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Published: March 3rd 2023
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Today was blissful - no one’s timetable to stick to but our own, so Tom thought we should have brekkie in bed, which was delightful. When we were at Tescos yesterday we found several Kellogg’s cereals, but not sultana bran, so we had to purchase Tescos own brand - which was okay, not wonderful, just okay - but definitely better if you have it in bed! The peanut butter over here is not quite up to the standard of Bega peanut butter either.
When we eventually got out of bed we headed off to Great Yarmouth where my Allman family used to live generations ago. We went to the Great Yarmouth Minster church of St Nicholas where my 5G grandfather, William Allman, and my 6G grandmother, Elizabeth Greenwood, were baptised, my 6G grandparents, Francis Allman and Elizabeth Greenwood were married, and my 6G grandfather Francis Allman, 7G grandmother and grandfather, William and Ann Allman were buried. The church is massive but to be honest, the church is not the original that they attended, it was bombed in World War 2, leaving just the walls to become a ruin until it was rebuilt in the 1950s. But they did walk this
ground and are buried here. We walked around the churchyard, but the gravestones are illegible and we are looking for stones 250 years old! We didn’t find our Allmans.
As we were leaving the churchyard Tom noticed Anna Sewell’s house (the author of Black Beauty) - I knew she’d been born here but didn’t think we’d find her house!
Because William Allman had been a master Mariner, we continued on to the local museum, the Time and Tide museum which was really interesting and well assembled with great use of technology. They have a feature on the row houses, built in narrow rows on a sleep leading down to the river so that the rain water would wash the rows out to the river and the breezes would be channeled through the rows sweeping away odours and germs and giving fresh air. The museum was built close to the ancient city walls, where on the seaward side, where the museum is, used to be sand dunes, and the city was contained between the walls and the River Yarre where the boats and their associated industries were located by the quays in the river. After that we had lunch at
the HMS Hinchinbrook -Tom had battered cod while I had scampi! I don’t think I’ve had scampi since our trip with Shannon and Jess in 1990! I know we’ve been to Britain many times since then but haven’t eaten in pubs. We also walked over to the foreshore which is covered in pavilions and amusement parks next to the sandy beach which has a view of the wind farms out in the water.
We decided to return to our cottage the long way to see more of the Broads, but found the little roads so narrow and the concentration needed so tiring, we won’t do that again - we’ll stick to the A roads! After our big lunch I made us a cheese omelette for dinner, using the eggs produced here on the farm that our landlords gave us.
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