― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
JtNPFMej e r e m y???
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I am very touched that JtN and I are considered good company with which, or with whom, to share a list.
It's true about the pop scene, but I wouldn't have called it noise/avant/weirdo in my day.
Perhaps I escaped just in time.
The city was magnificent, c.10-15 years ago - though 10 years ago it had, I guess, already begun a certain transition into homogeneous-millennium-town, Multiplex etc, which I'm afraid in this particular case I did and do not welcome. But the city has enough character and texture to survive all that, I would think.
Partridge, while priceless, has always seemed to me unrepresentative of Norwich - as the rest of this thread may suggest.
Carrow Road, btw: among other visits (Bayern Munich, Oct 1993) I remember being there on the last day of the ... 1993-4 season? - when visitors Oldham went down, or stayed up, or... whatever.
Memorable, as you can see.
― the norfox, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
And yes, ALAN PARTRIDGE!
― andy, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually PF, Ned seemed to know more about this than I do! But I do believe there is a strain of experimentalism and "outsider art" that dates back to the 1970s, probably connected with the university?
It is true about the homogenisation. I miss double bills at Cinema City!
Bayern Munich, Oct 1993
Also, this is very impressive, obv. I think the best I managed was a plucky win over Sheffield!
The university built a number of horrible new buildings just after I left (2000), but I am quite fond of the university's architectural "style". I also miss the lake a lot.
xpost!I had beer with a Norwichian last night! In Oakland though.Wow! The East Anglian/Bay Area connection strengthens by the day!
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't help it if you're a philistine. Oh wait.
In that I know something about whatever is in Norwich, I know about Burning Shed, which as a label maintains connections via co-owners Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers not merely to the extended No-Man/Porcupine Tree collective but a variety of other Norwich-based or connected art/prog fiends. Nearly all of whom are pretty damned great, but I would defer to the good Mr. Pashmina about all this, should he choose to comment.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
;p
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
footy: Bayern as good as I get. But I ought to compile, one day, a list of all the games I saw at Carrow Road, which I loved. The post-match city, pubs, chips, pink'un even, were very romantic, to me.
In general I like UEA's architecture: the green space helps it.
For fun? Let me see:
1. Talk about big issues - philosophy, politics, pop, etc
2. drink - favourite pubs inc. The Murderers', The Fruiterers', the Adam & Eve, the Wherry, the UEA bars themselves, the Reindeer, others I don't have time to list right now
3. take in the profound romance of the city with its old walls, stony streets, Body Shop and record stalls
4. study, with books and things
― the bellefox, Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I do remember a wine bar where they put people in a barber's chair and...well, never mind.
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
All city centres should be pedestrianised, and thus Norwich outs itself as a "sleeper" progressive city, once again.
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Burma as in Myanmar
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
It seemed quite nice.
A jaunty Dr Robert comeback single came on the radio on our way home.
It was found to be the most racist town in Britain.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I returned once to see the new sports centre. I took my mother in law.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 6 August 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
When I still lived in Ipswich I used to pop up a fair bit for gigs, and they have probably the best record shops in East Anglia (not saying much, however). The place seems to have stagnated a bit in the last 10 years, with less variety in the city centre, but overall If I was forced to live in East Anglia again I would probably have to choose Naaaridge despite their funny speaking ways, too many toes, and laughable “have a little scrimmage” song.
So, overall, dussic.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.the-dot.org/node?from=45
is truly the worst blog evereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverever
― ENRQ, Friday, 6 August 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Destroy: Well, pretty much everything else. Dull as ditchwater town centre. Pikey/racist/wife-beating/drink-driving culture. Kaito.
― Mog, Friday, 6 August 2004 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I did film as a minor and remember doing an interminable seminar on silent comedy, led by a German guy (Peter something?) who had no discernable sense of humour. I also remember Higson getting very upset when all the students took the piss out 60s avantgarde cinema he loved. I did a course with Audrey Medhurst and he dissed me for wearing a Sugarcubes t-shirt. He was a sweetie, however.
I have very fond memories of Norwich:
* the Dolphin pub down near the river at the end of Old Palace Road;* Pizza One and Pancakes Two;* Cinema City;* the pitch and putt course;* Sunday lunches in pubs around the Golden Triangle.
I don't miss Fifer's Lane, however.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG, Friday, 6 August 2004 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRQ, Friday, 6 August 2004 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Liked the museum in the castle in the centre. It had a stuffed capercaillie. I had not heard of this monster grouse previously.
Bands? I know of 2 bands from Norwich - Kaito and Bearsuit. I have seen both live - liked the first, hated the latter.
― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Adam - your film MA pal isn't T0m L4ngl4nd5, is it?no, it isn't. The name sounds familiar.
Higson got very upset when people walked out during Wavelength. He also gave me a fascinating private lecture on the rich tradition of Finnish "log films", epic working class family dramas that often take place primarily on logs floating down wide Scandinavian rivers.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
"He had an astonishing haircut in 1990 - I think he inspired Sideshow Bob."
