Ghosts: London blitz aerial maps
An iconic image from one German Heinkel III bomber showing another over Rotherhithe, the Surrey Commercial and West India Docks and Isle of Dogs to the right. Credit original: Southwark Library collection. 1940. CC Fair Use Wikipedia. Two German Dornier 17 bombers fly...
Jagger Swagger
All cities are full of nexus points, the crossings of networks of roads that run the city. Because most of our major ant colonies grow irregularly, they form and coalesce around point sin the landscape and those points shift and change over time, one centre can...
The Blitz: The Firefighter’s Memorial
Entitled ‘blitz’ by artist John Mills. 997 firemen lost their lives in WW2, all listed on the plinth. It didn’t occur to me to check out the Norwich ones. Idiot that I am. If you care to look up photographs of St Paul’s Cathedral during the...
Hidden History: Novo Jewish Cemetery
A curious place, hidden in plain sight in the middle of Queen Mary University in Mile End in London. It’s a very old Sephardic jewish burial area the stones are higgeldy piggeldy and worn. I just didn’t realise it was there until we walked past it when we...Products
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Sovereign
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Felbrigg
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Birch Edge
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Godwick
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Kett’s Lane
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Further to those pics, for anyone who isn’t aware of William of Norwich, the chapel, blood libel and the persecution of the Jews in the 12th century in Norwich and further afield, there’s a piece on it here from a few years ago. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/hidden-history-the-forgotten-chapel/
Hidden History: The forgotten chapel | Invisible Works
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Ring-roads, go round and past. Nature of the beast I suppose, circling. Norwich is blessed with ever-increasing circles; from the old castle ditches and the fee to the city wall and the inner linkA curiosity - now confirmed to be one of four Chapel boundary markers, thanks to Stephen Jarvis.
Prior to this: Spotted this on Mousehold. It’s a piece of what looks to be limestone rather than concrete. I suspect it’s usually obscured by bracken, about 8 inches deep and wide. It’s positioned just outside the southeastern perimeter of the site of St William’s Chapel about halfway off towards the Great War light railway line. I assume it’s medieval in origin, but can’t be sure. Anyway, just one of those things.