Norwich 1950, 1950s Great Yarmouth too! 

Lovely footage of the fine city! Even more fascinating looking at footage of Norwich before UEA was built!

That was an amazing look back in time, my home city looked amazing back then.

My grandfather grew up in Calvert Street, which I believe is close to some of the shoe factories shown in this video. It's not often that I see such an old video, of such good picture quality and also in colour. What a rare gem! Thank you so much for uploading this.

My childhood memories of the city. Life seemed a lot gentler in those days, good that some things have remained the same.

This is absolutely beautiful!! Literally made me cry, thinking about the way the city has changed very recently... it's a sad place now, and might never be the same. This is so like my Mother described Norwich when she lived there in the late 50s. Thanks for uploading it... it's priceless!!🥰

Beautiful!

Simply wonderful thank you :)

Super! Thank you! How good to see that there are still places we can recognise despite all the changes through the years.

A few corrections. @01:02 That is the River Wensum in Norwich just down from Foundry Bridge. In the background you can see a bus going down Riverside Road. @01:28 Norwich is a City so that is not the town hall, it's the City Hall. @01:45 It's Augustine Steward (not Augustin Stewart). He was a wealthy merchant who gave lodging to the Earl of Warwick whose army was putting down Kett's Rebellion. Steward was Mayor of Norwich in 1534-35, 1546-47 and 1556-57. In 1549 he was Acting Mayor for a short period when the actual Mayor (Thomas Codde) was taken prisoner by insurgents from Kett's Rebellion. @03:00 that is Elm Hill. The houses date back to 1507 and predate Shakespeare by over 50 years. @03:26. The Briton's Arms has been a public house since 1951, but the building dates back to 1400. It was the only building on Elm Hill to survive the fire of 1507. The rest of Elm Hill was rebuilt in 1507 after a fire which raged for four days and nights. @04:15. The theatre was founded in 1921, but the building dates to 1794. It was originally a Roman Catholic church. Further information: 01:56 the statue in the mid-foreground is Nurse Edith Cavell to was executed in WWl for giving aid to wounded soldiers. The statue was moved from there to outside the Cathedral's Erpingham Gate in 1993. @02:02This is the Samson and Hercules. The building itself dates to 1657, including one of the two statues outside (Samson). The original Hercules perished in the 1880s. Part of the undercroft of the building dates back a further 200 years. The building has been in almost constant use in a variety roles over the centuries, both official and private. It has been an entertainment venue since the 1930s. Across the road from the Samson and Hercules is the Maids Head Hotel. It is the oldest hotel in the UK, having been in constant use for over 800 years. An addition to the older building was opened by Queen Alexandra in 1918 as Cavell Rest Home for Nurses on the same day Edith Cavell's statue was unveiled. 09:37. That is the Guildhall which was built in 1407 when King Henry IV gave Norwich a Royal Charter making it a city and independent from the surrounding county of Norfolk. For most of its life it was the city hall and the law courts. It also had a dungeon for holding prisoners, though being a goal was never its primary function. 09:48. There has been market on that spot continuously for over 950 years. The spire of the Anglican Cathedral, the clock tower of the City Hall and tower of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at the top of Grapes Hill stand in a line which pointed the way home for Lancaster bomber pilots in WWll. The Luftwaffe bombed Norwich but purposely avoided those three landmarks because they also used them to point to Midlands and then back out to sea after raids on places like Coventry.