Their influence remains today in place names such as Pottergate and Finkelgate in the Norwich Lanes. Have you got what it takes to Go Ape in Thetford Forest? Learn about the history of Norwich City football club, and enjoy a recreation of an authentic Georgian coffee house. The Museum of Norwich is housed in the Bridewell, and visitors can learn about the building’s history, that focuses primarily on its time as a house of correction and a prison. This is significant today for being the last occurrence of any major resistance during the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Wildman was an inmate in 1751 when a fire broke out and destroyed most of the site. Almost all our different brick types are available as brick slips. Of rebels and rebellions, of sanctuary and faith. Photo Credit: David Ross and Britain Express, Heritage Rated from 1- 5 (low to exceptional) on historic interest, Armada House - Visit George Skipper buildings including: The Royal Arcade.
If you value what this story gives you, please consider supporting the Eastern Daily Press. But once I got going I enjoyed myself, wanting to know who the murderers were, trying to guess the endings. PUBLISHED: 20:24 09 March 2016 | UPDATED: 07:41 10 March 2016, Thetford, Admiral Nelson and the Tudor Rose in King's Lynn. Saxon Norvic centred around Tombland, meaning ‘open space’ which is where the marketplace was located. ‘This tide of paper will end by drowning us,’ an armourer at the Tower of London complains. A major focus is on the trades that made Norwich the second wealthiest city in England during the Middle Ages. ‘You deal with her as with an adult,’ is his master’s advice. Split into three different spaces, the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell is a fascinating place to unearth the history of this fine city.
Furthermore, King’s Lynn was the birth place of Captain George Vancouver, best known for his 1791-1795 Vancouver expedition which helped remove Spain as a power in the North Pacific and further established British domination of Australia-New Zealand.
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Carrow Road is home to the “Canaries” – Norwich City Football Club. The museum tells both the history of the building itself, and the history of Norwich. You see, the Corporation had a problem; the city was bursting with transient beggars and poor residents, drawn by Norwich's reputation as a bustling centre of commerce.
The Norman Conquest of 1066 saw the invading forces establish their authority by building a Royal castle, clearing the original Saxon area of housing in the centre of the city to construct a mound. Not content with immersion in secondary literature, Sansom also digs around in the archives. To feel the beating heart of Kett’s rebel camp is not to indulge in working-class romance, in history or in fiction.
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