Norwich city walls and gates
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- A tour around the city walls of Norwich in 2020. The walls were built between 1294-1343 and no houses were built outside the wall until 1779 -89. Sadly much of it has been lost over the years but what remains is impressive.
All the gates have gone now, demolished between 1791 and 1808, but I've recreated them based on the drawings of by Leo R. Jary in his book "Through Ancient Gates: The Medieval Defences of Norwich" (Mark press)
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That was great! How i wish that these gates were still standing.
This is a seriously superb piece if work ,can't get enough of historical Norwich,top notch
Fantastic video! I'm a Norwich girl, born and bred, but I'd forgotten about how beautiful those walls are when you really stand and look at them. They blend into the background of day to day life, but deserve more attention. Thank heavens they are protected by law and cannot be touched or removed.
Excellent video, Derek. I particularly appreciated how you composited the appearance of the original city gates onto the current cityscape. Really, really interesting. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to do this, and to share it for people to see.
This is a really helpful clip. I use it with my class to answer our history question "Why is our school called Magdalen Gates Primary School." Thank you very much Derek
This is excellent, just what historical videos should try to do. I've been looking at old maps/drawings etc. and was hoping someone had made a video just like this - and you have! Great work.
This is brilliant. Could you create a walking tour where these could be virtual?
Excellent video and a lot of work put in there to make that happen! Thank you.
Great video, didn’t realise how much of the wall still existed. Having been away from Norwich for 40 years hard to recognise some of it! Really enjoyed watching .
Thanks for this, it's a brilliant piece of work I love it :)
Fantastic. video, I love our Fine City. Thank you
Great idea. I planned (and carried out) a pub crawl following the city walls last year. Surprised people with how complete some parts still are. Thanks for doing this and making it available
Derek , your the man.
We’ll done. Preferred the format. Great images. Thanks.
Awesomeness
Brilliant video, thanks for sharing
I've constructed some of the walls looks great
so intresting thanks for filling in the gaps x
Great video! Loved the soundtrack too!!!
Very interesting and well executed. Thank you.
Fascinating and some not where I imagined Thank you 👍🏻
This is very well done, great job! Would be cool to see some of this in VR
Thank you for your hard work 👏👏👏
Really enjoyed this and great to see the gates set in modern times, clever. Thank you
Excellent piece of work, thank you
Blame the council and planners lots of the walls were knocked down in the 1970s. Fantastic video appreciate your hard work.. One of the old station would be good!
Some sections of wall along the inner ring were lost for sure, but I don't think it was thanks to the council, they were supposed to have been preserved.
Very good!
This is a seriously superb piece if work, apart from that awful machine hi-hat percussion clapping madness. Can anyone stand it for the duration? I lasted 20seconds before hitting the mute button.
So you don't like music, sorry about that but Norwich is a living contemporary city and this is set in the 21st century. But to be honest it is a silent film, the soundtrack has no relevance. Still, glad you more or less liked it..
It's a fantastic video and highly educational and thank you for creating such a masterpiece, Derek. However the incessant repetitive soundtrack is distracting and I too had to kill the sound. Yes, Derek we are in the 21st century but even the ghastly 21st century "music" in supermarkets isn't as bad as the soundtrack.
Excellent.
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Great work Sir. Whose doing the mix? Great tunige
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Really enjoyed it thanks for sharing. I was born in King Street and used to play along the City wall and in the Black Tower. You are probably aware of The Gates of Norwich by Robert Fitch with etchings byJohn Ninham
This is great 🙂
This is amazing congratulations, is it actually augmented reality you can access through your phone? Would love to chat to the creator to consider something similar for Coventry
It was just photoshop drawings based on an artists line drawings of the gates.
Great video, excellent artwork and graphics. Shame about the awful ear shattering music.
Do you not have a volume control?
Derek Williams Yes I turned it right off. This great video needed atmospheric music to create a historical mood.
@@peterdenington7257 You re welcome to do that. But this isn't a twee historical video, it's about my city today and how it's history has been lost.
Derek that’s precisely why it needs more appropriate music. That techno stuff just didn’t fit. Basically it wasn’t good enough for such a brilliant video.
@@peterdenington7257 Well, that's your opinion. Music is always a marmite thing. I chose what I liked, in my opinion it fits quite well but there you go.
Where was Heigham gate? You didn’t put a street name for it.
Good point!
It was on Heigham Street, which became Westwick Street on the city side of the gate. The inner ring road cut the direct link, the actual gate would have been where Westwick Street joins the southbound side of Barn Road.
Is Fishergate a part of the city walls?
No. There are several "gates" which are nothing to do with the walls in Norwich, like Colegate and Pottergate. I don't know why they're called "gates"
A bit more information for you, from a thread on Facebook
The Danes left many place names in this part of England. The street name 'gate', as in Pottergate, is derived from the Danish word gata meaning street. Potter gata was the street where potters lived and worked. The meaning of Fishergate is obvious.
So there you go!
was the red lion pub closed
Yeah, it was shut for about a year I think. It's open again now.
St Augustine, not Augustin.
Oh sod, can't change it now. It doesn't matter how many times Iproof read things, something always gets through
Oh well, it’s the Spanish spelling.
turn off this awful music please it ruined it
Turn your volume down then. Music s a personal choice, it's awful to you, I like it.