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Tunstall then and now
Al
Berning provided this 1962 shot looking north-ish down
the road from Bentwaters, just coming into Tunstall, with
the Green Man barely visible on the left. In the far
distance, the road turns sharp right, then there's a left
fork towards Snape. In December 1999, Ron Burrell realised
that the gentleman standing on the right of the shot is himself - it is Ron!
On
15 January 2000, I took this shot from a similar spot to
Al Berning's picture. You can almost see the ghost
of Ron Burrell against the fence.
A period of 38 years separates the two pictures above. The pace os changes is slow in Suffolk.!
Tunstall at the beginning of
the year 2000
Tunstall post office. Like many rural POs, now closed and re-opened as an art gallery.
The Green Man (left) and cottages at Tunstall.
Cottages in tunstall, by the off-set crossroads.
St. Michael church, Tunstall. More details on Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches website.
Below,
Corner Cottage, Tunstall, where once lived Chuck Dalldorf
and others from the USAF.
This is just
further down past the Snape fork, when coming from Bentwaters. This
view is looking back towards the sharp bend in the
road, with the church (in the picture above, right) is
almost directly behind the viewer.
Just along the road from Corner Cottage, opposite the church was this seat, placed there in memory of John William Edwards Fabb. Pictured here in the low winter sun on 15 January 2000. The seat and the memorial plaque are shown below.
Back
up the road a bit, towards Eyke, there is The Ivy Lodge,
often mentioned
by
USAF people who request a picture
of their memories of Suffolk.
.
Tunstall when the US Air Force was Over Here
This was Ron's favorite pub when we were there on temporary duty before he lived there. This room was called the gun room in a pub called the Green Man in the village of Tunstall near the base. All walls were covered with old and exotic fire arms, African spears, shields, and skins from safaris that the owner had been on in his youth.
In later years, when we were stationed at the base, we found that the pub had been sold and redecorated following the previous owner's death. Unfortunately, it has lost all its character and we never went back again.