Plunkett's Pictures of Norwich and Norfolk A Commemorative Collection of His Best Photographs "Plunkett's Pictures of Norwich and Norfolk offers a unique view of our area and celebrates the passion and work of a man dedicated to capturing Norwich and Norfolk on film. Between the 1930's and his death in 2006, George Plunkett took thousands of photographs of Norwich and Norfolk, producing a fascinating record of the many changes that occurred and capturing places which have since disappeared. With a biographical essay celebrating George's life and love of photography, this commemorative collection of nearly 200 of his very best photographs from the 1930's to the 1960's includes pictures of Norwich celebrating the Silver Jubilee in 1935 and the Coronation in 1937, the Market Place reconstruction and building of the City Hall, preparations for the War, as well as the St Stephen's Street development and evidence of how the city looked before the Inner Link Road. His photography of Norfolk is also recognised, with a selection of sights from around the county which no longer exist."

The book's pictures, their dates and image numbers are:

Front cover top: Castle battlements view west to City Hall: 18 April 1938 [2352]
Front cover bottom: Cathedral spire view west: 6 August 1937 [1832]
P3: Castle, Keep south side: 21 March 1938 [2193]
P9: Silver Jubilee, London Street Jarrold’s store: 5 May 1935 [0522]
P10: Silver Jubilee, Rampant Horse Street: 1 May 1935 [0499]
P10: Silver Jubilee, Royal Hotel main entrance: 2 May 1935 [0503]
P11: London Street from Bank Plain: 3 May 1935 [0505]
P11: Silver Jubilee, Prince of Wales Road view east: 4 May 1935 [0510]
P12: Silver Jubilee, Royal Arcade view west: 5 May 1935 [0520]
P12: Silver Jubilee, Magdalen Street Loose's store: 1 May 1935 [0500]
P13: Silver Jubilee, Mousehold troop review: 6 May 1935 [0541]
P13: Silver Jubilee, Gurney Road spectators trams: 6 May 1935 [0551]
P14: Coronation, Guildhall Hill from St Giles' Street: 9 May 1937 [1556]
P14: Coronation, 104 Chapel Field Road: 13 May 1937 [1619]
P15: Coronation, Market Place: 9 May 1937 [1559]
P15: Coronation, Orford Place Green's: 9 May 1937 [1570]
P16: Coronation, Orford Place: 9 May 1937 [1560]
P16: Coronation, St Benedict's Street: 9 May 1937 [1568]
P17: Charing Cross: 3 May 1937 [1549]
P17: Fyebridge Street, Howard’s fish shop: 13 May 1937 [1621]
P18: Coronation, St Augustine's Street Rose Yard: 13 May 1937 [1622]
P18: Coronation, St James' Hill beacon before lit: 9 May 1937 [1564]
P19: City Hall, Castle mound view west illuminated: 27 October 1938 [2825]
P20: 31 Colegate, Bacon House view north west: 19 March 1936 [0823]
P20: Colegate, Octagon chapel through gates: 12 April 1936 [0874]
P21: 12 to 16 Elm Hill: 15 August 1938 [2710]
P21: 21 to 27 Elm Hill: 5 July 1936 [1075]
P22: Fye Bridge, Dredger by Roache's Court Elm Hill: 8 June 1934 [0113]
P22: Fye Bridge, Carriageways open to traffic view north: 8 June 1934 [0112]
P23: 77 to 85 Magdalen Street: 12 May 1936 [0949]
P23: 44 to 48 Magdalen Street: 4 October 1936 [1484]
P24: 62 Magdalen Street, Dolls' Hospital: 6 August 1935 [0621]
P24: 35 to 39 St Augustine's Street, Prince of Wales: 27 August 1938 [2753]
P25: St John's Alley, Maddermarket Theatre: 21 July 1936 [1150]
P25: 6 to 12 Charing Cross, Strangers Hall museum: 13 July 1936 [1118]
P26: Bridewell Alley, 14c flint wall: 15 June 1934 [0121]
P26: 25 Bedford Street: 21 July 1936 [1142]
P27: Exchange Street, Corn Exchange west side: 26 June 1938 [2513]
