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Recalling the tragedy of the Lady Jane plane crash in Norwich

It was 80 years ago when people in Norwich watched in horror as an American Liberator named Lady Jane hit the top of a church and then crashed into...

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Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Recalling the tragedy of the Lady Jane plane crash in Norwich

It was 80 years ago when people in Norwich watched in horror as an American Liberator named Lady Jane hit the top of a church and then crashed into...

previous day 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

10 million reasons to remember a truly remarkable man

It is 20 years since he died and now more than £10m of his money has been handed out to help many others across the region …his name was Geoffrey...

16.11.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

10 million reasons to remember a truly remarkable man

It is 20 years since he died and now more than £10m of his money has been handed out to help many others across the region …his name was Geoffrey...

16.11.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Train driver's fascinating and funny journeys around the region

This is a book about trains and the railways with a difference…one which is told with honesty and humour and we get to meet some great Norfolk...

12.11.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Train driver's fascinating and funny journeys around the region

This is a book about trains and the railways with a difference…one which is told with honesty and humour and we get to meet some great Norfolk...

12.11.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Happy-go-lucky chap who went to hell and back in wartime trenches

So many soldiers return from bloody battlefields across the world and rarely speak about what happened to them and their comrades.

09.11.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Happy-go-lucky chap who went to hell and back in wartime trenches

So many soldiers return from bloody battlefields across the world and rarely speak about what happened to them and their comrades.

09.11.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Family meant everything to Albert - and he meant everything to them

ON DEATH

05.11.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Family meant everything to Albert - and he meant everything to them

ON DEATH

05.11.2024 8

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Emotional exhibition honours village's wartime community spirit

It will be an emotional and moving exhibition honouring and remembering soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War and one which...

02.11.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Emotional exhibition honours village's wartime community spirit

It will be an emotional and moving exhibition honouring and remembering soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War and one which...

02.11.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Beloved Norwich blues and jazz musician dies aged 91

Our very own King of the Blues, one of the best-loved and most popular musicians in Norwich, Norfolk and further afield  has died this week at the...

31.10.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Beloved Norwich blues and jazz musician dies aged 91

Our very own King of the Blues, one of the best-loved and most popular musicians in Norwich, Norfolk and further afield  has died this week at the...

31.10.2024 4

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Ethel was the original girl power pioneer - 100 years ago

For many years Chris Wright would pass Alderman Leach School in Great Yarmouth (now East Norfolk College) most working days and wonder just who he...

29.10.2024 4

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Ethel was the original girl power pioneer - 100 years ago

For many years Chris Wright would pass Alderman Leach School in Great Yarmouth (now East Norfolk College) most working days and wonder just who he...

29.10.2024 4

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

The ruined stately home won in a card game now restored to glory

Bylaugh Hall, near Dereham, stood for 50 years as an imposing collapsing roofless ruin, overgrown, unloved and forgotten by all except those who...

26.10.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

The ruined stately home won in a card game now restored to glory

Bylaugh Hall, near Dereham, stood for 50 years as an imposing collapsing roofless ruin, overgrown, unloved and forgotten by all except those who...

26.10.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Were you a Midweek Man? Reunion of Thursday Cup footballers

What did you used to get up to on a Thursday afternoon? If you played football in a cup game then you are wanted back on the pitch.

26.10.2024 9

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Were you a Midweek Man? Reunion of Thursday Cup footballers

What did you used to get up to on a Thursday afternoon? If you played football in a cup game then you are wanted back on the pitch.

26.10.2024 20

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

The smell, the excitement and the Stars - your speedway memories

So many memories of the racing, the excitement, the friendships, the smiling faces…and the smell. The Stars were a part of so many lives.

22.10.2024 6

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

The smell, the excitement and the Stars - your speedway memories

So many memories of the racing, the excitement, the friendships, the smiling faces…and the smell. The Stars were a part of so many lives.

22.10.2024 20

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

A fascinating journey to a beautiful and ancient village

As time moves on the books written about our communities in days gone by are more important than ever…and this is a journey to beautiful and ancient...

19.10.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

A fascinating journey to a beautiful and ancient village

As time moves on the books written about our communities in days gone by are more important than ever…and this is a journey to beautiful and ancient...

19.10.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

60 years since engines stopped at Norwich's Firs speedway stadium

It was 60 years ago this month when the engines stopped, the crowds left and the lights went out for the last time at the fabulous Firs Stadium in...

15.10.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

60 years since engines stopped at Norwich's Firs speedway stadium

It was 60 years ago this month when the engines stopped, the crowds left and the lights went out for the last time at the fabulous Firs Stadium in...

