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Norwich minister discovers 70-year-old painting A Norwich church minister has recently re-discovered a picture he drew almost 70 years ago of The Wondrous Cross, which hung in two churches in Hampshire for many years. Dr Alan Clifford, aged 79, is now Pastor of Norwich Reformed Church. Born in 1941, he was brought up attending the Primitive Methodist chapel in Farnborough. “Sadly, my father was an atheist, but my dear mother took me and my two sisters to the services,” he said. “I will always thank God for the early grounding in the Christian faith by faithful Sunday school teachers. Only today, I have rediscovered a painting I did of the Crucifixion at the age of 10 or 11. It first hung in the old chapel, then in the new one. It was passed on to my late elder sister Sylvia by Mrs Miles, a former member of the church.