1950  The first episode of The Archers broadcast

The Wickham Market Resource Centre is not as difficult to find as Radio Suffolk but it is a bit hidden away.  We went there for a retinal scan yesterday and discovered it's a pleasantly straight forward, clean building with disabled access and a library stuffed with books, PCs, DVDs and talking books.  The library is about eight times the size it was when in that flint stone shed across the road that is now the vets ... but it still doesn't seem to open that much.

we 30 ap 08

1980  Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicated in favour of her daughter Beatrix

we 9 ap 08

1961  King Zog of Albania died in exile

Pay and Display has arrived in the Wickham Market car park at a very reasonable £100 for 2-4 hours (we're not kidding) and yet the toilets are still locked!  It might be a warning that like the Wickham car park both the Elms and Fore Street car parks in Framlingham are run by Suffolk Coastal District Council ...

fr 29 fe 08

1956  Muffin the Mule made his tv debut

tu 26 fe 08

1935  RADAR was first demonstrated

What pond life!  Chocolate has been stolen in Wickham Market!!

fr 23 no 07

1852  The pillar box first came into use

When we were in Wickham Market last Saturday the car park toilets might have been locked but we did buy this cake, not from the bakers but from Seagers the hardware store ... when we were back in Wickham Tuesday the toilets were still locked.

tu 04 se 07

1957  In the USA Ford launched the Edsel

It seems Wickham Market is going the same way as Sax, next to the frock shop and about to open is Catherine Hadden ~ interior design.

tu 31 jl 07

1970  Black Tot Day: The end of the daily rum ration in the Royal Navy

Here's a great freemans from the Wickham Market dentist.  It's a two minute egg timer to encourage proper teeth cleaning by children, but when you turn it upside down instead of sand falling from the top to the bottom the tiny green beads bubble up from the bottom to the top!  To get one we had to lie and say it was for our niece, actually it wasn't lying, she will get it ... eventually.