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Cattlemarket St: |
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From
Rouen Rd (formerly Rising Sun Lane) / Golden Ball St / Farmers
Avenue to King St / Rose
Lane
passing Castle Mall, Crown
Rd
East side |
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Cattlemarket St 18 part of Golden Ball PH [1309]
1936-08-23
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Cattlemarket St 18 to 21 Buff Coat PH [4647]
1961-09-10
21 the Buff Coat PH on left.18 and 19 the Golden Ball PH. |
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Cattlemarket St Old Drill Hall [7784] 2000-10-23
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Cattlemarket St 24 iron shop front [4662] 1962-04-14
The cast iron and glass shop front built 1863. |
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Cattlemarket St 25 Shirehall PH [6590] 1989-09-19
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Cattlemarket St 31 Parkside House [7853] 2001-09-13
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West
side |
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Cattle Market from Castle Hill Bell Avenue [B066]
1931-00-00
Held on the site of the Castle Ditches since the time of
James II (and possibly for a much longer period) the
removal of the Cattle Market to another site had been
considered by the City Council since just before the
outbreak of the Second World War. |
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Cattle Market from Castle Hill Bell Avenue [B161]
1931-00-00
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Cattle Market air raid precaution view S [3256]
1939-09-03
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Cattle Market air raid precaution view N [3257]
1939-09-03
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Cattle Market air raid precaution trenches [3267]
1939-09-20
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Cattle Market view east from Market Avenue [4540]
1960-03-12
These three views were taken a few months before the
opening of the new cattle market at Harford on the
southern boundary of the city. |
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Cattle Market view NE from Market Avenue [4541]
1960-03-12
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Cattle Market pig compound [4542] 1960-03-12
At junction of Market Avenue and Cattle Market St. |
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Cattle Market farm machinery Castle Hill [4543]
1960-03-12
Farm machinery showrooms. |
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Tombland fair swing boats [B549] 1933-04-17
The beginnings of the fair called "Tombland
Fair" are very obscure. It seems to have had its
origin in an annual synod just before Easter when a few
stalls for refreshments and trinkets were erected on
Tombland. It was formerly known as "Good Friday
Fair" and was certainly held on that day until 1686
when a proclamation was made that in future it should be
held on the day before Good Friday. Throughout most of
the 20c it was held on the Castle Hill at Christmas and
Easter. |
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Cattle Market fair Paratrooper [4894] 1965-04-19
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Cattle Market fair Flying Boats [4895] 1965-04-19
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Cattle Market fair Big Wheel [4896] 1965-04-19
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Cattle Market fair Children's Roundabout [4897]
1965-04-19
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Cattle Market fair Big Wheel Paratrooper [4898]
1965-04-19
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Cattlemarket St Rose Avenue excavation SW [6612]
1990-06-16
The darker area (right) is the filled-in site of the
outer castle ditch. |
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Cattlemarket St entrance [6782] 1992-05-16
Walls awaiting outer covering of brick and flint
panelling. |
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Chapel Field East: |
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From
Chapel
Field North / Theatre St to Chapel Field Rd
passing Coburg St
East side |
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Chapel Field East Bowling Green PH stables [5135]
1967-04-16
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Chapel Field East 15 [1021] 1936-06-14
The former Bowling Green Inn. |
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Chapel Field East 15 Georgian doorway [0395]
1935-03-17
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Chapel Field East 15 rear from its garden [6473]
1987-06-12
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|
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Chapel Field East Congregational church [3012]
1939-05-25
In Chapel Field East stood until 1972 a Nonconformist
church, built by the Congregationalists and opened in
1858. When it was demolished a sealed jar was discovered
let into the foundation stone, containing documents
written by its first minister, the Rev. J.Alexander,
These referred to a meeting of a committee in October
1856, leading to the purchase of the land for £550 and
the raising of £3,500 for the building.
Constructed in the Norman style of white brick and
Portland stone, the Chapel-in-the-Field had twin turrets,
each 80 feet high, flanking a facade designed like its
Theatre St neighbour with a rose window above an open
porch with triple arches. An eastern apse containing an
organ was lit by four stained-glass widows.
