{"id":54549,"date":"2017-05-12T22:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-thetford-norfolk-a-rum-old-mix\/"},"modified":"2017-05-12T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:42:19","slug":"lets-move-to-thetford-norfolk-a-rum-old-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-thetford-norfolk-a-rum-old-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to\u2026 Thetford, Norfolk: \u2018A rum old mix\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe streetscape fuses Stevenage surreally with Burnham Market \u2013 flinty cuteness jumpcut with 50s council houseWhat\u2019s going for it? We\u2019ve had Essex Man, Worcester Woman and the Man on the Clapham Omnibus. But these days, if editors of newspapers and broadcast news programmes want to hear \u201cthe voice of the people\u201d, deepest, darkest Thetford seems to be where they dispatch their journalists. This microcosm is seen to somehow embody the state of the nation, a bundle of contradictions squished into one town. After the second world war it became an overspill town for Londoners, tripling its size. Listen hard and today you can still hear Cockney inflections grafted on to Norfolk burrs; the streetscape fuses Stevenage surreally with Burnham Market \u2013 flinty cuteness jumpcut with 50s council house. Two decades of European migration for agricultural work expanded the town further. Yes, it voted for Brexit. There\u2019s a statue of Captain Mainwaring (much of Dad\u2019s Army was filmed here). But Thetford was also home to Boudicca, gave birth to Thomas Paine (though the radical didn\u2019t stay long) and voted in Britain\u2019s first black mayor \u2013 in 1904! Told you, rum old mix.The case against A bit of a muddle. Its postwar reimagining wasn\u2019t entirely successful: the ringroad rudely interrupts medieval streets. Its high streets are just keeping decline at bay. There have been ethnic tensions in the past. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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