Great War ghost: Norwich tank versus taxi 1918

Great War ghost: Norwich tank versus taxi 1918

Rephotography

April 1918, Norwich gets a tank for a week, pictured here next to the Guildhall. This was part of the drive to buy more tanks, they did in fact make a huge amount of money to buy lots of tanks, over a million quid was raised nationally. This one was delivered by train...
Norwich Castle Museum Ghost 1941 > 2012

Norwich Castle Museum Ghost 1941 > 2012

Rephotography, The Blitz

Parachute troops, bare-headed and wearing ‘jump jackets’, in Norwich during exercises in Eastern Command, 23 June 1941. (Credit: IWM collection). Original Taken by Lt Puttnam, Official War Office photographer. Image of drizzle and murk, Nick Stone,...
Plunkett Ghost: Flood Levels 1961

Plunkett Ghost: Flood Levels 1961

Rephotography

  Flood level gauges New Mills Yard. 27th August 1961 > 2012 Recording Norwich Flood levels 1570-1912. Boy’s height 4 feet. The photographer’s younger son, Jonathan, aged 6; he who has uploaded an enormous number of his father’s photos to the...
Lost in a Landscape: Walsingham and the wolves

Lost in a Landscape: Walsingham and the wolves

Lost in a landscape

I have a book on Norfolk abbeys and friaries, a junk shop finds years ago, dating from the 1950s and is extraordinarily complete for a slim tome, Just enough background on everything to get you started without too much detail to confuse, small glossary to distinguish...
The workhorse and the charger

The workhorse and the charger

Persistence of memory

I lived in North Walsham as a kid. RAF Coltishall was only about 6 miles away. We all grew up with the Lightning; the cold-war emblems glossily belting past at high altitude, breaking the sound barrier with that window-rattling, deep, sonorous boom they are famed for....
9/11 – the years on

9/11 – the years on

Guest writers, Persistence of memory

Guest post from Louisa Griffith-Jones. Sometimes you just stumble across a remarkable piece of writing. Louisa posted this earlier today. I read it standing at a bus-stop, a lump in my throat. She is a friend, someone I remember from gigs in the early 1980s at UEA...
Blitz Ghosts: St Giles

Blitz Ghosts: St Giles

Rephotography, The Blitz

Upper St Giles Baedeker Raids again, not entirely sure which night to be honest 27th or 29th, I’m thinking 27th when Barn Road copped a load. What is interesting here though as much as anything is you can see how the new Cleveland Road sliced through the...