Valentine Street, Norwich - 1987

Nosher's university degree course was one of those where you had to do a year's placement "in industry". Because I'd been helping out with the student magazine, "Fly", and because I'd never been there before, the job I got offered working in Norwich for a printing company was ideal. These photos document some of the none-work house-sharing stuff that occured at 4 Valentine Street in Norwich - scene of nights watching Friday Night Live and the young Harry Enfield, trips to Arthur Valori's chip shop up Dereham Road, and the night of the Great Wind of 1987, when the TV aerial was blown off the roof and "Mark Hill Removals" had to fix it. These photos also include the famous "bus-in-the-hole" - when a double-decker bus got eaten by a large hole in the road in Earlham, Norwich in 1987. It even featured in a Cadbury's Double-Decker (the chocolate bar) advert of the time.

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Martin and girlfriend Emma Sapey (who was later heard on local radio as bride-of-the-week. Marrying someone else...)

Martin Davies and his twin brother, who was round for a Christmas party

Mart sticks some party decorations up on the landing of 4 Valentine's Street, Norwich

Nosher, unkown, Richard "Dicky Red", Barney and Trina

Mad Marty, life and sould of the party

Mark Hill (Removals) does some form of dancing

Mark Hill

Richard "Dicky Red" Redgrave helps some collapsed soul in the hall

Dicky Red and his girlfriend take sad-case Nosher out for dinner to a restaurant near Andy's Records on Lower Goat Lane in Norwich

The boys pile out to Grape's Hill to help push stray vehicles who'd got stuck up the road

Pushing a van up Grapes Hill

Barney Phillips on Grape's Hill

Probably watching Friday Night Live after a trip to Arthur Valori's fish-n-chip shop and the off-licence

Richard, Barney Phillips and Martin's feet watch Friday Night Live

Sean and then-gf Maria come down to visit. This is outside the Adam and Eve, the oldest (and one of the nicest) pubs in Norwich

In cathedral close

Nosher didn't have a car until 1993, so every journey prior to that was by train and cycle. This is Norwich station, a port oft called.

In Norwich, old chalk workings which litter the sub-surface claim another victim - a double-decker bus, near the Catholic Cathedral in Earlham

Wider view of the bus, and Earlham Cathedral

The house of Anna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty, in Great Yarmouth, following a cycling trip from Norwich to Yarmouth (which nearly failed half-way due to saddle-sore)