Great War ghost: Norwich tank versus taxi 1918
April 1918, Norwich gets a tank for a week, pictured here next to the Guildhall. This was part of...
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Norwich Castle Museum Ghost 1941 > 2012
Parachute troops, bare-headed and wearing ‘jump jackets’, in Norwich during exercises...
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Plunkett Ghost: Flood Levels 1961
Flood level gauges New Mills Yard. 27th August 1961 > 2012 Recording Norwich Flood levels...
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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...
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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...
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9/11 – the years on
Guest post from Louisa Griffith-Jones. Sometimes you just stumble across a remarkable piece of...
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Blitz Ghosts: St Giles
Upper St Giles Baedeker Raids again, not entirely sure which night to be honest 27th or 29th,...
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The Discovery of the Lancashire Witches 1612
Guest post from Tim Hardy. Tim is a graphic designer, illustrator and history boy, he is also...
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Wheal Vor – black dogs, gunpowder and goose feathers.
Guest post from Andrew MacDonald of Waveney Archaeology. Andrew lives in in South Norfolk Shuck...
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I've recently been doing some work with Paston Footprints 600. One of the Paston family locations in Norwich is the Maid's Head hotel, it's mentioned in the Paston letters, so just for fun and larks I banged out a Plunkett ghost of it on the way into work this morning. Me and George, same focal length roughly, same footprint, him in 1934, me in 2018, 84 years apart, and for a split second not. www.facebook.com/paston600/
For anyone fascinated by myth and folklore who likes a good tale told well, Hugh Lupton's new novel, based on part of the Mabinogion cycle.
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The Assembly of the Severed Head by Hugh Lupton
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PUBLISHED MAY 2018 A small monastic outpost in 13th Century Wales is rocked to its core when a gruesome discovery is made on the nearby shoreline: a severed human head. It’s the first of several to ...lookup.london/london-necropolis-railway/?utm_content=buffer4768c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twi...
London Necropolis Railway: The Train For The Dead
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Pay special attention to this building in Waterloo, it hides a surprising secret; The London Necropolis Railway. All terminate here.
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