From the Archives

Here we have selected just a few of our favourite items from the collections. With over 9 miles of shelving and close to 94 million individual pages, the collections are vast in scope and range!

Fish Market — 412/1/12 Photograph of the Fish Market, Lowestoft c 1899

Burial Notice — Burial Notice: Countess Sophie Benckendorff née Shuvalov
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Harrowing with oxen — K681/2/11/1 – Harrowing with oxen, from the Suffolk Photographic Survey collection, c1885

diet sheet — ADA8/CD/16/1/1 Weekly Diet Sheet for the Stow Union workhouse, 1838

shrubland hall — HA93/14688/3 – Detail from Humphry Repton ‘Red Book’ for Shrubland 1789

Forge — A1386/2/4 – Image from the County Council collection of schoolboys working at the forge, 1930s

crabbe cottage — PT/3/2 Aldeburgh Prints – Crabbe Cottage 19th century

Euston Hall — K997/50/3 – Euston Hall seat of the Dukes of Grafton for over 350 years from the Walton Burrell album

East Suffolk County Council Offices — HG400/2/246/3 Extension to East Suffolk County Council Offices, Ipswich Sep 1926 from the Cautley and Barefoot Architects collection

HC30/D/2/3 – Poster of a portable engine and thresher aimed at the Russian market, from the archives of Garretts of Leiston

Eye Charter — HD1538/7/folio 38 – Eye Charter, c.1119 (our earliest document) part of the Iveagh Manuscripts

Moule’s Map of Suffolk — MB1 Moule’s Map of Suffolk 1840s