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A five-bedroom home on Poplar Avenue in Norwich has come up for sale for £1,195,000.

Pupils from the old Bracondale School in Norwich, Norfolk will gather for a school reunion to celebrate its bicentenary next month at Park Farm, Hethersett.

Steve Snelling charts the beginnings of what became known as battlefield pilgrimages in the wake of the First World War. 

Encouraged by the author John Galsworthy who, along with his wife Ada, was a friend of the family, Ralph had been writing ever since he was a lad. When his father retired from the bank in 1902 the family moved to the lofty and leafy suburbs of Bracondale.  In his book From the Window Seat he wrote: “The house that mother and Aunt Maria Clark had so well chosen was 21 Bracondale. It cost some £1,200.” He wrote of the wonderful views across the city and beyond from the “sky parlour” built in the house by “old Mr Blake, the builder” who lived there saying: “It was the finest wind...