We have found some fascinating articles concerning Walberswick in the British Newspaper Archives and thought we’d like to share these with readers from time to time. Did you know Walberswick was famous for its butter?
The following article appeared in the Ipswich Evening Star on Saturday, August 24, 1895.
Out of the whole of East Anglia Walberswick butter was as well known as Stilton cheese is to-day. Why this should have been the case it is impossible to say. It is well known, however, that not only Walberswick but many places in this part of the world sent out the finest dairy produce to be found in England. The trade disappeared many years ago from East Anglia, and it is only recently that efforts have been made to get it back. So popular did the industry with butter become at Walberswick that it was found necessary to make some restrictions with regard to those who should be employed in this industry. So with the power which village bodies in such places as Walberswick possessed in mediaeval times, it was commanded that the old men only would be engaged in the butter trade, but that those who possessed the strength and energy of youth should go to Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and engage themselves in the catching of ling.