Another pub bites the dust
A Postcard from Thetford, Norfolk - 15th March 2023
We'd racked up a load of empty SodaStream gas bottles and the nearest place to change them, without having to post them, is Sainsbury's in Thetford. So by way of something to do, we head up to job that job, a journey which also provides something of an homage to the late Grandad's favourite pastime of visiting the Thetford municipal tip. Whilst there, we have lunch in the Bell Inn, and then visit the extensive ruins of the old Thetford Abbey - yet another casualty of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
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A derelict pub on the roundabout
The Burrell Museum's impressive shed
Isobel at the bar of the Bell Inn
One of the Thetford Bell's rooms
The impressive main bar of the Bell Inn
An architecturally-interesting corridor
One of the rarer postboxes: an Edward VII
A butcher plays on the Dads Army connection
Curious bells near Boots on King Street
An empty shop on King Street
The Green Dragon, and the tables of Wetherspoon
The British Legion building on Market Place
Dads Army mural on the back of the Carnegie Rooms
The Dads Army museum and the Carnegie Rooms
Isobel roams around the Market Place
A memorial on the Market Place
A quintessential 1950s Post Office
The shops of King Street in Thetford
Tanner Street, with Lloyds Bank
A golden statue of local boy Thomas Paine
The Bell Inn - our lunch-stop location
Checking out the kebab shops of White Hart Street
An alleyway off White Hart Street
Isobel in an underpass beneath London Road
Two Isobels in a dodgy underpass subway
We have a look around Thetford Priory
The ruined nave of Thetford Abbey
The old Abbott's House
Isobel looks at some more ruins
More ruins of the old abbey
Electrical busbars and a danger of death
A swan does a one-legged swim
A Death Eater walks the path along the Little Ouse
A wrecked child's bicycle and a footbridge
Another subway under London Road
We walk back past a housing estate
A 'water boosting' station by the Little Ouse
A partially-submerged punt on the Little Ouse
A nice building near the bridge
The 1829 cast-iron bridge on Bridge Street
1960s buildings on Riverside Walk
Isobel peers over the bridge
A statue of Captain Mainwaring sits alone
Isobel on Bridge Street
There's a feeble attempt to do the love locks thing
Derelict rooms above some shops
St. Peter's Church on White Hart Street
Isobel checks out stuff in Iceland
The checkouts of Iceland in Thetford
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Another pub bites the dust
Another pub bites the dust
A derelict pub on the roundabout
The Burrell Museum's impressive shed
Isobel at the bar of the Bell Inn
One of the Thetford Bell's rooms
The impressive main bar of the Bell Inn
An architecturally-interesting corridor
One of the rarer postboxes: an Edward VII
A butcher plays on the Dads Army connection
Curious bells near Boots on King Street
An empty shop on King Street
The Green Dragon, and the tables of Wetherspoon
The British Legion building on Market Place
Dads Army mural on the back of the Carnegie Rooms
The Dads Army museum and the Carnegie Rooms
Isobel roams around the Market Place
A memorial on the Market Place
A quintessential 1950s Post Office
The shops of King Street in Thetford
Tanner Street, with Lloyds Bank
A golden statue of local boy Thomas Paine
The Bell Inn - our lunch-stop location
Checking out the kebab shops of White Hart Street
An alleyway off White Hart Street
Isobel in an underpass beneath London Road
Two Isobels in a dodgy underpass subway
We have a look around Thetford Priory
The ruined nave of Thetford Abbey
The old Abbott's House
Isobel looks at some more ruins
More ruins of the old abbey
Electrical busbars and a danger of death
A swan does a one-legged swim
A Death Eater walks the path along the Little Ouse
A wrecked child's bicycle and a footbridge
Another subway under London Road
We walk back past a housing estate
A 'water boosting' station by the Little Ouse
A partially-submerged punt on the Little Ouse
A nice building near the bridge
The 1829 cast-iron bridge on Bridge Street
1960s buildings on Riverside Walk
Isobel peers over the bridge
A statue of Captain Mainwaring sits alone
Isobel on Bridge Street
There's a feeble attempt to do the love locks thing
Derelict rooms above some shops
St. Peter's Church on White Hart Street
Isobel checks out stuff in Iceland
The checkouts of Iceland in Thetford