Lost in a landscape: Burying kings – Sutton Hoo
There is probably no finer Anglo-Saxon timescape in East Anglia, you are so directly in touch with a hauntingly beautiful landscape and can feel the significance of what you can see in front of you with only the most basic of knowledge. It is probably one of the most...
Lost in a Landscape: The Vinegar Pond, Mousehold Heath, Norwich
Funny little pond, locally quite well known, lots of stories about what it is, “it’s a bomb crater” (it isn’t), it’s a pit dug for gravel/minerals (probably not), it was made by Bren Carriers exercising on the heath in WW2, yes...
Lost in a landscape: Thompson – Below the glacier.
When I was at school we had a teacher called Peter ‘Percy’ Williams, he primarily taught geography. At first he hammered it into our small and stupid heads; over those first three years he gradually worked out which ones of us were holding the water and...
Ghosts: R101 & Norwich Castle
There’s a thing on the telly tonight about Zeppelins*, this isn’t one, but it’s the best of got it’s the R101 over Norwich in 1929. the sound you can here is me jumping on a bandwagon and promptly falling off and hurting myself. The photo is...
Lost in a Landscape: Wolterton
A bit of a beauty, this was nearer the start of our circuit quite obviously positioned in Wolterton Park next to the main drive; It’s another life remnant a piece of the past which has gained purchase in the now by becoming a folly for the gentry. It is very...
Lost in a landscape: Mannington
Sunday seemed like it was the last blast of summer weather, that final sigh of heat and sun and as it goes some drifting was the perfect way to absorb those last few rays before the decent into the washes of winter Atlantic lows bear down across us. So we did a...
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An exhibition of some of my rephotography opens at The Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell on Saturday 22 May.![]()
It's been a year long trip to get here, which started during the first lockdown in 2020 and resulted in a bit of an odyssey of discovery about both who John Crome, and about the locations he knew and painted. This included revelations about a few places we thought we understood but didn't fully, and realising how little in some respects of the Norwich he recorded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries still exists. It's been fascinating to follow him, to record his places and to put that experience into both words and pictures.Have you heard that the museum re-opens on Saturday 22 May? ![]()
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What's more, we are proud to present our new exhibition Crome’s Norwich: 1821-2021, which runs 22 May - 18 Sept. ![]()
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This fascinating exhibition takes a fresh look at the work of the great British landscape artist, John Crome, and his relationship with his native city.![]()
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John Crome (1768 – 1821) lived and worked in Norwich all his life. The son of a weaver, he was an errand boy for a local doctor, before becoming an apprentice to a coach and sign painter where he learned to mix colours and paint. He went on to become a drawing master and was one of the principal founders of the Norwich Society of Artists. He remains one of the country’s great Romantic artists, rooting his work in the local landscape.![]()
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During the first lockdown of 2020, local photographer Nick Stone followed in Crome’s footsteps, taking advantage of the deserted city streets to pinpoint the painter’s locations and capture them as contemporary scenes. The result is an exhibition of stunning images which blend Crome’s artwork with Nick’s photographs, bringing the story of Crome’s Norwich up to date.![]()
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The museum will be open again on Sat 22 May and will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10.00 - 16.30 until further notice. ![]()
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✅ Full safety measures are in place.![]()
🎟️ Tickets must be booked in advance at: norfolk-museums.arttickets.org.uk/ ![]()
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Face coverings must be worn, except by those with medical exemption. ![]()
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For more info go to museums.norfolk.gov.uk.![]()
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99-year-old colour autochrome photos of the ruins of Langemark in Belgium three and half years after WWI. Among the shell-torn city are the wreckages of two British Tanks. Taken by Frédéric Gadmer. Albert Kahn Museum collection.
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