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Although the design of the Y7 originates from 1888, No. 985 as it was originally, was built at Darlington in 1923. A batch of 5 was turned out from Darlington in September 1923 and No. 985 - as it then was - was sent to Alexandra Dock Shed at Hull.
The dock had been opened up in the early years of the present century and was the only example of co-operation between two deadly rivals - the North Eastern and the Hull and Barnsley railways.
Eventually, the North Eastern took over the Hull and Barnsley in 1922 - much to the displeasure of many Hull people - and Alexandra Dock became a purely North Eastern preserve.
Now residing at the Mid Suffolk Light Railway, where she will be available for work from mid-April!
For more info on the MSLR, visit - www.mslr.org.uk/
Here's more than anyone needs to know about it ... www.railuk.info/members/steam/getsteam.php?row_id=19777 😁
19c Drawing by Cotman of the stolen brass of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett 1461-1531 "Here lyeth Sir Thomas Bleuerhayssette, Knyght, which decessyd the ryii Day of June, the Yere of our Lorde M yo rrri. and rrriii Yere of the Reigne of our Sobe raygne Lord Kyng Henry the viiith, whois Soule God Pardon".
Thomas was the son of John Blennerhassett d1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/005tn8 and first wife Margaret Heigham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/5947090482/
Thomas was the executor for Thomas, Duke of Norfolk in 1514. He lived at Frenze, and also Boyland Hall, Long Stratton. Son George left Frenze to his wife Margaret for her life and then to their heiress Mary m1 Thomas Culpepper m2 Francis Bacon - After the death of Francis it reverted to her half brother John
He m1 Jane Sutton.
Children
1. George 1501-1543 m Margaret Jermyn / Jernegan
2. Edward m Anne Cobbe
3. Mary m John Meux
He m2 Margaret d1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4M48ZE daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQi
Children
1. Thomas a priest
2. John of Barsham & Boyland m1 Elizabeth daughter of John Cornwallis and Elizabeth Sulyard www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9392340481/ (parents of Elizabeth Blennerhassett, bc.1537 who m 1561 Sir Lionel Throckmorton flic.kr/p/fDaHf7 son of Simon Throckmorton by Anne Louthe )
3. Elizabeth m1 Lionel Lowth m2 Francis Clopton m1 Lionel Lowthe / Louthe www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13925024374/ (grand daughter Anne Dade www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/527517488/ )
4. Agnes m Sir Anthony Rous 1545 of Dennington & Henham Hall
5. Anne d1577 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rqtQq9 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/65fy0D m1 George Duke m2 Peter Rede / Read of Gimingham
6. Margaret d1558 m1 John Spelman www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/P38o5L Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
7. Katherine m1 John Gosnold m2 Anthony Wingfield 1593
On his surcoat are the arms of Blenerhassett with the annulet, (which this branch always bare for difference,) with his quarterings, Lowdham, Orton, and Kelvedon / Keldon Under his head lies his crest - a fox passant.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
humphrysfamilytree.com/Blennerhassett/john.frenze.html
School Boy humour - Churchmans sign. Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
Copy of the stolen brass of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett 1461-1531 "Here lyeth Sir Thomas Bleuerhayssette, Knyght, which decessyd the ryii Day of June, the Yere of our Lorde M yo rrri. and rrriii Yere of the Reigne of our Sobe raygne Lord Kyng Henry the viiith, whois Soule God Pardon".
Thomas was the son of John Blennerhassett d1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/005tn8 and first wife Margaret Heigham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/5947090482/
Thomas was the executor for Thomas, Duke of Norfolk in 1514. He lived at Frenze, and also Boyland Hall, Long Stratton. Son George left Frenze to his wife Margaret for her life and then to their heiress Mary m1 Thomas Culpepper m2 Francis Bacon - After the death of Francis it reverted to her half brother John
He m1 Jane Sutton.
