Nick Stone is a contemporary photographer, writer and visual artist, he is the creative mind behind ‘Crome’s Norwich:...
Hidden history Fragments
Walking the past: St Georges Street – Part Two
Once you get past the nexus of Vikings, Lollards, and antifa missionaries. You are faced with a recent piece of change...
Walking the past: St Georges Street – Part One
I’ve recently been trying to get back into the habit of walking again, going out at all if I’m honest. I started...
The Norwich School of Art – John Wonnacott
This painting is by John Wonnacott. He taught us life drawing at the Norwich School of Art (Now NUA) in the first...
Hidden City: St Mary – The Chapel in the fields.
St Mary – The Chapel in the fields One of the most intriguing things about any landscape urban or rural isn’t so much...
Painted saints – Digital conservation and visualisation
A while back I wrote something about Swafield, which you can find here. I visited it for various reasons, one of which...
St Giles Street, Norwich
I've realised recently I rarely write about the city itself, or at least I don't on here. This is actually based on...
Last breath: Rosary Cemetery
Rosary Cemetery My inclination was to put this into the hidden history category, but then I remembered how often I end...
RAF Coltishall gate guardians
This post is a short one, more of a response to this post and the photo which was found in a jumble sale in 2016 by...
Hidden history: The burial mounds of Greenwich
I've been to Greenwich twice in my life once when I was at school, I can't remember why except we looked at the Cutty...
The forgotten chapel – William of Norwich
Ring-roads, go round and past. Nature of the beast I suppose, circling. Norwich is blessed with ever-increasing...
Norwich: “Brightest shining of the city”
Viking and Anglo-Saxon Norwich We live here. It is easy to forget where Norwich comes from, we take our surroundings...
Hidden History: The Mousehold heath air crashes
It's an odd little memorial just off the side of the Road near the football pitches near Gilman Road. I'm not entirely...
Hidden history: Myths – Tombland, Norwich and the Plague
It's odd where you end up in conversations, the same is true in a digital landscape as it is in an analogue one. In...
Hidden history: The concrete toilet
Norwich, city of culture twenty err something eventually, home of the world's first pre-cast concrete sectional...