Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 10:00 on 7 November 2016
From Thetford we travelled on to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
Almost the first thing I spotted was an elaborate Memorial which on closer inspection turned out to be for the (Second) Boer War, or South African War as it’s sometimes known:-


I was only in Bury an hour or so and didn’t manage to find a memorial to the World Wars of the last century. I found this picture on the net thouhgh.
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Posted in Art Deco, Trips, War Memorials at 11:00 on 6 November 2016
Next stop after King’s Lynn was Thetford, still in Norfolk. It is the birthplace of Thomas Paine, writer of the Rights of Man and one of the inspirers of the American Revolution.
His statue is prominent in the town:-

This memorial to the men of the 359th Fighter Group, 8th US Air Force, was close by:-

On the way in we had passed this brick-built Art Deco Fire Station:-

Could this once have been a Woolworth’s?

Though there were folks around we didn’t hear anyone speaking English for about ten minutes:-

Someone though had been watching Dad’s Army:-

Thetford War Memorial:-

Great War dedication:-

1939-45 dedication:-

Prominent poppy above door; even more so on chimney on Royal British Legion building:-

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