Chapel-in-the-Field Congregational Church was closed in
the 1960s because depopulation of the surrounding area
led to a diminished attendance and because increased
traffic in adjacent roads created difficulties of access.
The last service was held on 30th December 1966, after
which its members united with the congregation of another
Congregational church in Jessopp Rd.
In the same year the city council purchased the property
for £27,500, and for a time its future possible use as a
music venue, sports or conference hall was debated. All
this came to nothing, however, and the building was
demolished early in 1972 (the organ was dismantled and
re-erected at Somerleyton church). A hall at the rear was
saved, though, to become a useful adjunct to the adjacent
Theatre Royal.
Any stranger to Norwich visiting Chapel Field Garden
before 1972 could have been excused for thinking that
they were given that name because the congregational
church formed such a prominent landmark on its eastern
side. On the contrary, it had been known by this name for
centuries before the church was built. In fact it was
derived from a chapel and hospital built by John le Brun
some time before 1250 in fields extending from St
Stephen's church and St Giles' gates. It soon grew into a
college of secular priests, which was suppressed in 1545;
the Assembly House now occupies the site. The seal of the
college had a Latin inscription, which the historian
Francis Blomefield translated thus:
"The fields and Virgin gave the name"
"And may good luck attend the same." |
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Chapel Field North: |
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From
Chapel
Field Rd to Theatre St / Chapel
Field East
passing Little Bethel St
North side |
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|
Chapel Field North 3 [6579] 1989-09-07
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Chapel Field North 4 Chapel Field House [2106]
1938-03-03
South front. |
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Chapel Field North 4 north side bay [6602] 1990-04-17
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Chapel Field North 4 Regency doorway [5102]
1966-10-12
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Chapel Field North 4 wrought iron balcony [6472]
1987-06-12
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Chapel Field North 7 Regency period [0347] 1935-01-04
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Chapel Field North 7 with new balcony [6578]
1989-09-07
Balcony added 1989. |
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Chapel Field North 8 9 and 10 [6577] 1989-09-07
|
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Chapel Field North Christian Spiritualist [6507]
1988-08-06
Built 1936. |
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Chapel Field North 13 St Mary's Croft [0164]
1934-07-08
Built by Captain Crowe 1881 incorporating walls of an
earlier house. |
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Chapel Field Rd: |
| |
From
Unthank Rd / Grapes
Hill / St Giles' St to St Stephen's St / Queen's Rd / St
Stephen's Rd
passing Chapel Field East, The
Crescent
West side |
|
|
Chapel Field Rd 5 to 9 convent [4802] 1964-08-05
Little Sisters' Convent. Site of Inner Link road. |
|
|
Chapel Field Rd 47 Gothic House [2170] 1938-03-14
Built 1857. |
|
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Chapel Field Rd United Methodist chapel [6449]
1987-04-17
Built 1880-81, architect Edward Boardman. |
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East
side |
|
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Chapel Field Rd 8 Volunteer Stores PH [4783]
1964-07-19
Site of Inner Link road. |
|
|
Drill Hall turret with remains of tower [B096]
1931-00-00
The Volunteer Drill Hall was opened October 1866,
architect the City Surveyor James Benest, builder William
Gilbert. It incorporated a fragment of one of the
semicircular towers. Demolished 1963. The site of the
tower is now marked by semicircle of cobbles in the
Chapel Field Rd roundabout. |
|
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Drill Hall tower [2194] 1938-03-21
|
|
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Drill Hall tower air raid precaution [2808]
1938-10-06
Sandbagged at the time of "the Crisis". |
|
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Drill Hall tower demolition [4731] 1963-07-14
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|
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Chapel Field Gardens thatched tea house [B204]
1931-00-00
A noteworthy structure in the gardens was the thatched
tea pavilion. Dating from about the time of the Ashanti
campaign it became known as King Prempeh's Bungalow. How
it slipped through the regulations that forbade the
erection of thatched buildings within the city walls is
rather a mystery. It was taken down in 1938 and
superseded by the present teahouse. |
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|
Chapel Field Gardens pagoda west side [0143]
1934-07-01
Shown as an archery ground on Braun and Hogenberg's
prospect of Norwich dated l581, the area now occupied by
Chapel Field Gardens was in 1746 being held on a lease by
Thomas Churchman, who in that year planted its three main
walks with avenues of elms. A century later the
waterworks company, who had a reservoir here, offered to
give up their interest in the field to the Corporation on
condition that it was "Laid out in the style of the
London parks, the reservoir to be retained but altered in
shape . . . it was also proposed to place the Nelson
statue on an elegant fountain pedestal in the centre of
the reservoir".
