MacMillan morning at The Swan, Southwold
Wonderful cakes and coffee at The Swan in Southwold market place in the High Street, and all in aid of MacMillan nurses. Possibly the ultimate in pleasant morning occupations
Category: High Street
June in #Southwold
Southwold’s first Arts festival at the end of the month, is sure not to be the last. A week of diverse entertainment from The Opera Babes performing arias in St Edmunds Church, to A 20 minute slideshow of families snapshots of their holidays in the 20s and 30s in #Southwold, with appropriate poetry and songs.[…]
Southwold stays quirky
In a time when high streets get more standardised all round the country, even though a few well=known names are creeping into Southwold, it boldly resists becoming a ubiquitous copy of every other town. Although the horse-drawn dray of Adnams is a distant memory, the summer months are brightened by a horse drawn wagon, which[…]
No Costa Coffee for Southwold. Sense at last!
There has been much press coverage on the resistance of local people in Southwold to a plan to open a Costa Coffee Shop in Southwold High Street. Histrionics on local websites have talked of “Southwold snobbishness”, but the real truth is that we just don’t need another place to buy coffee here, and a feeling[…]
Mary Portas for Southwold?
Will we have Mary Portas along to tell Southwold how to organise the High Street? – we will if the Chamber of Commerce have their way. It may be too late however, as even in the last 12 months, we have had two ubiquitous high street names, Tesco and WH Smith move into the town.[…]