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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

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Bury accused of being a company town

The Replacement St Edmundsbury Borough Local Plan 2016 was discussed at a recent planning policy meeting of the Borough including the possibility building of a second multi-storey car park opposite the fire station. Some 68 objections were received from members of the public - only Centros Miller wrote in favour. Residents complained that it would be unused, unattractive, destroy trees, encourage anti-social behaviour and block out light.Nonetheless, St Edmundsbury Borough has agreed to keep it in the local plan.

This prompted Cllr. David Nettleton, one of the few Borough councillors oppose the cattle-market development, to state in the Bury Free Press 2nd September 2005:

"St Edmundsbury Borough Council is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centros Miller....this council ought to be ashamed of itself"
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