The Wroxham & Coltishall Book April/May 2021 Edition

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Welcome… to the latest edition of THE WROXHAM & COLTISHALL BOOK! Hooray, British Summer Time has returned!

Heading towards Easter Holidays, hopefully we can expect slightly warmer weather here in the Norfolk Broads…

Inside you’ll find articles covering a wide range of interesting subjects; Health, Beauty, Home & Interiors, Motoring, Gardening and a fantastic selection of puzzles & quizzes complete with answers at the end.

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8 - Health; Supplements 11 - Beauty; Beauty Boxes 16 - Home & Interiors; Natural Flooring 17 - Fun Quiz; Land & Sea 32 - Did you Know?

34 - Quiz Page; Word Ladder Sudoku & Codeword 36 - Broads Society 39 - Gardening; Love Your Lawn 42 - Wordsearch; Insects 42 - Anniversaries Early Summer 2021 43 - Meeting Outside? Time for a Picnic

44 - Community Events & What’s On 46 - The best Apps for Food 47 - Local Reports 49 - Motoring; Switch to an Electric Vehicle 52 - Business Cards 54 - Advert sizes & fees 54 - Index

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NORWICH MARKET CROSS

By Chris Weston and over the years, local citizens became outraged due to their taxes being raised for funds to repair and maintain the market cross, which was redecorated in 1578 for the passing of Queen Elizabeth through the city. So having occupied the site for just over 200 years, the octagonal building was was pulled down in 1732 with no resistance from locals and demolished. Records tell us its stone sold for £125 and the site was levelled, Norwich Market Cross hiding any trace of it, until excava1503-1732 tions in the area in 1909 revealed When visiting Norwich marits foundations. These were found ket you may have noticed the to be in line with the Waterloo Tavbright red outline of a large ern pub at No. 43 Market Place (closed Sept 1932) and the south octagon embedded in the ground between rows D and side of Davey Place.

F. But what is it? This marks the location of Norwich’s 16th-century market cross, but it wasn’t the first.

Historically a market cross was erected on a site where permission had been granted by a monarch, bishop or baron to hold a regular market or fair. Where structures Norwich market began in its current have survived they take numerous location at the end of the 11th cen- forms. Many are simple, carved tury and until the early 14th centu- spires, crosses or obelisks. Others ry, operated under a licence from the monarch. But this all changed in 1341 when King Edward III visited the City to attend a jousting match. His arrival coincided with the completion of Norwich’s new defensive wall ‘…for the honour of the King’. Edward was very impressed by the new structure and in gratitude, immediately granted the franchise of the market to the City’s rulers, a right which still continues today. But there’s no “visible indication” today, of a Norwich Market Cross having ever existed.

The first Cross built in 1411, stood 60ft tall and dominated the market, whereas the later structure built between 1501 and 1503 by Mayor John Rightwise, stood opposite today’s Davey Place and featured a small oratory or chapel, on top of a 30ft wide plinth. The chapel space became a storehouse at the time of the Dissolution. The Market Cross was expensive to maintain

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are large ornate covered buildings.

Most made of stone, while one of the county’s best-known surviving market crosses, located at Wymondham, is fabricated in wood.

Norwich market - established between 1071 and 1074 - is one of the oldest and largest in England.

© Chris Weston, April 2021

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Are Women Saving Enough for Later Life?

Explaining the Pensions Contribution Gap Saving for later life is an essential part of your financial planning – but are enough of us doing it? New research from the Scottish Widows suggests that, while the pensions contribution gap between men and women has fallen to just 1%, there is still a long way to go before everyone is saving properly.

Their research suggests that while the gap between the genders in terms of adults who are “saving adequately” has fallen, there’s still a big gap in terms of how much men and women are saving on average.

Because of this, it’s important to look at all the different factors together when it comes to investigating savings equality.

What is the pensions contribution gap?

Simply put, this statistic is a measure of how many men are saving adequately for later life versus how many women. Saving adequately in this measure means saving enough to live on as pensioners without either having to continue working or relying on other support – it’s calculated at around 12% of your salary.

According to research from Scottish Widows, the pensions contribution gap has fallen to the narrowest it’s ever been, a difference of just 1%. The study found that 60% of men are saving adequately compared to 59% of women. Obviously, aside from the gender difference, there’s a big issue here in that so many people of either gender are not saving properly, around 4 in 10.

