Former Riding School - Ferry Road
 
     
 

 




 

 

 

Field Stile Riding School has moved to this site from its former location at the corner of Field Stile Road and St Edmund's Road, as evidenced by the photograph, right, estimated mid to late 1920s.


 

1936
Ursula J Read - Proprietress of the Field Stile Riding School (SVL1936).


C 1946 - 1949
Edna Parke - Proprietress of the Riding School which has now changed its name to Southwold Riding School.

 


 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 

 

   

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SOURCES:
BSD - Bernard Segrave-Daly
BCS = Bygones & Characters of Southwold by Barrett Jenkins
C = Census
CP = Cinema Programme 1958
CSP = Coronation Souvenir Programme 1953
G = Gales Trade Directory
GRO = General Register Office
K = Kelly's Directory
LM = Local memory
M = James Maggs' Southwold Diary 1818-1876
MCG = Methodist Church Guide 1930
NA = National Archives
PP = Pantomime Programme 1933
PLR = Petrol Licence Records

POD = Post Office Directory
PPP = Pier Pavilion Programme 1924, 1926
RCE = Rotary Club Exhibition 1969
SCM = Southwold Catholic Magazine 1923
SCTG = Southwold Corporation Tourist Guide
SER = Southwold Electoral Register
SFP = Southwold Scouts Fete Programme 1947
SG = Southwold Guide
SGCH = Southwold Golf Club Handbook
SLHR = Southwold Local History Recorder 1980s 1990s (Mrs R. McDermot)
SMHS = Southwold Museum & Historical Society

SN = Southwold & Neighbourhood 1903
SPM = Southwold Parish Magazine 1895 -1954
SR = Southwold Recorder 1927, 1932, 1934, 1935
SRB = Southwold Rate Book
SRT = Southwold Railway Timetable 1915
SSAS = Southwold Sea Angling Society Handbook 1909
SST = Southwold Summer Theatre Programmes
SSW = Southwold Shopping Week Programme, June/July 1922
STG = Southwold Town Guide 1930
SVL = Southwold Visitors List 1907, 1930
SVCP = Southwold Victory Celebration Programme 1946
SWCG = Southwold Wesleyan Church Guide

TTR = 'The Town Revisited' - Portraits of Southwold by Stephen Wolfenden 2000
TTT = ''To The Town' - Portraits of Southwold by Stephen Wolfenden 1988
W = White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk 1874

 
Note on dates
Unless otherwise stated, dates given do not indicate the years in which the business started or finished but those for which there is firm evidence that it was trading at this address. Sources in brackets; key at bottom of page.

 

Sam May (Samuel Charles Brabben May) with two woman companions at the Field Stile Riding School in Ferry Road adjacent to the small toilet block (former bath house). Date probably mid to late 1920s. Photo Courtesy of Keith May, Sam's nephew.

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Advertisements for the Riding School gymkhana in 1936 in the 'Southwold Visitors List.

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Reproduced courtesy of Margaret Turnbull

A selection of rosettes awarded at gymkanas run by the Southwold Riding School in the 1940s.

Photos courtesy of Peter Parke