Lost Norwich - Ber Street 

Hi John,great video again,my gran told me many years ago that Ber Street was an area to avoid on a Saturday as being close to a market albeit a cattle and stock market the pubs were open all day,apparently locals would fight with the influx of farm workers who poured into the city .

Ber Street was where Norwich's first tattooist worked; Steve Coulson, known as Steve the Joker. The studio was called East Coast Tattoo studio. In the 90s he moved somewhere else in Norwich, opening a new studio called Styx - unique name. He did a distinct loud comic book style, reminiscent of some US cartoonists like Ed Roth (Rat fink). think he's almost retired now, although he might work part time at a place in North Walsham. When he was in Ber Street, he was the only tattooist in Norwich. Now I imagine there are loads.

Your meticulous research has made this a very interesting watch - thank you! It's amazing how many pubs there once were on a single stretch of road. You could have literally gone on a pub crawl!

Thanks for another interesting video. Sad that so little of the old street remains. All the very best.

John, this was one of your videos I watched thinking at first it had not changed much in my lifetime, but by the time it ended, I thought just how much it had changed without me noticing. That's why your videos are so interesting, thank you.

What a lot of lovely buildings we have lost.

Another informative and fascinating video. Superb.

I love these videos! My grandparents lived somewhere off Ber Street. After the war they moved to Scarlet Road on the Tuckswood estate around 1947 or 48. They moved due to the post-war slum clearances.

My late grandparents lived at 56 Warminger Court, grandad loved sitting at the window people watching, the funny things he saw sometimes, they use to have a cup of coffee in M&S every morning until they got too frail, bless them

Always enjoy watching your fascinating videos, John.

Great video, thank you.

Excellent, John. Thank you.

Facinating history of Ber Street, bought back happy memories for me when i left school in 1975 and worked at Mann Egertons ( you show it as A kings ) The window with the railings round it was the managers office, Mr llewellyn who interview me and gave me a job. As such Horries cafe was frequented, as was the Dart pub of a lunch time .Thanks for showing it.

Great video as always!

You've done it again John. BRILLIANT ! I was delighted to see Chapel Loke in your video. It's of great interest to me as my Mum lived in Ber Street as a little girl and used to play in the loke. There is a pole at the entrance and you had to climb up it an touch the "Chapel Loke" name plate. I often go to the loke and contemplate my Mum playing there with her friend who's Dad owned Nichols greengrocers further up the Street nearer the Jolly Butchers. I'd estimate this all to be just over 90 years ago.

Now binge-watching these brilliant videos, thank you, John.

Always interesting, in a lot of ways the old buildings had more character. I was wondering if you do face to face talks on Norwich to groups?

My Grandfather was born there and always called it Blood n Guts St.

Thankyou John another great piece of research.

Yet another spectacular video

Very interesting video as always. Would loved to have seen pics of cullings coaches/red car yard & garage, which is now the Gerald Giles building. They had the yard next to it, which is currently overgrown, and the next building along towards the city, for which double deckets used to emerge from under the archway.

That's a street which has seen a lot of changes. One thing I noticed was the cobbled street in the 1930s.

Maybe you should give some thought to giving occasional illustrated talks about Norwich John. I'm certain they'd be well attended - ! 😁

Very nice my friend

I miss 1989.

Intrigued by the cross outside StJohn Sepulchre - I shall have to look to see if it was moved to the churchyard, or does anyone know it’s fate? Another fascinating walk, John - thanks for putting this together.

I think Cullings coaches operated from Ber street next to the dart pub ?

It's such a shame that so much modern architecture has replaced these Georgian buildings.

Poor Ber Street has certainly suffered from very unsympathetic redevelopment 😥

The recent ish buildings look horrible.

I was born at the top of Timberhill, right at the city end of Ber St

I can remember the Hastings family