th 10 Aug 2023 | Ernie is slender and nervous and has been missing from Castle Brooks Framlingham for quite a while. |
we 9 Aug 2023 | Next Tuesday at Framlingham's new Community Rooms Mid Suffolk Driving for the Disabled present Trooping the Colour to Riots from Alan Hiscox 26 years a mounted cop in the Met.
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su 6 Aug 2023 | Relentless Framlingham rain yesterday didn't spoil the wedding in St Michael's or the fundraiser to create an inclusive children's space in the library. |
we 2 Aug 2023 | The Suffolk guessing game around road closures now has a variant, guessing which footpaths will be closed. This one is off Fairfield Crescent Framlingham.
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fr 28 Jul 2023 | We first encountered Suffolk Swords when they visited Framlingham in May. They return Saturday 5 August for Knight's Tales in the library. A free all day entertainment for children no doubt welcome now the summer hols have started.
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th 20 Jul 2023 | The Framlingham Ladies Choir lunchtime concerts are a joy. Free and normally with hot beverages and a finger buffet afterwards prompting social mingling ... there's one tomorrow in St Clare's. ♫ |
sa 8 Jul 2023 | Fram Crown 2005-04 has become Fram Crown 2006-04. |
th 6 Jul 2023 | Some Framlingham shops shut for lunch. Perhaps the town council could reintroduce sweet and sugar rationing to enhance that post war austerity atmosphere as a tourist attraction, imagine the fun in the Co-op when a blow in tries to buy a bar of Dairy Milk:)
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mo 3 Jul 2023 | Friday when the very large towed screen in front of the Framlingham Crown fired up advertising the Tour of Britain Bridget asked what is was all about and we completely misinformed her. We now know Thursday 7 September it's coming to Fram via Debenham (so her dad can enjoy complaining about the disruption) and then on to Saxmundham.
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th 29 Jun 2023 | Around the turn of the century we saw an East Anglian Film Archive show in what was the St Michael's Rooms. One short was about the four day 1931 pageant at Framlingham Castle that paid for the Pageant Field which nowadays is packed with facilities. The film is listed in the archive's catalogue but not available on line.
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we 28 Jun 2023 | What happened in Framlingham last year. |
sa 24 Jun 2023 | Like we said before June is Suffolk Open Studios. There's a good handful artists opening their studios in and around Framlingham shown on this plan by Spadge Hopkins who's studio on the Saxtead Road is open this last June weekend.
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tu 20 Jun 2023 | Around 00:40 in this BBC vid kitten biscuits meat flavoured, not fish flavoured are recommended for hedgehogs. Here in Stately Terrace Framlingham the piggies happily tuck into herring and tuna with vegetables GoCat ... perhaps they're an Aldeburgh fishing community displaced by the high property prices.
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fr 16 Jun 2023 | There's a Craft Fair running in the Corner Room Framlingham until Sunday. |
sa 10 Jun 2023 | Last night we were standing outside the second to last house on the Badingham Road waiting for the Friday 5 to pass. The owners arrived in a car and falling into conversation with the gentleman of the house he offered us a drink and/or a chair ... Framlingham eh?
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fr 9 Jun 2023 | At last week's Gala parade we met some of Framlingham Friends, Musicians and Singers. They get together in the Castle Inn twice a month to socialise and sing. ♫ |
sa 3 Jun 2023 | We've added a player from Samboomba and Monday's Gala Fest to Fram Ladies. |
th 1 Jun 2023 | In recent decades 22 Bridge Street Framlingham has been a watchmakers, the Munchbox, the Bridge Street Cafe and finally the Common Room. Now it's had a paint job and looks like it's going to be a corner shop not on a corner.
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tu 30 May 2023 | Strangely comforting to have the Framlingham Gala Parade back yesterday. The Market Hill and the Bridge and Church Streets were packed with a resulting sea of humanity following the parade on to the Castle Meadow.
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su 28 May 2023 | It's been a while since we've encountered a Framlingham wedding and Rachel and Adam's this afternoon was our first at the Unitarian Meeting House. The purple of guests Pretty Grim Border Morris was echoed in the bride's dress and the medieval knights remained non-combative. The couple left in a steam car that dripped a little and had a very LOUD horn ...
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su 21 May 2023 | After over 30 years yesterday was Victoria Bell's last day in a Framlingham Bookshop busy with well wishers saying farewell and leaving goodbye cards and pressies. The bookshop will continue under the new management of Dr Chris ...
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we 10 May 2023 | Some weekends back we disturbed a full grown muntjac in the dark and a Stately Terrace garden. Yesterday there were young ones in the Framlingham Cemetery ... they are the new urban foxes.
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sa 5 May 2023 | Nothing except bunting on the Market Hill Framlingham to mark the Coronation but behind a closed door in St Michael's a good if quiet house is watching on a large screen.
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fr 4 May 2023 | Tomorrow week in the spiffing new Framlingham Community Rooms a Fram Library Quiz with table snacks, cash bar and the inevitable raffle. |
| Some of the roofs in two of the new estates viewed from Victoria Mill Road Framlingham. The proposed 35 house development will block this view. |
tu 2 May 2023 | In 2019 Designated Public Place Orders (DPPO) were replaced by Public Space Protection Orders and the district council set a budget to remove the DPPO signs but then pandemic disruption occurred. Around near the coast the signs seem to have gone except for this one by College Road Framlingham which has used skillful camouflage to go feral.
