FOXLEY SOCIAL CLUB

 

On Wednesday 8^th November, the club, using the services of the ever-helpful Age Concern coach, a party of us travelled to Norwich to visit Dragon Hall. Now this is a truly impressive place.  Whether one is interested in History or not, one  can only be amazed at the architecture considering the age of the building.  Dragon Hall was built in the fifteenth century as a Guild Hall, a trading centre, by a wealthy merchant called Robert Toppes on a site that was originally inhabited by Saxons in the eleventh century.  It is a structure of wood and crude brick; the wood, oak of course, being the major part of the building, particularly the large vaulted roof. And after nearly six hundred years still standing firm, even though not a nail or screw was used, only pegs of doweling!  This surely says something of the ingenuity of the craftsmen of those days.  We ended the tour with the guide taking us into the bowels of the hall which were best described as brick-vaulted cellars.  Here were uncovered the original dwelling sites of the first Saxon settlers.  We were looking at the roots of Norwich, both figuratively and literally. 

                                                                                                                         S.B.

 

 

 Social Club coming events for January 2007.

 

10/01     Opening Meeting of 2007.  Discussion including suggestions for outings.

 

24/01     Victorian Boxed Cards.  Talk by Mrs. Cathy Taylor

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