Bildeston Public Houses


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Bildeston in the 1879 Kellys Directory

Bildeston is a small town and parish, 5 miles north by west from Hadleigh station, 75 from London and 10 north east from Sudbury, in the Western division, hundred and union of Cosford. the church of st Mary, about a quarter of a mile from the town, is a large and handsome structure. The register dates from 1558.
The population in 1871 was 808.

Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank - john Crickmore, Receiver.
Norwich Union Fire & Life, W Squirrell jun.
There is a National school, able to accommodate 130 children; William Henry Mould, master; Miss Elizabeth Eldred, mistress; Miss Emily Gardner, infants mistress.
Also a small school attached to the Baptist Chapel
Carriers to Bury - James Cresswell; Hadleigh - James Cresswell; Ipswich - G C Roper & Jas Cresswell

Beck Rev james M.A. Rectory
Cleghorn Thomas
Growse John Lawrence
Growse Miss
Leith Rev William Forbes M.A. [vicar of Wattisham]
Moss Frederick
Squirrell William
Walter Herbert Simcoe, Rectory
White Mrs

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Bantock Benjamin, Crown Bull Richard, bookseller & news agent & leather cutter Clamp Ephraim, grocer, draper & agent for W A Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants, Market place Clark My Ann (Mrs), day school & toy dealer Cooper Mary Ann (Miss), ladies' school Cooper Susanna (Mrs), dress maker Cooper William, harness maker Cousens Upcher (Mrs), boarding and day school Crickmore John, grocer, draper & post office Death Jabez, carpenter Emerson William, bucther Farrow Thomas, boot and shoe maker Gage Charles, farmer Gibbs Joseph, grocer & drpaer Green William, tailor Grimsey Robert Davison, saddler & harness maker Growse John Lawrence, surgeon Hacker Sarah (Miss), fancy repository Hall John, wheelwright Hearn Robert, saddler & harness maker Hill Alfred, blacksmith & ironmonger Hill Robert, boot & shoe maker Hitchcock John, farmer

Kettle Horace Geo, mail contractor & farmer King Henry, farmer, The Lodge Kistruck Joseph Clarke, engineer & machinist Melton Thos Wm, Lion Inn & corn merchant Morley Walter, farmer, High Street house Moss Walter, carpenter & builder O'Sullivan Eugene, inland revenue officer Proctor Shadrach, farmer Ralph Chas, Kings Head, & excise officer Southgate Abraham, carpenter Squirrell William jun, farmer, maltster, hop, seed & corn merchant Studd John, cooper & baker Talbot Harry, pork butcher Taylor John, plumber & painter Tydeman Janes, watch maker Vince John, tailor & news agent Webb Thomas, bricklayer Whittell George, shoe maker Whittell William, painter & glazier Woollard Edwad, blacksmith

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