Bury St Edmunds is an historic market town in West Suffolk, attracting many to its cathedral, the remains of its abbey and a wealth of other historic buildings. The town has also been a thriving centre of brewing and malting as well as sugar refining but beneath its surface lie many more unusual stories from its past. In Quirky Bury St Edmunds local author Martyn Taylor explores the more strange and unusual aspects of the town’s history, including the Balloon in the Wall, The Equation of Time Planter, the gruesome crime that required the little used Coventry Act and much, much more.Quirky Bury St Edmunds celebrates the unusual and often strange history of Bury St Edmunds and its characters over the years. This fascinating insight into Bury St Edmunds will be of interest to all those who want to know more about the town’s quirky history.
