Beccles, Church Steps 1923

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Location: Burgh St Peter, Beccles: My sister and brother-in-law (Ronald and Shirley Miller), owned a small timber cottage above the dyke on Dicks Mount during 1960-1970's. It was a charming one or two bedroom cottage and they had a dinghy moored on the dyke. My brother-in-law lived there more than my sister as he was writing radio plays at the time but apparently and mysteriously, ...see more

I remember my mother telling me that her brother had a similar experience to this around the 1920's (approx). He was riding his bicycle through the churchyard and saw, what looked like someone clinging to the wall in the churchyard, (which is quite a drop down from the other side onto Puddingmoor). But when he took a closer look to see if he could perhaps help the person - there was no-one there at all! He must have cycled home very quickly after that experience!

My father, Stafford Brown, was a student at Beccles College during the First World War. He stayed with the Knights family of Puddingmoor. Mr Knights, who was a wherryman, told of a strange event that happened to him one evening. He had been returning home from the town, and took his usual short cut through the churchyard. When he arrived at the top of the steps, he encountered what he could only ...see more

Playing Cowboys and Indians, down the steps, and along the cliff, after coming out of the old Picture House on a Saturday afternoon, in the Second World War years.