I notice that the Guardian are running a ‘Win a weekend in Norwich’ competition, for those readers in London and the South East. It includes first class rail tickets from London, two nights in a rather nice guesthouse and a Norwich attractions pass. So if you’ve been thinking about visiting… go here by 21st August.
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Entries Tagged as 'norfolk'
Getting to Norfolk
July 26th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: norfolk · norwich · tourist visit
Walking in the footsteps of giants and legends
June 2nd, 2009 2 Comments
I just stumbled on a fascinating little site that simply pulls together all the myths and legends associated with specific places in Norfolk and Suffolk, whether it’s a secret tunnel or a giant’s grave they will be there. It’s a labour of love by a chap called Mike Burgess in Lowestoft, who keeps it updated [...]
Tags: fairies · folklore · giants · legend · myth · norfolk · secret tunnels · suffolk
A dark country
May 28th, 2009 1 Comment
Justin Partyka is a photographer who since 2001 has been documenting the declining way of life of small family farmers in East Anglia. His photographs are solemn, melancholy, an elegiac look at our landscape under the big skies.
Somehow it’s no surprise to find he trained not as a photographer but as a folklorist at Memorial [...]
Tags: documentary photography · east anglia · East Anglian Life · farming · Justin Partyka · norfolk · photography · rural affairs
Beth Morrison
May 6th, 2009 5 Comments
Beth Morrison is an artist living on the North Norfolk Coast who paints cheerful, evocative scenes of seaside life and the characters around her. Her dogs have an agenda, her little old ladies and small children have a life and character of their own – the way the paintings are made, in stages, they are [...]
Tags: beach · beth morrisson · circus · drawing · east anglia · jewellery · little old ladies · norfolk · painting
Snapshot of a county
April 22nd, 2009 No Comments
The BBC and the Norwich Writers Centre are collaborating on Friday for Blogging Norfolk – snapshot of a county. It’ll be a mix of ordinary people and professional writers recording their day through all the forms of social media, complete with workshops for those who aren’t quite sure what social media is and an interactive [...]
Tags: bbc · blogging · east anglia · flickr · norfolk · social media · twitter · writing
Glandford Shell Museum
April 19th, 2009 No Comments
Small but perfectly formed, this one-room museum is a classic Victorian cabinet of scientific curiosities.
Glandford is a tiny Norfolk village not far from Holt that is filled with dutch gabled brick and flint houses, and the museum follows suit. It was built by local landowner Sir Alfred Jodrell and laid out inside by his sisters [...]
Tags: charm · glandford · local history · norfolk · shell museum · shells
Victorian sideshow extraordinaire
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
And now for something completely different – Voltini, an electricity-based Victorian-style sideshow, is in North Norfolk this week until the 19th. Together with Russels International Circus, they are Cookies Car Boot Site in Beeston Regis, offering a ten minute show centred around Madame Electra, the voluptuous lady of lightning, who defies death in the Electric [...]
Tags: children · circus · cromer · electricity · funfair · norfolk · sideshow · victorian · voltini
Weight and Lightness – Gary Breeze
April 3rd, 2009 3 Comments
Gary Breeze is based in Diss in Norfolk, and calls himself a Lettering Sculptor – it encompasses more than the carving of text on stone or wood. He cares a great deal about what the words say, and makes pieces of work that are both technically excellent and very resolved and thought through sculptures that [...]
Tags: diss · gary breeze · intertextuality · lettercaving · lettering · memorials · norfolk · sculpture · stone carving · text · Typography
Old Town
March 23rd, 2009 5 Comments
If you stand and listen in the Old Town showroom in Holt, Norfolk, you hear the ticking of the clock and the sound of the sewing machine upstairs, making garments from traditional, hardwearing materials. There is no sleepy electronic beeping or the soft hum of computer fans that we tend to take for granted.
The list [...]
Tags: clothing · corduroy · fabric · harris tweed · holt · norfolk · north norfolk · nostalgia · old town · play · seamstresses · seaside · tradition · workwear
Hunting signs of spring
March 20th, 2009 1 Comment
Today is the equinox and the official beginning of spring. Signs of it are catching hold all across East Anglia. Yesterday I popped into the gardens at Blickling Hall to see their lovely dell full of hellebores – if the weather holds this weekend will be the perfect time to visit them.
It’s a blowsy spring [...]
Tags: architecture · blickling hall · classical · east anglia · east of england · garden · garden design · gardening · gardens · hellebores · jacobean · national trust · norfolk · planting · plants · seasonal · spring · spring flowers · tree ferns