Lost Gates of Norwich (Animation)

[@markcorbo6388]

Excellent video. Wish they were still here.

[@ernestinesanchez8542]

Wow! Very rare and historic gates of Norwich! Awesome work, James! 👏🏻

[@wilting_alocasia]

Thoroughly enjoyed that! It's incredible how the roads are unchanged, yet not much remains of the wall, gates and surrounding buildings Really enjoyed that alot 😊

[@maryhairy1]

What a super slice of history for Norwich! I’ve walked around where the walls are supposed to be, but never imagined so many gates keeping its residents safe.

[@traceyculyer5811]

Thankyou, wow that was stunning, reminded me of history lessons with a lovely teacher at the Hewett School.

[@rabbitsrule9437]

Work of art. Thank you. Really interesting to see the then and now.

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

Thanks! You might enjoy the stuff on my sister channel exploring long lost railway lines: kzbin.info/door/OJUemKHBb_iJlchhK5EVFQ

[@minzinho6787]

Great video, thank you.

[@petesmodelcarcustoms584]

That was fantastic. 👍Very enjoyable and educational. Brilliant effects. I will share this one. Thanks for showing and best wishes from jolly old Norfolkshire 👍😎Pete 🤓

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

Thanks Pete!!! I'm a Norfolk boy born and bred! 😁

[@petesmodelcarcustoms584]

@@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner that I enjoyed your video so👍😁I've escaped to the country. Norwich is still historically fantastic and I often look at the amazing and diverse architecture of this fine old city. I watched your London vid too👍🤓. I loved the way your videos are animated,brilliant and thank you for your reply.👍😎Pete 🤓

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

It's an awesome place. You might be interested in a vid I put together resurrecting one of Norwich's lost railways over on my other channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ6wgYmqmrx6oK8si=Tsh5uEunuY6W3R6F 🚂 Best. James

[@trevorphillips3942]

Excellent. It could be enhanced by including images of the remaining sections of wall and perhaps culminating in a map of the original walled city.

[@lloydphillips5424]

Oh, so well done you. A fantastic animation; you must have put a lot of work into this and thank you for it. I love Norwich, such a fine and historic city with so much of its structural history obvious and remaining, evident even to the casual observer but....wow, so much lost to us. As a regular visitor to the City your efforts will make me redouble my appreciation of it and seek out those lost places and doubtless make me think...'what if'. Thanks

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

Thanks Lloyd this is one of many similiar such projects feel free to follow my page and browse my other projects! This other Norwich one might be of interest too! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIm3iGebZd9pZq8

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

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[@4984duke]

I used to live in a flat next to ber Street gates

[@dvdvnr]

Thank you for this, James! I could have done with this video while doing research for my new novel, Time's Revenge, where I take someone back to the time of Robert Kett's rebellion.

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

I always found the gates intriguing. Have you read Tombland? Its a historic novel featuring Ketts Rebellion through the eyes of a Tudor Lawyer.

[@dvdvnr]

@@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist No, I've deliberately not read it yet as I didn't want to accidentally steal any ideas! But I do intend reading it at some point.

[@iainpalmer2000]

It's a shame they've gone but at the time it was seen as progress. Shame as I think if they were still here it would bring more tourism to Norwich.

[@AlannahRyane]

Wow indeed! I had no idea it had so many gates, seems like a lot more than London? Excellent topic and well done as usual thank you!

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

I may do more of these. I know Coventry lost a lot of its former medieval gates. London would be a good topic! Any other cities that would be good subjects?

[@alisonwaters6017]

that is so imaginative🙌

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

Thanks Alison feel free to check out my other Norfolk projects! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIm3iGebZd9pZq8

[@teddyrotman7253]

This is good. Can you do one on Worcester, please

[@shaneleecarter378]

Amazing

[@bpbdiscobeaks9191]

I notice it seems a lot of the old gates in Norwich were torn down in the 1790s, and a couple made it to 1808. I wonder if they were doing more development of the area at that time and the gates couldn’t survive it. Or the gates were unsafe on certain grounds.

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

From what I've been told it was thought that having the city wholly enclosed encouraged disease and that knocking the gates down would make for a healthier atmosphere. I think the gates were fairly dilapidated by the late 1700s too.

[@stefkuna]

​@@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist that sounds like a bit of public opinion manipulation to me! I bet these gates had become terrible bottlenecks and with the industrial revolution and increase in trade they would have become impossible. I suspect the dilapidation was due to deliberate neglect to then justify their demolition - a bit like what appears to be happening with Trowse Station now. Shame they didn't go round them though they'd be real jewels in the city's heritage now. Great video, thanks!

[@traceyculyer5811]

@@stefkuna It seems that most old buildings are deliberately left to go into disrepair by Norwich City council so that they can bulldoze all of its history and replace it with large concrete eye sores, may be even more twenty foot tower blocks.( more Brutalism). Conglomerate greedy property developers and Norwich councils could not care less while there is a huge profit to be made. All for the mass millions that are entering Norwich.

[@lindakirk698]

Loughborough has many gates as does Nottingham & Newark has got a few gates too

[@ourparanormalworld]

SOMETHING OF NOTE: ONE DAY , WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I WERE HEADING ON OUR MOBILITY EQUIPMENT , INTO THE CITY! THERE WAS A MAN THAT APPEARED ALL OF A SUDDEN AROUND THE CORNER IN EITHER 1950'S OR ,1960'S GARB. I BELIEVE HE WORE A TWEED COAT AND TROUSER'S, EVEN TIPPED HIS HAT TO ME, CARRYING A BROWN PARCEL. I LOOKED BEHIND ME AND HE WAS GONE. NOTHING LIKE BUMPING INTO PEOPLE FROM THE PAST AND I SAW TWO PEOPLE AT THE CASTLE MUSEUM. HE WAS VERY DAPPER AND NOTHING LIKE MEN TODAY... HE REALLY GAVE ME A COURTEOUS GESTURE. WE'RE A PARANORMAL/ SUPERNATURAL HOTSPOT , AS I WELL KNOW... I'M A MESSIANIC JEWESS AND WHAT I LOVE IS THE SYNAGOGUE IS OPPOSITE A CHURCH. BEAUTIFUL AND A VERY OLD ONE , AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE PUT NORWCH ON IT'S FEET. IT'S A WONDERFUL CITY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING CHRIST, OUR MESSIAH!

[@jamiewilson5679]

That was puppet man!

[@neilfranklin5644]

Shame they should not have been removed , as would ha e bee asset to tourism.