Spring 2024 - Download here

In this issue: Society Meetings and Visits / Society website / Planning Matters / Sir Archibald Edward Garrod / 1400-year-old Temple Discovered / Lambert's Family Almanac / An Introduction to the East Suffolk Railway Line / Melton Old Church / Responding to Local Need / Ipswich Town Foundation / Quiz Answers / Creating Deben Meadows / The Tale of the Sutton Hoo Windows / Poem: Vernal Equinox / The Woodbridge Story

Spring 2023 - Download here

In this issue: The Future of the Council Offices Site / Summer Visits 2023 / Air Quality / Blue Plaque for Margaret Rope / Thomas Churchyard of Woodbridge / Managing Planning in East Suffolk / Sea Scouts Flourishing and Expanding / Trees of the Old Cemetery / Planning Matters / A Guiding Centenary / The Story of a Street: Cumberland Street / Leonard Geoffrey Hayward in the Great War / Our Climate Emergency / Worst Floods in Living Memory

Autumn 2023 - Download here

In this issue: Meetings for 2023/24 / Chair's letter to members / Planning Matters in Melton / The Street, Melton / Woodbridge and Melton in Numbers / Blue Plaque for Margaret Rope / Award for Woodbridge Architects / Melton Boatyard / Woodbridge Regatta / Song: To the Beautiful Green Deben / I-Spy Quiz / The Hackney Road Development / Memories of a Woodbridge Childhood / Four City Livery Company Masters: Apothecaries; Fruiterers; Information Technologists; Master Mariners / Summer Visits 2023 / Obituaries: Tony Hubbard and Michael Rines / The Birth of Woodbridge Theatre / Caroline Page

Spring 2022 - Download here

In this issue: Notes & news / Planning matters / Francis Light: From Woodbridge to Penang / The Deben Scrolls / Quality of Place Awards / Market Hill Thrives / Diary of an Earlier Pandemic / Lockdown Legacies 3 / Defending Suffolk against the French / Thomas Churchyard Exhibition / Lockdown Legacies 4 / Sister Thick's Recollections / My County's Heritage / Society Visits 2021

Autumn 2022 - Download here

In this issue: News notes / Letter from the Chair / Planning Matters / The Story of a Street: Thoroughfare / Is the Thoroughfare Serving Us? / Memories of the Mayflower / Woodbridge in the Thirties / The Story of a Woodbridge Atlas / Mrs Macdonald's Ball / Buttrum's Mill / Aspects of Localism / RAF Woodbridge and Operation Aphrodite / Tina Wiseman leaves the Riverside / New Manager at the Riverside / New Blue Plaques / Woodbridge Quay Church / Summer Visits 2022

Spring 2021 - Download here

In this issue: Society meetings, summer visits & website / Planning Matters / A Walk in the Woods / New Buildings 2010-2020: A Critical Review / The State of the Stock / The Growth of Retirement Flats / The Story of a Street: Quay Street / Home-Start in Suffolk

Autumn 2021 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Matters / Society meetings, notes & news / Rendlesham Revealed: Anglo-Saxon Life in South-East Suffolk / Lockdown Legacies 1 / Anniversaries 1: The Woodbridge Society / RAF Woodbridge / Anniversaries 2: The Methodist Church / Lockdown Legacies 2 / The Medieval Port of Goseford / Woodbridge Museum / Anniversaries 3: The Tide Mill / The Story of a Street: Crown Place / St Anne's School / Youth Voice / Coronavirus Daily Update / Memories

Spring 2020 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Matters / Which Way Building Design? / Society Visits / Tribute to Bob Merrett / Sutton Hoo Wins Landscape Award / A Broom Heath Link to an Ipswich Mill / A Historian's View of the Deben Estuary / Saltmarshes of the River Deben / The Woodbridge Boatyard / The Yacht that Became a Classic / Robertson's Boatyard / The River as Recreation / The Mills of the Deben / The Woodbridge Harbour Master

Autumn 2020 - Download here

In this issue: Society membership, meetings & website update / Planning Matters / Replacement of the Airey Houses / Woodbridge's Green Spaces / Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB / Research on Nature and Health / The Earth's Three Trillion Trees / Deben Community Farm / Cemetery Grass Cutting / The Story of a Street: Church Street & Turn Lane / Woodbridge & Great Bealings / Jetty Lane / What Lies Beneath? 