Things proceeded slowly, however, and in the meantime
Nelson's statue found its way from the Market, where it
was originally placed, to its present site in The Close
near the west end of the Cathedral. Not until 1867 was
the ground enclosed by iron railings, and it was 1880
before the present gardens were completed and opened to
the public.
Perhaps the garden's most conspicuous feature at this
time was the ornamental pagoda or pavilion near the
centre of the grounds. Originally costing £2,000, it had
been constructed by Barnard, Bishop and Barnard, the
Norwich iron founders, from designs by Thomas Jeckyll as
a showpiece for various exhibitions, being first erected
at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. In
1880 it was purchased by the city for £500, which was
raised by public subscription. It was of two floors and
for a while was used as a bandstand until the present
purpose-built structure was erected.
The pagoda was highly ornamented - the brackets
supporting both upper floor and roof were enriched with
designs in bas-relief depicting flowers and birds; a
geometrically patterned railing surrounded the balcony
floor, which was reached by a spiral staircase; and an
outer wrought-iron railing fashioned to resemble rows of
sunflowers enclosed the small mound on which the pagoda
stood. (The photographer's great uncle, Aquila Eke, is
said to have executed much of the bas-relief work, which
was hand-forged.) Because of damage this railing was
later removed, but several of the better-preserved
sections were later re-erected as entrance gates to the
tennis courts at Heigham Park. After many decades service
there, they were refurbished and erected in 2004 at the
park entrance.
The pagoda itself unfortunately sustained some damage
during the Second World War and was demolished in
November 1949, because it was unsafe. A brick and tile
shelter now stands on the site. |
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|
Silver Jubilee Chapel Field tree planting [0556]
1935-05-06
The Sheriff planted a Plane Tree at Chapel Field Gardens
to commemorate the Silver Jubilee. Other trees were
planted at Earlham Park, Sewell Park, and Castle Gardens. |
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Chapel Field Gardens pagoda Jubilee lit [0535]
1935-05-06
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Chapel Field Gardens COLOUR [0737] 1935-08-21
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Chapel Field bandstand and pagoda COLOUR [0738]
1935-08-21
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Chapel Field Gardens thatched tea house [2085]
1938-02-24
|
|
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Chapel Field Gardens air raid precaution [2956]
1939-04-11
Partially constructed trenches. Gardens reopened April
1939 after having been closed since "the
Crisis" of September 1938. |
|
|
Chapel Field Gardens tea pavilion [3011] 1939-05-25
Replaced the thatched structure in 1938. |
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|
Chapel Field Gardens Gurney clock [6479] 1987-07-14
Presented to the City by Barclay's Bank. Formerly
Gurney's Bank, to mark 200 years of trading in Norwich.
Commissioned 1975, unveiled 1987, later moved to Castle
Mall. |
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|
Chapel Field Gardens bandstand [6605] 1990-04-30
Chapel Field, an archery ground in mediaeval times, was
laid out as a formal garden in 1879. |
|
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Chapel Field Gardens millennium domes [7724]
2000-01-07
Celebrating the "City of Lights" theme. They
included Art, Music, Science and the Senses. |
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Chapel Field Gardens wooden crucifix [7752]
2000-05-06
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Chapel Field Gardens William Kemp carving [7800]
2001-01-30
William Kemp's Morris dance ("Nine Daies
Wonder") from London to Norwich in 1600. Carved by
Mark Goldsworthy of Bungay, 2000. |
|
|
Chapel Field Gardens west side of tower [B091]
1931-00-00
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Chapel Field Rd 42 to 44 [4782] 1964-07-19
Site of Inner Link road. |
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|
Chapel Field Gardens wall from inside city [0123]
1934-06-16
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Chapel Field Gardens wall outside from SW [5281]
1969-09-12
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Chapel Field Gardens wall from outside city [5282]
1969-09-12
Exposed by demolition of attached houses 1969. |
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Chapel Field Gardens wall outside from NW [5283]
1969-09-12
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Chapel Field Rd wall from outside city [6616]
1990-06-16
After conservation. |
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Chapel Field Rd Caley's chocolate factory [7375]
1996-07-27
West side from Chapel Field Gardens. |
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Chapel Field Rd Caley's chocolate factory [7916]
2003-02-18
Corner of Chapel Field East. |
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|
Chapel Field Rd Nestle chocolate factory [7354]
1996-07-07
Office block, built 1955, engineers F.Snow and partners. |
|
|
Chapelfield shopping mall interior [7964] 2005-09-28
|
|
|
Chapel Field Rd 66 to 96 [4781] 1964-07-19
Site of Inner Link road.
