Borderlines

Contents

INTRODUCTION i-vii

Writing Down the Waveney

THE SECRET RIVER 1-12

HOXNE TREASURES 13-28

The Age of Man

The Hoxne Hoard

The Cult of St Edmund

WAVENEY FOLKLORE 29-56

Restless Spirits

Rolling Stones

Demon Dogs

Horse Power

LANDMARKS 57-80

Landscape with Ruins

Landscape with Towers

HEADWATER RISINGS 81-102

The Rural Poor

Roydon Riots

Burston School Strike

Wortham Tithe Wars

MENDHAM MEMORIES 103-118

Alfred Munning

BOOKENDS 119-146

Prospects of Ditchingham - Haggard - Benson - Athill

Bungay Books - Elizabeth Jane Howard

THE FIRST BOHEMIANS 147-174

The Odd World of Mary Newcomb

Arnold Wesker’s Roots

Waiting for the Muse

The Sun in the East

COUNTRY MATTERS 175-200

Perfection Threatened

Walnut Tree Farm

Richard Mabey ‘Being About’

STAYING PUT AND MOVING ON 201-225

Adrian Bell

The Marshmen

Sebald’s Somerleyton

The Wanderer

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX 227-235