John Winthrop
John Winthrop from Edwardstone, a small village approximately 7 miles west of Hadleigh in Suffolk, led the first large wave of
Adult Children Living at Home
How Do You Cope When Your Adult Children Need to Move Back Home?
Eight years since the start of the Global financial crisis, seven years of austerity and now Brexit-induced inflation have done little
Myths and Misapprehensions
Self-Storage myths and misapprehensions
Weird Items And What Not To Store
Weird items found in self-storage and what not to store
In the north of England there’s a saying: “there’s nowt so queer as folk” and that surely applies to some of the weird items that have been found in self-storage units over the years.
The majority of bizarre finds have been in the USA, where self-storage has been going for a lot longer than it has in the UK, even so, you have to wonder what people were thinking!
Perhaps the strangest find of all was
When might you need short term storage?
Short term Storage
From a sudden emergency to the changing seasons, there are plenty of reasons why self-storage facilities may be needed. Here’s a selection:
Musings on Women
Historic Unveiling
The end of April saw the historic unveiling of the first statue of a women to be erected in Parliament Square. The statue of Millicent Fawcett,
Significant people and events in June in Suffolk History
Two Suffolk Sisters
How many people are aware that two Suffolk sisters, both born in June, made a significant impact on women’s lives?
Recently, the first ever statue of a woman was installed in London’s Parliament Square. That woman was
Happy 10th Anniversary HomeStore
We can’t quite believe that we have reached this wonderful milestone. 10 years!
A lot has happened in that time both in business terms and for the HomeStore team personally, but we are very thankful that both of us (John, the Branch Manager and myself, Sarah) are still here 10 years on – the original team!
So, we thought that we would look back on some of the more memorable moments from this decade, in a 10th Anniversary review.
This Month In Suffolk – Gainsborough and Eno
Two Famous Suffolk Sons
This month we’re spotlighting two famous Suffolk sons, one historic and one modern and both born during the time covered by our enewsletter.
This Month In Suffolk – Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey was educated in Ipswich and then studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was ordained around 1498 and became chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury and later chaplain to Henry VII.
He was known as an efficient administrator and was often sent on diplomatic missions but his real rise in influence came in the reign of Henry VIII, when he was created archbishop of York and a year later the pope made him a cardinal. Soon afterwards the king appointed him lord chancellor.
For the next 14 or so years, he was given the responsibility for more and more state business, eventually gaining almost complete control over England’s foreign policy.
He amassed great wealth which he invested in building both his London home, York Place in Whitehall, and at Hampton Court, 20 miles south west of London. He also founded Cardinal College at Oxford (later King’s College, and now Christ Church). Whilst in Ipswich at St Peters Church stands “Wolsey’s Gate”. It is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Not surprisingly increasing arrogance contributed to his lack of popularity, but his downfall came when he failed to arrange the annulment of Henry VIII’s first marriage to Catherine of Aragon, whose nephew, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, dominated the pope at the time.
Wolsey was accused of treason and arrested near York in 1530 and died in November of that year on his way to London to face trial.