For 109 to 113 Chapel Field Rd see 1 to 5 St Stephen's Rd. |
|
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Chapel Field Rd wall S of Chapel Field East [5280]
1969-09-05
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Caley's west tower in Chapel Field Rd 80 [0374]
1935-02-24
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Caley's west tower in Chapel Field Rd 80 [0375]
1935-02-24
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Caley's west tower outside city from NW [5302]
1970-05-27
Exposed by demolition of attached houses 1969. |
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Caley's west tower outside city from SW [5303]
1970-05-27
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Caley's west tower from Way under the walls [6619]
1990-07-03
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Caley's west tower interior [7358] 1996-07-07
|
|
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Coronation Chapel Field Rd 104 [1619] 1937-05-13
1937 coronation decorations. |
|
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Caley's east tower Coburg St inside city [0382]
1935-03-03
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Caley's east tower Coburg St inside city [4807]
1964-08-11
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Caley's east tower Coburg St inside city [6382]
1986-05-29
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Caley's east tower Coburg St inside city [6617]
1990-07-03
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Chapel Field Rd south end from outside city [4397]
1955-09-26
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Coburg St wall from inside city [B109] 1931-00-00
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Caley's east tower from outside city [5307]
1970-08-29
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Chapel St: |
| |
From
Rupert St (now Vauxhall St) to Union St |
|
|
Chapel St 7 to 15 [2732] 1938-08-24
|
|
|
Chapel St 7 to 15 noticeboard [2731] 1938-08-24
To the effect that it was renovated by amateurs in 1938. |
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Charing Cross: |
| |
From
Duke St / St
Andrew's St / St John Maddermarket to St Gregory's Alley / St Benedict's St
passing Westwick St
North side |
|
|
Charing Cross 1 to 11 [5190] 1968-04-18
|
|
|
Charing Cross 13 to 15 Lord Camden PH [2526]
1938-07-07
15 the former Lord Camden PH. |
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|
Charing Cross Lord Camden Yard view south [2876]
1939-02-16
Charing Cross as its name implies was once the site of a
stone cross, the only one remaining in the city,
according to the historian John Kirkpatrick, c1720,
although the Market Cross was not pulled down until 1732.
Known as Sherhill cross in the 14c and variously
thereafter as Shereshill, Sherergate and Shereman rowe,
the cross took its name from the men who formerly lived
here, whose trade it was to shear the worsteds made on
the city's looms.
This street, like so many others, has lost buildings
through street-widening schemes. The north side was
demolished for this purpose in 1970. Some time before
this, however, the little shop at No 15 had disappeared.
It had for many years been the Lord Camden public house,
a 16c building matching in its outward appearance (albeit
much smaller) the street frontage of Strangers' Hall
opposite. An adjoining passageway led to Lord Camden
yard. This was described by Claude Messent as one of the
oldest in the city, having 16c flintwork in the walls of
some of its buildings, while others were of stud and
plaster. The yard itself was paved with old kidney
cobbles and down its centre were tram rails, probably
once used by trucks transporting goods. |
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|
Charing Cross 29 [1091] 1936-07-07
|
| |
South
side |
|
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Charing Cross 2 to 4 [4652] 1961-10-08
|
| |
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|
|
Charing Cross 6 to 12 Strangers Hall museum [1118]
1936-07-13
The main part of the house was built c1450 by William
Barley M.P. and mercer. Many additions and alterations
made since notably by Thomas Cawse and Nicholas
Sotherton. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall street door [2285]
1938-04-10
The door bears the date 1621. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall gate [0157] 1934-07-05
|
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall main door [0435]
1935-04-11
Main doorway below groined porch added by Nicholas
Sotherton after 1525. |
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|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall courtyard [0608]
1935-08-05
|
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall 16c doorway [0434]
1935-04-11
Next to steps in forecourt. "I.M.W.1592".
