Great collection!

Awesome video John, so interesting and well presented. Thank you.

Excellent as always, John

Very interesting video. I have long thought that pub names should be protected in law as they often contribute to an understanding of the history of an area. Pub names really should be a heritage issue.

Another excellent video. Thanks.

Excellent video.

Down Unthank Rd City end through the white gates near the old electrical shop which is now shut and empty. There's about 12 large houses tucked away. It's so quiet up there some of the gardens are so large you wouldn't know you were in the City centre it's lovely there . Thanks John as always.

So good to see The Elms, my dad worked at Mackintosh’s for around 35 years. The big social club you showed from the gate used to do a family disco every other Saturday. I have many happy memories of the disco, and when they used to stop half way through the night to serve cheese or ham rolls (was always a big queue 😊), and then they did a raffle, before continuing the rest of the disco, finishing at 11pm. We were often the last family to leave. We’d then go home and watch the double bill of Hammer House of Horror films on BBB2. (Yes my parents let us watch horror films, and I still love them now!) I remember they used to let the children pick the winning raffle tickets out of the bucket, then whoever won had to go choose their prize, there were usually 5 or 6 if I remember correctly. I adored The Elms social club, they also did fetes and other events. I have a photo of me picking sweets out of the tin at a fete, it was the couple on the Quality Street tin lid that were passing them out! You don’t get that kind of community from employers now. So many happy memories 😊

Loved this, as I was born in Chapelfield North, the park was my play area, Earlham and Unthank Rd very familiar and I've been inside Curfew Lodge as my parents needed a house to rent in 1968 but it was so spooky we decided not to !

Thank you John

Thanks John. Wonderfully informative, and interesting, as ever.

I live at 124 Earlham Road nearly opposite The Mitre on the corner of Caernarvon Road. I remember it as a pub, a Chinese restaurant and now the coffee bar. I’ve lived here for nearly seventeen years and I love it. Very interesting video. Thank you. 😊

Great video ! I remember the William and Florence when it was the 'Rose Valley', I was an art student in late 70s, I lived at 128 Unthank Rd, and Rose Valley was my local !

Another great video. This one is interesting that, with the exception of the area around Upper St Giles Street and Grapes Hill, many of the views remain relatively unchanged. Very interesting to see the buildings that used to flank the Black Horse pub though - had no idea they had been there.

It used to be said that Norwich had a pub for every day of the year and a church for every week. It's good to see that many of both survive.

As ever, interesting to observe the changes in the cityscape, so thanks! Also interesting to see tram tracks. I didn't realise until now that Norwich had had trams (which were, of course, long since gone when I studied there in 1991-1992).

Thanks John, very interesting video. I lived on Dereham Road (almost opposite the Reindeer in 1996/97 whilst a post grad at UEA and regularly cycled up and down Earlham Rd, had a few pints in the Lilly Langtree! Happy days and still one of my favourite cities in the UK. If you havent done one already, a video on some of the pubs would be intersting I think.

Yes at 3.07 the building on the corner of Grapes Hill was Hunter & Oliver wine merchants where I had a saturday job in the mid 60's. You can just see the shop front with the large entrance to where the vans came and went with the deliveries. There were wine cellars underneath and flats above.

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You collected old pics! Black and white is always awesome to watch❤❤❤

Thank you John. As always another fascinating and absorbing video. I lived in the Earlham Road area years ago and saw the bus in the hole close up soon after the road collapsed. Thankfully no one was hurt. An elderly lady I knew who lived across the road was very terrified in case her house would succumb too as were many residents at the time.

anther wonderful video, thank you. I love these!! I used to live in Berners Street, can you do a video around there. Would love to see some old photo's.

As usual an interesting video, the iconic bus shot most people know of, but not exactly where it was. I have a love of churches and have visited most in Norwich, but for some reason have never been in our city's second cathedral, you have prompted me to visit next time I am in the city, Thanks John.

This was my 'play area' as a wee lad in the 60s and it minded me of much of what was there. Opposite the Plantation Gardens, ( of which I was a founder member of the trust - ! ) there were several streets of terraced houses; one being Distillery Street. My dad was responsible for the restoration of the west end of St.John's in 1965 when it was discovered that the poor quality stone used was crumbling very badly. As I went to school in Dereham Road, my route took me down Earlham Road until Heigham Road.😊

That area was my stomping ground for much of my life but particularly in the early 80s. I remember staggering to the 24hr Shell garage with midnight munchies, now replaced by Tescos. On Earlham Rd roughly opposite Chester Place was a lovely but derelict perhaps Georgian cottage with a cellar. I think part of it had suffered the same fate as the No. 22 bus and was eventually demolished.

