His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time ; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History.

At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home.

Eleanor Jacques was now married and had gone to Singapore and Brenda Salkield had left for Ireland, so Blair was relatively isolated in Southwold — working on the allotments, walking alone and spending time with his father.

He had a girl in Southwold and another girl in London.

It was in the home of Mabel Fierz, who had, with her husband, a London businessman named Francis, been for a number of years a visitor to Southwold in the summer, and who was on friendly terms with the Blairs, that Orwell discarded the typescript.

Hobart had been an assistant vicar of St. Edmund's Church, Southwold after graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge.

She holidayed in the town as a child and remarked in an interview that while everything else in her life had changed, her mother and Southwold had remained the same.

Walberswick had a railway station on the Southwold Railway but the line and station closed on 11 April 1929.

Although lack of capital prevented the construction of a branch from the main line to the navigation at Halesworth and another along the north bank of the river towards Southwold harbour, the railway still had an effect on the navigation, use of which declined until the Commissioners advertised that they were no longer deriving any income from it in 1884, and would therefore cease to maintain it.

But In 2005 A small group of Halesworthians founded the new breed of cricket club, Halesworth Pumas, who have managed to build a club from nothing, In 2006 the Pumas recorded just one loss, which was against a select XI, 2007 season started strongly, after 4 games 3 victories had been attained, the 4th game mentioned being a very close affair at Southwold.

She had one brother, Hugo, Viscount Ashby, who later became 13th Earl of Southwold.

Blythburgh had a railway station on the narrow gauge Southwold Railway, which ran from Halesworth to the Suffolk coast at Southwold via Walberswick, but this closed, with the rest of the line, on 11 April 1929.

Later Blair was expelled from the crammer at Southwold for sending a dead rat as a birthday present to the town surveyor.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

The region has a wide range of small-scale holiday resorts ranging from the traditional coastal towns of Felixstowe and Lowestoft in Suffolk and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to small fishing villages like Aldeburgh and Southwold in Suffolk.

Southwold was mentioned in Domesday Book as an important fishing port, and it received its town charter from Henry VII in 1489.

The narrow-gauge Southwold Railway connected the town to Halesworth and ran from 24 September 1879 to 11 April 1929.

That proposal has been superseded by another, in which a short section of railway, together with other attractions and facilities, would be constructed in the village of Wenhaston, a few miles inland from Southwold and once a stop on the Southwold Railway.

The earlier church dated from the time when Southwold was a small fishing hamlet adjacent to the larger Reydon.

Housed in the former Cromer lifeboat shed, the latter is home to the former Southwold lifeboat " Alfred Corry ", which was in service from 1893 to 1918.

Southwold from the end of the pier

Trinity House maintains 69 lighthouses ranging from isolated rock towers like the Eddystone to mainland towers like Southwold lighthouse.

After Orwell returned from Paris in December 1929, he used his parents ' house in Southwold as his base for the next five years.

Walton has an HM Coastguard team and houses Thames MRCC ( Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre ), organising rescues from Southwold to Herne Bay.

Walberswick is a village on the Suffolk coast in England, across the River Blyth from Southwold.

Reydon is a village and civil parish, north-west from Southwold and south east of Wangford in Waveney District and the ceremonial county of Suffolk in England.

The three roads from Wangford, Wrentham and Halesworth converge at Reydon corner about 100 metres from where Mights Bridge crosses over Buss Creek, which provides the only road bridge entry to Southwold.

However, Reydon Primary School is still attended by children from Reydon, Wrentham, Wangford and Southwold.

The Blyth Navigation was a canal in Suffolk, England, running from Halesworth to the North Sea at Southwold.

The volume of water which drained from the saltings on every tide kept the mouth of the river scoured, and enabled Southwold to develop as an important, though minor, port.

Knights was a brewer from Halesworth, and suggested that Southwold harbour needed to be improved first.

In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner.

He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at St Felix Girls ' School, Southwold.

Southwold Museum holds a number of exhibits focussed on the local and natural history of the town.

Other local bus services link the suburban areas of Martham, Hemsby, Gorleston, Bradwell and Belton / These are mostly operated by First Eastern Counties and services to towns further afield such as Beccles, Southwold, Acle and Diss are mostly operated by Anglian Bus.

In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents ' house in Southwold, which was to remain his base for the next five years.

Blair was writing reviews for Adelphi and acting as a private tutor to a disabled child at Southwold.

When he was discharged in January 1934, he returned to Southwold to convalesce and, supported by his parents, never returned to teaching.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

The Sole Bay Brewery in Southwold was purchased in 1872 by George and Ernest Adnams.

Southwold was the home of a number of Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 17th century.

Adnams Brewery is located in Southwold, and was voted Brewery of the Year 2011 by a well-known guidebook.

Southwold lighthouse was constructed in 1887 by Trinity House.

Southwold Pier was built in 1900, and, at 247 metres ( about 810 feet ) was long enough to accommodate the Belle steamers which carried trippers along the coast.

The Old Water Tower, in the middle of Southwold Common, was built in 1890.

By the 15th century Southwold was an important town in its own right, and the church was rebuilt to match its power and wealth.

ITV drama, A Mother's Son, was recently filmed on location in Southwold.

His final visit to Southwold was in 1939.