The other side of this issue is that on average women are still saving a lot less. So even if the gap is down to just 1% in terms of “adequate savings”, men are still in general saving significantly more – around £1,300 a year!

Scottish Widows suggest that this difference in average amount saved is caused by related gender pay issues, like the gender pay gap, a higher proportion of women in part-time work, as well as the higher frequency of career breaks for women. These career breaks can seriously interrupt the ability to save for

later life, by effectively “resetting” savings. The study blames these structural inequalities for the pension contribution gap, arguing that more should be done to try and alleviate these inequalities to ensure pensions equality.

The study also found that young women are struggling the most, with fewer than half (46%) of women in their twenties saving the recommended minimum of 12% of their salary, compared with 54% of men the same age.

Is Covid-19 having an impact?

As with everything else over the past year, we can’t cover a story without also considering the impact of the pandemic. Unfortunately, it seems that the Covid19 crisis is likely to exacerbate the pensions contribution gap.

The worry here is that some of the pandemic’s effects on industries like hospitality, where many people have been made redundant or had their hours reduced, is only going to make the gap more pronounced. As women tend to make up the majority of employees in this sector, the pandemic could end up rolling back years of progress.

Also, with companies frequently making their part-time staff redundant ahead of full-time colleagues, this seems likely to disproportionately impact those women working part-time who were already likely to not be saving adequately into a pension or other later life savings product.

While we all know we should be saving for later life, it isn’t always so easy. The best thing is to get some advice on what’s best for your situation. At Face to Face Finance, we offer pensions reviews, so we can take a look at your existing savings, as well as advice on private pensions, so we can identify the best scheme for you.

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DID YOU KNOW?

By Chris Weston 1. Between 1942 & 1945, some 50,000, personnel served on Norfolk’s 18 USAAF air bases.

2. Benjamin Britten was a former pupil of Gresham’s School.

3. In 1905, the Pavilion Theatre was added to Cromer Pier (built 1899-1901 by London engineers Douglass and Arnott).

4. The Avenue in Wroxham was formerly called Beech Avenue and was the access drive to the mansion of Wroxham House.

5. Before World War l, How Hill House was a holiday home.

6. Norfolk has 115 named mountains. The most prominent is Beacon Hill near West Runton.

Thank you Chris!

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FREE Quiznighter's Buffet. Max 6 in a team. Winner takes all & Picture Quiz winner leaves with a FREE bottle of wine!

NEATISHEAD COMMUNITY GYM - Friendly, relaxed, affordable, local gym open to all (12+), but especially catering for older age groups and those who are uncomfortable in a commercial gym. Excellent support from experienced instructor. If you want to improve your fitness or mobility, at whatever level, give us a try! Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays 8.30 to 12.30 at New Victory Hall, Neatishead. Ring or text Gary on our FREE TRIAL HOTLINE of 07387 876216, or email gym@victoryhall.info for other enquiries COLTISHALL & HORSTEAD PRE-SCHOOL - Monday to Wednesday 9.00am to 12pm and 12pm to 3pm, Thursday and Friday 9.00am to 12pm. For 2 years upwards. Held at Coltishall Community Centre, Rectory Road. OFSTED Graded ‘GOOD’. Welcoming all families to join our active playgroup including regular allotment and local primary school visits. Please phone our friendly team: 07539 928124 Charity number: 1164338.

COLTISHALL AND HORSTEAD WI meet on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the Church Rooms, Rectory Road. Coltishall at 2.30pm. Details; please phone Rosie Howell on 01603 737762.

HAUTBOIS DISTRICT RANGERS meet alternative Wednesdays, 7-8:30pm. We're a small group of girls aged 14+ looking for more people to join us. We do a variety of different activities from camping, to shopping, kayaking to performing! If you're interested or want more information please call Gina 07775 520911.

HORNING ART CLASS is held on Thursday afternoons at 2 o’clock in the Village Hall Annexe. We have an excellent tutor on hand to give guidance or tuition in all media. We are a friendly group with a mixed range of abilities and styles. Interested in joining us ? Please ring Christine Charles on 01692 630751.

