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News and EventsRegular visitors to this website will notice that the website has not been updated for quite some time due to very difficult personal circumstances. However there will be more updating done over the next few weeks with a complete make-over. The council minutes are now available as .pdf documents exactly as written by the Town Clerk. They can be downloaded and printed off to be read at leisure if necessary. There are new photo galleries on the website and we welcome any photos of Bungay that you would like to see included. Just email your photo to val@sanderling.co.uk. The website has been updated with the Council minutes up to date and we will endeavour to keep it so. There is also a great new book written by Tom Honeywood entitled Chicken Roundabout - click here for details. SCHOOL REUNION July 17th 2009 For pupils who left the Secondary Modern in Hillside Road East in 1964. At the Royal British Legion Club, Priory Lane, 8pm. Details from Susan Emeny, nee Griffin, on 892551. BUNGAY FESTIVAL July 1st - July 19th Click here for details Farewell to the Town Recorder
The Mayor of Bungay, Mr John Warnes hosted a farewell reception for the Town Recorder, Mr Frank Honeywood who, after 30 years is handing over the tole of Town Recorder to Mr Albert Thwaites. Mr Warnes expressed gratitude on behalf of the Town for all that he had achieved and Mr Honeywood explained how he had gone up scaffoldings to get some of the shots he wanted All his records have been handed over to the Museum and, he said that he will still keep his eyes open as he went through the town on his electric buggy. We must remember he said that every day we ware making memories which will be the history of the future.
Mr Warnes commnted on the trememdous amount of money raised by his displays and wished Frank's successor, Albert Thwaites success in his new role. Click on the photo of the cake above to see the fine detail of the icing on the cake. Earsham Festival 2009 The Earsham Festival will take place this year during the weekend of July 10th -12th and once again the emphasis will be on family entertainment. A ctivities will start on Friday evening, July 10th, with a disco for the under 12s in the village hall from 6.00pm till 8.00pm.. On Saturday, July 11th, there will be the annual Mini Beer Festival in the village hall from 11.00am until late and a Family Fun Day and children’s entertainment on the village green in the afternoon. Attractions will include Earsham School dancing display, Bungay High School musicians, charity stalls, craft stalls, traditional games and competitions, bouncy castles and a variety of refreshments. Good quality food and music will be available throughout the day and in the evening there will be dancing in the village hall to the music of two local bands. On both Saturday and Sunday there will be a walking photo trail round the village, together with displays, exhibitions, photo competition and craft activities for children in All Saints Church. In addition, local artists at two locations in the village will invite the public to visit their studios and view their work. Morning coffee and cream teas will be available during the weekend at the Church and events will conclude with Songs of Praise on Sunday evening at 5.00pm. For further details please telephone 01986 893445 or 01986 895535. CIRCUS SKILLS FROM THE TOY AND GIFT EMPORIUM
Click the poster for further details Tickets are priced at £5 and we suggest that anybody aged over 5 years and wanted to learn a new skill would enjoy it. There will be circus skills equipment for sale at the event for those who wish to demonstrate and practice at home. Tickets are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets can be purchased at The Toy & Gift Emporium now, tickets cannot be purchased from the Fisher Theatre. FESTIVAL SHOP WINDOW COMPETITION
Bungay Chamber of Trade and Commerce is holding its festival shop window competition between the 4th July and 18th July. We have had a huge response from traders wishing to take part. Our brief was Credit Crunch. we chose to add ".................... and Bungay bites back" 18 local business' have taken up the challenge of creating a A4 sized letter to spell out "and Bungay bites back." They have also all contributed to the prize hamper for 1 lucky entrant drawn from the hat on Monday 20th July. The following traders are involved and what they have given as goodies; Hobbyhorse - 8"x8" pearlised scrap book
All the entrants have to do is pick up a sheet from one of the shops taking part, take a stroll round Bungay to locate the letter in the shops and mark it down next to the name of the shop, when completed take to entry form back to Short Sir-cut or The Toy and Gift Emporium to be in with a chance to win all of the above goodies. WAVENEY FARM SHOP
The café does a great "All day Breakfast" and there is a specials menu board and cake's, teas and Fair trade coffees are also served. It seats about 30 people and when the weather permits there are outside tables. There is wireless internet conection, and the shop has easy access from the main A143 road and plenty of parking space! Great place to meet social and an ideal "meeting point" for business people! Peter and Ru welcome all who would like to enjoy something "different" and look forward to see you!. LEOTARD SALE Hobbyhorse of Bungay can only be described as a mini department store with separate areas relating to different hobbies and pastimes. The main focus for Hobbyhorse is to provide a local source of quality items in support of local clubs, groups, organisations and individuals that have leisure time activity, whether it be tap dancing, flower arranging or making greetings cards. For more information see www.hobbyhorseofbungay.co.uk.
