Joseph Bexfield's grave in its churchyard setting in All Saints' Churchyard, at Thurlton. Photo: Nick ButcherCopy: Stacia BriggsFor: EDP SundayArchant © 2009(01603) 772434 (Image: Archant © 2009)
The team are at Norwich Cathedral again and this week we have a chat about the Lantern Man of Thurlton. Siofra becomes starstruck as Budge the cat drops by.
His gravestone is covered in a lattice of lichen, the simple Norfolk wherry etched into the stone the only clue to the mysterious demise of unfortunate Joseph Bexfield. But although Bexfield was a wherryman and his work was often treacherous, it was not to blame for his death on August 11 1809, on a dark night when the mists swept in across Thurlton Staithe and the shadowy Lantern Man took up sentry duty on the marshes.
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