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| Date | Question / Response | Submitter |
| 11 Jun 10 | Is there any history of links between this area and Yorkshire (coal?) I have Jacob, Isaac and Abraham BRUCE from Trimley area bn 1780-1800 and wondered if there is any link to other Jacobs & Isaacs that appear in Yorkshire. | Mrs Grace Beagley, derek@dbeagley.wanadoo.co.uk |
| 16 Nov 09 | Fisons Do you know if Fisons ever had a base in the Occold area, and in particular during World War Two? We have a relative who supposedly worked in the Occold area as a typist in the 1940s and we know she subsequently worked for Fisons in Ipswich. Was there any employment in Occold during World War 2 other than on the land? An airfield perhaps? Many thanks! | Peter and Ruth Kerr 01923 351955 28 Stratford Way, Watford, Herts, WD17 3DJ |
Response Fisons never had a plant in or near Occold. The nearest was originally a phosphate fertilizer plant at Stowmarket making from locally quarried Coprolite. This was originally Prentices, became Packards & eventually Fisons - all Suffolk families. But the coprolite was quarried out long before the war and the long journeys to bring imported phosphate rock to Stowmarket was uneconomic. So Stowmarket was probably only a distribution centre by WW2 Just before the war the huge Cliff Quay complex on the edge of Ipswich was opened and manufacture concentrated there (I grew up in the shadow of their Sulphuric Acid works). Phosphate rock was even brought back mainly as ballast on the Arctic Convoys to Russia. Their are several possibilities for a typist around Occold during WW2. There were still huge farming estates at that time eg the Henniker-Major Estate, now only Thornham, was all around Occold. Several farms which had not been run efficiently or were owned by members of the Bruitish Union of Fascists were taken into state administration etc. Her job was probably agriculture related unless she worked for one of the US airbases. There were 3 within 4 miles -Eye, Horham & Mendlesham. Good Hunting | Andy Andrews | |
| Response Dear Andy Thank you very much for such a full and interesting reply. We are trying to track down a distant relative and have only been given a few clues but you have given us a bit more to go on. Thanks again Ruth | Peter and Ruth Kerr 01923 351955 28 Stratford Way, Watford, Herts, WD17 3DJ |
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