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Love your posts but one request from me, please increase the time each image is show if possible as I often find I’m only just orienting myself as to where the image is/what changes have taken place before the image disappears. Thanks again and keep them coming 👍

I used to go fishing under Cringleford bridge. We'd paddle under the bridge to get to the other side which was always private land.

Such as shame that much of our city is now characterless boxes. Most of detest the 60's concrete box building, so why planners think we want new ones, but just with cladding on them, is beyond me.

Well researched and a delight to watch. You also have the ideal voice for your commentaries!

Such a waste of a massive space that they aren't developing it now. It really is a blight on Norwich which is otherwise a really nice city. Yet right in it's center is this grotty grey slum. I'd rather they develop housing there than keep bulldozing and concreting over the countryside as they seem hell bent on doing everywhere around Norfolk now.

The building between the Free Library and Dukes Palace PH was No.4 Duke Street the black & white picture shows it clearly with two steps up to the door and the path sloping down towards the river. The picture of the “present day equivalent” is in fact on the other side of Duke Street, it has no steps and the path slops in the opposite direction to the left is Charing Cross. In 1965 I started work in the Eastern Electricity Boards, Norwich District drawing office of the engineering department which was situated inside No.4 Duke Street and before WWII was the original offices of the Norwich Corporation Electricity Department including the very same drawing office which my Dad had worked in before the war had started.

Amazing john really enjoyed that, thank you so much

THank you so interesting

Interesting as always John. Thank you 🙏

At 06:02 I can see just to the right of the end of St Giles church the second building along (after the white one) on the lefthand side of St Giles St where I lived from October 1976 to April 1977. My bedsit was the top righthand window. How strange to see it again but from an angle I never saw it. I walked from there to my ghastly clerical job in Norwich Union. I left Norwich at the end of the summer to go to Durham University.

What a fascinating view at the beginning of your video! It was a great idea to ask the question and reveal the answer at the end. I admire the lengths you go to get the present-day shot as near as possible to where the historic photo was taken. Interestingly, sometimes the present view looks virtually the same as before and sometimes totally different. Thanks for another well-researched and enjoyable video.

Excellent video

Excellent video John - super start to 2025 . I very much look forward to what else you put together for us this year. Happy new year John, happy videoing and best wishes x

Another excellent video John. An interesting take on the presentation. 😊

Good stuff John, and I like the addition of the dots on the maps to show the photo location. I love these time scales because it's my nanny and grandad's time when they were younger.

Excellent as usual. Thank you.

Great video John 👍

Excellent presentation as ever. Proud to say I managed to supress my instinct and say St. James Hill, and with a bit of help from Google Earth, found the spot exactly. St. Peter Mancroft, the castle, Jarrolds and the Catholic catethdral helped ;-)

John, another excellent production and a great way to start 2025. Looking forward to your next piece. Thank you.

There are 5 thatched buildings in the city.

The view from the 35th Norwich Sea Scout hut brought back happy memories of my cub and scouting youth, the money-raising events held with garden fates hot dogs cooking in the Dell, and jumble sales. Thanks, Mr Atkins for another great post.

Happy New Year John, and thanks for the first video of 2025.This was another of your videos where I saw the odd old photo but knew where the photo was taken even though they had totally changed.

Amazing and audio sounds superb 🙏✌️🙌

Thank you John. I really look forward to each instalment

Brilliantly put together video. Well done.

Very interesting, thanks for this John.

What a great start to 2025 John! A thoroughly enjoyable and relatable video as always, thank you 🙂

Love your videos John Whilst these videos are a superb resource today, just imagine what you're creating for future generations! Brilliant! Keep up the excellent work. 👍

Thanks for another fascinating video. As ever so much and, sometimes, so little has changed. Looking forward to seeing more interesting content in 2025. Hoping that The Festive Season was enjoyable.

You've done it again John! I was going for a quick visit to the City today to pick up a few odds and ends, now I'm going to have to wander about all day seeking out all these places! Thanks for posting and thanks for all your hard work and research. 😊

Thank you. How interesting.

Norwich already has a bond street😀

I never realised how ugly metal railing everywhere looks until I saw these comparison pictures with how the streets used to look.

3! Oh man I did badly, I know most all of the locations but just muddled up the places so badly! Great fun, thanks :)

Wow.

I hadn't realised there was a statue to Edith Cavell, thank you for another interesting video. I'll have to get down to Norwich this year

I'm giving myself 0.5. I knew it is a Wetherspoons, but not the name.

Just the 1 for me John, great fun though, many thanks :)

7/10. Not bad for someone who left Norwich 50 years ago and returned two years ago! It probably helps that I’m interested in pubs!

please do a video on the surviving courtyards of Norwich (like the one on Elm Hill)

What a great quiz. I only got 4, but it was enormous fun. Thank you,. It's always a treat seeing you have a new video out. Merry Christmas 🎄

Fabulous

Great 👍

I didn't know about these murals so now I have looked up this BID project. It is giving people pleasure and interest in the City and its history so that is all to the good. Thanks for showing them to me. 👍

There used to be a toilet built on the inside of the city wall at Magdalen Gates.

Well, I did so badly on the pub quiz I followed the directions here hoping to do better. I was confident I was going to get at least one with the mural of the Prince of Denmark on the pub of the same name because it was refurbished by an acquaintance of mine. But, you didn't use it ! Bother ! But you did use the one at Berstrete Gates which I only knew because I had looked up the artist, John Moray-Smith, when the Prince was getting the make over. Anyway I did get Hatch Brenner but only because I dropped my son off at the BBC and saw it then and wondered what it was supposed to be. Thanks John ... reminding me to take more notice when I am driving about 👍

Three!

1: which, given the amount of time I spent in Norwich pubs between 1979 and 2000, is not very good. Thanks for the channel and all the best for the festive season.

enjoyed the photos and info as always but only got one right - must pay more attention to your films!

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