LETTER: Can anyone help with information on Mr Toad and Ely courtroom?
Published:
2:37 PM January 10, 2016
Updated:
6:33 PM December 14, 2020
I wonder whether I can test the memories of some of your readers, to help me with some local research I am undertaking?
It has been said that the courtroom in Ely’s courthouse was used as the inspiration for the scene in ‘The Wind In The Willows’ with illustrations by E H Shepherd, where Mr Toad is hauled before the magistrate.
My question is ‘How do we know this is definitely true?’ So far I have not been able to find anything to back this claim up.
If any of your readers has any information I would love to hear from them
Ted Coney
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tedconey@btinternet.com
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