Our treat was to go to Diss.

While still at primary school on holidays I used to walk to Diss with a friend and her mother for Mrs Knights to do her Friday shop.

Our lunch was 2p worth of chips from a stall on the market. We loved looking in shops and sitting by the Mere before our long walk home to Mrs Knights, laden with shopping. I think it was ten miles there and back.

On Saturday afternoons, friends and I walked to Diss to go to the cinema.

The building in Victoria Road, had a galvanised roof and if it rained the noise was deafening.

The films were silent then and appropriate music was played on the piano. We enjoyed Westerns.

On odd occasions, my mother hired the local taxi, a horse and open cart. Mother sat in front and I on a back seat, facing the road holding on tightly.

We went to Diss shopping or to the station to catch a train to Norwich.

It was a wonderful day when an older sister bought a new bike and gave me her old one.

When I was 11 years old, I cycled to Eye Grammar School, seven miles there and back. There were no school buses in those days.

School did not finish until 4.20pm, which meant it was dark in the winter. It was so good when battery lamps arrived to replace the carbide fuelled lamps.

What are your memories of shopping in Diss, the town's long-gone shops and the journeys you made around the local area?

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