wiki-illiam #107: q9
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dubdobdeeWhere:
i: does the train stop in silence?
"The train slows down into a crawl/And stops in silence.../Where is this?/Dear Mary Wilson, this is DISS" John Betjeman's 'A Mind's Journey to Diss' (AT)
ii: did Hilda extract a badly mauled shrimp?
LPHartley's The Shrimp and the Anemone, the first in his Eustace and Hilda trilogy, is set in HUNSTANTON, fictionalised as Anchorstone (SB)
iii: is an execution remembered annually in October?
The nurse Edith Cavell was executed as a spy during World War I: her body was buriedin 1919 in NORWICH CATHEDRAL, where graveside service is held every October (SB)
iv: did the town nominally suffer episcopal deprivation?
Until it surrendered to Henry VIII, KING'S LYNN (Lenne Regis) was known as Bishop's Lynn (Len Episcopi): it was under the jurisdiction, temporal and spiritual, of the Bishop of Norwich (SB)
v: was a village store opened which would become the world's largest?
Roy's of WROXHAM is the world's largest village store (RB)
vi: did Sir John entrust his foundation to one of the Livery Companies?
In 1555, Sir John Gresham, sometime Lord Mayor of London, established a school in trust of the Fishmongers' Company, to be based at HOLT, near Cromer (AT, via google)
vii: is there a fully clothed life-sized wax effigy of Sarah?
In the church at STOW BARDOLPH, there is such an effigy to one Sarah Hare, d.1744, who required she be memorialised in this somewhat creepy fashion (SB)
viii: did the doctor use an old bream as a weathercock?
Apparently mentioned in Arthur Ransome's The Big Six, this cock can be found in HORNUNG, at least fictionally (SB, who it should be noted has played a Norfolk-themed blinder on this stage)
ix: did the bishopric exist for just nineteen years?
"The Diocese of Thetford was formed when Bishop Herfast moved the episcopal see from Elmham to THETFORD in 1075. This short-lived see continued until it was moved to Norwich in 1094" (SB via google)
x: is there a statue to the corn deity?
Grannus, the God of Corn, is memorialised via statue in THETFORD (SB)
Thetford twice?
"The train slows down into a crawl/And stops in silence.../Where is this?/Dear Mary Wilson, this is DISS" John Betjeman's 'A Mind's Journey to Diss' (AT)
LPHartley's The Shrimp and the Anemone, the first in his Eustace and Hilda trilogy, is set in HUNSTANTON, fictionalised as Anchorstone (SB)
The nurse Edith Cavell was executed as a spy during World War I: her body was buriedin 1919 in NORWICH CATHEDRAL, where graveside service is held every October (SB)
Until it surrendered to Henry VIII, KING'S LYNN (Lenne Regis) was known as Bishop's Lynn (Len Episcopi): it was under the jurisdiction, temporal and spiritual, of the Bishop of Norwich (SB)
Roy's of WROXHAM is the world's largest village store (RB)
In 1555, Sir John Gresham, sometime Lord Mayor of London, established a school in trust of the Fishmongers' Company, to be based at HOLT, near Cromer (AT, via google)
In the church at STOW BARDOLPH, there is such an effigy to one Sarah Hare, d.1744, who required she be memorialised in this somewhat creepy fashion (SB)
Apparently mentioned in Arthur Ransome's The Big Six, this cock can be found in HORNUNG, at least fictionally (SB, who it should be noted has played a Norfolk-themed blinder on this stage)
"The Diocese of Thetford was formed when Bishop Herfast moved the episcopal see from Elmham to THETFORD in 1075. This short-lived see continued until it was moved to Norwich in 1094" (SB via google)
Grannus, the God of Corn, is memorialised via statue in THETFORD (SB)
Thetford twice?
