Sir Tony Robinson, pictured in 2005, is recording at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk (Image: Newsquest)
Now here is some exciting news. Time Team, formerly a Channel Four programme to 2014 but now digital, will be following up their 2015 visit to the Sutton Hoo mounds soon, on a digital platform. We don’t have a transmission date as yet …
On Friday, I was in St. Lawrence’s Church, now a cafe, in the town centre when the meeting I was at was punctuated by the ringing of bells just above the front door. We assumed at the time that this was practice for the for the forthcoming coronation. However, as this article shows, it was to mark the approximate 550th birthday of Thomas Wolsey, who was born a short walk away in St. Peter’s Street, where his statue now sits. There will even be a brief film showing repeatedly in the former Edinburgh Woollen Mill which, like the church and his birthplace, may well have been on the site of Wolsey College, had he not fallen.
The present Priory House at Earls Colne (judged Best Village in Essex in 2015) may be early 19th-century but has a great history because it’s “….built on the site of a Benedictine priory founded by the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford, in the early 12th century, the remains of which lie buried under lawn in the grounds of Colne Priory and are designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument….” The priory became the earls’ principal burial place.
One famous in incident occurred in 1392 on the death of Richard II’s hated, forcibly exiled favourite, Robert de Vere, the 9th Earl of Oxford (and at one time Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland). Robert had fled into exile after the débâcle (for him) of the Battle of Radcot Bridge. Now…
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Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society 