Children
1. George 1501-1543 m Margaret Jermyn / Jernegan
2. Edward m Anne Cobbe
3. Mary m John Meux
He m2 Margaret d1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4M48ZE daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQi
Children
1. Thomas a priest
2. John of Barsham & Boyland m1 Elizabeth daughter of John Cornwallis and Elizabeth Sulyard www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9392340481/ (parents of Elizabeth Blennerhassett, bc.1537 who m 1561 Sir Lionel Throckmorton flic.kr/p/fDaHf7 son of Simon Throckmorton by Anne Louthe )
3. Elizabeth m1 Lionel Lowth m2 Francis Clopton m1 Lionel Lowthe / Louthe www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13925024374/ (grand daughter Anne Dade www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/527517488/ )
4. Agnes m Sir Anthony Rous 1545 of Dennington & Henham Hall
5. Anne d1577 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rqtQq9 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/65fy0D m1 George Duke m2 Peter Rede / Read of Gimingham
6. Margaret d1558 m1 John Spelman www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/P38o5L Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
7. Katherine m1 John Gosnold m2 Anthony Wingfield 1593
On his surcoat are the arms of Blenerhassett with the annulet, (which this branch always bare for difference,) with his quarterings, Lowdham, Orton, and Kelvedon / Keldon Under his head lies his crest - a fox passant.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
humphrysfamilytree.com/Blennerhassett/john.frenze.html
St Mary, Friston, Suffolk
Friston is a medium-sized village out in the rolling fields beyond Saxmundham and Leiston which seems to have an air of quiet self-sufficiency about it. In 2010 I had been here on the hottest day of the year so far, nearing the end of a meandering bicycle tour of the north and east of Suffolk. The train at Saxmundham was an hour off, but I headed south again, from the Saxmundham to Leiston road, under the vast chain of power lines that links the Sizewell nuclear power station with the rest of the country. I recalled vividly coming this way back at the start of the century, on that occasion a darkening afternoon in late November. I had cut a swathe along roads which ran like streams. All around was water, after the wettest autumn for 250 years. The power lines sizzled and cracked as I threaded through the pylons and beneath them, the sound of 10,000 quintillion volts of nuclear-generated electricity urgently seeking the shortest possible path to the ground. This concentrated my mind somewhat, as you may imagine.
And now it was 2019 I was here in spring, the trees coming into leaf like something almost being said, and it took me a moment to recognise the lane up to the church, in its huddle of houses with the curiously urban hall opposite.
It must be said that the tower of St Mary is rather striking. The tower seems to be a Victorian rebuild, and quite a late one. Mortlock generously considers that it is an exact copy of what was there before. In all honestly, I would find this doubtful, if it were not for the fact that the architect was Edward Bishopp, a man not best remembered for his creative imagination. The most striking features are the niches, one in each buttress, and a possible rood group above the west window. This is a bit like the same at Parham and Cotton, and the buttresses like those at Wetheringsett, so they may be original, or perhaps just based on those other churches. The body of the church must be Norman originally, judging by the blocked north door, but there are so many late Perpendicular windows, I wonder if it wasn't entirely rebuilt retaining the doorway sometime in the early 16th century.
As with all the churches around here St Mary is open daily, an evocative and intimate space which you step down into to be confronted by the Parish of Friston's most famous possession. This is the massive James I coat of arms. It is fully eight feet wide and six feet high, carved from boards six inches thick. The story goes that it was found in pieces in the belfry by Munro Cautley during his trawl of Suffolk churches in the 1930s. In his capacity as Diocesan architect, he insisted that the churchwardens repair it, and restore it to its rightful place. However, since the chancel tympanum where it had hung had been removed by the Victorians, this presented the churchwardens with an interesting problem. So, they solved it by attaching the arms to the north wall of the nave, level with the tops of the pews, where it remains. it is not in great condition, but it is rather extraordinary to be able to see it at such close quarters.
