Norwich and it's wealth.

The Normans relocated Norwich to where it is today the market being it's center, with the new castle overlooking the city. In 1096 the cathedral was started and stone was brought over from France to build this amazing Cathedral. The city wall was also constructed during this time 2.5 miles and parts of that wall are still there today. The medieval time brought wool merchants and weaving merchants into the city. The fabric called Worstead was named after a village north of Norwich. This time in history brought much wealth to the people of Norwich.

There are thirty one medieval churches still standing today and many other buildings from that wonderful period in time can be seen as you walk around Norwich.

It is amazing how a city has so much history. I have been around the castle walked the cobbled streets of Norwich and sung Christmas carols in the Cathedral and yet still today I am in aw that the history of this city I once called home.

Please join me again to find out more about Norwich.

Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights

There's always room for one more.

Remembrance day 2011 Lest we forget.

http://www.poppy.org.uk/

I have posted this site on both my blogs as I child I would buy a poppy each year remembering all those who had fought in wars. A poppy such a simple symbol to remember how much our freedom often costs.

Please take a moment to think of those you know who have fought and are fighting to keep that freedom and if you can thank some of them. They have truly paid a price for us.

Lest we forget

A murmuration of starlings.

This video clip was sent to me. You will have to watch it to see how amazing Sophie Windsor Clive is. I have watched the other video's of hers and absolutely love them so enjoy. Perhaps though for this clip it is more how amazing are the starlings.

http://vimeo.com/31158841

Wishing you lots of Tasty English Delights

There's always room for one more.

Norwich history.

Norwich is a city that has a lot of history behind it. Before England was invaded by the Romans, Norfolk had been the territory of the Iceni people. The Romans lived in the Norfolk area for over 300 years. The capital of that time was just south of Norwich and was called Venta Icenorum, on the River Tas.

You can visit the site Caister St Edmunds which is on the outskirts of Norwich, however it has never been fully excavated. After the Romans left, the town became abandoned and a new city evolved on the River Wensum the center of the scattered settlements was Tombland, this was not named after tombs however. Today Wensum Street runs fromTombland to Fye Bridge. One of the settlements on the north banks was called Norwic. This is how Norwich got it's name that it has today.

So here begins our road of the history of Norwich, please come back and learn more.

Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights

There's always room for one more.

My Norwich in the 1970's

Old cobbled streets, Norwich how I loved to walk down you, once a upon a time.

Gazing in street windows as the buses at night time passed us by.

Standing at the old station waiting for the train to take us to the seaside, to arrive.

Gray and purple uniform and catching snowflakes from the sky.

Burgundy skirts and pinafores and cartwheeling in the playground.

Seeing Pantomimes at Christmas ,who would play the dame this time?

Eating pomegranates for the first time

Conker fights and jam making

Seeing Midsummer Nights Dream being acted out at my brothers school,oh what a sight.

Oh the summer of 1976, the heat wave of that time.

Memories of craft and antique fairs and oh the purple curtains upstairs.

Lets not forget the guinea pigs and all the babies

Oh saving hedgehogs and it's a knockout games

oh these were the days I spent in Norwich, in the 1970's when I was such a little girl.

Time oh seemed to stand still.

Those big stained glass windows and the cathedral walls,

The broken down walls to the city

Going to Langely's and walking through a city that had so much history.

Yet these are the years I remember my time in Norwich in the 1970's.

Wishing you lots of Tasty English Delights

There's always room for one more.