Cinema ghosts: Great Yarmouth Cinemas Regal & Theatre

Cinema ghosts: Great Yarmouth Cinemas Regal & Theatre

Great Yarmouth Cinemas More from the Norfolk at the Pictures rephotography series of Great Yarmouth. There two here showing the different incarnations of the Theatre and the Regal.  The first one is the Theatre that gives the name to the now empty Theatre Street. It...
Ghosts: Eastern Front

Ghosts: Eastern Front

Earlier this year Paul Reed the military historian was on one of his trips, this one to Germany, the East Front, bits of Leipzig and Berlin were taken in. He started to take photos and post them, doing a remarkable job of lining them up with the originals. So, I sat...
Ghosts: Sainte-Mère-Église 2

Ghosts: Sainte-Mère-Église 2

A few more of Sainte Mère Église including the Rue Division Leclerc junction with Rue Général de Gaulleand the church; two Paratroopers deal with German snipers, both 1944 and not at the same time.  
Ghosts: Sainte-Mère-Église

Ghosts: Sainte-Mère-Église

A couple of very quick ones, more or less on a whim. We went to Sainte-Mère-Église to have a wander around a bit of Second World War stuff, it’s in close proximity to a place that apparently does amazing crepes, which was slightly annoyingly closed. But I...
Time warps Alkmaar

Time warps Alkmaar

A Guest post from Mark Alphenaar on the Regional Archive at Alkmaar. At the Regional Archive Alkmaar in The Netherlands we think that history should be easily accessible to all people, young and old no matter their background. We think we have found a way to do just...
The Central or Plaza Cinema Great Yarmouth

The Central or Plaza Cinema Great Yarmouth

Right up in the middle of Great Yarmouth town centre is this. the Central or Plaza Cinema, it stood where Poundland is, opposite the fish and chips and seats and seagulls and the kids and people eating lunch, it’s quite a vibrant little bit of Great Yarmouth, I...
Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.

Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.

This is the Hollywood, and it isn’t it’s also the Aquarium, a familiar site to nearly everyone who has ever been to Great Yarmouth, sitting as it does to the Northen End of the Town just before you head out through North Denes to Caister. They can see it...
Great War: Zeppelin raids 2

Great War: Zeppelin raids 2

A couple more ghost composites to commemorate the Zeppelin Raids on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the 19th/20th of January 1915 both in Great Yarmouth in 1915, created exactly 100 years to the day. The soldiers are stood in the doorway of the Drill Hall near...
Ghosts: R101 & Norwich Castle

Ghosts: R101 & Norwich Castle

There’s a thing on the telly tonight about Zeppelins*, this isn’t one, but it’s the best of got it’s the R101 over Norwich in 1929. the sound you can here is me jumping on a bandwagon and promptly falling off and hurting myself. The photo is...