Blaxhall is a village in Coastal Suffolk

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sa 29 mr 08	1960 The 6,000 seat New York Roxy cinema, one of the largest cinemas ever built, closed
	des' dinners at the Blaxhall Ship last week New landlord and a major transformation, it's a good sign when a country pub has a dozen customers on a Tuesday lunchtime. Six real ales (jolly good Timothy Taylor Landlord) and though NaTCH did serious damage to the home made steak and kidney he couldn't finish it. Other lunchers were John B and Matt and inevitably most conversation was about Matt's imminent departure from the Earl Soham Brewery to start his own brewery in the last working iron ore mine in Europe. The brewery is likely to be called the Red Man Brewery because the miners look red from the iron ore dust and the brewery's first beer is likely to be named Ol' Flo after the mine. AfAR from Nick (in Hungary) (First visit ~ Subsequent lunch~ Previous lunch)
su 23 mr 08	1928 The first children's Saturday matinees was at the Empire cinema, Willesden
	The Tesco at Martlesham has got a defibrillator, Hacheston has got a village hall but it's up for sale and the shop has been let, and there's a motocross next Sunday the 30th at Blaxhall.
we 19 mr	1928 The actor Patrick McGoohan was born
	The rain was so heavy Saturday night it woke us up but we were still a bit surprised that the by road between Blaxhall and Tunstall was still flooded yesterday. A lady driver stopped to tell us the road was always flooding.
tu 11 mr 08	1810 Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria were married by proxy in Vienna
	... and on the road between Campsea and Blaxhall a serious lump of tree has fallen off ...
sa 9 fe 08	1824 At the age of twelve Charles Dickens started work in a blacking factory
	A Barn Owl has been photographed near Blaxhall.
mo 10 de 07	1845 Robert Thomson patented the pneumatic tyre
	This may be a rambling and disconnected account of pub singing around the Blaxhall Ship in the 1970s but it shows the importance of a magnificent obsession to give us a record now ... and it's getting lively on the board about fuel prices.
tu 25 se 07	1891 The Blackpool Tower foundation stone was laid
	Our first motocross this season and we arrived at Blaxhall to find the track is being run the other way round. Shouldn't have been a problem except we seemed to keep standing in the wrong place and getting coated in dust! Although the spectator facilities are about as basic as Snetterton (with Blaxhall having slightly more burger vans!) if you have the slightest suspicion you would enjoy the racing do go, it's a good day out ... and there might be some right smart arse t-shirts about.

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