The nave is long and narrow, under an arch-braced roof. The 19th century font stands on an upturned medieval one as its pedestal, with a rather good early 20th century font cover. At the other end of the church is something rather remarkable, an unspoiled late Victorian chancel. So many of these have been whitewashed in the last fifty years or so, but this is utterly charming, the walls painted and stencilled in pastel shades, and an ornate text running around the top of the walls. The finishing touch is Powell & Son's lush Risen Christ flanked by Mary and John in the east window. Another nice detail is the Mothers Union banner. Thousands of these were embroidered from kit form in the early 20th Century, but as at neighbouring Knodishall the one here has been customised with a hand-painted central image of the Blessed Virgin and child.
A memorial board reminds the parishioners of Friston that In the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the Reverend John Lambert bequeathed to the parish the sum of two hundred pounds, to be placed in the 3£ per cent consols, and the interest thereof to be distributed by the churchwardens every Christmas ___ for ever: to poor Housekeepers who should not for twelve months preceding have received Pay of the Parish. The word Day or Eve has been eradicated at some point, perhaps for legal reasons, possibly because of the difficulty of getting to the bank in Saxmundham on a public holiday.
Two hundred pounds was a fairly large amount of money in 1811, roughly equivalent to forty thousand pounds today, and for ever must have seemed an enticing prospect. However, consols were effectively bonds, their value remaining the same but offering a guaranteed return (in this case three per cent) based on the perceived annual growth in the economy. Like endowment mortgages, they would turn out to be a fairly short-sighted enthusiasm. The safe return from consols came to an end as a result of the great depression of the 1870s and 1880s, and inflation thereafter reduced such holdings to almost nothing. The Reverend Lambert would have been better off investing in land or gold, but such is the gift of hindsight, of course.
The original Brockford railway station on the Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Date unknown
Photograph: Ian 10B. Friday 24 August 2012
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
'Wissington' (ex-British Sugar Corporation) 0-6-0ST (Hudswell Clarke 1700 of 1938), arriving at Brockford & Wetheringsett Station with an afternoon service, on 26-5-2014.
Wilby railway station, Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Date unknown
Photograph: Ian 10B. Friday 24 August 2012
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
Falmouth Docks No.4 waits between trains at Brockford & Wetheringsett station during the recent Middy at War event.
Copy of the stolen brass of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett 1461-1531 "Here lyeth Sir Thomas Bleuerhayssette, Knyght, which decessyd the ryii Day of June, the Yere of our Lorde M yo rrri. and rrriii Yere of the Reigne of our Sobe raygne Lord Kyng Henry the viiith, whois Soule God Pardon".
Thomas was the son of John Blennerhassett d1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/005tn8 and first wife Margaret Heigham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/5947090482/
Thomas was the executor for Thomas, Duke of Norfolk in 1514. He lived at Frenze, and also Boyland Hall, Long Stratton. Son George left Frenze to his wife Margaret for her life and then to their heiress Mary m1 Thomas Culpepper m2 Francis Bacon - After the death of Francis it reverted to her half brother John
He m1 Jane Sutton.
Children
1. George 1501-1543 m Margaret Jermyn / Jernegan
2. Edward m Anne Cobbe
3. Mary m John Meux
He m2 Margaret d1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4M48ZE daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQi
Children
1. Thomas a priest
2. John of Barsham & Boyland m1 Elizabeth daughter of John Cornwallis and Elizabeth Sulyard www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9392340481/ (parents of Elizabeth Blennerhassett, bc.1537 who m 1561 Sir Lionel Throckmorton flic.kr/p/fDaHf7 son of Simon Throckmorton by Anne Louthe )
3. Elizabeth m1 Lionel Lowth m2 Francis Clopton m1 Lionel Lowthe / Louthe www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13925024374/ (grand daughter Anne Dade www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/527517488/ )
4. Agnes m Sir Anthony Rous 1545 of Dennington & Henham Hall
5. Anne d1577 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rqtQq9 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/65fy0D m1 George Duke m2 Peter Rede / Read of Gimingham
6. Margaret d1558 m1 John Spelman www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/P38o5L Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
7. Katherine m1 John Gosnold m2 Anthony Wingfield 1593
On his surcoat are the arms of Blenerhassett with the annulet, (which this branch always bare for difference,) with his quarterings, Lowdham, Orton, and Kelvedon / Keldon Under his head lies his crest - a fox passant.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1...
humphrysfamilytree.com/Blennerhassett/john.frenze.html
There is a standard pattern Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone in the cemetery extension at Wetheringsett, Suffolk.