NORTH WALSHAM PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUP meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 7.30pm at The Annexe, The Atrium, Spenser Avenue, North Walsham. Details from Secretary, Liz Fiddy, on 01692 582793 or email trevorandliz@talktalk.net TIDDLERS BABY & TODDLER GROUP. Meeting at Horstead Tithe Barn, first and third Wednesday of the month during term time, 9.45 - 11.30am. £2 per family. Lots of lovely toys for children, cuppa and a chat for you. Email: tiddlerstoddlergroup@gmail.com for more info or just come along.

ADULTS DISABLED SOCIAL GROUP Are you physically disabled, bored, and lonely, unable to meet people? Every other Mon from 7pm-11pm. Join us at Ads Group. Darts, Pool, Table Tennis, Board Games, DVD and book swap, music, and loads of friendly chat and fun! Bar with soft drinks, Bar-B-Q’s. Please call Julie Sparkes for details, 07903 974593. In Wroxham, NR12 8UH. AYLSHAM CHESS CLUB Meets at Aylsham & District Ex-Service & Social Club on Monday evenings during the Sep - Jun season. Contact: David Owen (Club Secretary), Tel: 01263 731327, e-mail: davidowen364@btinternet.com DEVELOPMENT & AWARENESS groups run by working qualified SNU (Spiritualists' National Union) Mediums. Tuesday mornings at Martham Village Hall 11AM to 1PM. Wednesday evenings at Rollesby Village Hall 7.30PM to 9.30 PM. Two year Healing course also available with Norfolk Healers on Wednesday evenings. Cost £5.00 weekly. Phone Norman 07876 744258 or Melinda 07920 742238.

WROXHAM FOLK DANCE CLUB - English Country Dancing most Fridays at the Church Hall, Wroxham.

No membership fee; just £2.00 per night. Beginners welcome! Phone Mick on 01692 404447.

KINGS HEAD QUIZ NIGHT Hoveton Thurs nights at 7.30pm. Still £1 per person admission inclusive of a

can develop both personally and socially. Email: firstcoltishallguides@gmail.com or contact Claire on 07826 444 046.

COMMUNITY CAFÉ AT THE HUB Come and join us for a cuppa, a slice of homemade cake & a chat! We meet every Thursday from 10.30-12pm at Wroxham & Hoveton United Reformed Church (The Hub), 114 Norwich Rd, Wroxham, NR12 8SA. We are open to POKER - Every Sunday at the Diplomat in Badersfield all and there's no charge.

(RAF Colt) we have a weekly league games for points 1st COLTISHALL GUIDES. We are a charitable that qualify you for 3 Regional finals & 3 National final organisation who deliver broad programmes of activicompetitions. £3.50 a week registers your points ties for the development of young girls and womonline at The Nuts Poker League. Play starts at en. The Guide group caters for 10-14 year olds 7.30pm see you there! New players welcome. providing them with a safe environment in which they

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STALHAM COMMUNITY GYM Stalham Community Gym is now in its 10th year and after the forced closure, we are now re-open. We still have the same moto “health and wellbeing for all’. The fully equipped/ air conditioned gym is based at The Poppy Centre, Recreation Road, Stalham, NR12 9BH. Our qualified Instructors can provide a programme designed for you individually whatever your needs and abilities. We support Yoga and Pilates and members are entitled to a discounted fee for these classes.

Veg, Cakes, Bread and Preserves. Plus a wide variety of handmade craft stalls offering beautiful original gift ideas. Refreshments available.

TUNSTEAD MAHJONG GROUP is a small, friendly and informal group of ladies and men who meet to play Mahjong once a week, on a Friday morning from 10.00am until 1.00pm. At a members home in Tunstead. We are a mixed ability group who would welc ome both those who have played before and total beginners, the latter of whom we are happy to teach.

The Centre has been deep cleaned according to Gov- Mahjong is a game played with tiles. The object of the ernment guidelines and we are now operating a book game is to collect sets of particular tiles rather like the a hub in advance system. All Covid-19 guidelines are card game Rummy. If you enjoy games such as bridge, chess or playing cards, then you might like to being adhered to. Our opening times are Monday join us. If you are interested to play or you would just 7am to midday with Outdoor Boxfit with Ric at 11 to midday. Wednesday 9am to midday. Thursday 7am to like to come along and see the game in progress, please telephone Carol on 01603 929368 or email midday with Outdoor Weights Class with Helen at carol_hodgkiss@hotmail.com 10am to 11, then gym is open 5pm to 8pm. Friday 7am to midday and Sunday 9am to midday.