Autumn 2019 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Matters / Rock Barracks: Home of 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment / Society Meetings 2019-20 / The History of St Audry's Hospital 1829-1993 / Woodbridge Conservation Area / Woodbridge Society Visits 2019 / Transition Woodbridge / Akenfield 50 Years On / The Society Website and Email / Home Truths

Spring 2019 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Matters / Woodbridge Haven Museum / £43 per Bin / What is a Countryman? / Sandlings Farming / Suffolk Agricultural Association / Society Visits 2019 / A Dementia-Friendly Town? / The Woodbridge Memory Bike / Customer Service / Dementia Screenings / Shipbuilding in Woodbridge / Sizewell C / Shingle Street: a poem

Autumn 2018 - Download here

In this issue: Society Meetings 2018-19 / The State of Suffolk / Woodbridge's New Town Clerk / Planning Matters / Nigel Barratt Reflects / The Seckford Foundation: Recent Initiatives / What is Jetty Lane? / Remembering the Great War / The Sutton Hoo Project

Spring 2018 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Matters / Archaeological Investigation for East Anglia ONE / Saving our Suffolk Swifts / Woodbridge Swifts / The Story of a Street: Theatre Street & Burkitt Road / Celebrating our Conservation Areas / Woodbridge Wins Two Major Design Awards / A Pattern Language: Another Perspective on the Whisstocks Development / A Local Architect Remembered

Autumn 2017 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Matters / Blue Plaque for Roger Notcutt / The Story of a Street: New Street / Archaeology and Royal Rendlesham / The Riverside Trust / Writing The King's River / Summer Visits / The Co-op in Woodbridge / Move out Budgens; Move in Co-op / Traffic and Parking: Your Letters / SCDC in Numbers and Pictures / Woodbridge on Show / Family Businesses

Spring 2017 - Download here

In this issue: Traffic and Parking / Dorothy Kellogg / The Environment Agency / Woodbridge's Outstanding Residential Care / The Story of a Street: Seckford Street and Drybridge Hill / Planning Matters / The Horticultural Society Annual Flower Show / New Chair for Choose Woodbridge / Martlesham Heath Centenary / The Society in 2015-16

Autumn 2016 - Download here

In this issue: Clifford Smith - a Profile / Barracks and Burials / Community Planning / The Vision for Whisstocks / The Story of a Street: Market Hill / Planning Matters / Bawdsey Radar: A Major Restoration / Talks 2016-17 / Comment on a Traffic-free Thoroughfare / Summer Visits

Spring 2016 - Download here

In this issue: Charles Notcutt 1934-2015 / Conserving the River Deben / Woodbridge - a Poem / Woodbridge Shakespeare 400 / Planning Matters / New Street School - the Historical Background / Memories of New Street School / School Places in Woodbridge / The Drums of the Fore and Aft / Economic Development in Woodbridge / Summer Visits

Autumn 2015 - Download here

In this issue: Old Court House / Summer Visits / Planning Matters / Choose Woodbridge / Cobbolds of Woodbridge / Why Woodbridge / Talks 2015-16 / A Whisstocks Montage

Spring 2015 - Download here

In this issue: Summer Visits / Woodbridge's Future Development / Past and Future Expansion of Woodbridge / How the Society Began / Letter to the Editor / Choose Woodbridge / Dates for the Diary  

Autumn 2014 - Download here

In this issue: The housing preservation dilemma / Planning Group Report / Conservation Area / Summer Visits / Skateboarding in Woodbridge / Woodbridge's Outstanding Businesses / Choose Woodbridge / Autumn/Winter Talks

Spring 2014 - Download here

In this issue: New Chairman / Nunn's Mill & Whisstocks / Summer Visits / New Company to Run the County's Libraries / Woodbridge Sea Scouts / Woodbridge Shufflers / More Shops Opening / Youth Charity Just 42

Autumn 2013 - Download here

In this issue: SCDC's Core Strategy / Planning Group Report / Overhead Wires Removal / Winter Lectures / Choose Woodbridge / Suffolk's Finest Bells: St Mary's / A Constant Organist / Ives: Six Generations in Shoes / Summer Visits Report / Improving Rail Service

