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Beccles Gates
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| Digital photography (Nikon D3) with some assembly required in Pixelmator Pro
Beccles was never a walled town; yet we have all those gates! So one can only surmise that the inhabitants were given to building gates without walls (perhaps as an economy measure). Of course reality suggests that this use of 'gate' represents the Old Norse gata: street (related to gait) rather than OE gæt:gate, as is appropriate for a town in what was once the Dena lagu, but reality is not as much fun so it can go take a running jump. (see: Folk Incest for details |
