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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

What Can I Do?

A key factor is to demonstrate local opposition to the redevelopment of the Cattle-Market, by letting those who run the companies hell bent on destroying Bury St Edmunds know that neither they nor their plans are welcome in the town and by forcing them to justify their behaviour.

The Knights of St Edmund are asking their supporters and all opponents of the Cattle-market scheme to start a campaign of letter writing. The Knights need people to write polite letters or postcards of protest, demanding a reply to the question; why are Debenhams Ltd, Centros Miller and the Miller Group constructing a superstore in Bury St Edmunds against the democratically expressed wishes of the people of the town?

Correspondence should be sent to:

The Chairman Mr John Lovering
Debenhams Ltd,
1 Welbeck Street,
London
W1G 0AA

The Managing Director Mr John F Laker
Centros Miller (Bury St Edmunds) Ltd
Albermarle House
1Albermarle Street
London
W1X 3HF

The Chairman Mr Bob Speirs
The Miller Group Ltd
Miller House
2 Lochside View
Edinburgh Park
Edinburgh
EH12 9DH
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