Originally at a house in Palace St. |
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|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall forecourt [4343]
1955-07-30
West side. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall dining room [4340]
1955-07-30
Exterior of Georgian dining room with Oak room above.
Rebuilt by Sir Joseph Paine in 1659. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall stair bay [4337]
1955-07-30
Staircase bay added by Francis Cock in 1627. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall stone bay [4338]
1955-07-30
16c stone vaulted bay of Great Hall inserted by Nicholas
Sotherton. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Georgian doorway Bethel St [4342]
1955-07-30
Georgian doorway formerly at 18 Bethel St. See Bethel St for a view of it in
situ. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Georgian doorway St Giles' [4341]
1955-07-30
Georgian doorway formerly at 14 St Giles' St. |
|
|
Charing Cross 6 Strangers Hall gold teapot [2425]
1938-05-23
A grocer's sign once displayed by Robt.Fox and later John
Dodson at his shop at the corner of Magdalen St and St
Saviour's Lane. |
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|
Coronation Charing Cross [1549] 1937-05-03
Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth as celebrated at Norwich on 12th May 1937:
Prizes were awarded in a competition for the best
decorated premises, the judges being appointed by the
Norwich Chamber of Commerce Coronation Committee. The
general level of excellence attained was such that only
by the most careful though and checking of one scheme
with another, in repeated visits, were they able to come
to their decision. |
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Church Avenue Eaton: |
| |
From
Mile End Rd to Christchurch Rd |
|
|
Christchurch Eaton W side from Church Ave [B656]
1933-08-10
Built 1873. South Aisle added 1912, architects J.H.Brown
and J.P.Pearce. |
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Church Lane Eaton: |
| |
From
Eaton St / Newmarket
Rd |
|
|
Church Lane Eaton west side 17c houses [1661]
1937-05-31
With crow-stepped gables. |
|
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Church Lane Eaton west side old house [1666]
1937-05-31
|
|
|
Church Lane Eaton east side thatched house [1667]
1937-06-03
Off east side. |
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Church Lane Eaton east side thatched house [1668]
1937-06-03
|
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton from Eaton St [B201] 1931-00-00
|
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton nave and chancel S side [2457]
1938-06-14
Early English nave and chancel covered with a thatched
roof. |
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton tower from SE [1665] 1937-05-31
Perpendicular. |
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton north porch [2458] 1938-06-14
|
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton interior view east [2451]
1938-06-14
The roofs and fittings are modern. |
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|
St Andrew's Eaton interior view SE [2456] 1938-06-14
Screen 1861. |
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St Andrew's Eaton interior view west [2452]
1938-06-14
|
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton altar and east window [2455]
1938-06-14
Stained galss commemorates the Bensley family. |
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton piscina and sedilia [2453]
1938-06-14
Trefoil headed pillar piscina with carved cap, late 13c. |
|
|
St Andrew's Eaton Tudor chair [2454] 1938-06-14
Presented 1926. In the chancel. |
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City Rd: |
| |
From
Queen's Rd / Ber
St / Bracondale to Long John Hill
passing Hospital Lane |
|
|
City Rd removal of track view to Bracondale [0034]
1934-02-20
The City Rd service was withdrawn October 1933. |
|
|
St Mark's New Lakenham from City Rd [2888] 1939-03-09
|
|
|
St Mark's New Lakenham from SE [7819] 2001-04-27
Built 1844 in modified Perpendicular style, architect
John Brown. |
|
|
City Rd Jubilee Terrace Rose Villas [7818] 2001-04-27
Built 1872. |
Norwich Street Photographs
