Last day. Tantalising introduction to Suffolk. Sutton Hoo closed for improvements and we didn’t get to Woodbridge, home of Adnam’s Brewery, and about three miles from Sutton Hoo, home to a complete excavated Anglo-Saxon burial ship and treasure. Not much evidence of Bronze Age settlement, or for that matter of three hundred years of Roman occupation. But this bit of East Anglia, once the independent kingdom of the Angles. Its east coast location made for very early Anglo-Saxon settlement, as well as significant Danish and Viking incursions. It also makes for villages and towns of sailing and second homes as well as farming and fishing.
Bill’s sons both grew up sailing the rivers and coast and Bill and Jane initially retired onto a yacht that Bill had built. Kevin, in a wheelchair since an accident in his teens, won a gold medal in sailing at the 1996 Paralympics. Seventy miles from London, but a different world.
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