Aldeburgh’s Animal Antics Quiz
Writer Lindsay Want – the whimsical content brain behind Aldeburgh’s much loved downloadable pocket guide – shares some Aldeburgh insights of the animal kind in this ‘fact or fiction’ quiz.
Fact or Fiction? Where to find the answers…
Designed for enjoying during your Aldeburgh visit, or equally suited to armchair travellers, you’ll find all the answers to the Animal Antics quiz in The Pocket Guide to Aldeburgh and along its directed Town & Country Heritage Walk.
As a fun activity with family or friends, why not follow this whimscial wildlife trail through the heritage walk on foot, and make all the discoveries for yourself?
Are these awesome Aldeburgh tales fact or fiction?
1. Seafront Snooks has a twin in Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital garden.
2. Sea-bathing elephants were once an annual sight near Fort Green.
3. You’ll always find Sampson, the town cat, in church ( St Peter & St Paul’s).
4. One-time resident thriller-writer, Patricia Highsmith, often had live snails in her handbag.
5. Dog-lover, Benjamin Britten had Dachshunds called Clytie and Jove.
6. His ‘house boat’ – an upturned boat in ‘Owlbarrow’ – now gone, you’ll find Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, residing on Kings Street.
7. Novelist Margery Sharp rented space in South Lookout to fellow writer Lauren van der Post for one penny and one flamingo feather a year.
8. During WWI, kangaroos were often sighted near Hazelwood marshes.
9. Brave mice, Bernard and Bianca (aka The Rescuers) originated were born along Crag Path.
10. Aldeburgh-built galleon’ Marygold’ set off with Sir Francis Drake’s ‘Pelican’ to circumnavigate the glove in c.1589.
