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Blitz in Colour: Rampant Horse Street, Norwich, 30 April 1942

Rampant Horse Street, Norwich, 30 April 1942 – 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...

Blitz Ghosts – Rampant Horse Street, Norwich

Rephotography, The Blitz

Rampant Horse Street, Norwich, Seventy years on, plus a bit. The result of the second night of the main two raids 29th/30th April 1942, The fires are out, must be the modern rain. This is the scene that did for the Caleys factory the previous night, less so than...

Blitz Ghost – St Andrews

Rephotography, The Blitz

This is Harmer’s Factory on St Andrews Broad Street in Norwich on the 18th March 1943 and the 2nd March 2012, almost seventy years., it’s also a weird bit of land with not much on it, sort of an entrance to a car park of sorts. Harmer’s was hit...

Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 2

The Blitz

29th and 30th April 1942. Again a live tweet of the Norwich Blitz, the second Baedeker Raid. [View the story “Norwich Blitz – Raid 2, live tweets” on Storify]

Norwich Baedeker blitz: The Lockwoods

Persistence of memory, The Blitz

The Lockwood family lived at number 65 Rosebery Road in Norwich, a very ordinary little house in a row of terraces nestling in the sea of shoe factory workers houses between St Clements Hill and Angel Road, not far from Angel Road School. In the Picture above we have...