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LEGION - We are relaunching the branch and are seeking members, new and existing, to join us at our new monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month from 7.00pm, at the Swan Public House, High Telephone Helen between 9am and 6pm on 07716 Street, Stalham. Meetings will be of an informal, so811696 for more information or to book a hub. cial nature, with the accent on a regular meet, greet Alternatively leave a message on 07547 321874 or and friendly chat for ex-service personnel, their famiemail stalhamcommunitygym@gmail.com and we will lies and friends, living in Stalham and surrounding get back to you. Find us on Facebook Stalham Comvillages. All are welcome, whether ex-Forces or othermunity Gym or website: stalhamcommuniwise. For further information please contact Paul tygym.org.uk McAllister (Secretary) on 01692 583336, email We provide a safe, friendly, supportive environment paulm951@aol.com or via our facebook page, for all members of the local community www.facebook.com/stalhamroyalbritishlegion. and surrounding areas and look forward to welcoming THE NEEDLES - At Broadland Youth & Community new and existing members.

Centre Hoveton on Tuesday’s 10-4pm. If you stitch HOVETON, WROXHAM DISTRICT GARDENING knit, crochet, patchwork, do dressmaking and would CLUB - Interested in Gardening and associated sub- like help with zips, hems, casting on or can help othjects? Why not come along to our friendly and iners,? Come along and share your skills and tips or formative club, we have a variety of speakers, outside learn something new and let’s have some fun and meetings etc. only £15.00 per annum subscription chat. For more information contact Margaret on 01692 with discounts at two local nurseries. We meet at 651333 Hoveton Village Hall on the first Friday 7.30p.m of HORNING BRIDGE CLUB We play Duplicate Bridge every month except show days or outside meetings. every Monday evening at Horning Village Hall; please DANCE FOR FUN - is a fun dance club teaching arrive no later than 6:30pm. We would be delighted to children 6 and upwards Ballet, Tap, Disco & Gymnas- welcome you so contact Sue (Partner Secretary) tic Dance. We meet Wednesday evening from 6 to 01692 535670 or Ann (Chairman) - 01603 781416 to 8pm in Smallburgh village hall. The club takes part in let them know that you will be joining us as a visitor. many community events through the year. If your We also hold morning Duplicate Bridge sessions on child is interested in coming to see what we do please the second Tuesday of each month in The Annexe at pop along any Wednesday evening.

Horning Village Hall. Visitors are very welcome with or without a partner but please arrive no later than HOVETON FARMERS & PRODUCERS MARKET 9:45am. Further information can be found on our Usually held on the 4th Saturday of every month at Hoveton Village Hall 9.30 to 12.30. Come along for all website: www.bridgewebs.com/horning your fresh produce including Fresh Fish, Meat, Fruit & Please check availability during Lockdown!

Membership fees are £25 per month adult, £15 p.m.

Under 18’s. Concessions are available. Or you can Pay as You Go £5 per one hour session.

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PILATES MAT CLASSES - Hoveton Village Hall.

Every Monday evening from 5.45pm to 6.45pm.

When practiced with consistency, Pilates improves posture, flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the entire body. It puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance. It can prevent and solve back problems. You will feel great and walk tall. Please come at 5.30pm to set up; £5.00 per class. Mats & Bands provided. Other class options: Neatishead Victory Hall Mondays 4.15 pm / Dilham Village Hall Mondays 6pm / Neatishead Victory Hall Wednesdays 7.45 pm / Worstead Village Hall Thursdays 6 pm. Contact Boo Williams 07717 473600 or boolong7@hotmail.co.uk BROADLAND CHESS CLUB meets at The King’s Head in Coltishall on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7.30. Broadland junior chess club meets at Vera’s Coffee Shop, near Wayford Bridge on Monday evenings from 6.15 – 7.45.

WROXHAM FLOWER CLUB meets on the second Wednesday of the month at 7.30 pm in The Church Hall, Norwich Road, Wroxham. New members and visitors are very welcome. If you would like further information please contact Sue Lusted on 07926 059005 or just come along on the night.

