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Quirky quern

Long before supermarkets you ground your grains in one of these if you wanted a loaf of bread.

 

Built for the St. Mary's Guild in the 1390s, this building has been a Town Hall, a museum, a British Restaurant - and a courthouse where some of the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned here before leaving for America - which makes you wonder why they called Boston, Mass after the this town!

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Uploaded on June 28, 2014
Taken on May 14, 2014