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Dads’ Army

Thetford

May 21, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, religion

2nd Duke of Norfolk, Attleborough, Ayrton Senna, badges, Battle of Bosworth, burials, Dads’ Army, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Flodden, Howards, Iceni, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Leicester, Lotus, Mowbrays, reburials, St. Edmund, St. Michael’s Church Framlingham, Thetford Priory, Thomas, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Paine

Here are the remains of Thetford’s magnificent Cluniac Priory, built in 1107 and the burial place of the Mowbrays and Howards up to 1540, when they were moved to St. Michael’s, Framlingham. Only about five minutes’ walk from the station, it is best visited on a dry day because Cromwell’s commissioners were ruthless and so,…
On twentieth century comedy

Jan 9, 2019

humour, law

alcoholism, Barry Mainwaring, bigamy, Captain Mainwaring, Dads’ Army, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Fiona Gray, George Duke of Clarence, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract

Here we commented on a literary attempted bigamist, whose first name just happened to be Edward. Anyone who has visited the Dads’ Army Museum in Thetford may have noticed some parallels. Captain George Mainwaring, although ten inches shorter than Edward IV, has a drunken brother and feelings for a widow named Gray/ Grey (Fiona, played…