The Walled City 4: St Augustines Gate

The Walled City 4: St Augustines Gate

Walled city

This used to be the back wall of Magpie Print. I remember it being an inside; the inside of a building full of printing gear with ‘Mudpie Bob’ as we called him at the helm steering it. The trade seas were rough, from letterpress through to photolitho. I...
The Walled City 3: Pockthorpe gate and city wall

The Walled City 3: Pockthorpe gate and city wall

Walled city

Barrack Street is pretty dull these days, a humdrum piece of grey carriageway winding through crossings and traffic islands as it links the Magdalen Street flyover to the nexus; Mousehold, Plumstead, Kett’s Heights or along Riverside. It’s the epitomy of...
Maps: Norwich City Wall

Maps: Norwich City Wall

Georeferencing, Walled city

Basically Norwich City Wall with all the main elements marked on, This is not 100% accurate for detail, It’s stepping off point and that is all at that stage. Building started on 1294, finished in 1350-ish, then we started to pull it down. Privately financed...
The walled city 2: Berstrete gates

The walled city 2: Berstrete gates

Walled city

Ber Street Gate or Berstrete Gate, sitting just on the edge of Foulgers opening off Ber a Street and Bracondale. Another Norwich city wall fragment, not the gate itself. The gate no longer exists, nor do any of the others, largely a result mainly of progress (or...
The walled city: part one

The walled city: part one

Walled city

Norwich: The walled city I’ve been wandering around staring at flint in various forms for years. This is Norfolk after all it’s ubiquitous and unavoidable from pebble built fisherman’s cottages to our gazillion churches, dividing walls, farms, sheds...