A market place in time - A return visit from a young local author explaining changes in Mildenhall Market Place from the mid-1800s.

The story of a building built hundreds of years ago, yet still part of our modern landscape is a fascinating piece of social history. If you research deep enough there are both stories and secrets hidden within the walls of these ancient properties we walk past every day. The shops and homes built by previous generations offer us a direct link to those that lived before us, a chance to escape the 21st century and travel back in time discovering the ups and downs — successes and secrets— of former owners and tenants who lived and worked in these buildings.

This book focuses on the Historic buildings and features of the Market Square in Mildenhall — a small market town in Suffolk. Mildenhall was rebuilt after a great fire in 1567, join the time travelling storey of these 16th-century properties as we track their history and residents right up to the present day. The most important part of a building’s history is its inhabitants those who come and go as the years turn into decades and centuries. As generations come and go what’s left is an evidence of working life, disease, emigration, crime, love and death.

A remarkable glimpse into the past lives and dramas of our ancestors, peek behind the closed doors of bygone eras and learn how they lived and the secrets they kept within their four walls.

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