Norwich Castle Museum Ghost 1941 > 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The Discovery of the Lancashire Witches 1612
Guest post from Tim Hardy. Tim is a graphic designer, illustrator and history boy, he is also resident of the Pendle area. Follows a tale of Black dog as familiar, witches and the trial. Living in the Borough of Pendle, it’s not easy to escape the area’s...
Wheal Vor – black dogs, gunpowder and goose feathers.
Guest post from Andrew MacDonald of Waveney Archaeology. Andrew lives in in South Norfolk Shuck territory, but is currently occupying his waking hours obsessing over tin mines in Cornwall. He does this in between trying to persuade people to stare at bumps in fields...IW on Facebook
If you have an hour spare, this is fascinating. soundcloud.com/user-202619366/wild-medicine-pilot
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Portraits of Life Exhibition: The Forum, Norwich. Jack Roberts (1917 - 2005) worked for Coe’s photographic studios in Norwich and started taking pictures in the 1930s. His shots of the city in the 50s and 60s provide a glimpse of forgotten streets. I’ve ghosted some and colourised one to accompany the exhibition. The exhibition is mainly his rather beautiful photographs and oral histories of people who lived in the streets he recorded. 13th to the 22nd of September, Forum Norwich. Please pop in, the exhibition is in the Gallery on the left inside the Atrium.
Below St Stephens, Norwich. Ghosted from the Jack Roberts Collection. #NorfolkHODs