Historic Images

This gallery contains a selection of images, paintings and old photos that we have gathered over the past few years. We have tried to show them in the order of the locations shown, starting at Stowmarket and heading down river.

001 Old Pickerel Foot Bridge, Stowmarket

002 Pickerel Bridge, Stowmarket

003 River Gipping, Stowmarket

004 Navigation Wharf near the Gas Works

005 Malthouses and overgrown river.

006 Station Road Bridge, Stowmarket

007 Boats For hire on the Gipping, Stowmarket.

008 Floods near the Pickerel Inn

009 Gun Cotton Factory Explosion

010 Gun Cotton explosion

011 Gun Gotton Explosion

012 Silk Factory

013 Needham Lock

014 Needham Lock and Hawks Mill

015 Above Needham Lock

018 Hawks Mill aoround 1930

016 Hawks Mill around 1870

017 Hawks Mill around 1884

019 St Marys Bridge, Hawks Mill

020 Crown Street Bridge, Needham

021 Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge

022 Bosmere Mill before restoration

023 Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge

024 Bosmere Hall

025 Creeting Mill

026 Creeting Mill

027 Creeting Mill

028 The Last Lock Keeper (1927)

029 The last residents of Creeting Mill (1932)

030 Florence, Les and Elsie Ward

031 Creeting Lock and Florence Ward

032 Creeting Mill and Fishermen

033 Above Baylham Mill & Lock

034 Baylham Lock around 1890

035 Baylham Lock Around 1960 in derelict condition

036 Baylham Lock (1960)

037 Baylham (1960)

038 Baylham Mill

039 Downstream from Baylham Mill

040 Shrublands Hall (A Davy engraving from 1837)

041 Packards barge - Annual Commissioners inspection

042 Packards barge in Gt Blakenham Lock

043 Gt Blakenham Lock

044 Gt Blakenham Lock & Mill

045 Gt Blakenham Mill

046 Gt Blakenham Mill

047 Gt Blakenham Mill

048 Gt Blakenham Lock

049 Claydon Bridge - Davy engraving 1837

050 Claydon Bridge about 1890

051 Claydon Lock & Bridge about 1890

052 Claydon Lock

053 Paper Mill Bramford

054 Packards loading wharf Bramford

055 Packards works around 1930

056 Packards Works

057 BramfordLock (01)

058 Bramford Lock & barge 'Trent River'

059 Bramford Lock & barge 'Trent River'

060 Bramford Mill Before the fire

061 BramfordMill (02)

062 Bramford Mill after the fire

063 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford

064 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford

065 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford

066 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford 1939

067 Bramford Church - Davy engraving 1837

068 Bramford Church and Mill

069 Bramford Church and Boat House

070 A Cottage in Bramford - Davy engraving from 1837

068 A view from the Church tower Bramford

071 Barge above Sproughton Lock

072 Sproughton Lock

073 Sproughton Lock

074 Sproughton Mill

075 Chantry Lock

076 Boss Hall rail viaduct 1901

077 Boss Hall viaduct 1950

078 Below Boss Hall - boats for hire

079 Below Boss Hall