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th 20 Apr 2023 | Man in the Hat at the Framlingham Castle Inn Saturday night, it's been established he won't be including this in his set list. ♫ |
we 12 Apr 2023 | Tonight Film @ Fram debuts its new venue the Castle Rooms with The Lost King, excitingly the film comes with an inclusive drink and nibbles! |
mo 3 Apr 2023 | Yes, it's pretty chaotic in Framlingham this morning and for a while, when we passed it would have helped if the temporary traffic lights were actually working. |
fr 31 Mar 2023 | ♫ Tomorrow the Phoenix Singers along with the Kingfisher Sinfonietta perform Bach's St John Passion in the Framlingham College Chapel. |
| JOB Part timer wanted by The Fram Wine Shop in ... that's right Framlingham. |
th 30 Mar 2023 | The Framlingham Gala Parade is returning this year Monday 29th May. |
we 29 Mar 2023 | Rolling 2017-2013 has become rolling 2018-2013 and now includes The Little Mermaid on off ice skates and in Framlingham and the demise of the Red White and Bruise Rollers and.
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tu 28 Mar 2023 | Yesterday artists Anne Townshend and Julie Orpen were preparing in No 10 Church Street Framlingham (what was the Con Club) a selling show of their very accessible prints. The show runs from today until Sunday.
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mo 27 Mar 2023 | JOBS Staff wanted in Framlingham for Watson and Walpole, the Ice Cream Shop and opening tomorrow week in Crown and Anchor Alley bar Beviamo (it's Italian (well it would be wouldn't it) for Let's drink apparently). |
we 8 Mar 2023
 | After two years the temporary traffic lights in Fairfield Road Framlingham have gone leaving a shiny new fence and tarmac pavement but doing nothing about the giant tree in the ditch that is the River Ore and no doubt causes the flooding. |
we 1 mar 2023
 | Tonight's Film @ Fram is See How they Run (cert12) and though we increasingly distrust trailers it does look fun with an interesting cast mix. Excitingly in April showings are moving to the new Castle Rooms with a drink and nibbles!
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sa 18 Feb 2023 | Near the coast you're supposed to know by osmosis when the Framlingham Gala happens and when the Stratford St Andrew Riverside Centre is open but this table top sale Saturday week has relented to let you know it's in Clopton today.
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fr 17 Feb 2023 | The Framlingham Crown re-opens today presumably with a shiny new kitchen. |
we 15 Feb 2023 | Janet Weston's funeral is 2:00pm Saturday at St Michael's Framlingham with extra parking on the Castle Meadow. |
th 9 Feb 2023 | Our thanks to painter in oils and watercolours John Bawtree who has renewed his top ad. John's fortnight in the Framlingham Carousel last year was so successful he's booked a return this year.
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| JOBS Part time (up to 16 hours) medicine counter assistant at the Framlingham Pharmacy and a new artistic director at the Eastern Angles. |
tu 31 Jan 2023 | John Grose in Station Road Framlingham shut three years ago today and despite some recent activity still no sign of it becoming a supermarket ... perhaps it won't. |
| Each week day in Framlingham there's a different warm space offering a hot beverage and no doubt a bit of company. |
fr 27 Jan 2023
 | Around 12:15am today Friday 27 January a tipper van YT 12 VBP was stolen from business premises off Saxtead Road Framlingham Entry was forced to the site and the white Transit driven away. Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting reference 37/5138/23, you can call 101. |
th 26 Jan 2023
 | Similar to Framlingham's allotment expansion Woodbridge town council are looking for land to become allotments. Friend of ntc Peter Brockett has suggested the proposed Stackton Tressel allotment expansion should be careful Woodbridge tc don't snipe the land behind the Trouser Museum. |
fr 10 Feb 2023 | At the top of Fore Street Framlingham on the right there's an unmade road marked on maps as Infirmary Lane, after winding for a bit it ends at what might be has been a farmhouse and continues as a footpath. This 1947 OS map sort of marks the building as Infirmary (Infectious Diseases). Search Infirmary in the Framlingham Archive and you get a 1930 pic of the East Anglians camped near the Infirmary. CF Dowsing was Framlingham's other photographer with a studio in Double Street but we find it unlikely this Hospital Convalescence Home was at the end of Infirmary Lane.
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we 25 Jan 2023 | FOR SALE by online auction next Tuesday end of terrace 30 Victoria Mill Road Framlingham. It's one of those on the crescent, thanks Edith.
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tu 24 Jan 2023 | There are house sales for the last two years sorted by road and street for Framlingham, Saxmundham, Wickham Market, Woodbridge and now Melton.
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mo 16 Jan 2023 | About now in Framlingham it must be the Fairfield Road temporary traffic lights' second birthday.
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we 11 Jan 2023 | Each week day in Framlingham there's a different warm space offering a hot beverage and no doubt a bit of company. We were uncertain of the Mills Charity Office's location but thanks to Colin now know it's next to hairdresser Ellen Ross at the mini-roundabout end of College Road.
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mo 9 Jan 2023
 | JOBS The Framlingham chippy is looking for part time staff, St Elizabeth Hospice needs furniture van drivers at the Martlesham Retail Centre and you have until tomorrow to apply as Homework Club Assistant for the Eastern Angles in Ipswich. |
tu 3 Jan 2023 | The Framlingham Double Street Advent Windows are best seen around dusk when the lights come on and it's last chance to see today. So far they've raised £1,463.93 for the Salvation Army Food Banks and Disasters Emergency Committee.
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