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...Products
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Artist Daniel Voshart has created the Roman Emperor Project, a manipulated photo series that focuses on bringing life to images of ancient Roman emperors.A fascinating look at the in built archaeology of a painting. In this case Old Crome's painting of Mousehold Heath. www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/mousehold-heath-norwich-john-crome/the-painting
Stumbled across some archived scans looking for something else this morning. These are from a project I ran through my work at Starfish in 2017 for The Assembly House Trust, we uncovered a wealth of material dating from the late 1940s to the rebuild after the Fire. These were I believe taken by Eric Sexton, then a leading light in trying to preserve various buildings in Norwich. He did quite a lot of recording work in the early 1960s, these are from that collection. Here you can see Stump Cross, Coslany Street, and Red Lion Street. I’ll dig the rest at some point.