Brilliant and very informative as usual. Really appreciate the amount of work you must put into these videos and how valuable they'll be in the future. Thank you

My great grandmother and great grandfather were church wardens and lived in what is now the Belgian Monk. My mother remembers visiting there many times 🥰😘

John, I have just made a trip down pottergate, watching your video, it just proves the importance of capturing snapshots in time, in the short time since you made your video the scaffolding has gone from the pub opposite the chip shop and a wide band of Blue painted where the pub name would normally go, further down another house now has scaffolding, maybe for a house repaint. it was the first time I had walked to the end near Grapes Hill. Cheers

I'm always amazed that someone signed off on some of the mid-20th century buildings in Norwich.

Wonderful stuff as ever. Thanks John. One of my favourite streets. As ever much information that was new to me. No mention of “Head In The Clouds”.

Again a lovely tour I found it fascinating there were so many pubs! Glad to see many of the buildings have not been completely destroyed and but renovated. Thank you for all your research and enduring the heat. ~Cara 😊

I really like art deco architecture like the former Morning Star / Birdcage pub. I'll go for a drink or two there when the new place opens.

Love your videos of Norwich, please keep them coming John

Really love your videos bring back nice memories thanks

I loved seeing the then and now photographs of the Pottergate area, and hearing about the history. Fantastic research and narration, as always.

Fascinating as always John. Thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you 👍

The Jenny Lind playground gate was moved to the park on Vauxhall Street, it no longer gives access to the playground but is still there.

Love this. History is so wonderful. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

It was great to see that many of the buildings were still standing, and were tastefully renovated. It was interesting to learn that the woman who invented the "doe ray me" scale lived on this very street. Your sound quality and narration were excellent and you had so many wonderful old photographs. I really enjoyed this video - thank you for getting up extra early to film it!

Living on Earlham Road, I’ve used Pottergate many times to go into the city centre. And I’ve walked down there early in the morning on the way to the station to catch an early train. Very interesting video of a lovey part of Norwich. Thank you.

A fascinating stroll along Pottergate with some wonderful snippets of information,thank you. Your research and accurate “then and now” pictures must take ages to prepare, but are much appreciated.

Another fantastic video.

John, this is a brilliant video - thank you uou. Did you find any more about the 1930s stoey behind Norwich Sport Club Ltd at 63A Pottergate (now called Colman House)?

Thanks John, I think I have walked along pottergate past the fish and chip shop once in my life, so most of this was new to me, so I guess I am going to have to walk along there next time I am in the city!

Great video (again) 👍 Loved that there was controversy over the style of the Pottergate Tavern/Brown Derby. Fortunately it still remains and is a rare example of that period of building in the city.

Very informative,

Another excellent video, John. Thank you. When I was at City College during the late 90s I used to go to McCawber's Tavern every Friday afternoon for a cheeky pint after my lectures finished at midday (cheeky because I was actually underage). I may be wrong, but I'm sure the pub was called Seamus O'Rourke's then. I hope you managed to finish filming before the sun reached it's Zenith on this day.

Love your videos. Always interesting. After watching a lot of your videos with all the old pubs just a thought what about one of the breweries of Norwich

Hi John,excellent posting again,checking my 1933 Kelly’s directory it reads that 63a Pottergate was occupied by Norwich City Supporters Club,I believe that the club owned a couple of properties at various times in Pottergate.

You are an angel to Norwich. Sent to some of my friends. You deserve recognition or an award for your work, has that happened yet - council or local media?

Very interesting, but I was hoping to see the building opposite kiln house . It had a long history , my father bought it for a factory in 1983 i think , moving his factory from muspole Street. I remember it as it had some fantastic old printed huge mirrors advertising tobacco . I was hoping for some research on that to . Thank you .

I mind of the Jenny Lind playground well. My pals and I would often use it in the sixties. The entrance arch was later relocated to the playground near Vauxhall Street and Essex Street.

Hello John, is it possible you can do a feature about St Martin's and St Leonard's Terrace in Norwich. These were originally built as worker's cottages for the nearby gas works at Bishop's Bridge. According to a feature in the "Historic Gas Times" they were built using odd pieces of firebricks and bricks from old gas retorts, and they look rathe strange. The general manager of the gas works, Thomas Glover, was responsible for the construction of Kett's Heights Park, which also has terrace walls made from left-over bricks from the gas works.

I'd like to add that cycling on the cobbles of Pottergate is not exactly fun. A lot to take in here.I can imagine the art deco (correct me if that's the wrong term) Morning Star being regarded as out of place when it was built. Sometimes it's difficult to assess the housing conditions from old photos; numbers 77-81 looked quite run down back in the 30s. I particularly like the changes one encounters on Pottergate; from housing at one end to more commercial use at the other end. I lost count of the number of pubs. Thanks as always, John.

Hi John, thanks for taking the time to document my street! I live at Shibleys Court, opposite Kiln House. I believe it used to be a shoe factory? Thanks for all your hard work.

I remember drinking in the Alma in the early 1970s.

I wonder if The Morning Star is that same pub in this true warren of streets branching off the Town Hall/Guildhall East side which had an early 1970s lanlord who was notable for a. being the consistently drunkinest barman I've ever known, b. and who I think sat behind the bar all the time, getting off his fundament as little as possible, c. but who had a most (cough) accommodating attitude towards errr borderline drinking age customers? Bless him, but he never ever cheered up despite his fondness for his product. From memory again, the pub was never what you'd call full up (which helped us buying our drinks) but maybe prospective occasional trade was put off a little by the 1930s style brick civic toilet appearance of the exterior? People expected it to be no better than it ought to be. 🙂

The fairly (then) modern building pictured in the past shot of 69 - 71 pottergate must have had a short life.

So sad what was lost in the 60’s & 70’s

What did Head in the Clouds used to be?

John have you St Benedict's,

Please investigate the bad hum on your audio whilst you are speaking. It's evident on several of your videos.