This postcard shows the interior of Great Bricett church, facing the altar.
The stamp shows the postcard was received/processed at Great Bricett post office on 16 September 1929, and was addressed to:
Miss Edith Robinson
Trickers Green
Combs
Nr Stowmarket
Suffolk
The note reads:
Dear Edie
We are just having a week at Bricett. How is the harvest work going on
Dearest Love,
Ruth
Fortunately, I was able to find an Edith Robinson living at Trickers Green, Combs in 1911, who just happened to have a younger sister named Ruth. The girls, their parents, and their brothers were all born in Combs meaning there was no apparent connection to Great Bricett.
However Ruth uses ‘we’, and since further investigation shows she married in 1920, it seemed highly likely her travel companion was her husband.
And this is where the Bricett connection lies – Ruth’s husband, Stanley Kitchener Barton, was born in Great Bricett.
Stanley was born and baptised in Great Bricett, as were both his parents, Willie Barton and Eliza Sayers. His parents had even stood at the altar featured in the postcard when they married in 1891.
Willie and Eliza lived almost their entire lives in Great Bricett. After Eliza died in 1936, Willie appears to have lived with daughter Evelyn for a time at Great Blakenham, before becoming a patient at Stow Lodge Hospital in Onehouse, and apparently dying there 1940. Willie and Eliza are both buried in Bricett churchyard.
Stanley and Ruth married at Combs in 1920 and settled at Woodbridge where Stanley worked as a chauffeur and motor driver. His father, Willie, had worked as a groom and domestic coachman, so Stanley’s career seems to have followed the modern progression of the trade.
When the postcard was sent in 1929, the couple were likely staying with Stanley’s parents on New Road (now B1078).
More details of Stanley Barton and his family can be found on WikiTree
Research Note: In the 1891 census, Eliza was recorded as a servant in the Makens household at Ringshall, while Willie was recorded as a visitor of Eliza’s parents at Great Bricett. They would marry later that year. In 1921, Willie was recorded as an employee of Miss K. Makens, Ringshall.