P27: 1 Market Place, Guildhall Hill: 7 August 1939 [3199]
P28: The Market, Tin Hut before demolition: 14 May 1938 [2389]
P28: 43 Market Place, Waterloo PH Black Prince PH: 30 August 1936 [1360]
P29: Market Place, west side: 16 September 1934 [0292]
P29: The Market, Municipal buildings demolition: 14 May 1938 [2388]
P30: The Market, general view north: 5 March 1938 [2113]
P30: The Market, reconstruction view north: 6 July 1938 [2522]
P31: The temporary market, City Hall sandpit: 14 May 1938 [2391]
P31: Guildhall, South side from Garden of Remembrance: 5 November 1938 [2844]
P32: 24 Market Place, Royal Arcade: 3 September 1936 [1378]
P32: 27 to 30 Market Place, The Walk: 20 June 1938 [2497]
P33: 19 to 23 Haymarket: 20 September 1936 [1422]
P33: 34 to 36 Market Place, Garnet Wolseley PH: 30 August 1936 [1359]
P34: 3 to 9 Back of the Inns, former Red Rose Inn: 23 August 1936 [1314]
P34: Haymarket, escaped cattle: 26 June 1937 [1735]
P35: St Peter Mancroft, north side from St Peter's Street: 28 June 1934 [0139]
P35: 28 to 34 Bethel Street, site of new fire station: 11 March 1933 [B491]
P36: 7 to 11 Bethel Street, Wheatsheaf PH stables: 4 May 1938 [2368]
P36: 23 Pottergate, Morning Star PH: 20 June 1938 [2495]
P37: 2 to 4 Lower Goat Lane: 17 September 1936 [1409]
P37: Bethel Street, Ninham's Court east wing: 25 March 1937 [1506]
P38: St Giles' Street, Hippodrome at night: 26 November 1934 [0322]
P38: 6 to 14 St Giles' Street: 11 December 1934 [0339]
P39: 41 to 43 St Giles' Street: 15 September 1936 [1397]
P39: St Giles' Street, laying track from Tuns Inn: 8 October 1933 [B794]
P40: Theatre Street, Theatre Royal after fire view W: 24 June 1934 [0135]
P40: Theatre Street, Assembly House north front: 20 April 1935 [0484]
P41: 2 Surrey Street, thatched Boar's Head Inn: 17 June 1934 [0130]
P41: 11 Surrey Street, Stanley House: 21 June 1936 [1051]
P42: Surrey Street, Norwich Union Surrey House lit: 27 October 1938 [2822]
P42: 2 All Saints Green, Tuns PH: 21 June 1936 [1044]
P43: 50 All Saints Green, Artillery Barracks: 26 May 1935 [0593]
P43: 21 All Saints Green, Thatched Assembly Rooms: 26 May 1935 [0595]
P44: 1 to 9 Golden Ball Street: 23 May 1937 [1647]
P44: 3 to 4 Orford Hill, Bell Hotel north east side: 23 August 1936 [1310]
P45: Castle mound view west to Corn Exchange: 9 June 1934 [0117]
P45: 20 Castle Meadow: 30 August 1936 [1362]
P46: Agricultural Hall Plain, theatre at night: 28 February 1935 [0381]
P46: Agricultural Hall Plain, Head Post Office: 20 June 1938 [2494]
P47: 13 to 17 Bank Plain: 26 September 1936 [1458]
P47: 8 to 10 St Andrew's Hill: 27 August 1938 [2742]
P48: St Andrew Street, Suckling Hall: 6 August 1935 [0623]
P48: 1 Princes Street, Garsett House from north west: 9 August 1935 [0628]
P49: 8 to 12 Princes Street: 12 July 1936 [1100]
P49: 8 to 9 Tombland: 5 July 1936 [1070]
P50: 4 to 6 Tombland: 12 July 1936 [1096]
P50: 24 Tombland, St Ethelbert's House: 23 September 1934 [0296]
P51: Wensum Street, Maid's Head Hotel south side: 10 June 1934 [0119]
P51: 1 to 4 St Martin's Palace Plain: 17 May 1936 [0965]
P52: 17 Bishopgate, Adam and Eve PH: 30 July 1939 [3194]
P52: Bishopgate, Great Hospital offices: 13 July 1938 [2542]
P53: Erpingham Gate west side from Tombland: 25 September 1932 [B449]
P53: Cathedral, West front cleaned: 24 April 1937 [1544]
P54: Cloisters, east walk view south: 16 April 1938 [2340]
P54: Cloisters, north east angle: 6 August 1937 [1834]
P55: 8 to 12 The Close: 16 June 1936 [1033]
