Outside Curls store, Rampant Horse Street corner with Brigg Street, 30th April 1942. They're standing in the wreckage...
The Blitz Fragments
Blitz Ghosts: Church of St Julian of Norwich
One of the best known Blitz victims in Norwich, because of the famed Julian of Norwich. It was hit head on by a 250kg...
Blitz Ghosts: St Michael at Thorn, Norwich
St Michael at Thorn, Norwich. Or it was. It stood just behind the Archant building, sort of opposite or adjacent to...
Blitz Ghosts Norwich 1943
Some Blitz Ghosts images of Norwich from 1943 In Norwich in 1943 White stuff was an International, GAP was a Barclays...
The Blitz: The Firefighter’s Memorial
The Firefighter's Memorial. Entitled 'blitz' by artist John Mills. 997 firemen lost their lives in WW2, all listed on...
Ghosts: A Dog’s Life, the Catton Liberator
This was the scene in Catton at the corner of Church Street and Spixworth Road on the 13th February 1945 and the...
Baedeker Blitz: The Hubbards
Thomas Hubbard, Aged 52, Died 28-4-42 Norwich Garden of remembrance. Memorial cemetery. Farrow Road, Norwich. "The...
Blitz Ghost: Alexandra Road and Helena Road
Alexandra Road, another Norwich Blitz Ghost. A 250kg bomb took out about 4 properties, quite a precise slice, which is...
Blitz Ghosts: St Benedicts Gate
On the 28th April 1942 this was the result of a 1000kg Hermann that burst on what is now the traffic lights at the...
Blitz Ghost: St Bartholomew
One of the few real reminders of the blitz on Norwich that is easy to visit is the church of St Bartholomew, Heigham,...
Blitz Ghosts – Rampant Horse Street, Norwich
Rampant Horse Street, Norwich, Seventy years on, plus a bit. The result of the second night of the main two raids...
Blitz Ghost – St Andrews
This is Harmer's Factory on St Andrews Broad Street in Norwich on the 18th March 1943 and the 2nd March 2012, almost...
Tom Brittan’s Blitz
In 2012, I received a few emails from a chap called Tom Brittan who now lives in France. I''ll let him recount his...
Norwich in flames
Norwich in Flames: Here are a selection of George Swain's camera melting exploits. Originally photographed in Black...
Imagined futures past: ’45 Plan
After the bombs had fallen wrecking a large area of the city centre and indeed laid waste to a huge amount of the...