Old Photographs of Woodbridge and Melton
In 1930 three local businessmen set up a jam factory at the top of Angel Lane to create employment in the town for women. The factory is believed to have been in the building at the junction of Angel Lane and Market Hill. It probably closed when the businessmen set up a canning factory on Hamblin gardens.
The closely packed houses on Angel Lane remained unchanged until the early 1950 when two houses at the top of the eastern side of the lane were demolished to make way for an outlet of Ken Blaxill, builders merchants and glass suppliers. One of the buildings which had been demolished had been a blacksmith smithy in 1840.
In 1983 the outlet of Ken Blaxill was relocated to a new industrial estate in Melton. Soon after the Angel Lane site was cleared the two houses in the centre of this photograph were built. They both fit in well with the surrounding older buildings. The residents have car parking spaces behind the houses.
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The Angel public house on Theatre Street is on the left had side of this photograph. The access to the cellar is just out of view.
The three semidetached houses and one detached house that line the left hand side of Angel Lane do not appear to have changed since 1840.
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