Mixture of Old and New Photographs of Woodbridge and Melton
In 1982 the shop on the right became part of a residential development called Carmelite Place.
In September 1921 nine sisters of the Carmelite Order established a community in Stone House, Church Street. The community grew rapidly and in 1925 they bought properties in Church Street on either side of the original house. In 1938 they moved to Rushmere to subsequently to Quidenham near Attleborough in Norfolk.
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This photograph shows Carmelite Place. The doorway on the left of the building had a turned wheel which made it possible to pass items to and from the building without having to have any contact with the nuns.
This entrance way was created after the nuns had moved to Rushmere. It enabled a number of houses to be built within the former courtyard.
In 1575 he obtained a licence from the Queen to found almshouses for the constant residence of thirteen poor men. They were to be accommodated in seven tenements he had just built on northern side of Le Fishpond Street. Seckford ordained that the 13 almsmen would have use of a nearby garden of about 3 acres and of a fountain or well in his "newly enclosed park in Woodbridge". It is probably because of the fountain or well that Le Fishpond Street was being called Well Street by 1587.
