Wednesday 18 August 2010




After Cromer, I decided to camp up at a pub. The greyhound Inn fit the bill nicely. just a simple field which i had to myself. They also do bike rallies and suchlike there which is worth knowing for future. Local cider and chatty locals.

Stopped in Swaffham t take pictures of the Swaffham tinker, also known as the Swaffham peddlar who apparently was told by someone that they had a dream that he should dig in his garden and he found a pot of gold with which he paid for the church to be built. There are a lot of swaffham peddlar images. The two oldest I could find were the medievil stained glass window and the church pew-end carving of him and his dog.

Then went to the airfield memorial at mendlesham. Disgustingly, someone has stolen the copper plaque from the memorial, again presumably to sell for scrap.

maybe I'm jumping to onclusions sugesting it was members of the travelling community but if it was, they would do well to remember they have more reson than most to be thankfull to the boys who kept us from becoming part of the 3rd reich, the travelling/roma community was as much included in Hitlers final solution as were the Jews. That really got to me that someone would stoop so low as to steal a war memorial. As good an argument as I've herd to reinstate public floggings.

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