Youngman, Emma, Masons’ Arms, Rope lane
The POST-OFFICE is at the top of Queen-street. Mr. William Stevenson Fitch is the postmaster. Three deliveries of letters take place in the town each day, and eight village postmen go daily to the surrounding country. There are four receiving boxes in different parts of the town. The Mails are despatched by rails, &c., to London and all parts at 7.55 morning and 10 night, and to Bury St. Edmund’s, Cambridge, North of England, &c., at one afternoon. Mail Carts to Felixstow, Woodbridge, Saxmundham, Yarmouth, &c., every morning. The Letter Box closes at 10 night. Money Orders are granted and paid from 9½ morning to 6 evening. The Post-office Clerks are Messrs. John Madocks, James Saxty, William Whitehead, and Richard Charles Duningham. The Town Letter Carriers are Messrs. George Brame, Edgar Boar, Jos. Wilson, William Goddard, and Thomas Wilde. A new Post-Office is in course of erection.
BRAMFORD.
A railway station, parish, and considerable village on the Eastern Union railway and navigable river Gipping, 2½ miles north-west from Ipswich, in Bosmere and Claydon Hundred and Union, East Suffolk; contained a population of 833 in 1841, and in 1851, 997. Its area is 3,168 acres. Here is a common of 10 acres, and 10 acres in cottage gardens. Sir P. Broke, Bart., is lord of the manor, and owner of a large portion of the soil. The church of St. Stephen is a neat building, with square tower and leaden spire; the living is a vicarage in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, and the Rev. S. W. Maul is the present incumbent. There is also a small Independent chapel.
Allen, Alfred, and Emma, National school for boys and girls
Bagley, John, blacksmith
Baxter, Benjamin, grocer, &c.
Bowman, James, baker
Bramford, James, farmer
Burch, John, saddler and harness maker