P55: 50 The Close: 8 August 1938 [2705]
P56: Pull's Ferry Watergate west side: 9 January 1934 [0012]
P56: The Close, Pull's Ferry from Riverside Road: 1 August 1931 [B111]
P57: River Wensum, Bishop Bridge north side from east towpath: 11 July 1933 [B619]
P57: River Wensum, Bishop Bridge carriageway view east: 9 January 1934 [0010]
P58: Cow Tower, Hospital Meadow, General's Buildings: 24 June 1933 [B596]
P58: Cow Tower, view north from east bank of Wensum: 9 January 1934 [0011]
P59: Whitefriars, Yarn factory now Jarrold's: 12 June 1949 [3786]
P59: Devil's Tower, eastern boom Carrow view south: 11 February 1934 [0031]
P60: 5 Rose Lane: 25 August 1936 [1317]
P60: 43 King Street: 25 August 1936 [1316]
P61: St Benedict's Gate site, south side view east: 21 January 1934 [0015]
P61: 2 Dereham Road: 8 June 1937 [1703]
P62: 5 to 7 Dereham Road: 22 September 1937 [2014]
P62: Dereham Road, Regal day after opening: 17 April 1938 [2348]
P63: 1 Earlham Road, Grapes Hotel: 28 July 1937 [1825]
P63: 2 Unthank Road, Tuns PH front: 6 August 1937 [1837]
P64: St John's RC from St Giles' Gates: 3 August 1931 [B078]
P64: Earlham Road, Earlham Hall south front: 8 August 1937 [1859]
P65: 50 to 52 Earlham Road, Black Horse PH: 28 July 1937 [1826]
P65: 4 to 14 Unthank Road, Milk Marketing Board: 30 April 1940 [3387]
P66: Chapel Field Gardens, pagoda west side: 1 July 1934 [0143]
P66: 4 Chapel Field North, Chapel Field House: 3 March 1938 [2106]
P66: 13 Chapel Field North, St Mary's Croft: 8 July 1934 [0164]
P67: 123 to 127 Ber Street, 125 Jolly Butchers' PH: 23 August 1936 [1302]
P67: 116 to 120 Prince of Wales Road, view east: 7 June 1933 [B574]
P68: 4 to 8 Barn Road: 23 May 1938 [2424]
P68: Britannia Road Barracks from St James' Hill: 1 August 1931 [B184]
P69: Cathedral cloisters, air raid precaution: 3 September 1939 [3258]
P70: All Saints Green, air raid precaution: 9 September 1939 [3259]
P70: Cattle Market, air raid precaution view south: 3 September 1939 [3256]
P71: Drill Hall tower, air raid precaution: 6 October 1938 [2808]
P71: Chapel Field Gardens, air raid precaution: 11 April 1939 [2956]
P72: Guildhall, air raid precaution for window: 3 September 1939 [3255]
P72: Guildhall, air raid precaution sandbags: 8 October 1939 [3276]
P73: Guildhall Hill, air raid precaution trench: 3 September 1939 [3254]
P73: Wellington Lane, air raid precaution: 9 September 1939 [3260]
P74: Haymarket, air raid precaution brick shelter: 20 September 1939 [3268]
P74: 68 St Giles' Street, caretaker air raid shelter: 8 July 1940 [3448]
P75: Festival, Princess Elizabeth going to lunch: 18 June 1951 [3995]
P76: 66 to 70 Magdalen Street, Stump Cross: 15 May 1966 [5043]
P76: 132 Magdalen Street, Blind Institute: 19 May 1965 [4908]
P77: Elm Hill, Monastery Yard Monastic chapel: 29 August 1959 [4528]
P77: 1 Tombland and left 12 Queen Street: 25 August 1954 [4275]
P78: 7 to 11 Tombland: 23 May 1968 [5195]
P78: Bishopgate, view of Gas Works: 3 April 1965 [4887]
P79: 1 to 7 St Martin's Palace Plain: 4 July 1968 [5221]
P79: Cathedral, Spire vista under repair from south west: 12 October 1963 [4751]
P80: Barrack Street, Steward and Patteson brewery south east: 24 August 1974 [5378]
P80: 25 to 29 Kett's Hill, Kett's Castle PH: 20 August 1955 [4365]
P81: Kett's Hill, post-war prefab homes: 1 September 1962 [4707]
P81: 12a to 30 Grapes Hill: 5 August 1964 [4804]
P82: St Giles' Street, view south west to Upper St Giles': 29 May 1967 [5148]
P82: 68 St Giles' Street, Churchman House north facade: 22 April 1935 [0495]
