SHE SAID :
With rain forecast for about 11am, we got going by around 9.30am and managed to have a look around Bury St Edmunds without getting too wet!
We also headed
up the Thetford, the "home" of Dad's Army, the great
60's/70's tv series. There is a small museum in the town with its
very own Captain Mainwaring; it brought back many memories.
For dinner we
caught up with friends Elaine and Darren who live in the quaint
village of Icklingham, in a lovely 500 year old thatched house.
HE SAID:
The Dad's Army museum was a hoot. The show was on regularly at our house when I was a kid, so I knew what was what.
Elaine and Darren and were fun and chatty. We had a good evening, and it was great to put faces to the names after all these years.
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| Original Norman house in the centre of Bury St Edmunds |
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| One of the old gates in the Abbey |
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| Wandering around the Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds |
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| Another of the gates to the Abbey |
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| Statue of St Edmund- originally the patron of England, until he got usurped by St George! |
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| The old Abbey ruins incorporated into newer buildings |
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| Said to be England's smallest pub |
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| Scooter, Elaine's cat & the unusual step into the bedroom the 500 year old house-over the oak beam support |
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| Elaine & Geoff |
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| The lovely thatched house, & cottage on the side which was once the stables |
The Dad's Army museum was a hoot. The show was on regularly at our house when I was a kid, so I knew what was what.
Elaine and Darren and were fun and chatty. We had a good evening, and it was great to put faces to the names after all these years.
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