Ian Bullock is an English journalist and freelance writer based in Norwich, Norfolk. This channel includes lots of railway and Hornby clips, along with videos featuring places Ian likes to visit, family, pets, trams, holidays and much, much more!
Many of the clips have been recorded on Ian's old iPhone 3GS but he is now using a Sony CyberShot HX-7 HD compact camera (as well as, from time to time, an iPhone 4S).
A number of the clips on this channel were jointly produced by Ian and his son, Gregory.
2020 UPDATE: Ian is now retired - and using an Apple iPhone SE for recording these RU-vid videos. Many thanks to everyone who has enjoyed them, liked them and commented on them.
2021 UPDATE: Ian is now using an Apple iPhone 13 Mini for these videos.
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I've had a much never Apple Watch do this, I have since managed to replace the battery in it (very fiddly job and would leave it to professionals). Screen was luckily intact on mine and fully functional so I have managed to extend the life of it. It seems when the battery ages it swells pushing the screen off.
Thanks for posting this video, brought back so many memories, We first started holidaying in a caravan on Heathlands Caravan Park before switching to the Denes and coming to Lowestoft South Beach for the day was something we done 2 or 3 times in the 2 weeks we were here. Dad used to park his car near the school and we would walk through Kensington Gardens loaded up with all the deckchairs, windbreaks, footballs, tennis rackets, cricket bats , buckets and spades, packed lunch of sandwiches ( which were always sandy by the time came to eat them) and lemonade etc etc to get to the beach. We never went on the boats in the daytime as there was too much to do on the beach, but we would return in the evenings to have a turn on the boats and as you mentioned, it was great in the twilight. i seem to remember they called out your number of your boat when your time was up and as you said you would try and be as far away as possible from where you had to get on and off, to get as long as possible. The flower beds were always emaculate. And then on the way back to the caravan we would stop off at Arthur Gibbs Fish & Chip shop in Carlton Road not too far from Claremont Pier for a fish supper back at the caravan. Great memories
I don’t know who to blame. The architect or the owner. You were spot on likening this and the other similar one I feel, with an office building. As for the architect/owner, I’ve got my thoughts. They certainly made a statement but not a good one in my book.
Ponds are looking food. Can I suggest you buy your fish a floating fish food that looks like round balls. That way you will not get so much of the flakes that they cannot eat. Also big fish do like to have meat and veg rather than salad.
Good video. Someone should remove the top, put some new nice steel and glass floors up there, make it all nice and water tight, replace office space with apartments. There is plenty of money in Norwich and these would make nice homes. Re-do the street realm with luxuriant planting, new paving and some trees. Keep retail and replace the parking with a smart modern multi storey car park. (there is plenty of space). Job done
I Do remember it very well . Used to be taken there by my Uncle Clarrie , whilst staying at a Guest House in Lowestoft . I think on the London rd? I am 74 years old and was there when I was probably 5 to 15 ? It guest house was owned by my Aunt May & Uncle Alf . Thanks for sharing . Cheers
I spent a couple of years working in Victoria House until Marsh took over and they got rid of the financial team we worked in. They sold us to the Woolwich who of course was bought by Barclays and we were moved to St Crispin's House. Nowadays I work for a large social housing group and we're based in Reed House which is next door to Marsh in Willow House. I joined Norwich Union as a School leaver and worked in St Stpehens 1 which is the nearest tower in the video of St Stephens
I worked in St Crispin's with Barclays Financial Planning before they made us redundant. We had a scheme where we had cheaper parking in the multi storey, they gave us fobs to use with the machines
Totally agree, all these. Old places should be for local enjoyment. Colchester castle still has a boating pond. Bishops Stortford has a miniature lido for kids to paddle in . Bring back the good times
I know people who were born and raised in Cromer. One proper Cromer guy I knew, Tim, would have been 24 in March 1969, a young man at the time, so would have remembered the Albany hotel fire, plus he would have remembered the late 1957, early 1958 demolition of another Cromer hotel, I forgot its name now. This Tim would have gone to school with a local Cromer coxswain Richard Davis who I also briefly knew, as he was Tim's age.
