While reading about Parson Woodforde’s shopping expeditions to Norwich around 1800 [1] I was struck by the modest scale of the places he visited in the streets around the marketplace. This wa…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
When writing about secular buildings in Norfolk and Norwich I have been struck by the scarcity of the Gothic Revival style. Seeking enlightenment in Wilson and Pevsner’s entry for this county…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
No Georgian new town arose in Norwich and what fresh development there was barely disturbed the medieval footprint [1]. The building campaigns of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries had a mu…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
When browsing in the City Bookshop in Davey Place I came across Official Guides to Norwich for 1929 and 1935, in the reign of King George V. The contrast between ancient and modern was striking for…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
Over the years Norwich’s largest public green space has been known as Chapel-in-the-Fields, Chapel Fields, Chapple/Chapply/Chaply/Chapley Field, and now Chapelfield Gardens [1]; my daughters …| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
We’ve already encountered the artist Noël Spencer, most recently when his book on Sculptured Monuments provided inspiration for two posts [1, 2]. He came to Norwich in 1946 as Headmaster…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
In 1505 and 1507 great fires swept away the majority of Norwich’s early medieval buildings and a new city – still largely timber-framed – arose on the old street plan [1]. Two centuries later,…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
Norwich was slow to find its way into the industrial world. Before the slum clearances, the city still had a timber frame: largely Tudor in appearance with Georgian contributions. Around 1900 the a…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
I would occasionally be asked if a book would emerge from the Colonel Unthank’s Norwich blog but I had to wait until the second Covid lockdown before I had the opportunity. I rewrote selected…| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH
In the previous post on Norwich department stores I mentioned the architectural practice of Augustus Frederic Scott three times, more even than local hero George Skipper – and Edward Boardman …| COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH