Provincial Road for Oscar, Norfolk Motorway for those of us who live here!
Reputedly Saxon Church near our home. Norfolk has a number of these early churches dating back to Saxon times. We have a Saxon Cathederal about five miles from us. Norfolk sticks out a bit into the North Sea and was subject to invasion by Danes, Saxons, and others. We also have very strong connections with the Netherlands over the years as displaced peoples came here and set up weaving areas using the Norfolk wool.
Around the county are huge churches built by landowners on the profits from Norfolks wool industry. The villages have gone but the churches remain as a reminder to history.
Cold and bleak at Salthouse. Even the Common Terns looked unhappy with the weather. Oyster Catchers were having a fine time in the freshwater pools on the marsh side of the erroding sea defences.
The sun went in during our walk and the haze started to come down. The frost was still visable on the rocks on the shore and on the grasses on the marsh. Time to move on to Sheringham for our Boxing Day ice cream, (yes I did say ice cream) and a walk along the sea front there.
Unfortunately there were no trains in the station so I could not get an engine picture for Oscar (yet).
I missed a real beauty earlier in the month because it was only mentioned on the radio on the morning it happened. "Mallard", the fastest steam train in the world, (I think) came through a local station on a trip down to Kings Cross station in London. She was due into Downham Market at 9.10am and they gave the details out at 9.05am.
