IPSWICH STREET

Looking towards The Market Place. 1960s?

Looking towards town centre from The Dukes Head  from a 1930s postcard [Steve Williams]

HOWARDS

Ladies Outfitters

[Photo - Ashley Barnard]

Howards shop was the site of a fire in 1934. One result of the fire was that Stowmarket Town Fire Brigade purchased a new engine after The Needham Market Fire Brigade equipped with a more modern engine than Stowmarket's 1914 model was able to deal with the fire surprisingly quickly. 

H. C.  GOODING

H. C. Gooding's shop was at 20/22 Ipswich Street which was opposite the Fox Hotel. In this picture the shop is bedecked with flags & bunting etc. probably for the coronation of George V in 1920. There may well be some of H. Gooding's wares still  in Stowmarket. I know Steve Williams has one of their old bow-fronted cast-iron toilet cisterns, standing in his back garden.

SIMPSON STONEMASONS

A trade card showing Stowmarket Church in the background.

This Stonemasonry business was situated in Ipswich Street in Stowmarket and is first listed in a directory of 1839, the business was previously run by a George Tovell. It seems to have carried on until around 1935 and was taken over by Seamans, builders.

The Simpson House in Ipswich Street taken in 1919. The side view of the house below is not very clear but shows some pieces of masonry, possibly for grave kerb stones.

A tombstone was sent from Stowmarket to New Zealand on the death of Edward Simpson in 1877. The tombstone is still on the grave at the Riverton Cemetery in Southland NZ. It commemorates Edward Simpson b 1808 in Stowmarket and his wife Lucy Pleasance nee Hopson. They went to New Zealand in 1861, also commemorated are their son Charles Herbert Simpson and his wife Margaret

Stowmarket Local History Group
2009
email neil@stowman.plus.com