Bonds. It was such a quaint regional department store that seemed stuck in a bygone era. It had everything except anything you might want. Great place for a pot of tea after your mum had spent all day dragging you round the shops making you try on trousers.
The Fat Cat! (best real ale pub, in the world, ever). Also the church near the BBC center (forgotten it's proper name) is beautiful. My brother got married there and I sang at the wedding, with just me and a piano the acoustics were incred!
Norwich is great. I live about a mile to the east of the city centre, close to the railway lines.:)
The Hog in Armour is nice pub. Also around the corner from there is the Lawyer and the Ribs of Beef on Fye Bridge Street (right next to the river).
Next to the Ribs & North of the River, where it becomes Magdalen St is another decent pub for the 'moshers' called the Mischief. OK until they jack the music up loud, drowning out the ability to hold any conversations. :rolleyes:
The Bridewell Alley museum is worth a visit too. :cool:
A friend of mine moved to Norwich, and his aunt in Canada refused to write to him because she was convinced that he had made up the name of the road where he lived and was trying to make fun of her. You gotta admit, Unthank Road does sound a bit made up.
A friend of mine moved to Norwich, and his aunt in Canada refused to write to him because she was convinced that he had made up the name of the road where he lived and was trying to make fun of her. You gotta admit, Unthank Road does sound a bit made up.
lol yeah that is a really weird name i wonder where it originates from
The Unthanks are apparently a Scottish family.
Sounds like one of those Facebook neologisms to me. You know how you can "like" and "unlike" a post. You can "thank" and "unthank" someone.:D
i like how Barclays*,Aviva,Colmans all multi-nationals now started out in Norfolk
* as in first branches
I always thought that the Barclay End was an early example of corporate sponsorship, but apparently it has nothing to do with the bank and was named after a Norwich FC vice-chairman Evelyn Barclay. Ain't Google great?
It's home, and I have never wanted to live anywhere else!
They say Norwich (and Norfolk more widely) is the graveyard of ambition, in that people get sent here as a career move and then never want to leave to take the next step up the ladder.
I felt obliged to apply for various jobs in other places when I was younger but was always very relieved when the letter came telling me I hadn't got the job! Happily I did end up being able to do what I wanted to do for quite a while, and am glad I never had to go away, as I'm sure I would have been back here by now anyway.
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It's John Lewis now
Do you mean "Fatsos"? Was on a corner on Prince of Wales road? If so it's now a bar.
Might see you there (if the wife insists - I'd rather be in the pub myself!)
there is a pub just off the common next to it
Take your Wife,spend the day in the pub
If there's Oakham beer at the fair that will do me.
I remember it.
The Walnut Tree Shades, that was another good 'un.
I never went in the Hog in Armour, but it had just about the best name of any pub.
Norwich, pleasant place, feels like one big happy family.
The Hog is still there
Like I said, I never went in there, but I used to walk past it on the way to one my favourite Norwich attractions - Cookes Band Instruments!
The Hog in Armour is nice pub.
Next to the Ribs & North of the River, where it becomes Magdalen St is another decent pub for the 'moshers' called the Mischief. OK until they jack the music up loud, drowning out the ability to hold any conversations. :rolleyes:
The Bridewell Alley museum is worth a visit too. :cool:
Bishy Barnaby Way is pretty odd name as well
Thats old Norfolk for lady bird
The Unthanks are apparently a Scottish family.
Sounds like one of those Facebook neologisms to me. You know how you can "like" and "unlike" a post. You can "thank" and "unthank" someone.:D
i like how Barclays*,Aviva,Colmans all multi-nationals now started out in Norfolk
* as in first branches
I always thought that the Barclay End was an early example of corporate sponsorship, but apparently it has nothing to do with the bank and was named after a Norwich FC vice-chairman Evelyn Barclay. Ain't Google great?
They say Norwich (and Norfolk more widely) is the graveyard of ambition, in that people get sent here as a career move and then never want to leave to take the next step up the ladder.
I felt obliged to apply for various jobs in other places when I was younger but was always very relieved when the letter came telling me I hadn't got the job! Happily I did end up being able to do what I wanted to do for quite a while, and am glad I never had to go away, as I'm sure I would have been back here by now anyway.
Funny that, I robbed someone in Norwich in 1991. Oh bugger!:o
I rather like the cows. Some of them is right bootiful!
In truth I haven't been there for years, but I was living in Ipswich so I couldn't get a visa!