Spring 2013 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Group Report / Sizewell Parking Plans / Summer Visits / The Choose Woodbridge Organisation / Mike Rowland's Long Service / The History of our Inns, Taverns and Ale Houses / An Appreciation of Woodbridge Writers

Autumn 2012 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Group Report / Mixed Development for Whisstocks / Winter Talks / Report on Summer Visits / Russell Green: a Lifetime's Service to Woodbridge / Webb Brothers' Tradition of Service / Suffolk Coast & Heaths / Protecting the Deben / Lindos Leads the World / The Small Ships Story

Spring 2012 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Group Report / This Summer's Visits / The Tide Mill Restored / Past Jubilees in Woodbridge / Seckford Hall / Seckford Hall Hotel / How Notcutts Has Grown / From Hospital to Factory / Brafe Engineering / Frames by Robert / Akray's Role in the Fight against Diabetes

Autumn 2011 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Report / Summer Visits Success / The 2011-12 Lectures / Norman Scarfe Profiled / Special Report on Book Shops and Publishers: Shops & Library; Boydell & Brewer; Robert Simper; Top That!; Pro-Book; Antique Collectors' Club; Seafarer Books

Spring 2011 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Report / Membership News / The Town's Business Base / Peter Clay / Professor Colin Richmond / Summer Visits / Alexander Menswear Shop

Autumn 2010 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Group Report / Funds for the Tide Mill / Local Recorder's Role / Report on Summer Visits / Budgens' Role in the Community / Trapped in Fascist Italy / Woodbridge in the Napoleonic Wars / The Zeppelin Bomber / 4,200 Crash Landings / Threat to Red Cross

Spring 2010 - Download here

In this issue: Planning Group Report / New Chairman / The Crown Resurgent / Has Woodbridge Become a Clone Town? / SCDC Cost Cuts a Blow to Woodbridge in Bloom / Summer Visits / Three Distinguished Immigrants / Treasures of the Seckford Collection / Books on Woodbridge

Autumn 2009 - Download here

In this issue: Planning News / Profile of Tony Hubbard / Barretts Family Business / How to Build a Vision for Woodbridge / The Worst and the Best / An Architect's Impression / Italian Market's Lesson

Spring 2009 - Download here

In this issue: First Blue Plaques Unveiled / Proposals for Nunn's Mill Site / Kitchen Company's 25 Years in the Town / Town Centre Management / Edward Fitzgerald / Education in Woodbridge

Autumn 2008 - Download here

In this issue: Planning News / Seckford's Lasting Legacy / Super Service Optician / A Creative Partnership / The Lions' Largesse / The Rotary Double Act / Maritime Woodbridge / A Hiddden Memorial

Spring 2008 - Download here

In this issue: Celebrating the Town's Charities / Planning Matters / Woodbridge in Bloom / Thomas Seckford's Legacy / The Story of the Almshouses / Attractive Stonework a Reminder of a Talented Family / Charities under One Roof / Giving Youth a Real Chance

Autumn 2007 - Download here

In this issue: Green Flags for Elmhurst Park / Planning News / Changes to the Planning System / Browsers / A Town Councillor's View / Town Council Powers / Shire Hall's Saxon Link / Community Council / Woodbridge Art Club / The Story of the Museum / Builders of the Castle

Spring 2007 - Download here

In this issue: Performing Arts Riches / Planning News / Don't Turn a Deaf Ear / A Great Song and Dance / Award Winning Dramas / Century of Classical Music / Brass Band Sets a Record / Choral Group's Challenge / The New Seckford Asset / Shows Saved Cinema / First Theatre Built in 1813

Autumn 2006 - Download here

In this issue: Our Maritime Heritage / Obituary: BIll Williams / Planning News / A Vision for Whisstocks / Hearing Care Arrives / Woolworth Black Mark / Robertson's Tradition / Four Stars for Marina / Tide Mill's Ambitions / Deben Yacht Club / Cruising Club's DiY / Club that Rose from the Ashes / Walks with History

Spring 2006 - Download here

In this issue: A Town at the Crossroads / Planning News / Planner's New Powers / Decisions on Tesco Fund / Protect Your Home / Regional Plans Threat / The Riverside Activists / Trade and our Town / Olde Bell and Steelyard / House that was a Prison / Our Penicillin Hero / Our Most Popular Shop / A Horticultural History

