Long Melford Historical & Archaeological Society
Archive Group
We have set up an archive group to catalogue our extensive collection of
documents, books, photographs etc.
This catalogue is available to download by clicking this link:
To search for keywords, please enable editing, select the entire spreadsheet and use Ctrl F.
If you wish to see any of the items listed, we would be delighted for you
to join us at one of our monthly meetings, to view the document. Please email your request, including the item number shown in column A to: lmhas1969@outlook.com
A donation to our funds would be very welcome, which will be used to purchase the
archival stationery that we use to keep the documents in storage.
If you would like to join this group and help to catalogue the remaining items,
please call or email us to reserve your place.
Our Meeting dates for the 2025/2026 season are:
18th September 2025
16th October 2025
20th November 2025
No meeting in December 2025/January 2026
19th February 2026
10th March 2026
16th April 2026
14th May 2026
11th June 2026
9th July 2026
20th August 2026
Julie Thomson & Mary Clark, Archive Officers and the Archive Team
Tel: 01787 375329
Scroll down for another resource available in Long Melford........
Long Melford Heritage Trust
If you are researching your family history or previous residents of your house, our friends over at the Long Melford Heritage Trust have an excellent resource on their website.
After many years of painstaking research and analysis highlighting the lives and achievements of over 1000 men and women connected with the village, the website now includes the family trees and associated stories.
To use this free resource, go to the Long Melford Heritage Centre webpage at https://melfordheritage.org.uk/family-history/ (figure1) and click on the first letter of the surname you require e.g. ‘A’ for Ambrose, this will then open a list of all the families in that group (figure 2) find the name you require. Using the example of Ambrose, this will take you to a page with forty individual biographies, photographs and family trees.
figure 2
figure1
Of the 550 family groups identified as living in or associated with Long Melford over the years, 470 are already on the Heritage Centre website. We are constantly updating our archive and would welcome your help with more photographs and family stories.
David Gevaux
Long Melford Heritage Trust
