Norwich Since 1550Norwich remained the second largest city in England until the eighteenth century. Its history over the last 450 years is of exceptional interest. Norwich since 1550 is a full account of the post-medieval history of the city and covers all aspects of Norwich life, including its population, housing, churches and chapels, politics, work, education, arts, architecture and medical care. It brings out Norwich's individuality and shows how it became the city it is today. While it changed and developed in many ways over the centuries, its textiles could not compete with those of the northern boom towns of the Industrial Revolution. Instead it settled into its role as a regional and banking capital. |
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... late nineteenth century The Norwich Gates , Sandringham , made by Barnard and Bishop Colman's Carrow Works , 1905 58 The machine upper closing room at Howlett and White's shoe 59 60 61 62 63 factory , 1913 Bunting's department store on ...
... late nineteenth century The Norwich Gates , Sandringham , made by Barnard and Bishop Colman's Carrow Works , 1905 58 The machine upper closing room at Howlett and White's shoe 59 60 61 62 63 factory , 1913 Bunting's department store on ...
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... late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , when the prosperity of its great textile industry was at its height , sharp - eyed commentators could not weigh up its impact in an unambiguous fashion . Celia Fiennes , that straight ...
... late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , when the prosperity of its great textile industry was at its height , sharp - eyed commentators could not weigh up its impact in an unambiguous fashion . Celia Fiennes , that straight ...
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... late as 1933 , R. H. Mottram could confidently assert , ' Norwich itself is a good deal more than the centre of a twenty mile radius , and the capital of East Norfolk . It is nearly double the size of any town for a hundred miles in any ...
... late as 1933 , R. H. Mottram could confidently assert , ' Norwich itself is a good deal more than the centre of a twenty mile radius , and the capital of East Norfolk . It is nearly double the size of any town for a hundred miles in any ...
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... late thirteenth century walls , has the unusual charac- teristic for medieval cities of crossing the river to create Norwich over - the - Water on the north bank . Within the walls the Dissolution of the Monasteries , friaries and some ...
... late thirteenth century walls , has the unusual charac- teristic for medieval cities of crossing the river to create Norwich over - the - Water on the north bank . Within the walls the Dissolution of the Monasteries , friaries and some ...
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... late dissolved ' Greyfriars for twenty - one years , at the same time as it paid for the ' great house of the Greyfriars to be pulled down'.3 Several parish churches held by the dissolved houses also disappeared . For example , St Mary ...
... late dissolved ' Greyfriars for twenty - one years , at the same time as it paid for the ' great house of the Greyfriars to be pulled down'.3 Several parish churches held by the dissolved houses also disappeared . For example , St Mary ...
Contents
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2 Government to 1660 | 35 |
3 Inhabitants | 63 |
4 The Civil War | 89 |
5 Health and Sanitation to 1750 | 117 |
6 From Second City to Regional Capital | 139 |
7 Politics 16601835 | 167 |
8 An Enlightened and Polite Society | 193 |
13 Architecture since 1800 | 323 |
14 Politics 18351945 | 343 |
15 Banking and Insurance | 361 |
16 Work and Employment | 385 |
17 Church and Chapel | 409 |
18 Sports and Games | 437 |
19 Norwich since 1945 | 461 |
Notes | 483 |
9 The Textile Industry | 219 |
10 Population 170001950 | 243 |
11 Medical Care since 1750 | 271 |
12 Education since 1750 | 295 |
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