Suzie Q's 'It's a Sign'
Created | Updated Oct 21, 2018
Suzie Q's 'It's a Sign'
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Paigetheoracle is informative:
Apparently gate means street in Anglo-Saxon and score is a narrow alley down to the river but that doesn't mean it is Anglo-Saxon but could just be local usage (to score can mean to cut and cutting is another name for a railway trench, dug out deliberately as opposed to an embankment built up deliberately, for the ease of this kind of transport across different landscapes).
By the way, in Cambridge is an Anglo-Saxon church, only one of two still remaining in the UK.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a recipient of the Nobel prize, who lived in Beccles. She studied at Somerville college, Oxford and won recognition for her work on the structure of penicillin and insulin. She was a member of the Royal Society and was commemorated in the issue of a first class stamp, celebrating this esteemed body.
