Showing posts with label wymondham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wymondham. Show all posts

19 Jan 2024

Norwich by train - NOT amateur radio


We travel to Norwich from Ely several times a year by train. It takes under an hour and Norwich is a fine city. A day return with a Senior Railcard is not expensive. 

The journey is relaxed and the scenery pleasant. Being East Anglia (which is a fairly flat part of the UK) hills are rare!  Travelling there and back, you see fens, brecks, forest and arable land as well as a glimpse of Wymondham Abbey with its 2 towers.

The photo shows a pig farm!  I know you couldn't wait!  😀

18 Mar 2023

Wymondham (pronounced Windum) - NOT amateur radio


Today, we went to Wymondham in Norfolk. This is a delightful market town, not far from Norwich. It has a great abbey. Some of my wife's family lived here once.  It is about an hour away by car.  A friend staying with us drove.

The photo of the meal was taken last year. We visited exactly a year ago.


See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wymondham .

20 Mar 2022

Wymondham Abbey - NOT amateur radio

Wymondham in Norfolk has a fine abbey. It was far bigger before King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1500s.

19 Mar 2022

More Wymondham, Norfolk - NOT amateur radio

As mentioned yesterday, we went to Wymondham on the train. The photo is a collage of some of the things and places we saw. 

Wymondham is a delightful place. 

It is a few miles from Norwich. 

23 Jan 2022

Wymondham, Norfolk - NOT amateur radio

This is a small town west of Norwich. In the 1800s, my wife's family moved to Sheffield from here at a time when agriculture was depressed and times were very hard. You can imagine the squalor they found up there. We go back to Wymondham most years. It is a delightful place about an hour from here. 

Next time, I suspect we'll go by train as I find driving hard these days.

13 Jan 2021

Wymondham, Norfolk - NOT amateur radio

Some of my wife's ancestors came from Wymondham in Norfolk. The town is just west of Norwich. 

It has an unpretentious town centre and a fine abbey with 2 towers. 

Some of the family moved to industrial Sheffield in the 19th century for work - what a contrast!

24 Apr 2019

Grandchildren at Wymondham - NOT amateur radio

Many generations back our grandchildren had relatives living in Wymondham, Norfolk. Life was very hard and they moved to the industrial north.

This is the grandchildren in Wymondham last week. They love going here.

11 Feb 2015

East Anglia Churches blog

Sorry, this is not amateur radio.

Today my wife and I visited her old ancestral home at Wymondham in Norfolk. Some of her family lived here in the 1800s.

We visited the fine abbey there which was founded in 1107AD. We record our visits on a blog, which we updated.

The photo is of the market square in the middle of the town.

See http://eachurches.blogspot.co.uk/ .