title Thrandeston History, and Scouts Duck Race, Eye, Suffolk - 24th September 2022 intro It's the Scouts annual duck race down at the Pennings, where a flock of plastic ducks is unleashed into the River Dove to drift down to Abbey Bridge, and where the first across the line wins a prize. Before that, we're in Diss for the usual Saturday morning shopping, then Nosher stops by Thrandeston Village Hall for a bit, where there's an extensive exhibition of old photos of the village, including a project to photograph the whole village in 1991 and again in 2021. imgp8088 The sign still says Eastern Electricity, years later imgp8090 Council dudes get a photo as they take over the Octagon imgp8091 Extensive renovations, but this shop still isn't open imgp8093 Sadly, You Can Brew It in Diss has shut up shop imgp8094 Lloyds Bank looks like it's finally being converted imgp8095 Christopher Hall becomes increasingly derelict imgp8096 Looking down Market Hill in Diss imgp8097 It's fairly dark over Mere Street imgp8098 The Baptist Chapel on Mere Street imgp8099 Bunting holds out against the oncoming rain imgp8101 Mere Street in Diss imgp8103 Harry, Fred and Isobel walk back up Mere Street imgp8107 Fred's found a great new pop-up plant shop imgp8108 Harry's bought himself a cat mask imgp8110 The pop-up shop is playing tiunes on a record player imgp8111 There's traffic chaos in Diss imgp8112 An 1860s engraving of St. Margaret of Antioch imgp8113 An exhibition of photos of Thrandeston imgp8114 Ruth and Uncle Mick look at photos of Thrandeston imgp8118 The history exhibition in the village hall imgp8123 Thrandeston village hall in the old National School imgp8129 The pond life-belt is now somewhat redundant imgp8131 Millie and Soph roam around in costume imgp8134 The ducks are all laid out in rows imgp8135 The ducks are scooped up and chucked in the river imgp8142 A pantomime genie roams around promoting the panto imgp8161 The ducks are "helped" up the river Dove imgp8166 The ducks move up the river imgp8179 The mass of yellow plastic nears the finish line imgp8191 A sea of plastic ducks imgp8194 The ducks speed up as they near the finish line imgp8198 Plastic ducks cram into the channel under Abbey Bridge imgp8215 The ducks are all collected and bagged imgp8229 Chickens' dog bounces around chasing straw imgp8232 There's a massive pile of straw imgp8251 Harry has a go at the crockery smash imgp8257 Harry's got a stuffed seal from somewhere imgp8260 Fred does a bit of cubing on a bale imgp8269 A bit of magnet fishing reveals a big stash