www.georgeplunkett.co.uk Market Place 1934. Old municipal offices demolished 1938 to enlarge the market. Orford Place 1935. Tram shelter in its last year of use. Surrey Street and St Stephens 1934. Boar's Head Inn blitzed 1942. St Julian's church 1934. Blitzed 1942, as were St Michael at Thorn, St Benedict, St Paul, St Bartholomew in Heigham, St Mary Baptist, Trinity Presbyterian and the Theatre Street synagogue. Chapel Field 1938. Drill Hall incorporating a city wall tower. Demolished 1963 for the inner-link road. St Giles' Street 1934. Hippodrome cinema, at other times a music hall, variety theatre and playhouse. Replaced by a car park 1966. Palace Plain 1965. Gas Works one year before closure. Demolished 1969. Magdalen Street and Botolph Street 1966. Area cleared for the Anglia Square development and flyover, opened 1972. Bethel Street 1962. Library destroyed by fire 1994. St Augustine's Street 1962. Swimming pool demolished 1997 because of structural weakness. St Stephen's Road 1996. Norfolk and Norwich Hospital demolished 2002 after relocating to Colney. Chapel Field Road 1996. Nestle's (former Caley's) chocolate factory closed. Demolished 2002 for a shopping mall.

George Plunkett's Photographs of old Norwich

My father, George Plunkett, took thousands of photographs of Norwich between 1931 and 2006. Much changed in that time, through slum clearance, the blitz and post-war redevelopment. This website brings you all those images.

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PHOTO ARCHIVE:                           Brief contents list                         Master index of all photos
Photos in particular streets:
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Photos on particular topics:

Alms houses Barracks Boundary crosses Castle Castle mall development Cathedral
City walls and towers Civic centre Current events Electric tramway Extramural mediaeval churches Fair
Fire service Fyebridge rebuilding Guildhall Industrial architecture Markets Mediaeval city churches
Mills Modern parish churches Modern public houses Monastic remains Monuments and memorials Municipal offices to 1938
New housing estates Night Other places of worship Pageantry Panoramic views Parks and gardens
Public buildings River bridges River events Road schemes Street furniture Theatres and cinemas

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Many thanks for visiting:  I hope you enjoy browsing my father's photographs of Norwich. A copy of this site is available on the British Library's UK Web Archive.

All text and photographs on www.georgeplunkett.co.uk are copyright George Plunkett. You are welcome to make prints for personal use of the images.
If you have any comments or questions, or would like to use the photos in publications, public displays or other websites, please email me,
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This page's background is a panoramic view of Norwich taken from St James' Hill on 6th May 1935 during King George V's Silver Jubilee celebrations. It is one of 170 outtakes - pictures that had been omitted from George's photo albums until their negatives were 're-discovered' in 2010.