Buying, Selling and Producing.

2019 Co-op temporary shop

A photo of the temporary shop that was built  on the garage forecourt and used during 2019  whilst Stowupland’s  new Co-op premises were  being constructed. Read more about the history  of transport and our garage.

Shops and Retailers (or see some images) or Home Deliveries.

See also trades and crafts.

Most of the material in our archives relates to late 19th and 20th century shops. but we  do know that in;

  • 1468 Stowupland did have at least one shop . The will of Simon Kyy of Stowmarket  refers to a shop  calle COES and COWPERES with a shop,  in SAXTON. {ECA}

 Or this  article printed in Telstar gives a brief overview  of some shops that were trading in the  20th century. 

Confusingly there were 2 shops on the Green and over the decades they were trading they had a several different owners.

In Saxham Street: the longest surviving shop was Gyford’s,  it was trading from  1910 to 1970, Advertised as an ‘Outfitters, boot factor, cycle dealer, wireless factor & general merchant’.

Stowupland’s Beerhouses, Pubs or Inns, (or see some images from our archives)

Today we have The Crown and The Retreat but before the 20th century Stowupland had many other establishments where alcohol might be bought or consumed, some were small  beer-houses others were lost to Stowmarket when the bounday moved.

The Crown, its history or  read some bar tales

The Retreat, its history or its yarns

SLHG is grateful to Neil Langridge and Brian A Southgate for donating a copy of their book Stowmarket, Combs and Stowupland Pubs (Polstead Press:2009) to our archives. Although no longer in print their research has provided some valuable insights into the history of local hostelries

Crafts and Trades (images or see Miscellaneous Trades)

Industries and Co-operatives, Large or small

From the mid 19th century  there was increasing industrialisation along the Stowupland side of the River Gipping. This was aided first by the improvement in the navigation of the Gipping and then by the coming of the railway. (see images)

Industries associated with the River Gipping:

Stowupland Industries:

Food production (see also farming Practices.)

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Public Services and Utilities

See Law and Order

Our Postal service

  • Our postal service has had various locations over the last 150 years but was usually associated with other  retail opportunities.
  • 1864 Robert Pyman was a tailor who also ran the postal service from one of the Malthouse Cottages (subsequently Croft Farmhouse).
  • By the 1900‘s the PO  had moved along Church Road to Bay Cottage where the Wilden family combined boot making with the post.
  • In the early 2000‘s it was relocated away from the A1120,for a few years, to Allard’s farm shop,  butchers and cafe.
  • By 2019 it had returned to to the A1120 , all be it once a week in a  mobile van.  (see other images)

Medical Services, see also Nursing and Stowupland’s Nursing Association

In 1972 ‘The chances of Stowupland having its own surgery or dispensary were described as slim’ (Stowmarket Chronicle and Mercury 24/11/1972 – MCA)

Insurance Services

Arthur Forsdike of Myrtle Cottage was named as an Insurance agent

In 1912 (Kellys) Charles Simpson is named as an \insurance agent.

In 1784 Isaac Bayly of Stowupland set up a ‘NEW FIRE OFFICE for procuring Insurances against loss or damage by fire and for receiving the Premiums thereon’. See on image of the full document- 1784 New Fire Office Company

{Original in the possession of SLHG Archives, under Stowupland Hall}

 

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