Farewell to a great Norfolk showman and true gentleman
He was described as a gentle giant with a thunderous voice…and one of the best-loved and popular entertainers for decades across Norfolk.
Derek James has been a journalist for 55 years. It was a privilege and an honour for him to be asked to serve as Sheriff of Norwich in 2010/11. His...
Derek James has been a journalist for 55 years. It was a privilege and an honour for him to be asked to serve as Sheriff of Norwich in 2010/11. His...
He was described as a gentle giant with a thunderous voice…and one of the best-loved and popular entertainers for decades across Norfolk.
The extraordinary story of how plans were put forward to build a railway line and a new central station in the shadow of Norwich Cathedral and castle mound is told in the latest booklet by The Norwich Society.
Join us on a journey back in time to meet the people who lived and worked in two Norfolk communities in days gone by.
It all began in 1963 when some lads from Norfolk beat bands, the Wildcats, The Vikings and The Teenbeats got together in an Aylsham public house, the Stonemasons Arms.
These were the days when promoting films was big business – and there were few better at it than Edward Bowles when he was the manager of the Empire Cinema in Great Yarmouth.
A chance meeting in a Norfolk village by two men has resulted in a moving and important book looking at a massacre which took the lives of 97 soldiers in a small French village during May 1940.
Today we enjoy reading our Norfolk Magazine…turn the clock back to the 1950s there was another magazine of the same name edited by the legendary Edward L Chamberlin.
It was ten years ago when Victoria Manthorpe’s mother died and she came into possession of boxes of family letters, papers and photographs.
They are a collection of rare cards published in 1928 and called Ancient Norwich…but you had to buy cigarettes to get them.
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