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"But simple as the tale is there is hardly better historic training for a man than to set him frankly in the streets of a quiet little town like Bury St. Edmunds, and bid him work out the history of the men who lived and died there. In the quiet, quaintly-named streets, in the town-mead and the market-place, in the Lord’s mill beside the stream, in the ruffed and future brasses of its burghers in the church, lies the real life of England and Englishmen, this life of their home and their trade, their ceaseless, sober struggle with oppression, their steady, unwearied battle for self-government. It is just in the pettiness of its details, in its common place incidents, in the want of marked features and striking events, that the real lesson of the whole story lies. For two centuries this little town of Bury St. Edmunds was winning Liberty to itself, and yet we hardly note as we pass from one little step to another little step how surely that Liberty was being won."

John Richard Green (1837-1883), grandfather of British social and cultural history.

Green, J. R., (1876), Stray studies from England and Italy, Macmillan & Co., London p.218-9

The Curse of Saint Edmund

Accursed Centros Miller and Bury's naff Christmas lights

A few weeks ago in a sad attempt to gain a bit of positive publicity for Centros Miller in Bury, Centros Miller/St Edmundsbury Borough Council's spin doctor, Mr Steve Bryson, had his photo taken in the BFP handing over a cheque for £5000 for Christmas decorations to be put up in the town. This is a very odd photo; Mr Bryson is handing a cheque over to from one company he works for, to the Borough who he also works for - weird or what?

Far from being the success that Centros Miller or Mr Bryson had hoped for, a rather miserly display of Christmas lights has revealed how really cheap Centros Miller's 'generosity' is. As a multi-million pound property developer, £5000 is merely the change from down the back of Centros Miller's sofa. It would be nice to find out how much Centros Miller spent on their Directors wages, Christmas Bonuses and their own staff Christmas party as a comparison of their Christmas cheer.

Rather than Bury St Edmunds being bedecked in lights and Christmas decorations to inspire awe, wonder and the Christmas spirit in young and old alike; many Bury towns people have been left feeling that the town's tawdry Christmas decorations were put up by Ebenezer Scrooge with a hang-over.

Protests letters from the public in the BFP followed, entirely independent from the Knights of St Edmunds.

Since the curse everything in Bury St Edmunds associated with Centros Miller is now doomed to failure. Then again what would you expect from a cursed company like Centros Miller, perhaps they should pay attention to the dire warnings of the ghost of Jacob Marley before it is too late?
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