Interesting video but I feel that had this rather forbidding and blocky building had a more appealing design it would probably survive. Maybe not as ugly as Sovereign House, but it is still detracts from Norwich's historic city centre and a hope a more attractive structure or use for the site can be found.
As a student at UEA in the late seventies I felt that even when it was all functioning, Anglia Square and Sovereign House were completely out of character with the area and unfitting in a medieval city. Prospect House appears to have been built to a less ugly design and better quality materials so is worth maintaining. Yes, concrete stains horribly - the ziggurats at UEA look striking from the Broad but when viewed from the walkway, where everybody sees them, they are awful stained concrete slabs and this is only enhanced by the dustbins.
Convert it into flats before it deteriorates like Sovereign House. Offices and high street shops are obsolete because it's easier to work from home and buy stuff online
Greetings from Maine Hope you and your family are doing well. Haven't posted in a few months. My husband of 30 years passed away last September. Lung cancer. Just starting to recover and trying to be more social. Well, I live near Houlton and will be viewing the total eclipse today. So many people.....😮
To this day in 2024 where im 32, this is still my favourite train and livery from them good old days in 2007 when this ran on the east anglia line. Me and my grandad would take regular trips on this from LS to shenfield and back. My grandad who isnt here anymore used to love the class 90s that went up to Norwich, we went up there for the day one time, God rest his soul🥲
Or stratford when it sometimes stopped there. These were also the times when platfrom 11 & 12 finally opened back allowing trains to go to stratford from Northumberland park where i used to live. Fast forward over ten years and there is a 3rd line opened allowing a separate service to go to stratford from newly opened station Meridian water which replaced the old Angel Road calling at northumberland park, Tottenham hale, Lea bridge and finally Stratford with some services on Sundays or other random days continuing on to Liverpool street via the east anglia lines.
I was disappointed today I came back to the cemetery today to visit my family's grave and it was gone there was three members buried there my g grandmother my g aunt and her bus band my g grandmother was layed to rest Oct 1 1949 ,I visited the site back in 1978 all was fine clean and in good condition, her name was Sarah Arabella Gilson , I'm from Australia such a long way to travel to pay my respects to my English family ,my wife and my son spent hours to no avail can someone give me some help.
Fond memories of these boats and lake as well. The men running it used to stand in wellies in the water and simply pulled the pole away from the chicken wire to stop the boat when you came in to dock. Another Lowestoft attraction at the time was George, a huge goldfish in a pond somewhere on the front. And driving down the Ravine in my Grandad's little car. The ribbed concrete surface made such a strange droning noise. Nostalgia.
@@TheIanBullock i think you're right aboutt the fish in Swallows Nest, we used to look especially for the big fish. We used to stay on the Denes in a caravan every Year back in the 70s, I also remeber the noise coming down the Ravine as well, And there was a little putting greeen there next to the Cricket Pitch, spent many an hour in there. Like most people have commented on here such great memories of our youth. I wonder how many of todays kids will have such great memories.
The section of the pier removed in the second world war was in the middle, removing the end wouldn't have stopped the Germans using it. The gap was bridged after the war. The end of the pier was originally in a T shape. In 1962 a storm damaged the Northern part of the T. It did not wash the T piece away (my father took me fishing from it on the morning after the storm), it was dismantled by workmen several weeks later - there are photos of this on line.
March 2024 - the site has been surrounded by safety hoardings and now looks set for demolition. It has signs saying it is a Demolition Area. There is talk of it being demolished and replaced with a mixture of new flats and townhouses.
WOW!! I heard a proper Aled Jones Choir Boy voice in you shouting Nina!! Good video but kind of curious? Are you a choir singer?? If not, you should be!! Good video. Love your puppy dog!! Love from Scotland, ❤ X ...
Haha. Yes! I have indeed sung in several choirs during my lifetime. Mostly as a bass, of course. I think that my choral singing is one of the reasons why my voice is a little unusual and I don’t have a Norfolk accent. Thank you! Ian B 😄
