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Camera crews have been to TW Gaze in Diss as part of filming for future episodes of a BBC show. The site’s Orwell saleroom welcomed Izzie Balmer, Robin Johnson and The Travelling Auctioneers team on July 26. Among the lots which went under the hammer were a bamboo swagger stick, reputedly the property of Admiral Nelson’s surgeon, Sir William Beatty. The stick was sold with a manuscript, which read: This cane was on board the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. It belonged to Sir William Beatty a favourite surgeon of Lord Nelson, who gave it to Dr Davis, also a naval surgeon and father of the l…

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