Magdalen Street 5: St Paul
Magdalen Streets’ hidden history: The lost churches Part 5, St Paul It’s not exactly on Magdalen Street; it was behind it on the East side, a lovely little round tower enclosed by Peacock Street, Willis Street and Barrack Street. Until the 1860s, half...
Dead cities: Thorpe Abbotts
In February I was fortunate enough to get invited by Waveney Valley Community Archaeology Group with the permission of Lord Mann on a reconnaissance mission for a project they are doing on studying standing buildings on the site of Thorpe Abbotts airfield; A Second...
The walled city: part one
Norwich: The walled city I’ve been wandering around staring at flint in various forms for years. This is Norfolk after all it’s ubiquitous and unavoidable from pebble built fisherman’s cottages to our gazillion churches, dividing walls, farms, sheds...
Lost in a Landscape: North Walsham – The revolt
I found myself with a few free moments on Sunday afternoon and after some deliberating with tea and fags decided the best option was to tick something off my lists of things I wanted to go and see and do. So, I ended up in North Walsham, a market town I’d lived...
Hidden History: Opie Street and Gropecunt Lane.
Opie Street, nice ring, named thus for a fair while, it gained the name following the death of the famous Regency bonnet wearing writer and philanthropist Amelia Opie. Amelia was born in Colegate in 1769 to fairly well-to-do parents the Aldersons. Her father was a...
Magdalen Street 4: St Mary Unbrent
Magdalen Street’s hidden history: The lost churches Part 4, St Mary Unbrent Back in Norwich and back in Magdalen Street this time nearer the city centre a short walk up from St Botolph isn’t; past the concrete, buses and bustle, amidst faded splendour of...Products
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A fascinating look at the in built archaeology of a painting. In this case Old Crome's painting of Mousehold Heath. www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/mousehold-heath-norwich-john-crome/the-painting
Stumbled across some archived scans looking for something else this morning. These are from a project I ran through my work at Starfish in 2017 for The Assembly House Trust, we uncovered a wealth of material dating from the late 1940s to the rebuild after the Fire. These were I believe taken by Eric Sexton, then a leading light in trying to preserve various buildings in Norwich. He did quite a lot of recording work in the early 1960s, these are from that collection. Here you can see Stump Cross, Coslany Street, and Red Lion Street. I’ll dig the rest at some point.
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The Quietus | Features | Low Culture | A Glimmer Of Cope: Adelle Stripe On The Modern Antiquarian
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In the first of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, Adelle Stripe opens her battered copy of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian and argues that this guide to Britain's neolithic remains has...