Times Remembered

Sharing My Past

Some present and former villagers have contributed village memories and accounts of their lives in times past.

We include these without alteration or addition so as to show life in bygone days through their eyes. They make fascinating reading.

Any photographs relating to the stories or people involved would be gratefully received.

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Music and Lyrics by Sue Crowe
Female Duo, Linda Spencer and Sue Crowe, also featuring bagpipes playing 'Skye Boat Song', “Christmas Hill’ tells the story of young couple who were torn apart by WW2 and their last meeting at the Lakenheath railway station before he goes off to war. He loses his life during the D Day Landings and word of his death never reaches her until many years later.
Inspiration for the song came to Sue as she drove over the railway crossing at Lakenheath, Suffolk and saw the sign for Christmas Hill Farm. In the three mile journey to her home in Lakenheath village, Sue, one half of the Wing Song duo with Linda Spencer, had written the song. Remembering the story of how piper Bill Millin played on Sword Beach during the D Day landings,

Vocals: Sue Crowe, Linda Spencer (Wing Song)
Bagpipes: Ross Montgomery
Violin: Jim Martin
Synth: Sue Crowe
Written and produced by Sue Crowe
Mixed and Mastered at Sick Room Studio
©2024 Sue Crowe

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ROBERT ROLPH

Lakenheath Life

CYRIL MATTHEWS

My Story

Life story of Herbert Coleman
stepfather to Cyril Matthews

LAKENHEATH STATION & SIGNAL BOX

Publication from Great Eastern Journal
No.72 1992
Supplied by Roy Silverlock.

Video
The last time the gates were closed by hand,
Scot Turner before automation 2012
Supplied by Thomas Clayton / Lakenheath Heritage Group

JEFFERY FLINT

Lakenheath Halt Signal Box Removal 4th Sept 2021
& Photographs

PAT RISSEN

A Lakenheath Lad

Jack Coleman, My Life Notes

MEMORIES OF A LAKENHEATH LAND GIRL

Oral History interview with a Lakenheath Land Girl
Reproduced by kind permission of Suffolk County Council and Suffolk Record Office, Bury St. Edmunds.

JOE C MORLEY

War Work 1939-1946

Lakenheath

MARIE LAFLIN

The wonderful memories of life growing up in Lakenheath in the 1940’s and beyond. Stories include home, school, work, village life, RAF, POW’s, US servicemen and of course sugarbeet syrup pudding!

Reproduced by kind permission of Suffolk County Council and Suffolk Record Office, Bury St. Edmunds. Reference in the recording is made to the Lakenheath WI Scrapbook, 1965: Record Office ref. SROB/GH503/35/15.

ROBERT KIDNER

A Suffolk Village in the 1930's
Erattum - for Prew read Prewer

Upbringing During Wartime Years

MARY TURNER