To Suffolk with Love, The Life of Felix Thornley Cobbold by Rosalind Thomas continues to sell steadily and is now being reprinted. It can be ordered through ‘Books for Sale’ on this website and profits help the Trust.
At Lancing, earlier this term the Old Girls and Staff Hockey XI played the School XI. The former was captained by Hannah Cobbold (# 897 in the tree) and the latter by her sister Esther Cobbold (#1155). The school won a very tight game 4-3.
An Ipswich Town Football Club Christmas card, 1974-75, signed by John Cobbold (1927-1983)(# 575) has been taken into the Trust archive.
Ipswich, The changing face of the town by David Kindred, published just last year, contains over 300 of his fine photographs. A copy has kindly been given to the Trust by Old Pond Publishing Ltd. It includes a picture of ‘Draymen with their wagons and Suffolk Punch horses at Cobbold’s Brewery, Cliff Quay in February 1935.’
‘Lancer’ Finest Old Scotch Whisky. Cobbold & Co Ltd., Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, proclaims a label sporting a fine young cavalry officer, recently added to the archive.