A Victorian carving of the ‘Pedlar of Swaffham’ on a pew-end in St Peter & St Paul Church in Swaffham, a town in Norfolk, Eastern England. The pedlar is a local folk figure who dreamed that if he journeyed to London Bridge he would receive good news. On his arrival in London, he waited some days before he was spoken to by a shopkeeper who told him that he had dreamed that if he went to a town in Norfolk and dug in an orchard behind the house of a pedlar, he would discover a vast treasure. The pedlar promptly returned home, dug in his orchard and discovered the ‘vast treasure’ with which he grew very rich: he also spent a considerable amount of it on renovating the local church. Images of the pedlar and his dog are found in several parts of Swaffham. Symbol | Imagination | Aspirations | Fantasy | The Past