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If you think vaccination is an ordeal now, consider the 18 th-century version. After having pus from a smallpox boil scratched into your arm, you would be subject to three weeks of fever, sweats, chills, bleeding and purging with dangerous medicines, accompanied by hymns, prayers and hell-fire sermons by dour preachers. That was smallpox vaccination, back then. The process generally worked and was preferred to enduring "natural" smallpox, which killed around a third of those who got it. Patients were often grateful for trial-by-immunization — once it was over, anyway. "Thus through the Merc...

New seat in Fenland churchyard is a bridge to village's past  | Updated: 11:19, 07 April 2021 A new seat has been installed in a Fenland churchyard thanks to a village council. The seat, which has been built in the churchyard of St Paul's Church at the Gote Crossroads in Gorefield has been provided by the parish council. It has been built using the keystone from the original Gote Bridge which was saved when the bridge was demolished. The seat was built using the keystone from the former Gote Bridge. (45918834) Originally the bridge was a brick arch similar to the one at Fendyke Lane. The ke...

Much of Wednesday morning saw health and social care workers get their initial doses in Attleborough, before members of the public arrived for the final few hours of proceedings.  One of them was Alan Muse, from Diss, who has been shielding for almost the entirety of the pandemic as he battles cancer.  "It's all gone very well," said Mr Muse, 79. "I was so keen I already had my jacket and jumper off ready to be jabbed when I signed in. Alan Muse, from Diss, receiving his COVID-19 vaccination at the new mass vaccination centre at Connaught Hall in Attleborough. Picture: Danielle Booden