This is a book about trains and the railways with a difference…one which is told with honesty and humour and we get to meet some great Norfolk characters.
So many soldiers return from bloody battlefields across the world and rarely speak about what happened to them and their comrades.
It will be an emotional and moving exhibition honouring and remembering soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War and one which illustrates the strong community spirit in one Norfolk village.
Our very own King of the Blues, one of the best-loved and most popular musicians in Norwich, Norfolk and further afield has died this week at the age of 91.
For many years Chris Wright would pass Alderman Leach School in Great Yarmouth (now East Norfolk College) most working days and wonder just who he was? “I had not heard of him (most aldermen have been men) in my 70 years,” he said.
Bylaugh Hall, near Dereham, stood for 50 years as an imposing collapsing roofless ruin, overgrown, unloved and forgotten by all except those who stumbled across it by chance.
What did you used to get up to on a Thursday afternoon? If you played football in a cup game then you are wanted back on the pitch.
So many memories of the racing, the excitement, the friendships, the smiling faces…and the smell. The Stars were a part of so many lives.
As time moves on the books written about our communities in days gone by are more important than ever…and this is a journey to beautiful and ancient Burgh Castle.
