An impressive building on St. Giles Street
Discovering the Hidden City: Norwich, Norfolk - 23rd May 2022
Randomly browsing aerial photos of Heigham Street in Norwich in the 1980s led to the discovery that there used to be an entire railway station nearby. It had been demolished by 1985, but a few tantalising bits remain, including part of one of the platforms and the odd railway sleeper. This therefore marks the almost-starting-point of a long walk from the old Crocodile Building - once the main office for Norwich printing company Soman-Wherry Press where Nosher worked from 1987-88, and apparently a pub before that - to the cathedral, via the riverside and lots of previously unseen things: from one of only two pneumatic pumping stations in the country, to some epic factory buildings around the "Shoe Quarter". It proves once again that the view of a city is completely different on foot compared to driving around.
next album: The Jubilee Torch Run, Brome and Oakley, Suffolk - 25th May 2022
previous album: A Moth Infestation and a Trip to the Zoo, Banham, Norfolk - 21st May 2022
An old Presbyterian chapel on Willow Lane
A quaint little house on the end of Willow Lane
A Wisteria house on Pottergate
The end of Pottergate
The back of the pub on Ten Bells Lane
The Ten Bells on St. Benedict Street
Country house on St, Margaret's Street
An amusing alteration to a car park 'out' sign
The derelict Ray Freeman cycles on Heigham Street
Panks Engineers, unchanged since the 1980s
The former Crocodile Building - Soman's old offices
The site where Soman's print works used to be
Cushion sawmills, also unchanged since the 80s
The back of Capitol House
Sleepers and platform wall at Norwich City Station
Another view of the remaining platform
More ghostly remains of the old station
A painted robot on a roller door
Britain's oldest pre-cast concrete toilet
New Mills sluice, where tidal waters and river meet
The late-Victorian pumping station
A stripey boat is moored next to some graffiti
An old Victorian sewer
The old Bullard's brewery on Coslany Street
Coslany Street, looking up to Westwick Street
A nicely-reflected building on the Wensum
Thomas More's Utopia as been painted on a wall
Semi-derelict warehouse on Duke Street
Pigeons in a broken window
The old St. Michael's Church on Oak Street
The Golden Star on Duke Street/Colegate
Nice Georgian buildings
The grand St. Mary's Works in the Shoe Quarter
The round-towered St. Mary's Church
The back of St. George's Works
The inside of St. George's Church
The end of Colegate
Looking down St. George's Street
Martineau Memorial Hall
A plaque to Mark Wilks on Friar's Quay
Another impressive old factory building
Pub and Paddle canoes moored up on the Wensum
A former haunt: The Ribs of Beef on Wensum Street
Another occasional haunt: The Mischief
The Wensum almost looks like Bruges
The bottom end of Elm Hill
Wicker art in Norwich Cathedral
Alongside the nave in Norwich Cathedral
Outside in the Cloisters
People run around in the Cloisters Labyrinth
A line of roof bosses
An angel surrounded by gilded leaves
A nice view of the Catherdral spire
Some dude plays recorder on London Street
Skies darken behind Lower Goat Lane
The Guildhall on Gaol Hill
The top of Gentlman's Walk
Tiled 1920s (?) building on St. Giles Street
Another view of the Guildhall
Looking over Norwich's outdoor market
The now-defunct CEYMS building on Haymarket
The derelicty Topshop on Haymarket
In the passages of Norwich Market
A Hoover spares stall
The underground world of St. Giles car park
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An impressive building on St. Giles Street
An impressive building on St. Giles Street
An old Presbyterian chapel on Willow Lane
A quaint little house on the end of Willow Lane
A Wisteria house on Pottergate
The end of Pottergate
The back of the pub on Ten Bells Lane
The Ten Bells on St. Benedict Street
Country house on St, Margaret's Street
An amusing alteration to a car park 'out' sign
The derelict Ray Freeman cycles on Heigham Street
Panks Engineers, unchanged since the 1980s
The former Crocodile Building - Soman's old offices
The site where Soman's print works used to be
Cushion sawmills, also unchanged since the 80s
The back of Capitol House
Sleepers and platform wall at Norwich City Station
Another view of the remaining platform
More ghostly remains of the old station
A painted robot on a roller door
Britain's oldest pre-cast concrete toilet
New Mills sluice, where tidal waters and river meet
The late-Victorian pumping station
A stripey boat is moored next to some graffiti
An old Victorian sewer
The old Bullard's brewery on Coslany Street
Coslany Street, looking up to Westwick Street
A nicely-reflected building on the Wensum
Thomas More's Utopia as been painted on a wall
Semi-derelict warehouse on Duke Street
Pigeons in a broken window
The old St. Michael's Church on Oak Street
The Golden Star on Duke Street/Colegate
Nice Georgian buildings
The grand St. Mary's Works in the Shoe Quarter
The round-towered St. Mary's Church
The back of St. George's Works
The inside of St. George's Church
The end of Colegate
Looking down St. George's Street
Martineau Memorial Hall
A plaque to Mark Wilks on Friar's Quay
Another impressive old factory building
Pub and Paddle canoes moored up on the Wensum
A former haunt: The Ribs of Beef on Wensum Street
Another occasional haunt: The Mischief
The Wensum almost looks like Bruges
The bottom end of Elm Hill
Wicker art in Norwich Cathedral
Alongside the nave in Norwich Cathedral
Outside in the Cloisters
People run around in the Cloisters Labyrinth
A line of roof bosses
An angel surrounded by gilded leaves
A nice view of the Catherdral spire
Some dude plays recorder on London Street
Skies darken behind Lower Goat Lane
The Guildhall on Gaol Hill
The top of Gentlman's Walk
Tiled 1920s (?) building on St. Giles Street
Another view of the Guildhall
Looking over Norwich's outdoor market
The now-defunct CEYMS building on Haymarket
The derelicty Topshop on Haymarket
In the passages of Norwich Market
A Hoover spares stall
The underground world of St. Giles car park