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 7 August 2004 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 7 August 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Sunday, 8 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― willdabeast, Monday, 9 August 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― pjones, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
*grits teeth* Good luck in the football tom... No, can't say it, sorry. ;-)
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
I do miss Fifer's Lane. For I never lived there.
― the norfox, Friday, 20 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
MarkH's post about the Grouse was good, witty, touching too.
By the way, there are two libraries in question: the university's, and the public library. The latter is the new one. I have never visited it.
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
You know, I think N. was right.
But what does that site have to do with Norwich? Little, I hope.
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 20 August 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Regards,
the pinefox, UK
― the pinefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
the pinefox, yours was the better question. thank you.
― youn, Friday, 20 August 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The writer, perhaps all the writers, on that site, are students at UEA, I think.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 20 August 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Friday, 20 August 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Should I visit Norwich for a day, should I return for a UK visit later this year? Has it changed? I do miss it.
― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Time? Liquid? Roxy's?
― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
CLASSIC
― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know that tune.
Barr is and was no rock star, no rock Barr.
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
apparently all bands playing the uea these days find it absolutely imperative to reference alan partridge too. "hello norwich! spiceworld!" that kind of thing.
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
...Shelleyan Orphan.
I miss getting Ziggurat. I wonder if it still shows up at my mum's house?
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
And here I am, building databases...
― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― artist, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
For one exciting moment upthread, I thought Jerry the Nipper's mum had posted.
― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Tales of the Unexpected (1979 TV series)The Go-Between (1970)Knightmare (1987 TV series)Medieval Lives (2004 TV mini-series documentary)Bargain Hunt (2000 TV series)Treasure Hunt (1983 TV series)Trisha (1998 TV series)The Chief (1990 TV series)Property Ladder (2001 TV series documentary)Location, Location, Location (2001 TV series)Sale of the Century (1971 TV series)Hot Love (2000 TV series documentary)
(but I'm not sure how far back imdbpro goes - I'll try to figure it out in a bit)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Shall I revive the London walks thread?
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.historicalnorwich.co.uk/images/main_images/forum_entrance.gif http://www.picturesofengland.com/pictures/natural/The_Forum_Norwich_1109851428.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/funstuff/galleries/images/forum_interior_270.jpg http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_communities/documents/graphic/odpm_comm_023738-_ia41e5757b-1.jpg http://www.norwich.gov.uk/internet_docs/images/articles/forum.jpg
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
There are some fantastic pubs; the locals say there are 365 pubs and 52 churches,one for every dya/week of the year.
The Cathedral and Tombland and the Market are my favourite spots ; not sure about Castle Mall though.
― Rachel Mc (Badgerkitten), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
In the 80's their music policy was 'play Chris de Bugh lady in red', so people can slow dance, then play the Cure 'love cats', indie and goth kids do shoe dance, then play the Cult 'Sanctuary', indie and goth kids do windmill dance, then play jive bunnygirls people do the twist and fall over their handbags. Different tribes of kids on the floor, off again, on the floor, off agin, every 3 minutes.
Also Hys Nite Spot in Tombland was a laugh; light up dance floor and you could pull US servicemen on leave from the air base and they would buy me and my 15 year old friends whisky/vodka and cokes every half hour until we were either sick, or we snogged them.
― Rachel Mc (Badgerkitten), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I know all of these places! The library wasn't there last time I was in Norwich though.
I miss the brisk air and the weird winter sunsets, the peace of the countryside. Perhaps I will just become a writer and move back there or soemthing.
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rachel Mc (Badgerkitten), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Part of The Wicker Man was not shot in Norwich - there's no place for ritual culture with my people; we've never had that kind of community spirit.
The Norwich of today is a very different place to the one I grew up in, but only in that there are 5,000 shops for people to have to work in instead of 100. There really has been fuck all else to do there for a few years, which is why I left. It is a really nice place when you know all the really nice people there, as I used to. But it's a crap place to visit if you don't have any personal or nostalgic connections to it.
Word to the wise: Prince of Wales Road is where you kids will - guaranteed - get beaten up after closing time.
― Ken (Ken), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on a friday night (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on a friday night (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on a friday night (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
haha xpost
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on a friday night (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on a friday night (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Things have got a bit hairier round that way recently, yes. Much as I'm wary of quoting spurious stats, someone told me it was listed as having the seventh highest post-closing time violent crime type of business going on out of any street in the UK, which I can kind of believe.
I've never been shoulder-charged, though - that's the kind of shit goes down in Diss.
― Ken (Ken), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
New issue of ZIGGURAT reports on the new UEA logo.
Here is the official statement describing it.
"We have retained the UEA initials but in a contemporary style that reflects the interdisciplinarity which underpins our approach to research and teaching and the spark of creativity characterising much of what is best about the University. [...] The logo also features the full name of the University as an integral part of its design to make sure that our core activity is immediately apparent to people seeing it at events in the UK and around the world".