4355 Private
C.A. MILES
Suffolk Regiment
3rd December 1916 Age 29
That soldier on CWGC is:
MILES, CHARLES ALBERT
Rank:………………..Private
Service No:………….4355
Date of Death:………03/12/1916
Age:………………….29
Regiment:…………...Suffolk Regiment, 4th Bn.
Grave Reference:……North of main path.
Cemetery:
WETHERINGSETT (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Additional Information:
Son of Charles and Charlotte Miles, of 90, Ipswich Rd., Pettaugh, Stowmarket.
CWGC: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/397254/MILES,%20CHARL...
On both the Village War Memorial and the Church War Memorial he is recorded as Bertie Miles.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private 4355 Bertie Miles Died of Wounds on the 3rd December 1915 whilst serving with the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. No place of birth or residence is shown. He enlisted at Eye, Suffolk.
The Medal Index Card for Private 4355 Bertie Miles, Suffolk Regiment, is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/13/230179
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D4043854
He qualified for the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. There is no additional information on his Medal Index Card.
His Service Records do not appear to have survived the Blitz in 1941.
The Government Probate Service holds a Soldiers Will for “H355” Bertie Miles who died on the 3rd December 1916.
probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Wills?Surname=Miles&Surn...
1887 – Birth
The birth of a Charles Albert Miles was registered in the Bosmere District of Suffolk in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1887.
1891 Census of England and Wales
The 3 year “Berty” Miles, born Debenham, Suffolk, was recorded living at a dwelling on Fen Street, Winston, Suffolk with his parents Charles, (aged 34, Agricultural Labourer, born Little Stonham, Suffolk), and “Charlott”, (aged 32, born Brockford, Suffolk). As well as Berty, their other children are:-
Eliza……..aged 8……born Earl Stonham, Suffolk
John……..aged 7…….born Earl Stonham, Suffolk
Herbert….aged 1…….born Debenham, Suffolk
1901 Census of England and Wales
The Miles family were recorded living at a dwelling “Near Thorpe Hall”, Ashfield, Suffolk. Along with parents Charles, (42, Horseman on Farm) and Charlotte, (39), were children John, (15), Bertie, (13), Herbert, (11), Arthur, (9, born Winston, Suffolk), Edith, (5, born Winston, Suffolk) and Mary, (1, born Ashfield, Suffolk).
1911 Census of England and Wales
The 23 year old Bertie, single and a Horseman on Farm, was recorded living with his married brother John, (26, Horseman on Farm), sister-in-law Florence, (24, born Brundish, Framlingham, Suffolk) and their two children at Ipswich Road, Combs, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
His parents were recorded living at Pages Green, Wetheringsett, nr Stowmarket. Parents Charles, (53) and Charlotte, (49), have been married 30 years and have had 9 children, of which 8 were then still alive. Children living with them are Herbert Fredrick, (20, Agricultural Labourer), and Arthur William, (19, Agricultural Labourer) and Mary Jane, (11).
On the day
The death of a Bertie Miles, aged 29, was recorded in the St Giles District of London in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1916.
The new Brockford railway station on the Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
(The new) Brockford railway station sign, the Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
We were at The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway at Wetheringsett, and found this beauty parked outside of one of the workshops
She is an Isorivolta Lele 5.8cc V8 coupe
Middy Real Ale Bar at (new) Brockford railway station, Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. We of course found time to sample a pint :) Friday 24 August 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
0-4-0ST "Little Barford" at the water tower at Brockford & Wetheringsett on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway, May 2005.