Old Lloyds Bank Walton / David Button Independant Funeral Directors

22/09/2020

15/11/2019

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09/08/2019

Lloyds Bank built in 1929 with no expense spared as you would expect with a Bank fitted out with all its original fixtures and fittings, Mahogany doors, brass handles, decorative plaster ceiling, coal fired boiler with cast iron radiators and parka floor the building was requisitioned by the War Department during World War 2 to store ammunition and supplies so it's life as a Bank was very short after the war had ended Lloyds Bank Ltd never reinstated it as a Bank had it up for sale until purchased by Bloomfield's in 1952 as a Furniture Store the building is now being used by David Button Independent Funeral Directors..

04/06/2019

The village sign getting a spruce over!

31/05/2019

: Walton Castle was a Saxon Shore Fort in the Roman province of Britannia. The fort was reused by the Normans who used it as the bailey for a castle.

In 1722 the remains were described as;
“‘Tis 100 yards long, five-foot above ground, 12 broad at each end and turned with an angle. Its composed of Pepple and Roman bricks in three courses, all round footsteps of buildings, and several large pieces of Wall cast down upon the Strand by the Seas undermining ye Cliff all which have Roman brick. At low water mark very much of the like is visible some distance in the Sea. There are two entire pillars with Balls, the Cliff is 100-foot high.”

In 1175-6 the castle was dismantled by King Henry II and used in the construction of Orford Castle. The walls of the Roman fort survived this demolition

It stood 30 metres above sea level but was destroyed by coastal erosion in the 18th century.
The walls can still be seen at some distance from the beach during exceptionally low tides at the dip in Old Felixstowe.

02/05/2019

We don’t often sing our praises loud enough for our very own Walton High Street.

The High Street has an eclectic mix of businesses from funeral directors, a long established furniture shop, a baker, chemists, beauticians to even a couple of pubs if you get dehydrated.

These businesses are suffering from the recent and current road/gas works and are in desperate need for your support!

18/11/2018

So much history here with these buildings.