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Chapelfield Chocolate Factory

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The Nestle factory seen from Chapelfield Road (2002) Photo credit: John Fielding . One of my most abiding memories of Norwich as it was when I moved here in the 90s, is the aroma of chocolate wafting past our house in NR1 when the wind was in the right direction. The factory where they made the chocolate was owned by Nestle at that time and stood on the site of what is now Chantry Place . I've heard it said that we often remember smells and sounds better than sights and that is certainly true for me in this case. I only have a vague recollection of dour looking buildings with steel tanks and pipes emerging at various points sitting unobstrusively behind the city wall as I cycled round the inner ring road to get to Blockbuster Video. On one hand, writing about renting videos from a shop makes me feel like a bit of a sepia tinted relic. It also makes me boggle at how long the old Blockbuster Video shop has stood empty. Despi...
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Water Tower, Easton

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If you have ever driven to Norwich along the A47 from the west you will have noticed a tall concrete structure looming like one of H.G. Wells' aliens in the suburb of Easton.  It's a water tower. If you are wondering what they are used for, I can tell you: they are for storing water. You can thank me when that comes up in the pub quiz. East Anglia's flat landscape means that if one was to create a reservoir it would likely be on a similar level as the houses that it was supposed to feed so, without enough gravity, there wouldn't be the pressure in the system for distribution without a lot of pumping. The solution in East Anglia was to increase the gravity by building water towers to store the water so that water could be supplied even in the case of a power cut. The Easton tower is a brutalist design in reinforced concrete so probably originates from 1950s. In the photo at the top you can see three horizontal stripes where it looks like the concrete has had to be rei...
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Autumn at Hoe Rough

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A gallery of photos that I took on a sunlit autumn afternoon following  a walk that we downloaded from Norfolk County Council 's Norfolk Trails . We stumbled upon a local fairy settlement. I hoped that they did't mind me sharing some photos of their architecture. One of them made it clear that he did. Some bees had been playing noughts and crosses while they waited for flowers to start blooming again. There were still some golden leaves clinging on but the carpet of brown foliage underfoot was becoming thicker. Without their leaves, the trees' characters were revealed. As our hemisphere starts to tilt away from the sun and our days get shorter, there is less time for the leaves to photosynthesise and it becomes uneconomical for deciduous trees to devote their energy to leaf growth. Instead they turn their energy to fruiting in early autumn and conservation as the weather starts to turn colder. ...
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