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Cinema Ghosts – The Odeon

Assembled for “Norfolk at the pictures” The Odeon stood on Botolph Street, long before it became the Odeon that glowered down in a 70s style over Magdalen Street, which is of course now a Hollywood cinema, with it’s ‘no clues there’...

Magdalen Street 6: All Saints Fybriggate

Hidden history

Magdalen Streets’ hidden history: The lost churches Part 6, All Saints Fybriggate There were two All Saints in Norwich, the remaining one stands in the shadow of Westlegate House, the old Provident Mutual office block which towers over it like the tall kid who...

Magdalen Street 5: St Paul

Hidden history

Magdalen Streets’ hidden history: The lost churches Part 5, St Paul It’s not exactly on Magdalen Street; it was behind it on the East side, a lovely little round tower enclosed by Peacock Street, Willis Street and Barrack Street. Until the 1860s, half...

Magdalen Street 4: St Mary Unbrent

Hidden history

Magdalen Street’s hidden history: The lost churches Part 4, St Mary Unbrent Back in Norwich and back in Magdalen Street this time nearer the city centre a short walk up from St Botolph isn’t; past the concrete, buses and bustle, amidst faded splendour of...

Back in the HMSO

Collapsing new buildings, Hidden history

The now redundant HMSO building, Sovereign House in Anglia Square Norwich North. This was shot from the first floor of what would have been a two storey ‘Mall’ or shopping centre as we called them before America snuck in under a veil of capitalist freedom...

Magdalen Street 3: St Margaret – beating the demons

Hidden history

Magdalen Street’s hidden history: The lost churches Part 3, St Margaret. About thirty years ago, there was a little club in Magdalen Street; a brilliant little grubby hand-me-down from the age of jazz, blues and skiffle. Sitting towards the end of Magdalen...

Magdalen Street 2: St Botolph the traveller

Hidden history, Rephotography

Magdalen Street’s hidden history: The lost churches Part 2, St Botolph. St Botolph or St Botulph or even St Botwulf was a church named after a saint that now only really lives on in an adapted street name. Ignominiously lost in a few street signs in the...

Magdalen Street: Part 1 – Introduction

Georeferencing, Hidden history

Norwich-over-the-water is a strange place. Magdalen Street or Fybriggate as it was originally called and its immediate environs sometimes seem divorced from the city and historically were separated from the rest of the Central norwich by a relatively thin stretch of...