Hidden History: The Great Halls – Oak Street
A medieval traders hall, which always seems all but forgotten. One of the few survivors of the blitz and the clearings on the whole of Oak Street it nestles between Moonraker cycles which used to be Slaughters backing on to Mitchell’s Reclamation Yard which...
The walled city 2: Berstrete gates
Ber Street Gate or Berstrete Gate, sitting just on the edge of Foulgers opening off Ber a Street and Bracondale. Another Norwich city wall fragment, not the gate itself. The gate no longer exists, nor do any of the others, largely a result mainly of progress (or...
Through Glass: Norwich 1900
A few years ago I was fortunate enough to have a box of glass slides come into my possession, here are a few of them, one day I’ll get the whole lot scanned in and shared. But for now here are a selection of Norwich through the glass from about 1890 to 1920. I...
Westlegate: The tall boy at the back
I first met Westlegate tower in the 1970s, I would have been about seven or eight. It was just part of the background noise in a city where I had yet to link up all the parts. In 1975 it was just a place where my brother-in-law worked. And on a couple of occasions I...IW on Facebook
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In a field in England, in the East Riding of Yorkshire to be more precise, amid the grass and nettles there stands a lone curious 24 foot (7.3 metre) red brick obelisk. Constructed more than 200 years...Ghosts of Doggerland - Beeston Hills, a kame field at Beeston Regis, Norfolk. There are records in drawings from the 18th century of more than just the one 'bump'. Kames are glacially deposited hills formed by deposits in hollows in glaciers dropping as they stop and start to retreat.
Some really quite incredible footage here of the Western Front between the wars. It was shot using Cine in colour, probably in the early to mid 1930s by Charles Bridgen, himself a veteran, who returned to the front to visit spots he would have known. This is intercut with a wedding sequence in Amien and a trip to Verdun. It’s rather haunting and Melancholy with a capital M. Well worth a watch. Thanks to Taff Gillingham for flagging this up, remarkable find that it is.
youtu.be/esA9SXyzAWkA short film made in 1928 by Charles W. Bridgen of his journey to revisit the battle sites in Northern France. Bridgen was L. Corporal in the 7th London Batt...