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“This meant very little to me at the time but sounded quite romantic,” said Thomas. “Now of course I look back and realise what Trudi and Erhart must have gone through when they fled in 1938 and arrived in Norfolk. I also admire my grandparents for taking them in to their home in Norwich and later Thorpe End.” Erhart was a man of much standing, being a doctor of law in Prague and by profession a barrister. Mystery still surrounds their escape from Hitler’s “mad dogs”, but it was our former editor Tom Copeman who came across them in the restaurant at Cromer.

Canon Charles Compton Lanchester toasts the success of Norwich Housing Society - Credit: Archant He was one of the greatest and most popular clergymen ever to have served the people of Norwich. Derek James pays tribute to the remarkable CC Today he is remembered at Lanchester Court, a Norwich Housing Society development in the city, and we can all be proud and pleased that his memory lives on in bricks and mortar. There is also a house named after him at Norwich High School for Girls where he was chairman of the governors. Canon Charles Compton Lanchester was an extraordinary man who became t...

They played a leading role in so many young lives but not many renovated their very own lorry to travel about in. Derek James reports

Back in 1870s Norwich you could get your hair brushed with the help of a dog in a machine

This proved to be the first of the 19 railway books which they compiled together, 18 of them in the Middleton Press series. For anyone who loves reading about the railways across Norfolk and Suffolk they are a fascinating look at our history. A goods diesel crosses Norwich Road, Fakenham, in July 1968 while a staff member leans on the gate, ready to close it behind the train. The Eastern Counties Farmers premises seen generated a lot of grain traffic up to the close in 1980. Photo: S Moore - Credit: S Moore So join us on a journey  from Wymondham to Wells on the historic line which stretched...