I have been up-dating the inventory of my blogs compiled between 19/02/2016 and 2/12/2021. The 600+ blogs cover a total of 188 topics, some covered by just one blog, some up to 40. Of the 188 there are 35 of which I am not too ashamed. Therefore I am going to list those 35 with dates and how many blogs were covered.
(1) Early Summer Flail – 1 blog – 8/6/’17.
(2) Public Parks – 4 blogs – starting 27/6/2017.
(3) Hull’s Public Parks -4 blogs -starting 9/7/2017.
(4) Hull’s Cemeteries 1 blog – 17/7/2017.
(5) Three Yorkshire Wolds churches – 3 blogs, starting 11/7/2017.
(6) Evolution – 4 blogs – starting 12/8/2017.
(7) Farm animal welfare – 2 blogs – starting 13/9/2017.
(8) The English Civil Wars – (?) blogs – ending on 5/11/2017.
(9) Humberside large period houses – 19 blogs – starting 10/11/2017.
(10) Charles Darwin – 8 blogs – starting 12/1/2018.
Today’s photo is of Stoke Ferry church in south-west Norfolk, a neighbouring village to the one I grew-up in. I know little about this church except what can be seen from the external fabric, partly because, for whatever reason, it is not included in Mortlock and Roberts ‘A Popular Guide to Norfolk Churches, vol.3 west and south-west Norfolk.Basically it comprises of a four-bay nave, two-bay chancel and a modest bell-cot atop the wset gable wall and an ornate west door. The walling is coursed rubble in a thick lime mortar and a roof of Welsh slate. The site of the church is central in the village and, apart from a strip of the small churchyard, stands beside a now quiet road since the construction of a by-pass but which 50 years ago carried heavy traffic from Felixstowe Docks (then just being developed) to the Midlands and North.
There are a number of fine Georgian town houses in Stoke Ferry while the name comes from a bridging point over the River Wissey, a tributary of the Great Ouse, on the edge of the village.
The building partly visible east of the chancel used to be a chemist’s shop, apparently my father gained his first job here as an errand-boy at the age of 13.
A place that would, I am sure, reward further study.