P83: 64 to 66a St Giles' Street and 70 Bethel Street: 23 August 1968 [5239]
P83: St Giles' Street, Hippodrome: 18 June 1960 [4557]
P84: 1 to 11 Charing Cross: 18 April 1968 [5190]
P84: St Andrew Street, Free Library: 24 August 1955 [4366]
P85: Bedford Street, view Corn Exchange east side: 18 April 1964 [4757]
P85: 2 to 22 Exchange Street: 23 April 1956 [4428]
P86: Upper Goat Lane, Friends' meeting house: 25 March 1961 [4587]
P86: Guildhall Hill, Subscription Library: 24 August 1955 [4368]
P87: Bethel Street, Central Library nearly complete: 9 September 1962 [4715]
P87: Haymarket, Lambert's warehouse: 15 October 1966 [5103]
P88: Haymarket, Picture House latterly Gaumont: 26 July 1959 [4505]
P88: Haymarket, Peter Robinson's store: 17 June 1962 [4676]
P89: Royal Arcade, east entrance from Arcade Street: 1 September 1955 [4371]
P89: 10 to 14 Davey Place: 8 October 1961 [4654]
P89: 1 to 7 Davey Place: 10 June 1961 [4610]
P90: 1 Market Avenue, Plough PH: 22 April 1967 [5136]
P90: Market Avenue, Shire House Shirehall: 1 September 1955 [4369]
P91: All Saints Green, Bond's store: 19 September 1955 [4384]
P91: All Saints Green, Norwich Union crescent: 7 September 1962 [4710]
P92: Orford Place, Curls Rampant Horse Street: 5 August 1955 [4345]
P92: 6 to 7 St Stephen's Plain and 1 to 3 St Stephen's Street: 25 October 1953 [4234]
P93: 2 to 6 St Stephen's Street, Marks and Spencer: 26 September 1955 [4400]
P93: 8 to 12 St Stephen's Street, after completion: 1 September 1955 [4373]
P94: 52 to 62 St Stephen's Street: 28 March 1962 [4658]
P94: 74 St Stephen's Street, St Stephen's Gates: 28 March 1962 [4657]
P95: St Stephen's Road, N and N Hospital entrance: 19 September 1955 [4383]
P95: 1 to 5 St Stephen's Road and Chapel Field Road: 14 July 1963 [4732]
P96: St Stephen's, Chapel Field Road subway trench: 18 April 1964 [4754]
P96: 8 Chapel Field Road, Volunteer Stores PH: 19 July 1964 [4783]
P97: 66 to 96 Chapel Field Road: 19 July 1964 [4781]
P97: 2 and right 3 to 5 Theatre Street: 14 July 1963 [4734]
P98: 237 King Street, Read's flour mills Albion mill: 18 April 1968 [5192]
P98: 17 Upper King Street, The Norfolk Club facade: 9 June 1936 [0993]
P99: Prince of Wales Road, Norvic formerly Electric cinema: 10 June 1961 [4609]
P99: 95 to 101 Prince of Wales Road: 14 June 1964 [4774]
P100: Prince of Wales Road, Great Eastern Hotel: 12 October 1963 [4752]
P100: Thorpe Road, Norwich Thorpe railway station: 8 September 1955 [4378]
P101: Bawburgh, Hall from south east: 1 August 1960 [4567]
P102: Bixley, St Wandregesilius church from south west: 16 August 1984 [6316]
P102: Costessey, Hall ruins: 2 July 1933 [B613]
P103: Gorleston on Sea, harbour mouth south pier: 25 May 1961 [4604]
P103: Great Yarmouth, south Quay Flint House Drury House: 24 June 1950 [3887]
P104: Great Yarmouth, Bure bridge south side: 24 June 1950 [3885]
P104: Great Yarmouth, Marine Parade marina fountains: 22 July 1937 [1818]
P105: Thorpe St Andrew, Yarmouth Road octagonal house: 23 May 1964 [4768]
P105: Westwick Lodge, gate spanning main road: 22 March 1940 [3331]
P106: Drayton, Cock Inn PH: 20 March 1932 [B210]
P106: Cringleford, Newmarket Road early 19c pump: 23 May 1964 [4771]
P107: South Walsham, St Lawrence's tower ruin: 15 July 1937 [1789]
P107: Thorpe St Andrew, church tower and spire: 27 June 1954 [4271]
Back Cover: Great Yarmouth, fishing fleet from Haven Bridge: 11 November 1933 [B799]

Photographs copyright George Plunkett

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