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Welcome to Wrentham

Views of ‘Main Road’
 (The High Street)
1) Looking North from
    Five Cross Ways
6) Looking further
    North out of village

What was a Grocer’s, Post Office,

Reading Room, Coffee House & Town Hall

(now a Fish & Chip Shop, Sewing Shop and 4 private houses)

Southwold Road

Looking South just beyond

Nos 1-9

Southwold

Old Photographs

Coloured Photo of Wrentham
 C 1980
 Sadd’s Grocery Shop has the sunshades down. This is now ‘Stove Solutions’
The United Reformed Church (The Chapel)
 Built in 1778
 The cottages on the left have since been demolished
Five Cross Ways
under Snow
 1996
The National School
 (Wrentham  Primary School)
 in London Road
 Opened in 1834
 & Closed in 1992
Southwold Road viewed from
Five Cross Ways junction
(May 1900)
 No.  1 was the Doctors
 No. 5 was the King’s Head Public House
 Tower Mill can be seen in the distance
 (The site  of the mill is currently occupied by Cedar Cycles)
King George 6th  and Wrentham
 Parish Clerk’s Uncle on
Southwold Beach
Five Cross Ways
3 High Street was a Confectioner’s & Grocers
 5 High Street was a Telegraph / Post Office
 7 High Street was a Coffee House &
Reading Room (library)
 (note the iron  railings removed in the war)
5) Looking North
    past ‘The Spread Eagle’
   (Once a coaching Inn )
    - now  accommodation
4) ‘Wrentham Stores’ in the
High Street
2) Further on - Easey & Son
   (Saddlers and Harness Makers)
    is on the right.   
3) Looking further North
     towards  S. G. Sawyer’s   
      Garage       
Southwold Road from the South

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