Great War: Zeppelin raids
A couple of ghost composites to commemorate the Zeppelin Raids on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the 20th of January 1915 for my opening ‘ghosting’ escapade of 2015. Above is St Peters Villa on St Peter’s Plain and below is damage to...
Baedeker Blitz: The Hubbards
Thomas Hubbard, Aged 52, Died 28-4-42 Norwich Garden of remembrance. Memorial cemetery. Farrow Road, Norwich. “The date that sticks in my mind is 28th April 1942 and the time 10.30 At that moment I was in the Anderson shelter in my garden on St. Martins Road,...
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 still very evident if you look at the row today the missing block was replaced with a more modern variant of the generic terrace, a pattern you can...
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 bottom of Grapes Hill. The men aren’t short, they standing in the edge of a hole that was rather wide and very deep caused by the blast a Herman...
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, Norwich, it’s quite easy to find sitting just of Heigham Street and Waterworks Road. On the night of the 27th of April 1942 when the first of...
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 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
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...
Ghosting: Norwich’s first computer
The Treasurer’s Department takes delivery of its Norwich’s first computer at City Hall, in February 1957… and in 2013. I’m curious as to whether Westwood of Beccles is any relation to Tim… ‘Drop da bomb’ etc. Original photo...
Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 2
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]
Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 1
I’ve been left slightly speechless by the response to a something I did last night on the spur of a moment relating to The Norwich Blitz. I have a head full of stuff relating to lots of things, the inner nerd has lots of strange habits, and whilst mulling over...
Rephotography: Ghosting history
I should of course have done a piece on the Ghosts stuff properly ages ago, but time passes and what one minute seems to be the important and interesting bit of whatever you’re doing suddenly isn’t as much as it was three or four years ago. The recent...Products
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