An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

AUTOBIOGRAPHY 123 attended the meeting at Wiveton Hall, Blakeney, and Bay– field to Holt. Next day I rode by Holt and Aylmerton to West Runton and so to Cromer, where I bought a haunch of venison, and a sea trout, and so laden rode on to Lammas, where the food was most welcome to my son and his wife and brother· in-law, Turl, of Bedford School. The excavations at Chapel Field, under the auspices of the N. & N.A.S. began on the 1st September (see article in N. & N.A.S.). Early in September I bought the Norman Leper Chapel (the Magdalen Chapel at Norwich) to save it from being pulled down and made into building lots (!), and on the 22nd journeyed to Icklingham to see the celebrated "achievement" of the Senescbal de Buxton, who afterwards formed the subject of an illustrated paper in the "Ancestor," a paper now unluckily extinct, run by the same people who owned the '' County History'' series. D.M.R. and R.H. came one after the other to Lammas early in September, and then my wandering blood led me to another cycle tour, begun however on the 26th by railing to Broxbourne where I derailed and cycled across with heavy bags to Barnet, which I reached dog-tired (for one of the few times I lzave been dog-tired) and had to go to bed. Thence back by Jack Straw's Castle, Colin Deep Lane, to the Hale, where I bad a strange bird described as a moko for lunch. It resembled a pheasant, but could not have been one as the season had not begun l Then on by the old well-known road to see my sisters at Heme] Hemp– stead, where I found my old sister still alive but very feeble. Thence by Hertford to St. Alban's, where having missed the "Salisbury" I slept at the "Dimsdale," and so on by Ware, Buntingford, Ruyton, to Cambridge('' Univer– sity Arms"). The :first four days in October I worked round by Newmarket and south by Cavendish, Clare, Long Melford to Sudbury, where I paid what I trust was my last visit to the "Rose and Crown." B0xford, Hadleigh, took me to Raydon, where getting utterly wet and cold I railed to Ipswich and recuperated at Quilter's most com– fortable hostelry. Needham Market, Coddenham, Deben– ham, and a revisit to Eye brought me to Diss, and the next day home by Scole.