Blitz in Colour: The British Gas Light Company, Dereham Road
Post-April 27th 1942, this was the scene at the corner of Heigham Road and Dereham Road in Norwich during some kind of clear up work, probably to do with the gas supply. The whole crossroads here was badly damaged, the pub to the rear of the picture made of sturdy...
Blitz in Colour: Dereham Road Baptist Church 1942
Opened in 1904. Closed temporarily in 1942 during the Baedeker Raids. Sources point at this being a result of the first raid on the Monday night; the 27th of April; this would fit the pattern of most of the bombing being of the north and north-western sectors of the...
Great War: Verdun in postcards
Fort Vaux – Artillery observation post. A century on from events. These are in fact a post-war set of tourist cards I bought as part of an album at a flea market in France. These are basically Verdun through a lens from some time after everything had been...
Blitz in Colour: Curls Store 30th April 1942
Outside Curls store, Rampant Horse Street corner with Brigg Street, 30th April 1942. They’re standing in the wreckage caused by the incendiary bombs that fell on Norwich on the second night of the Baedeker Raids on Norwich. So this is the 30th of April 1942. The...
Blitz Ghosts: Church of St Julian Norwich
One of the best known Blitz victims in Norwich, because of it’s famous St Julian thing. Hit head on by a 250kg, it was all but obliterated as you can see. Beautifully rebuilt, and a fabulous little church, even if you don’t do the whole religion thing...
Blitz Ghosts: St Michael at Thorn
St Michael at Thorn, or it was, just behind the Archant building, sort of opposite or adjacent to the shops that survived the flame-grilling of Bonds in April 1942, this is 11 years before the bombs fell in 1931. So I’m standing roughly, within a foot or so of...
Blitz Ghosts: St Benedicts Church
Quite hidden away, a poor little thing. The tower is still there, preserved like like a thick flint chimney, or a Cloigtheach except no bells ring here, It reminds me of Messines in Flanders too. It’s set in some grass just off St Benedicts Street, behind a new...
Blitz in Colour: Rampant Horse Street 30 April 1942
Rampant Horse Street in the aftermath of the second night of the Baedeker raids on Norwich, The Luftwaffe bombed across the centre of Norwich using incendiaries. There were too many individual fires for the wardens to put them all out the fire spread from building to...
Blitz Ghosts: Aylsham Road
Aylsham Road, Norwich, April 1942 and nearly now. There are two pictures of the area. Both I believe taken by George Swain. The top Blitz Ghost is the first one I ever did, and the bottom one is the last. A 500kg landed here, it blew the front out of all the houses in...Products
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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.
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The Quietus | Features | Low Culture | A Glimmer Of Cope: Adelle Stripe On The Modern Antiquarian
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In the first of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, Adelle Stripe opens her battered copy of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian and argues that this guide to Britain's neolithic remains has...