Skip to main content
BBC - Norfolk / HISTORY

BBC Local | Norfolk | Things to do | People & Places | TV & Radio |
People & Places Contents:  Nature & Outdoors | History | Religion & Ethics | Arts & Culture | BBC Introducing

Page last updated at 10:26 GMT, Friday, 27 November 2009

Replica Norwich City shirt signed by Johnny Gavin, Ron Ashman, Bernard Robinson, Ken Nethercott, Kevin Keelan, Terry Bly and seven others Norwich City items auctioned off
A 59-year-old collection of Norwich City memorabilia is sold in Aylsham, with around 200 items bought by football fans.

The murder victim who gave The Murderers pub its name Dark history of The Murderers pub
When the landlord researched the history behind a Norwich pub's name, he discovered that there was more to it than met the eye.

Silver scalloped butter dish FROM BBC NEWS >>
Winston's ashtray fetches £4,200
A silver butter dish used as an ashtray by Sir Winston Churchill fetches more than £4,000 at auction in Norfolk.


MORE HISTORY

FROM BBC NEWS >>
Council could buy historic site
A derelict "eyesore" in Norfolk could be bought by the borough council in an attempt to make it tidier and safer.

Singing through Norfolk's history
Singing Histories hopes to recall Norfolk's farming and sea-shanty landscapes through music, right in the heart of Norwich.

Medieval hall clinches top award
Dragon Hall in King Street, Norwich, wins Glass Project of the Year for its creative extension on the Grade I listed building.

Norwich's war memorial gardens
Plans show how Norwich's memorial garden, opposite City Hall, will look following its completed renovation in 2010.

FROM BBC NEWS >>
Money for WWII Land Girls gallery
The efforts of women who worked to provide food and timber in WWII will be shown in a new museum gallery.

FROM BBC NEWS >>
Modern postcodes at 50 years old
The UK's postcode system celebrates its half century, after being introduced in Norwich in 1959.

FROM BBC NEWS >>
Work to start on memorial garden
Work is due to start on a memorial garden which has lain derelict for more than three years in Norwich, the city council says.

WWII at 70: Norfolk stories
Listen to astonishing stories from Norfolk's residents, 70 years after Britain declared war.


BBC Local | Norfolk | Things to do | People & Places | TV & Radio |
People & Places Contents:  Nature & Outdoors | History | Religion & Ethics | Arts & Culture | BBC Introducing