Guide Book Cover.
Guide Book cover
Guide Book Cover.
Back cover

Bury St Edmunds Town Guide
By Wilkin and Son, 1867

 

Picture Page 2

Guidebook Pages 20 to 43

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Pages 20 and 21 includes Norman Tower, St John's Church,St Peter's, and the Churchyard.

Pages 22 and 23. Churchyard epitaphs, Dissenters chapels.

Pages 24 and 25. Other religious buildings and The Catholic Church. Town schools - Grammar school.

Pages 26 and 27. Three Feoffment Schools, church schools and private academies.

Pages 28 and 29. The town's public buildings - corn exchange, market, shambles, Town Hall, Shirehall, Guildhall.

Pages 30 and 31. Athenaeum, Mechanics Institute, General Hospital.

Pages 32 and 33. Clopton's Asylum, the Workhouse, Thingoe Union, Militia Barracks, Gasworks.

Pages 34 and 35. Railway stations, Post Office, Theatre, Gaol, Botanic Gardens, Cemetery.

Pages 36 and 37. Benefit Societies, Newspapers, the Royal Show of 1867.

Pages 38 and 39, Royal Show contd, MPs, magistrates , Councillors and Council officers.

Pages 40 and 41. The Paving Board, and population figures. Start of the list of trades and professions. Clergy, bankers, solicitors, dentists, architects etc.

Pages 42 and 43. Estate agents, butchers, bakers, brewers, builders, bootmakers, blacksmiths, cabinet makers and carvers.


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