Outwell, High Street c1965 (ref. O79016) | Outwell and Upwell together make up one large village running for four miles along the old course of the river Nene. There was an early tramway here, connecting the villages with Wisbech: it opened in 1882, but closed to passengers in 1929. |  Add your own Memory
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Acle, Moored for the night c1960 (ref. A204057) | Looking eastwards along the river Bure, this photograph shows a wide range of sailing and motor boats. The name 'Lavengro' is the title of a book by George Borrow, the Victorian writer and linguist: he was born at East Dereham in Norfolk. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Bridge Hotel from the Bridge c1955 (ref. A204068) | The hotel is on the site of the medieval monastery of Weybridge, a small house of canons providing hospitality for travellers between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, both by road and by river. The hotel is continuing the same tradition - however, monasteries did not charge for their hospitality! | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Village c1955 (ref. A204084) | Acle lies exactly halfway between Great Yarmouth and Norwich. The church is dedicated to St Edmund: it has a thatched nave roof and an octagonal top to its round tower. It contains a rare inscription describing the devastating effects of a plague in the Middle Ages. | Add your own Memory
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Aldborough, The Black Boys c1955 (ref. A278003) | Shop and inn make up the heart of this village, built round the edge of an enormous village green. There was a market here from at least 1280. The Black Boys is owned by Morgan and Co, another of the four great breweries of Norwich. | Add your own Memory
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Aylsham, Red Lion Street c1955 (ref. A220002) | Here we see the narrow main street of this north Norfolk market town. The road sign on the left depicts a torch, and warns of a school just around the corner. The slate-hung gable on the building to the left is unusual for Norfolk. | Add your own Memory
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Aylsham, Market Place and Hotel c1965 (ref. A220026) | The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture. Aylsham Market Place is part of the estate of Blickling Hall, two miles to the west, which was at one time owned by the Boleyn family. Like the Hall itself, the Market Place is now owned by the National Trust. | Add your own Memory
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Aylsham, Market Place c1965 (ref. A220047) | A market town like Aylsham supplies a wide range of services to customers in the town and in surrounding villages: here these include greetings cards, a printing service and the supply and repair of televisions. | Add your own Memory
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Bacton, Scotts Estate c1955 (ref. B493044) | The spread of the holiday industry along the north-east Norfolk coast is reflected in this mixture of mobile caravans and fixed chalets. Bacton is now also the place where gas from the Norfolk Sea fields is brought ashore. | Add your own Memory
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Bacton, King's Arms c1955 (ref. B493068) | Bacton was an important village in medieval Norfolk, because its monastery (at Bromholme) was one of the most-visited places of pilgrimage in England: it possessed a section of the True Cross, a very holy relic mentioned both by Chaucer and in 'Piers Ploughman'. | Add your own Memory
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Banham, the Green c1965 (ref. B494012) | Here we see an exceptionally pretty village green, lined on all sides with trees. The War Memorial now dominates the green: according to the Norfolk Roll of Honour, 39 men from this little village were killed in World War I. | Add your own Memory
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Blakeney, the Church c1950 (ref. B121016) | The small tower at the far end of the church served as a mark for sailors heading for the port: it used to carry a beacon at night. Blakeney was a major port when this church was built, its ships trading as far away as Iceland. | Add your own Memory
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Blakeney, Excursion trip to see the seals c1955 (ref. B121054) | The 'Snow Goose' ferry leaves the Quay, still busy with fishing boats. The large building behind is the Blakeney Hotel, which opened in 1923. The area is visited for its bird-watching rather than its beaches. | Add your own Memory
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Booton, St Michael and All Angel's Church c1960 (ref. B539002A) | Booton is a small village in North Norfolk, known mainly for its beautiful Victorian church built at his own expense and to his own design by the rector, Whitwell Elwin, who served the church for 50 years: he died in 1900 aged 83. | Add your own Memory
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Bradwell, The Sun Inn c1955 (ref. B496003) | The village inn was owned by Steward and Patteson, one of the four large breweries of Norwich. Bradwell is one of a group of villages just south of Great Yarmouth which were in Suffolk until boundary changes of 1974 brought them into Norfolk. | Add your own Memory
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Bradwell, the Church c1955 (ref. B496004) | This is an excellent example of an East Anglian round tower. No one is sure if they are round because of the difficulty of making corners out of flint, or because they were built for defensive purposes, or because the builders simply liked the look of round towers. | Add your own Memory
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Bramerton, the Village Street 1953 (ref. B301004) | This small south Norfolk village runs along a single street. The high pitch of the roof on the house to the right suggests that it may originally have been of thatch. There is a riverside inn at Bramerton called the Wood's End: its recorded history stretches back well over 300 years. | Add your own Memory
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Brancaster, St Mary's Church c1965 (ref. B401007) | The parish church is of flint, with a large west tower. A tombstone in the churchyard records the burial of Alexander and Susan Roche, two of eleven people drowned when the 'Earl of Wemyss' ran aground here in a gale in August 1833. The inscription on the stone says that unscrupulous thieves plundered the bodies as they lay on the beach. | Add your own Memory
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Brundall, River Stores c1955 (ref. B497014) | Shops along the river Yare serve the needs of boating holidaymakers along this beautiful stretch of the river, four miles downstream from Norwich. Brundall parish church has an unusual feature: it contains the only lead font in Norfolk. | Add your own Memory
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Burnham Market, Everetts Mill Bridge c1955 (ref. B500020) | The Burnhams take their name from the river Burn, which runs through this picture. The mill and bridge were built in 1790, with warehouses being added to the right of the main building in the 19th century. | Add your own Memory
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