222 (BROADLANDS) SQUADRON RAFAC - We are a youth organisation sponsored by the RAF. We meet on Monday and Friday evenings at Broadland High Ormiston Academy and get up to everything from flying and shooting, to sport and adventure activities.

If you are at least 12 years-old and in Year 8 at school come along and find out for yourself if being an Air Cadet is for you. Get in touch via our website (www.222-atc.org.uk) to arrange a taster visit to Squadron.

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WROXHAM BURE VALLEY ROTARY CLUB We continue to have some great Monday evening Zoom meetings – our latest topics have encompassed topics as diverse as the life of a naval submariner to nuclear waste disposal! It looks as if we have a few more weeks of zoom still to go, including our assembly when our new president from July will be setting out our plans for the 2021-2022 Rotary year. Hopefully by then we will be able to resume some face-to-face meetings at Wroxham Barns as well as continuing to use zoom where appropriate.

we have members ready and willing to help out in the local community wherever the need arises. If you have something you think we can help with, or if you are interested in joining us, please contact our president, Robin Baines, on 01603 782920 / 07721 465647

WHB TWINNING ASSOCIATION

At the present time, we don’t know if our French Twinning friends from La Pommeraye and Montjean-sur -Loire will be able to come over in August this year so we may have to postpone, once again, our visits to the Neatishead Radar Museum, Bressingham, St George’s Whisky Distillery and our Dinner and CeiI hope everyone saw and enjoyed our purple crocus displays in early lidh in Neatishead Victory Hall.

March in Wroxham, Hoveton, Horn- Third time lucky, maybe! ing and Neatishead. We have been Hopefully, we may be able to have planting these every Autumn for a some social events by then and few years now to celebrate the will certainly do something on that Rotary “Purple for Polio” campaign weekend in August, if we have no which is coming ever closer to French visitors. It is very disaperadicating wild polio throughout pointing but can’t be helped in the world. We also made further these times donations of food and gift hampers French Conversation is suspendto the Intensive Care Unit staff at ed for now but, hopefully, our memboth the N & N and James Pagett bers are trying to keep up their Hospitals, both of which were very language skills in other ways and gratefully received. many do keep in close touch with We are planning our first major fund raising event, a Classic Car Show at Wroxham Barns on Sunday 12th September. Like many organisations dependent on fund raising, our activities have been severely curtailed over recent months. Now you can help support us and the many local and international charities we donate to, through the new Broadland Council Lottery Scheme – simply go on line www.communityatheartlottery.com and sign up, selecting Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary Club as your chosen cause. It is a weekly draw and you chose how much to invest.

50% of proceeds go to your selected charity and there is a chance to win up to £25,000 every week.

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their French friends, who have suffered, just like us, this past year.

Book Club members are continuing with their Zoom meetings and so far, this year, we have read “The Distant Echo” by Val McDermid, “Three Hours” by Rosamund Lupton and “Tombland” by C J Sanson, a good eclectic mix. April’s choice is Pat’s and we are reading “The Woman in the White Kimono”

by Ana Johns. Pat can supply more information for now on 01603 782375 or pat.barkergreen@btinternet.com For any more information please contact us, via Peter, on 01603 782733 or peter_c_milsted@talk21.com

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NEW GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR SOUTH NORFOLK & BROADLAND BUSINESSES

WROXHAM & HOVETON LIONS CLUB

About Lions Clubs International: Lions Clubs International has 1.4 million memNew business grants from £2,000 to £20,000 are available to bers in over 200 countries, making it the largest service club organisasupport large, small and micro tion in the world. Wherever you businesses from South Norfolk and Broadland District Councils live, work or travel, you are likely to through the second phase of its come across members of Lions clubs and the projects we support. discretionary business grant.

Lions are ordinary people who do The Councils welcome applications extraordinary things to help others from South Norfolk and Broadland and support good causes. Globally businesses of any size, whether we have more volunteers in more home based or based in business places than any other service club premises, business rated or not organisation. We love to help othrated, self-employed or employing ers and make things happen. Evestaff. They are particularly keen to ry day Lions are having fun by hear from businesses that have so organising remarkable and memofar been unable to receive any rable fundraising activities. Every COVID-19 financial support. year, in Europe alone, Lions Clubs members volunteer almost 6 million To qualify for the Additional Rehours of service, and raise £88 strictions Grant, businesses must have experienced a loss of income million annually to support the needs of local communities. (turnover) of at least 20% or £40,000 and fall into one of the Community at Heart Lottery results following categories: are in!

