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Derek James

Derek James has been a journalist for 55 years. It was a privilege and an honour for him to be asked to serve as Sheriff of Norwich in 2010/11. His greatest love is writing about local people and places.

Erhart and Trudi Robitschek – who fled their home to find friends and freedom in Norfolk. Picture: D

Couple made new lives in Norfolk after escaping Nazi Europe

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Canon Charles Compton Lanchester toasts the success of Norwich Housing Society

Much-loved Norwich clergyman who zipped around city on a motorised bicycle

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Mile Cross girls at the Trimingham summer camp

Your memories of Mile Cross, seaside summer camps and more

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John Plunkett at the wheel of the Rosebery Road Youth Club lorry in Norwich in 1966…where are they a

Carefree fun at Norwich's Rosebery Road youth club in the 1960s

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Marie Lloyd in the early 1900s

How times have changed: actress branded “near the knuckle” that stood...

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Mile Cross, pictured in the 1920s. Mile Cross was the first major housing estate built by Norwich Ci

56p per week for a three-bed house: The early days on Mile Cross estate

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Lord Mayor Arthur Cleveland visiting the busy kitchens at the Boulton & Paul factory

Grandson pens biography about first citizen mayor in wartime Norwich

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The side Passage to White Lion Street from The Royal Arcade in Norwich. Skipper’s work 1897-99. Pict

Dereham man with a vision who helped shape Norwich, Norfolk... and beyond

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Gordon Suckling in his oriental art inspired house in Thorpe. Picture taken February 1960. Picture:

Thorpe St Andrew bungalow with a bizarre interior full of Oriental...

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My Word! Its Norfolk author Pete Sargent. Picture: Courtesy of Peter Sargent

Norfolk writer’s new book sheds light on why we use certain words

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