Through East Anglia in a Motor CarVincent, James Edmund
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Through East Anglia in a Motor Car
Vincent, James Edmund
Norfolk (England) -- Description and travel; Suffolk (England) -- Description and travel
Crooked streets of Norwich--An appropriate epitaph--To
the county surveyor of Norfolk many thanks--The London
Road (Roman)--Roman roads in East Anglia--Mr.
Haverfield, the greatest authority on--Some history
necessary to understand paucity of Roman remains in
East Anglia--The country of the Iceni--Rebellion, brief
triumph, and defeat of Iceni under Boadicea--The Iceni
wiped out--Their territory minor part of an unimportant
province--No military stations--Frontier far to the
north--Caistor-by-Norwich not a Roman fortress--Roman
roads of East Anglia enumerated--_En route_--Tempting
declivities and annoying cross-roads--Long
Stratton--The first round flint
tower--Explanation--Scole and county boundary--The
"White Hart"--Worse roads in Suffolk--A church with
good parvise--Difficulty of identifying
villages--Ipswich to Colchester and London--Towns and
scenery of route postponed--Reasons--Puzzling
darkness--Familiar villages not recognized--Futile
demand for tea--Romford discovered--Lights to left
front--Had we lost our way?--"Stratford Empire" a sign
of hope--Ichthyophagous Whitechapel--Skill in
traffic--Journey ended--Observations on winter
motoring--On general character of East Anglian scenery.
Norwich was left behind in mingled sorrow and regret the next morning, for,
on the one hand, it seemed a sin to leave so fascinating a city practically
unexplored, and, on the other, frost had given place to rain, and the rain
having abated, the air was mild and warm, so that motoring promised to be
entirely pleasant. However, other visits to Norwich were a certainty in the
future, so off we went gaily. But, Lord!--to copy Mr. Pepys--were ever
streets so strait or so prodigal of angles as these where some folk were
hastening to their business at the assizes, while others, on cars garlanded
with significant ribbons, were clearly bound for election work in
Mid-Norfolk, where it was the polling day. Of a surety a pilot was needed,
and we had one; undoubtedly, although Tilney All Saints is far away in
Marshland, the epitaph appearing there, and here quoted, must have been
written by a Norwich man, and by no other.
This world's a city, full of crooked streets,
Death is the market-place where all men meet;
If life was merchandise, then men could buy,
Rich men would always live, and poor men die.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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