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I remember when a timber ship containing oranges ran aground off Sheringham, not only did everyone go orange bobbing in the sea, but because of the size of the timbers washed ashore there was a definite proliferation of sturdy garden sheds in and around the town shortly afterwards.

My Mother used to make a vegetable pie that my family still cook today. It was about
a foot in length and cooked in an enamel tin in the oven. The recipe then is as follows:
Vegetables home grown from the allotment, root vegetables, green vegetables and potatoes all par boiled and then put into the dish, made up with stock with a couple of teaspoons of Bovril and covered with a pastry crust before being baked. These days we add some grated cheese to give a fuller flavour.

I am a true Shannock. To be a true Shannock, it means you have been born in Sheringham, your parents were born in Sheringham and your Grandparents were Sheringham born and bred.
My wife Pat has recently had a visitor from Norfolk, Virginia as part of 鈥淣orfolk and Norwich鈥� twinning. When we visited Norfolk in Virginia at the NATO base we saw the US battleship 鈥淲inston Churchill鈥� commissioned.
I also recall it was possible to get quite 鈥渕erry鈥� on cough sweets, they were covered in so much sugar that no one tended to notice the effects of too much me medication!

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