Sunday History

[Majorman]

Ancient Cottage in our town once the home of a notorious Church of England bishop, Bishop Bonner, who was involved in church reform and persecuting old ladies as witches. Up until the 1930's there was a row of these called Paternoster Row but they were demolished. This one now is the town museum.
Bishop Bonners Cottage

 

[rick n ohio]

Very interesting thanks

 

[SweetFeet]

Interesting.

It looks really narrow. Do you have any idea of its dimensions?

 

[Majorman]

Very small, with low ceilings, narrow doors and very small dark rooms. People were only just over 5 feet in those days around the reign of Henry VIII. Bonner was a lawyer who lived from 1500 to 1569 and was made a Bishop because he supported Henry in his anti-papal stance. Strangely, although he was anti-Catholic religion, he did not support either of Henry's successors as leader of the Church of England and was imprisoned by Elizabeth I, dying in prison. I will see if I can find some pictures of the interior and post.

 

[Majorman]

This link should show some of the rooms and some of the collection of artifacts.
Dereham History.

 

[560Dennis]

Early tiny house floor plan

 

[SweetFeet]

Thank you for the addtional history above, and for the link in this reply.

 

[oldproudvet]

Any thoughts on why, when the custom icon is pressed you cannot change the shape of the pieces to the shape you've used in others? 2 out of the 5 you posted are in this configuration, which this 80 year old can't work. The other 3 work great. When I move the mouse over to the configuration I can work, the pieces pop up momentarily in that shape, then disappear. I can change the number of pieces to 180, and that sticks. If you can think of how I can get it to work, it'd be great. Thanks - Larry

 

[Majorman]

There you go, Larry. You should be able to change the shape in edit, but it could be it only allows me to do it.