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