The Blaxhall Archive Group has around 12 regular members, ranging from 33 to 93 years of age! Other members of the community also help with different projects. Some are relatively new to the village while others have been life-long residents but what they have in common is a passion to record and preserve the social history of their Suffolk village.



The Group attempts to organise talks and exhibitions which are both of interest to local people and also help to promote the work of the Blaxhall Archive Group (BAG) as well as encourage people to come forward with photographs and other historical material.



The Group has been collecting images of Blaxhall, mainly photographs, since 2002. The subject matter is comprehensive and includes images of individuals, places and social events from the past one hundred years. Many of these photographs will be used in the book and on the DVD which are two of the LHI-assisted outputs from this this project.


It is hoped that the database will be accessible to all interested people after the LHI project is completed.

A poster exhibition was held in Blaxhall village hall in May 2005. The objective of the exhibition was to display a sample of the photographic database. Over 700 people visited the exhibition during it’s three day run. This event was LHI-grant assisted and helped promote the Group’s work.



In January 2006 a talk about the LHI project and also about the work of the Suffolk Records Office was followed by a heritage film show showing Suffolk life during the 1920s and 1970s. The staff of the Suffolk Records Office (SRO) are supporting and helping BAG members in their research. As part of their cooperation Bridget Hanley, Archivist at the SRO, gave the talk on the work of the records office with particular reference to Blaxhall archive material held at the SRO.