https://historyofnorfolk.com/tags/norwich/ Recent content in Norwich on HistoryofNorfolk.com - Norfolk History. Made Accessible Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 01 May 2021 02:00:00 +0100 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-norwich-tramways/ Sat, 01 May 2021 02:00:00 +0100 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-norwich-tramways/ The Norwich Electric Tramways Company operated an electric tramway system (and later on, bus services) in Norwich between July 1900 and December 1930. The service came about as a replacement for an earlier horse-drawn carriage service and was relatively success in its brief life. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/chantry-place/ Sat, 01 May 2021 01:00:00 +0100 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/chantry-place/ Chantry Place or as it is for better known by its former name; Chapelfield Shopping Centre, is the largest shopping centre in Norwich. It has 91 stores, 17 cafes and restaurants, and even 100 apartments. The architecture is often referred by locals as being generic. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/norwich-roman/ Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/norwich-roman/ The story of Norwich begins a few hundred years after the collapse of Venta Icenorum. But before we get into the origins of Norwich itself, we need to talk about the old capital of Norfolk. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/town-of-norwich/ Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/town-of-norwich/ As Northwic expanded in the following decades. The growth of Northwic swallowed other settlements, such as ConesFord. It’s not known exactly when this new town of Norwich, but sources claim that the first written reference was from 970 to 980, with oldcity.org.uk claiming that the first known reference to Norwich was written in 970 in the Liber Eliensis. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/12th-century-norwich/ Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/12th-century-norwich/ The eleventh century would establish Norwich as major trading town thanks to its market and good access to the sea via the River Yare. The twelfth century was a complex time for Norwich, in some ways the city was moving forward with the rebuilding of the Castle and the construction of the Cathedral completed in this century. On top of this, the relations between the English citizens of the town and the French traders were positive. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-of-castle-mall-quarter/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-of-castle-mall-quarter/ The Adam and Eve is a historic public house, located to the north of Norwich City Centre. The building has gone through a lot of changes throughout its history. With the current 16th-century design being a bit of a mish-mash of brick and flint. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-of-sovereign-house/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0900 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-of-sovereign-house/ Sovereign House was the headquarters of the HMSO (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office) between 1968 and 1996. Sovereign House itself was located at the Anglia Square shopping precinct and was a very large brutalist office block that employed around 800 people at its peak. Though it might be surprising to know that even though Sovereign House was specifically built for the HMSO they did not own the building and in fact leased it from the owners on a 40-year lease, paying £97,000 per year in rent. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/historyof-magdalen-street/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/historyof-magdalen-street/ Magdalen street and its’ surrounding areas may be one of the most deprived areas’ in Norwich nowadays, but the deprivation of the area is something that happened in the modern era, as until the 1960s, Magdalen street was its own “ self-contained medieval quarter” that contained much of the city’s industries. The area would go on to become popular with strangers (any person not native to Norwich) and refugees, which meant that more homes would be built, in densely populated; yards, courts and alleys. in the Tudor times, more wealthy residents (mainly successful merchants) would often live in homes that were contained in private courts. Over time, the Magdalen Street area would go into long-term decline, with the yards of Magdalen Street becoming home to a number of slums before most of them were demolished in the slum clearances of the late 1930s. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/hippodrome-history/ Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/hippodrome-history/ The Hippodrome or as it was originally named, Grand Opera House, was an Opera House that opened in 1903 (tho, it never hosted any operas) and changed into a variety plays theatre, just one year after opening after it was bought out by the owners of a rival theatre. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/cat-and-fiddle-history/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:00:00 +0900 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/cat-and-fiddle-history/ The Cat & Fiddle was a classic “old-fashioned” pub, meaning it only served beer and basic bar snacks, but of cause over time the Cat and Fiddle developed a reputation with locals of being a pub where “undesirable” people would go to get themselves’ drunk, drinking Stella, who then would often go on to become an annoyance for the whole community. Signs of a lack of investment in the pub by its’ owners was present by the early 2000’s, with the pub switching owner at least once since the mid 2000’s and then finally closing in 2011. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/norwich-history-2000s/ Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:00:00 +0900 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/norwich-history-2000s/ As the 1990s came to the close, A relatively large part of the Norwich area went through a period of rapid redevelopment. That is not surprising as just like the rest of England, most of Norfolk benefited greatly from the influx of cash from the housing boom of the early to mid-2000s. Some of the building projects around Norwich in this time period had at least some degree of controversy and even worse, the 2007 to 2010 financial crisis led to some projects being delayed or outright cancelled. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/norwich-documentaries/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0900 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/norwich-documentaries/ If you live anywhere within Norfolk, then you probably know the city of Norwich pretty well. But for people outside of the county, the history of this fine city is very much an unknown. Norwich was granted city status in 1194, this means that the city is over 823 Years old. This means that Norwich has been a city for twice as long as America and Canada have been countries, combined. https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-of-anglia-square/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0900 https://historyofnorfolk.com/norwich/history-of-anglia-square/ Anglia Square is a brutalist shopping centre (formally multiuse) built in the early 1970’s. The centre itself is located just off Magdalen Street, with some of its’ storefronts being accessible from the street itself. Over the past two decades, Anglia Square has been through consistent decline, due to Sovereign House closing and the general deprivation of the local area.