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• Pleasure Gardens | COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH

  For over 200 years, Norwich's pleasure gardens provided public recreation, from bowls and leisurely walks in the C17th to Pablo Fanque's Fair in the C19th. I ended the previous post with a passing men...

• About | COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH

  Welcome to Colonel Unthank's Norwich. Norwich, which was once England’s second city, has a rich past and a good deal of its built environment survives. I am not a historian so rather than write about ...

• Colonel Unthank’s Norwich #2 | COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH

  Published in May 2021: 'Colonel Unthank's Norwich: A Sideways Look at the City'. It contains 29 short (but often discursive) chapters rewritten from the blog. The book is richly illustrated. Colonel U...

• Unthank Book #1 | COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH

  Running through  a triangular district of Norwich's Victorian terraced housing is Unthank Road, which took its name from the family who owned a large estate there in the nineteenth century. When I mov...

• A few of my favourite buildings | COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH

  This was going to be something quite different but in this fifth week of isolation I haven't been able to take new photographs, the library and record office are closed, so I'm revisiting a few of my ...

• Norwich, City of the Plains | COLONEL UNTHANK'S NORWICH

  London has its famous residential squares, built to enclose green space and clean air against the awfulness outside. These enclaves mainly arose during the Georgian and Victorian periods and from the ...