The Local Community News
November 2020
Local History Award for Sue Andrews
The British Association for Local History has accorded an award for 2020 to Sue Andrews of Bildeston for her 5000 word essay entitled ‘Why didn’t the parish of Hadleigh join Cosford Incorporation in 1779?’ Accompanied by a meal and travel expenses, the award presentation is usually made in June at the Association’s Annual Conference held in London. However this year, a certificate was sent in the post. In her essay, Sue looks at the complexities involved in joining together seventeen parishes to form Cosford Incorporation and seeks to explain why Hadleigh refused to participate in this local scheme to support the poor, which involved erecting one large workhouse at Semer for all paupers in the newly-formed administrative district. She shows how Hadleigh was able to remain independent as funds came from 39 privately-funded charities, which included providing 38 almshouses and a pest house, and publicly-funded poor rates that maintained the parish workhouse. In addition, both sources of income supported the poor in their own homes. Sue has always been very keen on local history and formerly gave talks, ran adult-education classes and for sixteen years was honorary joint-archivist at Hadleigh Archive. However, she realised that as her mobility was diminishing, she would not be able to continue so, in 2010 launched The Hadleigh Historian. The magazine is about to celebrate its tenth anniversary with an additional issue for which Sue is asking nine friends to join with her to show the activities of researching, transcribing, translating, cataloguing, curating, recording, writing, publishing and presenting Hadleigh’s rich history. As well as information on how to become involved, articles include the story of Hadleigh’s last station master; playtime for pupils at Station Road Council School; Hadleigh Exiles on the continent in the 1550’; churchwardens of St Mary’s; and Sue’s award-winning piece. Although the current corona-virus pandemic has currently put everything on hold, it is hoped that this special-issue magazine entitled Bringing the past to life will encourage even moor people to participate when study groups and societies start their meetings and activities again and archives re-open for research.
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