‘It was nice, but it was all quite brief,’ said Mary James, owner of The Aldeburgh Bookshop [another personal favourite of mine - H] as the torch travelled along the Suffolk coast on Day 48. Mary thought that it ‘all went well’, although she pointed out the rain had put some people off. ‘Three thousand people were expected to turn up for the torch, but I don’t think there were that many there.’
The Aldeburgh Bookshop had entered into the spirit of the relay: ‘We had Olympics-themed books in the window, and when the torch passed we closed the shop door and all stood outside clapping.
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| Union Jacks on the Crag Path in Aldeburgh [Photo: http://www.eadt.co.uk] |
‘One of the torchbearers was a young girl with cancer who is normally in a wheelchair. I heard that she had stood up and walked for her bit. This happened after it has passed the shop so I didn’t see it, but I heard that everyone was very moved.’
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| The torch travels through Aldeburgh [Photo: http://www.eadt.co.uk] |