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A lookback at Tombland, Norwich throughout the decades, highlighting the Maid's Head Hotel and Sir Cliff Richard's visit to Norwich Cathedral.

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Cyclists will be setting off from Norwich this week as part of a nationwide 2,000-mile relay ride to connect the country's 42 Church of England cathedrals.

“And I also remember when we had a customer, an older gentleman, come in who was very shocked – he’d seen a figure come through the wall. We had to sit him down and get him a glass of water to calm him down.”  The photograph taken in the cloisters by 15-year-old Rachel was given to Caroline by the student’s mother, Gwen, who was a volunteer at the Cathedral shop. Gwen told Caroline that the photograph had been taken as part of Rachel’s GCSE project which required her to take images in sepia, a form of photographic print toning which adds warmth to a shot. 

Merchants of Norwich: on the trail of the city’s lost fortunes Jane Chittenden © Provided by The Independent For hundreds of years Norwich was England’s richest provincial city. But just when the rest of the country was powering ahead, the city’s economy collapsed. Bankruptcy loomed. How could it reinvent itself and bounce back?   I’m taking a walk around Norwich’s historic centre to explore its rollercoaster economic story. My journey begins at the Erpingham Gate, a massive stone archway that forms the main entrance to Norwich’s Norman cathedral. It’s evidenc...