A winning ticket is potentially a 1. A rated business that did not week away, we thank you for your qualify for Local Restrictions Support Grant payments during nation- continued support.

If you haven't signed up yet visit al lockdowns or local restrictions 2. A business that has so far been our page https:// www.communityatheartlottery.com/ unable to receive any COVID-19 support/wroxham-and-hovetonfinancial support – including busilions-club nesses with premises which are Our club has supported local and not business-rated, or without its international causes for over 44 own business rating years and will continue to do so 3. A business that employs 10 or with your help. If you would like to more full-time equivalent employtake those first steps into joining ees and wishes to request a top-up our team, we’ll be happy to see you to a previous Local Restrictions on one of our Zoom meetings. Just Support Grant award let us know your email address and Any business that needs support is we’ll send you an invite to join us online. Our meetings are on 2nd encouraged to get in touch to find th out what funding they may be eligi- and 4 Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm. For more information ble for. Please share with your business networks and fellow busi- please ring me on 01603781310, or our Membership Chairperson. ness owners.

Lion Lydia Spight on 07503221485.

To find out more and apply for an Additional Restrictions Grant or another business grant visit www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/business -support or www.broadland.gov.uk/ coronavirus/businesses

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Hopefully this month our shop in the Hoveton precinct will be open if the Government roadmap out of the Pandemic goes to plan. Fingers crossed. We will then once again be accepting good, clean

clothing and Bric a Brac. However, as I’ve previously mentioned, please do not leave anything outside the shop as it is considered to be Fly Tipping. Please consult our Facebook page or our website for details of when our shop will be open to accept goods. Would you like to volunteer to help in the shop? If so, when we’re open, drop in and talk to a member of staff or ring Lion Terry on 01603 784093.

Please follow us on Facebook or visit our website. We look forward to seeing or hearing from you.

As always, Stay Safe Lion Mick Holden, President.

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NORWICH MARKET CROSS

By Chris Weston and over the years, local citizens became outraged due to their taxes being raised for funds to repair and maintain the market cross, which was redecorated in 1578 for the passing of Queen Elizabeth through the city. So having occupied the site for just over 200 years, the octagonal building was was pulled down in 1732 with no resistance from locals and demolished. Records tell us its stone sold for £125 and the site was levelled, Norwich Market Cross hiding any trace of it, until excava1503-1732 tions in the area in 1909 revealed When visiting Norwich marits foundations. These were found ket you may have noticed the to be in line with the Waterloo Tavbright red outline of a large ern pub at No. 43 Market Place (closed Sept 1932) and the south octagon embedded in the ground between rows D and side of Davey Place.

F. But what is it? This marks the location of Norwich’s 16th-century market cross, but it wasn’t the first.

Historically a market cross was erected on a site where permission had been granted by a monarch, bishop or baron to hold a regular market or fair. Where structures Norwich market began in its current have survived they take numerous location at the end of the 11th cen- forms. Many are simple, carved tury and until the early 14th centu- spires, crosses or obelisks. Others ry, operated under a licence from the monarch. But this all changed in 1341 when King Edward III visited the City to attend a jousting match. His arrival coincided with the completion of Norwich’s new defensive wall ‘…for the honour of the King’. Edward was very impressed by the new structure and in gratitude, immediately granted the franchise of the market to the City’s rulers, a right which still continues today. But there’s no “visible indication” today, of a Norwich Market Cross having ever existed.

The first Cross built in 1411, stood 60ft tall and dominated the market, whereas the later structure built between 1501 and 1503 by Mayor John Rightwise, stood opposite today’s Davey Place and featured a small oratory or chapel, on top of a 30ft wide plinth. The chapel space became a storehouse at the time of the Dissolution. The Market Cross was expensive to maintain

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are large ornate covered buildings.

Most made of stone, while one of the county’s best-known surviving market crosses, located at Wymondham, is fabricated in wood.

Norwich market - established between 1071 and 1074 - is one of the oldest and largest in England.

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