Funny I was just wondering about when you might cover Earlham Road and ..here it is!

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St Thomas church was originally a Victorian gothic style church (my parents were married there in Feb 1941) but was firebombed in the Baedecker raids and burnt out. The building was restored after WWII.

There was a very nice little independent audio store down Unthank Road in the 80’s (a little further than the area this video focuses on). I can’t recall the name but I am sure they were connected to Faraday Sound loudspeakers, interesting concrete cabinet design I think. Maybe the store was actually Faraday too?

As always, very well researched and presented. The photo of the bus falling through the road is a very iconic sight. I enjoyed seeing and learning about the comparisons between now and then. I wonder why they demolished the old Baptist church? In my opinion, it was a much more attractive building than the present United Reform Church.

Another wonderful video, John. I really enjoyed it. How different the Black Horse looked.

From 1941 to 1943 as a tiny child I lived at 118 Unthank. My parents moved to Poplar Avenue off the Newmarket Road. I dimly recall a squadron of US tanks and other vehicles turning into PA, a cul-de-sac, mistaking it for what is now Bluebell Road. Any chance of a feature on the Newmarket Road? Such a lovely entrance to the city.

My wife’s maiden name is Unthank we must visit there someday

Hi, I grew up at 180 Earlham Road, which was the end terraced house west of Earlham House Shopping Centre as it was known while being developed between our house and Recreation Road. I remember this land being woodland and a crude cycle speedway track at the top. I’ve heard that there was a house on this site at one time but can find no information about it. There were numbers missing in the Road for example 176 and 178. Does any one know of buildings here before 1960?

Got any photos of the Hillside Club, on Mill Hill Rd?

The church which was demolished in 1954 are you sure Because I was born in 1966 and when the picture came up i could remember walking through the light oak doors and remember everything about the church Then you said it was demolished in 1954 strange I've always toyed with the thought do we have past lives who knows But I can assure you I remember the church like yesterday As I said before about the lads club I was born and bred in Norwich Norwich could be so much more especially for the tourists bringing in billions of pounds and thousands of good jobs for people But in succession the local powers that be going back decades have stripped Norwich City of many little wonders Little streets, little businesses huge businesses some beautiful buildings and ripped out the heart of many little communities in and around Norwich Little corner shops they are almost gone, pubs only 25% exist now And most of this was down to very high business taxes and councils wanted to modernised like anglia Square Anglia Square the offices were built purely for the tax office Once they left anglia Square no matter how much they try to make it look nice Its just an eyesore And just think of the wonderful little shops and peoples homes and again communities that are lost for ever, The last time property's were affordable was when my dad bought his bungalow around 1984 £18.000 all property matched peoples wages yes there wages were obviously less but everything was in perspective I think I was 17 or 18 just too young to get a mortgage lol Then nineties it spiraled out of control Example Old farm buildings and barns were not worth anything There were thousands of empty rundown old farm buildings Then it went mad Sadly the biggest single issue i saw running my Roofing specialist and building renovation company was people from London where wages are more than 4 times greater than anywhere else Would buy 99% of properties holt, Sheringham North Norfolk Meaning the local people could not afford anything And Norwich was the same The golden triangle If you had a property within the golden triangle it was all about money Until they demolished the old hospital and built the new hospital But remember the new hospital may be on the outskirts of Norwich at moment but it won't be in 25 years time As Norwich expands the hospital will eventually become inside Norwich Still no one will still be able to afford to buy new homes especially the young people with families As both need to work 😩 Which takes us full circle I love watching the old videos especially of Norwich Its still a fantastic place to live and one of the best cities in the world 🌎 I just wish they would invest in our river that runs through Norwich Just think how amazing it would look and how lucky we are to have a river There's an old saying Charity begins at home The local councils and government needs to build and put resources into Great Britain 🇬🇧 First Because our local councils and government have and still are giving millions of pounds away in aid and our government gives billions of pounds away every month to other countries so they can have international space stations Upgrade there hundreds of thousands of houses Yet ignore UK problems Apologies Please subscribe and thumbs up These are brilliant videos

I thought the secret garden was older and had been uncovered and restored?

Hi John, I hope you're well. Just to let you know that my father is dropping off his book collection to me on Thursday. So after that perhaps we can work out a way of getting them to you. I could meet you at the Compleat Angler or something, if that suits?

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I absolutely cannot stand this city

I lived on Earlham Road, number 123, in the late 50s, early 60s!