St Mary – The Chapel in the fields One of the most intriguing things about any landscape urban or rural isn’t so much...
Hidden history Fragments
Norwich, a history in pubs
This is the work of Fraser White. In 2018 he created this using Google Maps to list all the pubs in Norwich possible,...
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...
Hidden history: Norwich – In War disloyal; in Peace discontented
Norwich – In War disloyal; in Peace discontented I had to go to the dentist yesterday, the one on Barrack Street that...
Hidden History: Lassie Come Home
Surprising what you find in your garden, I've found clay pipe stems and bowls and piece of Romano British pottery,...
Hidden History: Novo Jewish Cemetery
A curious place, Novo Jewish Cemetery is hidden in plain sight in the middle of Queen Mary University in Mile End in...
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...
Hidden history: Traces – Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris
We have family in Paris, or nearby at least on a trip last year we went to see them and spent various days bumming...
Hidden History: The Great Hall Oak Street
A medieval traders hall, which always seems all but forgotten. One of the few survivors of the blitz and the clearings...
Westlegate: The tall boy at the back
I first met Westlegate tower in the 1970s, I would have been about seven or eight. It was just part of the...
Hidden history: Doors of Perception
Sometimes the interesting things are hidden in plain sight and it's remarkably easy to just overlook stuff like bits...
Magdalen Street 6: All Saints Fybriggate
Magdalen Streets' hidden history: The lost churches Part 6, All Saints Fybriggate There were two All Saints in...
Magdalen Street 5: St Paul
Magdalen Streets' hidden history: The lost churches Part 5, St Paul It's not exactly on Magdalen Street; it was behind...
Lost in a Landscape: North Walsham – The revolt 1381
I found myself with a few free moments on Sunday afternoon and after some deliberating with tea and fags decided the...
Hidden History: Opie Street and Gropecunt Lane.
Opie Street, nice ring, named thus for a fair while, it gained the name following the death of the famous Regency...