Nostalgia

This is the earliest image of this view, which includes the Norman Tower, St James’ Church and Samson’s Tower in the foreground. The nave of St James’ was given the gabled roof in 1864. Samson’s Tower was converted into the Will Office, with new ‘Norman’ windows, and the avenue of trees planted in 1863.

The Bury St Edmunds Pageant of Magna Carta was the inspiration of the Mayor of Bury St Edmunds, Cllr Frederick George Banks, supported by a committee of local councillors and community leader.

From at least 1836 until June 1866, Westgate House, in Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, was a private school run by Sarah Ann Winkfield.

This is a picture of Bury St Edmunds’ St Mary’s Church west front, with the largest west window of any parish church.

The building under reconstruction has been vacated by Henry King, ‘haberdasher, hosier, Birmingham and Sheffield goods warehouseman’.

A late 1920s or early 1930s photograph looking down Churchgate Street.