Sometimes called The Gingerbread Town

Hooray!! Downham Market received a GOLD award from “Anglia In Bloom” at the Awards Event in Gorleston on the 14 th September.  The Live and Let Live or as it's known locally “The Livvy” Public House received a SILVER award on its first time of entry, so huge congratulations. “Downham In Bloom” activities carry on throughout the year, which runs from July to July, and affects varied aspects of the town.      The Willows Nature Reserve Firstly there is the floral aspect, which is very visual and noticeable. This includes the work carried out by our Borough Council in the parks and open spaces and also the beautiful displays created by many of Downham's commercial premises including The Crown and The Castle and also Barker Bros. this year amongst others. Go and enjoy a peaceful time in the Willows Nature Reserve, some say our best kept secret. The boat over the Hythe Bridge is kept looking great year round. And Travis Perkins make an annual...

All that we had we gave: All that was ours to give: Freely surrendered all, That you in peace might live. In trench and field and many seas we lie - We who in dying shall not ever die If only you in honour of the slain Shall surely see we did not die in vain Words of remembrance underlying the poignant events of The Great War. Two men, likely friends, from Ryston and Bexwell fell on the battlefields of France exactly a year apart on the 25 September in the years 1915 and 1916. This memorial to their falling is one of the first erected, privately commissioned and erected whilst the conflict continued. Second Lieutenant Lionel Henry Pratt, 18th Battalion of the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) was the third son of Edward Roger Murray Pratt and Louisa Frances Pratt of Ryston Hall. He fell on the 25 September 1915 at the age of 25 in the Battle of Loos and buried in a mass grave at Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay Second Lieutenant Charles Prangle...