Many of the contributors were born well before World War II, and from their first hand accounts, we obtain a feel for how the town was in the 20s and 30s, and how it gradually changed into the place we know today. A lthough there is plenty of nostalgia – we hear how the Bedingfield family cooked sausages, about the games the children played on the common that would horrify Health and Safety, and what life was like working as a delivery boy in the 1947 floods - Dinky Payne also tells us very movingly how her memories of seeing children in need eighty years ago led to a life devoted to charity. For those who don’t know much about Bungay, Christopher Reeve provides some historical background and Martin Evans explains what being the Town Reeve means. But the undoubted star of the CD is Gordon Knowles, known to everyone as Chicken Boy. We accompany him at six in the morning on his daily journey to feed the Ditchingham chickens, but he also shows what a superb raconteur he is, regaling us with tales from seven decades of a life spent in Bungay. Our Town in Sound was made and recorded by Suffolk born radio producer, Nicholas Jenkins, who earlier made Town in Sound CDs about Framlingham and Diss. The CD was launched on November 30th, costs just five pounds and is available to buy from The Toy and Gift Emporium in Earsham Street or from their website www.toyandgiftemporium.co.uk. It’s an ideal Christmas present and a must for lovers of Bungay and anyone who enjoys hearing the authentic Waveney Valley Suffolk accent spoken by natural storytellers. You can also find details how to order the CD from Nicholas Jenkins’s website, www.soundingboardproductions.co.uk Bungay: Our Town In Sound features the voices of Malcolm Bedingfield, Martin Evans, Frank Honeywood, Gordon Knowles, Victor and Grace Moyse, Burton Nursey, Dinky Payne, Peggy Pietrzak and Christopher Reeve, and plays for 72 minutes. AN EXCITING PUBLISHING EVENT FOR BUNGAY A NEW VOLUME OF "THE TOWN RECORDER" The second volume of photographs from the collection of Frank Honeywood is available to order Like the first volume, published in 1994, the book contains over 170 photographs from Frank’s unique and historic collection. Whereas the first volume covered town history and amenities, the second volume focuses on Bungay’s social life. It includes photographs of all thirty three pubs that existed in c. 1900, as well as extensive sections on sports and leisure activities, and the celebration of royal events from the Victorian period until recent times. The accompanying text has been written by Christopher and Terry Reeve. For further information, contact Chris Reeve on 01986 896788 or 893155, or Terry Reeve on 01986 896416. The Waveney Blog - www.waveneyvalleyblog.com
"Blog means a web log, which is a daily addition of information and media, it can be about anything, the Waveney Valley Blog is about everything to do with people and communities in the region, so anyone can use the Blog, either to add information or to seek information. The information can be factual as per community related information, photographic records of past and present, what’s on, or fictitious stories and yarns. This Blog also features local business editorials that inform the regular browsers of the Blog about who can do what and where. Everything being added to the Blog is stored to create a library of information and interest, a web log that can be looked back on for research or amusement. We hope this helps to explain it, and we look forward to receiving anything you would like to add."
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This is the chance to get a real bargain as once they are gone they will not be re-ordered - call on 01986 892504 for details. See also SALE items of dance shoes. 
Bungay: Our Town in Sound is a 72 minute audio CD that captures the thoughts and memories of ten local people, most of whom have spent all their lives in Bungay. 
The Waveney Valley Blog was set up by Nigel and Susan Bedingfield and it contains very interesting facts and detail about this wonderful area in which we live. For those of you who do not understand what a Blog is then this is taken from the website