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Laurence Mitchell
Writer and photographer based in Norwich, UKMarch 2021 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -
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Tag Archives: Norwich
Space is the Place – Shakespeare and Sun Ra
Still reeling from the solar onslaught of the Sun Ra Arkestra the previous night we travelled yesterday to Great Yarmouth to see The Tempest at the town’s Hippodrome Theatre. The Sun Ra Arkestra fronted by nonagenarian alto-sax maestro Marshall Allen … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, music, Norfolk, Uncategorized
Tagged Great Yarmouth, Hippodrome, Norfolk and Norwich festival, Norwich, psychogeography, Shakespeare, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Tempest
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All Shook Up
On a dismal February afternoon in Norwich, taking a walk is done as much for exercise as it is for any other more worthy or creative reason. The raw, grey day makes the city seem gloomy, uninviting even, but at … Continue reading
Murmuration
Norwich, mid January. At dusk over the past few weeks an avian spectacular has been witnessed taking place in the sky over St Stephen’s Street. As the daylight dwindles around the four o’clock mark a swirling murmuration of roosting starlings … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Norfolk, wildlife
Tagged birds, murmuration, Norwich, starlings, urban wildlife, winter bird roosts
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Edgeland
Edgelands are everywhere, orbiting our towns and cities like unbeautiful rings of Saturn: non-places, junkspace, transitory transition zones that lie between that which is unequivocally urban or rural. Transitory because they are spaces in flux, with fluid geography that today … Continue reading
Posted in History, Human Geography, Norfolk
Tagged Arminghall, edgelands, henges, neolithic, Norwich, psychogeography
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Keswick All Saints
A little way south of Norwich, standing atop what counts for a hill in these parts, is a tiny roundtower church nestled amidst trees. All Saints Church stands above the small village of Keswick in a crumpled corduroy landscape of wintry ploughed fields. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk, Travel
Tagged All Saints, churches, Gurney, Keswick, Norwich, roundtower church
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Mappa Mundi – but whither Norwich?
This summer I visited Hereford for the first time in decades. I have long wanted to see the famous Mappa Mundi at the cathedral there and so this was an opportunity. The ancient map, along with the almost as well-known … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk
Tagged excommunication, Hereford, Mappa Mundi, maps, Norwich, Norwich Cathedral, religious riots
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Norwich Gorillas
Over the past few days a large number of gorillas have taken over Norwich city centre. No leaf-munching friends of David Attenborough these, the Norwich gorillas are fibreglass but compensate for their inanimate nature by coming dressed in a wide range of outlandish outfits. … Continue reading
Posted in Norfolk, Uncategorized
Tagged Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, gogogorillas, gorillas, Norwich, Norwich Gogogorillas, Norwich Gorillas
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Scratching the Earth
To begin the New Year, here is a piece on something close to home and close to heart – allotments. I touched on this subject briefly last year in my post on Dacha. The feature below originally appeared in Issue 3 of the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk, wildlife
Tagged allotments, Diggers, Enclosure Act, growing vegetables, Manor Gardens, Norwich
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The Tarka Trail
There’s a walk through Norwich’s western edgeland that Jackie and I must have done a hundred times. It begins close to a supermarket at Eaton, Norwich’s wealthy southern suburb, and follows the bank of the meandering River Yare upstream towards the broad … Continue reading
A River Wensum Walk
Early April in Norwich. It’s cool but the sky is blue and daffodils are glistening in Wordsworthian tribute to the bright spring sunshine. What better then than a morning stroll through the city along the banks of the River Wensum? Like many cities – even … Continue reading