-- Alan Preece, Director of Marketing and Communications
Also:
"The new identity follows initial work on internal and external perceptions of the University, including discussions with a number of alumni, in late 2006. This was aligned with consultation on the Corporate Plan 2008-2013 during 2007. A project was then undertaken to consider the way in which the corporate identity communicated core messages, values and aspirations. Alternative identities were considered and after testing options with key audiences in the UK and overseas a decision was taken to move to a new identity from February 2008."
It has taken me a while to type this out, so I hope all you alumni are reading it.
― the pinefox, Monday, 17 March 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I am, thanks!
― admrl, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.livcomawards.com/media-2007/results.htm
― admrl, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Missing those windy dark nights on the plains
― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Friday, 2 July 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
On the plains!
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5265/5636777535_eb95611e8c.jpg
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5221/5637356974_7fdd889749.jpg
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5143/5636782881_554053d708.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5182/5636783013_6fd5639bf7.jpg
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5270/5636787079_7944594f8c.jpg
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and the LCR. Looking as grim and grey as I remember...
― they call him (remy bean), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5227/5639551505_a39dce3b80.jpg
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5148/5640126392_824f723223.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5222/5640126822_da694df0c4.jpg
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i love these, pinefox
― they call him (remy bean), Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Daytripping in Norwich next month on the way from Edinburgh via Alton Towers on the way to Stalham to see family. Much worth seeing? Last time I was in Norwich I went to Maplin, a book shop were my bro bought a copy of The Wire, and sat in a pub for a couple of hours. Couldn't even tell you which one.
― CraigG, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank you Remy Bean, I appreciate that.
One day in Norwich = lots to see, if you want it.
Cathedral + Castle are top of the proper sights charts.
Other parts of the city would mean more to individuals like me who have a Norwich past, might not to others. Castle Meadow's bus stops for instance. But still, many could be interested in
Carrow RoadThe riverside walk to and from it, if still accessibleAdam & Eve pub, near river and cathedral I thinkCatholic Cathedral immense at end of Earlham Road, by footbridge over rushing cars of Grapes HillChapelfield Gardens, Eaton Park are nice enough if you want a parkUEA is a significant site of architectureSainsbury Centre at UEA ditto and has art and exhibitionsNorwich Market is venerable and localNorth of the market, nowadays called 'the lanes': trad medieval streets of interesting shopsincluding Head in the Clouds, UK's first head shop (whatever that is really)
Pubs: tremendous. I was amazed at the range and quality of real ales here, vs any town I can think of.
Bookshops: Ellis (old and great), Bookhive (new and acclaimed).
Overall I would say that if you have any inclination at all to find a medieval English town interesting and attractive, you will like this one. If you're just not into such places at all, you might not.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
(I could recommend 5 or 10 pubs in particular)
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
The AlexandraEaton CottageThe PloughThe ReindeerGolden StarWildman
10 Bells (though beer less great)Bike Shop + Workshop are recommended, haven't been in+ Adam & Eve
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
The Plough is a key place to look out for if in city centre - new, make their own good beer I think, with big garden
Alexandra is among the pick further out West
Cool cool. I'll definitely wander by Carrow road, but hopefully we'll have made automatic promotion by then, and not stuck in the playoffs (though, potential to pay crazy amounts of money for a playoff ticket...). Expect it will mostly be a day of wandering about the town - of all my childhood trips to Norwich I don't remember ever going to the cathedral - then pubs.
― CraigG, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
You're a Norwich City supporter?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yip, born in Norwich, but never really lived there. So they're my team :)
― CraigG, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
wildman is great, but i also used to love murderer's. it's nearly as old as adam and eve, and a bit more convenient.
― they call him (remy bean), Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's the first Norwich pub I ever drank in - so it has a bit of a special place for me; and I like its little hillside location. Went back there one Saturday in 2002 as I recall.
Look it up online though, and you'll see it's become a bit confusing - now has two names, and apparently a load of murderer gear, which is probably not necessary.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Think I only ever went in the Wildman once - and in those days it was two words, Wild Man!
Actually barely ever been in Adam & Eve.
Tombland pubs OK if not too crowded? Mischief, Edith Cavell I think, Lawyer used to be there, Ribs of Beef. One or two fond memories of those; but might just be average pubs now.
The fact that you can have this discussion about Norwich, though, tells you a lot about the place.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Where else compares, for quantity, number, quality, character of pubs / bars?
OK, London - or parts of it, the City for instance.New York, ditto: maybe LE Side, Brooklyn.Glasgow, the West End, possiblyand of course, Dublin is a special case.And Paris is good for brasseries, wine bars.
But those are all bigger cities. Compare Norwich to Northampton, Exeter, even Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh - I reckon it would come out well ahead on pubs for its size (with quality of beer and character of pub in mind, again).
Cambridge and Oxford seem like decent alternative contenders.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
So I think I'm coming here in April, which I seem to find funny since 99% of everything I know about Norwich is from Alan Partridge.
First question, has the city centre actually been pedestrianised?
― ed.b, Saturday, 31 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link