Wymondham, Norfolk - Market Cross - Plastichrome postcard 1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Market Cross, Wymondham, Norfolk
• Publisher:  Ernest Joyce & Co., Norwich (Plastichrome process, USA)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n.a
• Notes / condition:  date on back

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Wymondham (pron.: /'w?nd?m/) is an historic market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies 9.5 miles (15 km) to the south west of the city of Norwich, on the A11 road from Norwich to London.^[1]

In the town centre, there is a market cross, which is now used as a Tourist Information Centre and is owned by the Town Council. The original building was destroyed in the Great Fire of Wymondham in 1615; the present building was rebuilt between 1617-18 at a cost of £25-7-0d with funds loaned by local man, Philip Cullyer.^[3] The stilted building was like many others designed to protect valuable documents from both flood and vermin. According to T.F. Thistleton Dyer's ""English Folklore"" [London, 1878], live rats were nailed by their tails to the side of the building by way of a deterrent. This bizarre superstition ended in 1902 after a child was bitten, later to die of blood-poisoning.^[4]

Wymondham Abbey is the Church of England parish church.

The headquarters of Norfolk Constabulary are located in Wymondham.

The former town jail or bridewell now houses the Wymondham Heritage Museum.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=norfolk

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted