This 1 hour 45 minutes walking tour in Cromer looks at architect George Skipper’s legacy in the Norfolk seaside town. He worked on projects in Cromer from the late 1880s through to the 1930s, to include 7 hotels, and was renowned as an architect for buildings in Norwich, including the Royal Arcade.

Sir John Betjeman wrote: ‘He is to Norwich rather what Gaudi was to Barcelona.’

This guided walking tour explores the Northern City Walls during which we will visit a variety of surprising sights in the North West area of Norwich - a rewarding circuit.

Led by Roger Smith, an experienced Norwich Tour guide

A circular tour starting from the centre of Anglia Square, NR3 1DZ.

A guided walking tour with Jonathan Hooton around some of Norwich’s many pubs, including those still operating, whilst looking at evidence for those no longer with us. It will include many facts and ale tales about these much loved buildings and their breweries. During the walk we will debunk the claim that Norwich had a pub for every day, a very inaccurate boast.

Earsham Hall is a family home covering three generations. Parts date back to the 15th century with the Queen Ann block and facing bricks being added in the 1700s. Annabel Stretton-Derham will share the historical stories, architectural references and anecdotal evidence that show that the survival of such a building is a mixture of hard work, tenacity and luck! 

The visit Includes tea & coffee on arrival & full Afternoon Tea.

A guided walking tour with Norwich Tour Guide Roger Smith, with enough interest along the way before a peep in the RC Cathedral then a different return over the bridge noting more gems.

A circular tour starting outside The Forum, Millennium Plain, NR2 1TF

A guided walking tour with Norwich Tour Guide Roger Smith, with enough interest along the way before a peep in the RC Cathedral then a different return over the bridge noting more gems.

A circular tour starting outside The Forum, Millennium Plain, NR2 1TF

This guided walking tour explores the Northern City Walls during which we will visit a variety of surprising sights in the North West area of Norwich - a rewarding circuit.

Led by Roger Smith, an experienced Norwich Tour guide

A circular tour starting from the centre of Anglia Square, NR3 1DZ.

The Great Hospital was founded in 1249 by Bishop Walter de Suffield. The site contains much of historic and architectural interest. One of the smallest monastic cloisters in England; a fine medieval refectory; St Helen’s House – with excellent examples of Georgian decorated ceilings; an 18th century swan pit, The Eagle Ward, Church and a large Victorian hall are some examples.

A 2-hour guided walking tour with Paul Dickson celebrating CJ Sansom’s best-selling novel Tombland, featuring Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake’s visit to Norwich at the time of Kett’s Rebellion (1549). 

The tour starts outside the Maids Head Hotel and includes Tombland, the ancient Anglo-Scandinavian Market Place, Augustine Steward’s House, Norwich Cathedral Close, Bishopgate (Holme Street in the novel) and the Great Hospital, Bishop’s Bridge, the site of Bishop’s Gate and Lollards Pit, followed by a climb up to Kett’s Heights, the remains of St Michael’s Chapel, with its fabulous view across the city.

The return journey follows the north side of the river with views of the medieval Cow Tower and surviving city walls, near the location of the Pockthorpe Gate, before crossing the river and finishing at the Adam and Eve pub, where Lord Sheffield was taken after he had been mortally wounded, and seeing the site of the Battle of Palace Plain.

We will then take a short stroll to The Red Lion on Bishopgate for drinks and grazing boards.

A guided walking tour with Jonathan Hooton around some of Norwich’s many pubs, including those still operating, whilst looking at evidence for those no longer with us. It will include many facts and ale tales about these much loved buildings and their breweries. During the walk we will debunk the claim that Norwich had a pub for every day, a very inaccurate boast.

Join SAVE Britain’s Heritage and The Norwich Society for a day of thought-provoking presentations and discussions exploring how new development can enhance the character and value of our historic towns and cities.

Norwich has always welcomed Strangers to its city but some have been more welcome than others. The Normans disrupted Anglo-Scandinavian life, breaking the 200-year link with Denmark and reconnecting with France and Europe.

Dominant new buildings were raised and the layout radically changed but the Normans brought order, recognition and prosperity.

This talk is part of the Norwich History Festival

In celebration of the bicentenary of his birth in Acle during 1825, this talk from biographer Phyllida Scrivens, will explore the life of Peter Eade. Over his long lifetime, Peter became known as a senior man of medicine, a generous benefactor, a knight of the realm, Mayor of Norwich on three occasions, and keeper of pet tortoises.

Using many of Peter’s own words, including from his autobiography published in 1916, his Collectanea of Addresses and Papers and articles from the British Medical Journal, Phyllida will map out Peter’s remarkable career, sharing her insight into this man who gave so much to the people of Norwich.

Horace Woodward, Assistant Director of the nation’s Geological Survey, returned in 1875-1884 to Norwich, the native city of his grandfather, father and uncles to undertake a definitive survey and mapping exercise of the area. He ended up spending the happiest years of his life here amongst the quarries and railway cuttings. Half a century earlier, his grandfather Samuel Woodward (1790-1838), an antiquary who became known as The Norfolk Geologist, had blazed a trail and had earned an epitaph as an ‘indefatigable investigator’.

Matt Williams will look at the historical significance of this family and explore local connections.