1/17 To-day it is known to the wide world by its canaries and its mustard, although its most important industry is the boot trade, in which it employs some eight thousand persons. To the visitor it has many attractions. The lovely cathedral with its fine Norman arches, the Erpingham Gate so splendidly Gothic, the noble Castle Keep so imposingly placed with the cattle-market below--these are all as Borrow saw them nearly a century ago. So also is the church of St.Peter Mancroft, where Sir Thomas Browne lies buried. |