COLLINS; Mr & Mrs & Daughters

- BILLINGHAM; Pat Married Paul Seidel (top of road back of Hayhill Rd houses)(Then Finchley Rd)

BRAME;
FINCHLEY ROAD:

3 - PEARCE; Jack, Alice, Rhona, Alf, Frank, Orris, Fred, Russell (Until abt 1940)

4 - JACKSON; William

5 or 7 - JEWELL; Bob & Doris (The Case is Altered Pub Landlady)(1930's), Pauline

6 - LITTLE; Dolly (Dec 99) & Fred (Dec 91), Gillian (Thailing), Linda (Wyartt)

7 - WEBSTER; Jim (dec) & Christine, Jim, Michael, Janice & Terry

8 - WILES; Laura

9 - COOK; Dolly, Russell, John, Marian, David, Amanda

10 - MANNING; Hebert & Alice

11 - POTTER; Mr & Mrs and Cedric

12 - PRATT; Frank, Betty, Nicholas and Carolyn

13 - AULT; Bill, Annie, Ray, John and Jean

14 - PILBOROUGH; William

15 - ELLISTONS; Doreen (Naomi Sprieser in 2006)

20 - THIMBLETHORPE; Ida

24 - OXLADE; William

24 - ALCOCK: Shirley, Ron, Lorraine (Alexander-Bartlett), Michael, Sheila, Robert

26 - WEBB; Ronnie, Jack, Molly, Pansy, Margaret & Pam (to US in 50's dec) (top of 1st hill facing down to Cemetery Rd)

44 - WOODCOCKS; Mr & Mrs, Cynthia

46 - BACKHURST; Lionel and Doris, Anthony, Linda (Richardson)(Until 1970)

47 - GILLINGS; Barry and Gerald

52 - KEMP; Jennifer and Mum and Grandmother

54 - FISHER; Charles, Doris (Roberts) (1938-abt 1941 next to KEMPS)

60 - PECK; William, son Doug, 7 others

58 - SOUTHGATE; Emma and George

65 - FARROW; Ernest (till 1937)

.. - MARSHALL; Shirleym (Left side corner going down hill No 69?)

70 - COLLINS; Terry, Sheila and Michael

77 - FISHER; Charles, Doris (Roberts)(1933)

82 - CUNNELL; Mr and Mrs

86 - TALBOT; Lil (deceased) and Frank, Margaret, Jean and Peter

98 - MOREY; Dora and Chris

102 - BREWER; Gloria

102 - BOLDING; Arthur, Edith (Roberts) (late 30's ?)

104 - SHARPE; Henry, Freddie

106 - OSBOURNE; Margaret & Terry(top of road back of Hayhill Rd houses)

- BILLINGHAM; Pat Married Paul Seidel (top of road back of Hayhill Rd houses)

- DRIVER; Christine, Malcolm, Donald(Donny)?(dec), June

- COOK; Janet, Terry (Undertaker), and Brian (married Sheila Collins)

- FITCHES;

- HARVEY;

- BLOOMFIELD; Steven

- SMITH; Dora

- BROWN; Alf

120 - ROBERTS; James, Ada (1909-1952

122 - ROBERTS; (Unknown Date)

- ADAMS; Michael and Molly, Donna

- SCOGGINS; Margaret and David, Stephen, Susan, Linda

- LEEKS; Wendy and Terry, Stephen, Neil, Robin

- COX;

- Thompson;

- BECKETTES; Gary, Nigel

- BARBER; Mrs (Abt 1917)

- GILLING; Barry & Gerald (opposite Collins)
SAMUEL ROAD:

14 - BUTCHER; Bertie & Sarah

18 - THORPE; Barry

22 - ROSHER; Henry 'Harry' William & Dorothy May, Brian, Sylvia, Alan

37 - BARKER; Mr & Mrs

39 - SEWELL; Robert & Rhona, Janice & Margaret(rented fm SINGLETONS UNTIL 1970)

39 - SINGLETONS Undertakers

62 - WINCUP; Harry

- ELSWORTHY; John (runs post office Felixstowe Rd)

- HARRIS; Mr & Mrs, Keith, Janice, Cheryl, Jasmine

- EVANS; Mr & Mrs, (Tom SPAULDING & Granny), Monica, Bridget (no electricity in 1970, air raid shelter in garden

- REED; Mabel, Dougie, Roger

- PALLANT; Mr & Mrs

- BEER; Mrs

- METCALF; Len (owned Fish & Chip)

- BESFORD; Mr & Mrs

- BERT HALLS Paper Shop; Mr & Mrs Gibbons

- GUTHRIE; Mr & Mrs

- HARRIS; Mr & Mrs, Keith, Janice, Cheryl, Jasmin (Date Unknown)

- ST JOHN'S Ambulance Hall
SAMUEL COURT:

- GUTHRIE; Mrs (1980's)

- PECK, ???
HERVEY STREET:

26 - Whayman, Victor Edward, Eustace
SUFFOLK ROAD:

19 - TURNER; Archie and Maude, Doris, Gladys, Audrey and June

- SCHULEN; Shirley and Jill, Collin Hollowbone (stepbrother)

- ANDREWS; Prop: Mr & Mrs MAYHEW, Gillian (General Store corner Suffolk Rd and Tuddenham Ave)

- CULF; (Fish & Chip Shop opp corner General Store)

- LAITS; Roz, Rita, Margaret and Tommy (all girls in US ?)
TUDDENHAM AVENUE:

64 - BROWN; John and 3 brothers

- SHANK'S BAKERY; Grenville & Valerie

- GLEEDS DAIRY; Jill (across from bakery)

- DUNN, Janice
COBBOLD STREET:

- FRAMPTON, Joan (Shilling),Cyril(husband), (daughter)
NORFOLK ROAD:

