The next Thursday Walk will be on April 19th, 2018, starting from Assington Barns, near Sudbury. The post code is CO10 5LW.  The organisers are Pat and Ray Shanks. Their telephone number is 01440 762198. There will be a 5k and 10k walk.
Anyone wishing to share transport should meet in the cul-de-sac outside Ray’s house at 9:15.

Just before the outbreak of The First World War, Rupert Brooke volunteered for active service. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy volunteer reserves. He was sent to Belgium, where he came under heavy bombardment during the retreat from Antwerp. On his return from Antwerp, toward the end of 1914, he wrote his most famous poem, The Soldier, and the immortal lines:

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

In February 1915,. Brooke was ordered to The Dardanelles, a strait between Europe and Turkey, for The Gallipoli Campaign, planned for the spring. However, during the journey. he contracted blood poisoning from an insect bite, and he died on a ship in The Aegean Sea, and was buried in an olive grove on the Greek island of Skyros.

This is a small 16th century building enclosing a 19th century parish pump. It has a conical roof and a surrounding parapet. There is a narrow entrance on the west side of the structure and the interior is circular.
You will pass this on the Bury St Edmunds Cathedral WW1 Walk.

The Font was designed by George Gilbert Scott in 1870, constructed on a medieval shaft. The covering is a memorial to those men of the parish of St. James’s Bury St. Edmunds, who died in The First World War. The decoration was added in 1960.

The World War Memorial in Haverhill – with two famous poems.

One of the famous poems – In Flanders Fields.

This beautiful Victorian swimming pool can be found on the River Stour at Sudbury Water Meadows. You pass it on The Sudbury WW1 Armistice Trail.

Simon Theobald achieved fame by becoming Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of The Exchequer. He used his wealth to establish a college for priests in Sudbury at the end of the 14th century. All that remains is the gate to the college in St Gregory’s churchyard (below).

Members are seen in front of The Travelling Telescope, part of The Radio Astronomy Observatory.

A view to cheer you up – Spring is not far away.