Ten hacking inquiries…..and 'probably counting'…….have been prompted this year by the much publicised scandal. Most of them have passed me by and I have no doubt the rest will struggle to hold my interest.
Inquiry into the IPCC; IPCC Investigation; Police corruption; The Met’s relations with the media; News Corp Inquiry; Culture Media and Sport Committee; Home Affairs Select Committee; Lord Justice Leveson…..oh and Operation Weeting and Operation Elveden.
Charles Burrell was born in Thetford in 1817 and inherited his father’s foundry workshop in 1837. In 1848 he manufactured his first portable steam engine and within 20 years he was Thetford’s largest employer, producing a wide-range of award winning agricultural machines and traction engines from his St Nicholas works.
In 1848 he produced the first steam engine that also dressed the grain. This type of combined threshing and dressing machine soon became the standard for all except the smallest machines.
Weeting is a small village in Norfolk, just off of the main A1065 between Brandon and Swaffham, pretty close to Thetford (home to the Charles Burrell Museum).
The Weeting Steam Engine Rally was started by Richard Parrot in 1968 and has grown over the years to encompass a whole variety of attractions and interests.
Unfortunately I was watching the Shots play Inverness Caledonian Thistle last Saturday, so I missed this year's Rally!
Thetford, and the surrounding area, was used for much of the filming of the Dad's Army television series and has a small museum dedicated to the subject.
And Ancient House – the Museum of Thetford Life is a museum about Thetford and its past. The museum is located inside an old building….the entrance dating from around 1490.
The building became a museum thanks to the beneficence of a local resident.
Maharajah Dulip Singh was the last Sikh ruler of the Punjab. When he gave up his kingdom and the Koh-i-noor diamond to the British in the 1840s, he moved to England, where he befriended Queen Victoria. He settled with his family at Elveden Hall near Thetford. His second son, Prince Frederick, bought The Ancient House and paid for it to be restored, before presenting it to the town in 1924 to be used as a museum.
Now, are the Police Inquiries into the phone hacking and corruption allegations being coordinated by a steam engine lover or just someone who visited Centre Parcs, Elveden, on a very wet weekend?
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