15.10.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Extraordinary journey to the lost villages of Norfolk

This is an extraordinary journey around the lost communities of Norfolk which you can enjoy from your armchair and then…take a look at some for...

12.10.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Extraordinary journey to the lost villages of Norfolk

This is an extraordinary journey around the lost communities of Norfolk which you can enjoy from your armchair and then…take a look at some for...

12.10.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Pictures unearthed of cycling soldiers preparing for battle

Allow me to introduce you to members of the 1/6th Cyclist Battalion, Norfolk Regiment on training manoeuvres across the county in 1914.

08.10.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Pictures unearthed of cycling soldiers preparing for battle

Allow me to introduce you to members of the 1/6th Cyclist Battalion, Norfolk Regiment on training manoeuvres across the county in 1914.

08.10.2024 20

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Take a magical mystery tour.... and discover when Gorleston was in Suffolk

Listen, do you want to know a secret? If so, join author Pete Goodrum on a magical history tour starting at Little Yarmouth and then Gorleston, in...

05.10.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Take a magical mystery tour.... and discover when Gorleston was in Suffolk

Listen, do you want to know a secret? If so, join author Pete Goodrum on a magical history tour starting at Little Yarmouth and then Gorleston, in...

05.10.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Farewell to a brilliant painter of wartime aircraft

Norwich and Norfolk is famous for its artists. Men and women from all walks of life we can be proud of.

01.10.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Farewell to a brilliant painter of wartime aircraft

Norwich and Norfolk is famous for its artists. Men and women from all walks of life we can be proud of.

01.10.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Poignant story of wartime letters to pregnant wife about her husband

September marks the 80th anniversary of the Operation Market Garden and this story highlights the comfort a pregnant wife, who did not know if her...

28.09.2024 20

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Poignant story of wartime letters to pregnant wife about her husband

September marks the 80th anniversary of the Operation Market Garden and this story highlights the comfort a pregnant wife, who did not know if her...

28.09.2024 20

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

How a dying swan completely changed a filmmaker's life

A photograph of BBC film maker Dick Meadows with a swan called Marlon has been on his wall for 40 years. He sees it every day…and it makes him...

24.09.2024 20

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

How a dying swan completely changed a filmmaker's life

A photograph of BBC film maker Dick Meadows with a swan called Marlon has been on his wall for 40 years. He sees it every day…and it makes him...

24.09.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Ticket to a nostalgic ride on the longest heritage railway in the region

Many of the railway stations and tracks built across Norfolk have long gone but today the memories are brought back by teams of hard-working men and...

21.09.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Ticket to a nostalgic ride on the longest heritage railway in the region

Many of the railway stations and tracks built across Norfolk have long gone but today the memories are brought back by teams of hard-working men and...

21.09.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Howzat for great memories of world famous former cricket ground

As the cricket season comes to an end let’s remember the former world famous home of the game in Norfolk through the wonderful words of the much...

14.09.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Howzat for great memories of world famous former cricket ground

As the cricket season comes to an end let’s remember the former world famous home of the game in Norfolk through the wonderful words of the much...

14.09.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

A delightful trip aboard railway memory lane

Today we are off on a train journey…from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach…calling at Corpusty & Saxthorpe, Aylsham, Felmingham, North...

10.09.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

A delightful trip aboard railway memory lane

Today we are off on a train journey…from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach…calling at Corpusty & Saxthorpe, Aylsham, Felmingham, North...

10.09.2024 4

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Looking back at a crazy time for music in our county

The good news is that the smash-hit book The Anglian Beat highlighting the bands, groups and performers of the 1950s and 60s has been reprinted, is...

07.09.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Looking back at a crazy time for music in our county

The good news is that the smash-hit book The Anglian Beat highlighting the bands, groups and performers of the 1950s and 60s has been reprinted, is...

07.09.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

Looking back at the railway stations and lines which criss-crossed our county

When travelling around Norfolk do you ever think to yourself…”there used to be a train station there” or  “I’m sure that’s where the...

03.09.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

An extraordinary, no-holds-barred account of a truly remarkable man's life

His name was Joe, he played a leading role in Norfolk and Norwich life in many different ways…but he, like many others, rarely spoke about his war...

31.08.2024 20

Eastern Daily Press

Derek James

An extraordinary, no-holds-barred account of a truly remarkable man's life

His name was Joe, he played a leading role in Norfolk and Norwich life in many different ways…but he, like many others, rarely spoke about his war...

31.08.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

Days when every Norfolk and Suffolk town had a pop group

Just about every town and many villages across Norfolk and Suffolk had a pop group in the 1960s…they played the dance halls across the county and...

24.08.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Derek James

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