19 - NUNN, Ivy & Fred

46 - Mr ADAMS & PHILLIPS; Betty

49 - HALL

51 - MACEY, Terry

53 - Gallant

- BLOOMFIELD;

- SYMOND; John
LACEY STREET:

37 - MAYHEW; Kathryn (Valente)

- HORNE; Albert (Before his marriage in 1950, born in Hervey Street, his father another Albert and his father Ambrose lived in Finchley Road. I, Albert Horne, lived at 8 Cemetery Road for 10 years)
WOODBRIDGE ROAD (Bottom):

229 - MURRELL, Gavin (until 1971 adjacent to Hobson's Dairy (Both demolished then)
STREET/ADDRESS UNKNOWN:

- SUTTON, Jimmy;

- JACOBS (Salmon) Christine;

- BILLINGHAM, Pat

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DO YOU REMEMBER:
'The Brickey', 'Tire on Rope Swing in Brickey', 'Allotments', 'Copper (to Heat Water)', 'Filling galvanized bath tub with hot water for bath', 'Wooden Toilet in WC', No Heat/Hot Water', 'Coal Delivery in a Sack (Coal Heat)', 'Banking the Coal Burning Fireplace', 'Fish & Chips Wrapped in Newspaper with Malt Vinigar', 'Flooded Basements', 'Bomb Shelters (didn't need a fridge)', 'Co-Op Deliveries', 'Milk Floats, 'Shillings and Pence', 'Gas Lights no Electicity', 'Gas Streetlights', 'Black and White Tele', 'Man On Bicycle Selling Harwich Shrimp', 'The Paper and Sweet Shops', No Fridge or Ice', Daily Shopping Downtown', 'Shilling for Electric Meter', 'Toad in the Hole', 'Accumulator for Wireless (recharge at Boddey & Page's, corner of Cobbold St)', 'Walking behind Horse & Cart Picking Up 'Poo' to Use on Allotment', 'Plums & greengages', 'National health glasses the frames were pink for girls and I believe blue for boys', 'British RAF plane crashing in the brickey 1950's', Coronation street party and Coronation Beaker' 'Live lit candles and pencils and hankies on Christmas trees, 'St Helens school (I think!)', 'Christchurch Secondary Modern School for Girls', Little Shop (Gibbons I believe) at the junction of Cemetery and Samuel Roads as it was then', Pork Cheese (yuk)', 'Bobbie Light (front-white/back-red) or Hurricane Lamp painted red on one side, for parking at night, 'Samual Road now Samual Court', 'Sugar Mice on the Christmas trees', 'Listening to Church bells on a Sunday morning', Milk Float Pulled by Horse (Used to feed horse bread)', 'Shrimp man ringing bell', 'Sand bags for constant flooding', 'Kerridge's Shop corner Finchley and Cemetery Rd, for fresh bread', 'Tin baths hanging outside kitchen walls', 'Scrumping on the allotments'... Let's have some more memories!!!

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Contributers to This Site
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Audrey Jarrett
Jim & Maureen (Jarrett) Tansey
Graham, Robert & Anthony Jarrett
Wendy (Barker) Guimont
Bernard 'Bunny' Barker
Deanna 'Pickles' (Wash) Norris
Eileen (Hood) Brown
Patricia (Berry) Burger
Jane (Haywood) Yanko
Margorie Driver
CJ Jandt
Barbara (Smy) Roberts
Kathy Layendecker
Marion Bupp
Pat Baker
Sue Bomyea
Louise Barber
Ernest Farrow
Janet Tarlton
Rose (Grant) Granlund
Gerry Smy, 7 Allenby Rd, Ipswich IP2 OEN
Stella Webb, 4 Whitney Rd, Ipswich IP4 4AE
Aidan Semmens/Dave Kindred, Internet Ed, Ipswich Evening Star
Margaret (Talbot) Broom
Russell and Margaret Pope
Gillian (Little) Thailing
Kathryn Valente
Norman Fisher
Albert Horne
Aldwyn Jones
Gavin Murrll
Richard Frost
Pat (Bragg) Mayo
Rita Otahal
Linda (Backhurst) Richardson
Doug Peck
David Bennett
Mac Clarke
Irene Rook
Bronwyn (Dale)Reeves
Alan Rosher

INTERESTING LINKS

Alan Rosher, Samuel Rd, Pic's

Alan Pubs, New and Old, Stoke Pic's, and much more...Great Ipswich Site

Borin Van Loon's Ipswich Historic Lettering Page...very much in the local history spirit of Ipswich

Ernest Purr's children, Dennis and Vera, outside the shop in Cemetery Road, Ipswich about 1911. Ernie Purr started work as a photographer in Sudbury. After his marriage, he moved to Ipswich and ran the grocery store, pictured below, which was bombed out during the war.

Memories of William Ault, Finchley Rd, Born 1899 - Died 2000 (Evening Star Article)

Memories of Joan Pettit of Taunton Road, Felixstowe. Memories of the war and mine explosion 1940 (Dave Kindred Spirits, Evening Star Article)

Article by Doris Frost From kindred Spirits.

Article by Irene Rook From kindred Spirits.

Dave Kindred, Picture Editor of the Evening Star. Visit his 'Kindred Spirits' pages of old memories and pictures of Ipswich submitted by readers. Add your memories to his pages by E-Mail.

Elmy Cycle, 62-64 St. Helens St.

Cemetery Road V-Day in Europe Party's w/picture, from Kindred Spirits.

Charles Norfolk and Ethel Brunning, 1911 ".....and for several evenings toured the town looking for a house. Glancing down from high ground on the last evening he noticed that all the houses in Cemetery Road were lit up except one, number 156. Enquiries revealed it to be vacant and he was successful in getting the tenancy.

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