Qualla: Beccles https://qualla.com/beccles en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:44 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Beccles https://qualla.com/beccles Beccles: Introduction https://qualla.com/beccles/ Catherine Suckling married the Reverend Edmund Nelson at St Michael's Church in Beccles in 1749. Their son Horatio, born nine years later in Norfolk, would become the most famous naval officer in British history. The bell tower at the church where his parents were married still stands today, ninety-seven feet of Perpendicular Gothic, set deliberately apart from the main body of the church. Walk through Beccles and you keep finding lives that touched the wider world from this small market town on the River Waveney.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/4/beccles-wp/u134-beccles-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Beccles: Pasture on the Stream https://qualla.com/beccles/ The name Beccles first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Becles, and the etymology is straightforward Old English: bec-laes, meaning pasture on the stream, with bec cognate to the German Bach for stream and laes related to the English word lea for meadow. The town sits in t...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/4/beccles-wp/u134-beccles-pasture-on-the-stream.mp3 0:06 2 full Beccles: The Bell Tower That Stands Alone https://qualla.com/beccles/ The detached bell tower of St Michael's Church dominates the townscape. Ninety-seven feet of Perpendicular Gothic stonework, built in the sixteenth century, deliberately separated from the main church building. The decision to build the tower as a freestanding structure was unusu...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/4/beccles-wp/u134-beccles-the-bell-tower-that-stands-alone.mp3 0:06 3 full Beccles: Pecks, Puritans, and the Pequot https://qualla.com/beccles/ The Peck family of Beccles has woven through centuries of the town's history, including recent mayors. One Peck in particular travelled far. The Reverend Robert Peck, described in the local histories as a man of violent schismatic spirit, led a Puritan movement at the church of S...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/4/beccles-wp/u134-beccles-pecks-puritans-and-the-pequot.mp3 0:06 4 full Beccles: A Nobel Laureate and a Detached Tower https://qualla.com/beccles/ Beccles has produced an unusual concentration of nationally known figures. Dorothy Hodgkin, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of biochemical compounds including penicillin and vitamin B12, has connection...

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