Wickham teens+

After the dem by Avril Hill at last month's Wickham Market flower club meeting there was Christmas punch and mince pies, they know how to live in Wickham.  Next meeting Thursday 23 January.

♫ There's a daily live band at each of the three day beer and cider festival in the Wickham Market village this weekend, not clear whether it's free entry.

A copious report by Mandy Pryke on the bulletin board of Wickham Market flower club's activities, Framlingham camera club's workshops continue next month and today it's Trafalgar Day all over near the coast.

Brundish cinema starts it's new season tomorrow week with Arbitrage starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and yet another Brit playing an American Tim Roth, and the police are taking no further action over the fire at the Wickham Market George earlier this year.

We've now got a Twitter tab on our Facebook page and what was Sweet Dreams on the corner of Broad Road in Wickham Market is going to be a hospice shop.

Police Community Support Officer Sallyanna Chatten-Berry (what a great name) will be meeting and greeting at the far end of the Wickham Market co-op by the free coffee machine 10:30am-12pm Saturday.

Yesterday's Wickham Market Primary School Summer Extravaganza (rolls of the tongue doesn't it?) was just so much fun, loads going on with judo, belly dancing, the cops had a dress up pile, the traditional queue for burgers and ice cream and how they got the Red Arrows to fly past (very slightly out of formation - it's the cuts you know)!  Already looking forward to next year's.

Blimey!  Tomorrow's Wickham Market Primary School Summer Extravaganza includes a samba school, belly dancing, cricket and henna tattoos!  We'll be there early snapping before moving on to do the same at the cycling festival on the Kingston Field in Woodbridge.

Arriving back near the coast yesterday we did our shopping in the Wickham Market co-op ... it was so calm and unhurried compared with the Hackney Tescos near Chelmsford ... ahhhh (we thought) nice to be back ... on the back road to Easton we dodged two hatchbacked mums with hectic lifestyles and a flying post van ... Suffolk eh? (we thought).

Looks like the Wickham Market George will be out of play for some time after that fire so no pub in the town, the old co-op is still TO LET as is Sweet Dreams on the corner of Broad Road and what was Seagers the hardware shop looks very sorry for itself with a net curtain in the window ... but still a chip shop, a cafe, two restaurants and the post office has an outside hole in the wall for cash which it never did when we lived there.

Man arrested on suspicion of yesterday's fire at the Wickham George.

Andy Davey reports last weekend's school fund raiser in Wickham Market made £700 ... impressive.

♫Choice of two choral concerts this Saturday, the Suffolk Singers at All Saints in Wickham Market and Phoenix in St Mike's Framlingham.

♫ This Saturday there's a two band school trip fundraiser in the Wickham Market village hall with children FREE and included paella there's continental for you and the same evening there's a concert of music and poetry with canapés and wine in St Mike's Framlingham.

Christmas favourites and a premiere at All Saints Wickham Market by the Suffolk Singers Saturday night.

24 year old Perry Frost has been missing from the family home in Kettleburgh since the early hours of this morning.  He is driving a black Honda Civic.

Well he didn't get far, found by police near Wickham Market this afternoon.

In Wickham Market what was once a Vauxhall dealership is now the new co-op coming along a pace and what was once the pet shop is now a cafe, run we're told by the people who used to run the other cafe.

Hacheston post office in 1904, Earl Soham by the church, Wickham

Market football team 1908-1909 and a John Self advertising card from around the turn of last century.

In Wickham Market the fish and chip restaurant, confusingly in the front of the No, you go down the side to get chips chippy, is now a bookshop and the B1438 (what used to be the A12) is closed on the north side of the square so buses have to go down Broad Road ... gets interesting at the hairpin right turn into Border Cot Lane.

In all three cars had their paintwork scratched in Wickham Market Sunday and Monday ... come to think of it two cars were keyed and had their tyres slashed in Ufford early on Friday.

Jewellery and euros stolen in Woodbridge, a Fabergé egg burgled in Wickham Market and what could be dogknapping in Badingham.

Libra in Wickham Market closed in 2009 after serving the town for twelve years, we can just about remember it being something else before that ... Magpie?  Owner Jane Hughes has sent a memoir of those 12 years, perhaps it's a warning to others that she thinks pay parking was probably the final straw.

If the demolished garage (a Vauxhall dealership as we recall) in Wickham Market is going to be a Co-op then presumably it will have parking which would be nice.

In Wickham Market unpleasantly a boy has his bike stolen.

Carley and Webb's in Framlingham has got a dividing wall down the middle and what looks like new toilets, and what was Pelham Pink in Wickham Market has got the builders in too.

Frock shop Libra in Wickham has closed. 

There's been some shopping changes in Wickham Market; what was interior design Catherine Hadden (latterly opening weekends only) is now gifty shop miss.chief and Pelham Pink, which shut some time early this year, will have the dentists next door moving in from their present minute surgery.

At the end of last month police in Wickham Market confiscated a motorbike because it was being used anti-socially.

Is the Co-op in Wickham Market going to move to the old garage site?

When we were in Wickham Market last Saturday the car park toilets might have been locked but we did buy this cake, not from the bakers but from Seagers the hardware store ... when we were back in Wickham Tuesday the toilets were still locked.

Here's a great freemans from the Wickham Market dentist.  It's a two minute egg timer to encourage proper teeth cleaning by children, but when you turn it upside down instead of sand falling from the top to the bottom the tiny green beads bubble up from the bottom to the top!  To get one we had to lie and say it was for our niece, actually it wasn't lying, she will get it ... eventually.