Now there is not a dairy herd for miles around.

Sudbury Museum Trust's Caught on Camera project badly wants to record these scenes in the town's photo archive and is searching for photo images. 

"Surely someone must have photographed this twice-daily event and we would very much like to borrow prints to scan into the archive," says David Burnett, secretary to the Trust.

"The nearest we have found so far is a shot of cattle crossing the footbridge on the Croft, which we think was taken in about 1950."

Sudbury's Caught on Camera photo archive now holds more than 400 historic images of its townscape, people, industries, services and activities and it being held up as a beacon project to other towns.

The archive can be viewed on a website sudburysuffolk.co.uk/photo archive or viewed on an easy-to-use computer console at the Heritage Centre and Museum in Sudbury Town Hall.

Most photographs have been loaned or given to be digitally scanned which preserves them from fading, being lost or dispersed and ensures an important archive for the future.

Another disappointing gap in the collection is the lack of photographs of the celebrations on VE day (Victory in Europe) in May 1945.

The flags came out, there was homemade bunting in residential streets and lots of street parties, yet none was caught by the amateur's camera – or so it seems.

The same goes for pictures of the town's Coronation celebrations in 1953.

Yet a camera did get a shot of a float in a colourful parade held a generation earlier in July 1919, to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended the 1914-1918 war.

The Trust is hoping that this appeal will jog memories of any family photographs of these two events that could be loaned for the archive.

Offers please to Valerie Herbert at 01787 372097.