Autumn 2005 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comments / Society Affairs / Planning News / Summer Outings / Events in the Town / Lecture Programme / P&R Locksmiths / Town Quiz / Profile: Frank Knights / RSPB in Woodbridge / Lady Rachel Bridges / Edward Manson Clockmaker / Our Quaker Legacy / A Chequered History in Theatre Street / Top That! Publishing

Spring 2005 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / Society Affairs / Latest Planning News / How the Planning Group Works / Summer Visits / Do You Know Your Town? / Why the King of Italy Came to Woodbridge / Soaring Strings on Market Hill / St George's Day / Gibbins: Tradition with a High-Tec Twist / EGM Minutes / New Constitution

Autumn 2004 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comments / Society Accounts for 2003/4 / Society AGM 2004 / Letter to County Council re Woodbridge Primary School / Summer Visits 2004 / Lecture Programme 2004/5 / Planning Matters / Newsletter Editor / Membership Secretary's Notes

Spring 2004 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / The Summer Programme / Planning Matters / Woodbridge & Melton Riverside Plan / Notcutts Garden Centre / Woodbridge of the 70s / Woodbridge & Melton Local Transport Plan

Autumn 2003 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Report / News from The Hard / Lecture Programme 2003-4 / Summer Programme / Planning Matters / Traffic Concerns / Future of the River Deben Waterfront

Spring 2003 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comments / New from the Hard / Summer Programme / Martin Bell / Planning Matters / Traffic Control / Treasurer's Report

Autumn 2002 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comments / Summer Programme /  Treasurer's Report / News from the Hard / Planning Matters

Spring 2002 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comments / In Memoriam / Daley Briscoe - President / News from the Hard / Summer Programme / Planning Matters / Treasurer's Report

Autumn 2001 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / Tribute to Col. Battye / Lecture Programme / I Heaven a Timber-framed Building? / Planning Matters / Bentwaters: Is It All Over? / Wooodbridge & Melton Strategic Partnership / Treasurer's Report / Summer Programme

Spring 2001 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / I Remember / Winter Lectures / Planning Matters / The Deben Mill / Woodbridge Museum / A Town for all Seasons / Woodbridge Tide Mill / Summer Programme

Autumn 2000 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / Church of St Mary / Suffolk Coastal Plan / Planning Matters / Treasurer's Report / Summer Programme / Meetings Programme / Book Review / Woodbridge Rotary Club

Spring 2000 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comments / Woodbridge Remembered / Treasurer's Report / Summer Programme

Autumn 1999 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment /  Forthcoming Events / Treasurer's Report / Out and About

Spring 1999 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment /  Forthcoming Events / Out and About / Treasurer's Report / Sutton Hoo Megabash / Deben Jottings

Spring 1997 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's comment / Forthcoming events / The Initiative Working Group / Town Guides Needed / Bentwaters - A Need for Vigilance / Summer visits / Planning Report 

Autumn 1996 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's comment / Forthcoming events / Annual visit / Traffic in the Thoroughfare / Book review / Sutton Hoo Revival / Waterfront Clean-up / Summer visit / Planning report

Spring 1995 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's comment / River jottings / Planning report / New Society chairman / Forthcoming events

Spring 1994 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's comment / Another bad dream? / The Boat Inn / Woodbridge in Bloom / Forthcoming events / Deben jottings / New Woodbridgians / Planning Report

Autumn 1994 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's comments / Forthcoming events / Breaking glass - broken hearts / Burkitt House / Planning report / Society growth

Spring 1993 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / Water Water Everywhere! / Walking Round Felixstowe / Woodbridge Shop Survey / Events / Treasurer's Note / Visit to Hadleigh / Town Twinning

Winter 1991 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / Visit to Notcutts / News from the Tide Mill / Visit to Southwold / Planning / Events / River Deben Association / Suffolk Horse Museum 

Winter 1990 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / River Defences / Visit of Bury Society / 1991 Calendar / Traffic Matters / Subs and Meetings / Origins of a Golf Course

Winter 1989 - Download here

In this issue: Chairman's Comment / Town environment threats / Meetings and events / Cleaning the Deben / Planning 

February 1988 - Download here

In this issue: Meetings / Planning

September 1988 - Download here

In this issue: Meetings / Planning