Isaiah Deck, a chemist of King’s Parade provides New Year’s Eve fireworks

Mr Deck came up in a talk at the Mill Road History Society this evening, so I started trawling through the British Newspaper Archive to see what it threw up. This reminiscence from 1924 of a Victorian New Years Eve on King’s Parade tells us that Mr Deck was originally from Bury St Edmunds, up … Continue reading Isaiah Deck, a chemist of King’s Parade provides New Year’s Eve fireworks