CERBERUS
- the three-headed dog -

Cerberus, c.1965

An Elizabethan statue of Cerberus, the mythical Greek three-headed dog who guarded the gates of the Underworld, used to stand in the Shrubbery in Redgrave Park. One head bayed upwards and the other two looked sideways. A chain went round its back - local legends say the chain broke when the Hall was destroyed in 1946.
  The photograph shows one of the heads lying on the ground, probably knocked off by vandalism during the War.
  The statue was sold in 1971, and is now at Buckenham, near Norwich.

 
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