The boarded-up Laura Ashley on London Street
Dippy and the City Dinosaur Trail, Norwich, Norfolk - 19th August 2021
Dippy the Dinosaur, formerly of the Natural History Museum in London, is on a tour of the UK and is in Norwich until some time in October. However, as most of that is in term time, we make the most of a bit of summer holiday after the trip to Ireland to queue up for an hour - with the rest of the world and its dog - to see the famous skeleton in the curious (from an ecclesiastical standpoint) location of Norwich Cathedral. Before that, we roam around Norwich for a bit to see even more dinosaurs, on a variant of the increasingly-popular trail-of-individually-painted-statues format.
next album: The BSCC at The Crown, Dickleburgh, Norfolk - 19th August 2021
previous album: The Guinness Storehouse Tour, St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland - 17th August 2021
A space dinosaur on London Street
Shiny dinosaur outside the former Habitat
Wisteria hangs over London Street
Photos with the dinosaur
There's a motorbike outside an empty shop
Fred, Harry and Isobel on Castle Street
Another dinosaur on an alley up to Castle Meadow
Ceiling art over an alley
Another empty shop
Graffiti on the wall of York Alley
A dinosaur on Timber Hill
A mobile Churros van outside Chapelfield
Fred and Harry in Yo! Sushi
Yo! Sushi in Chapelfield
We eat sushi outside
A spotty dinosaur outside Chapelfield
A dino with cakes on its head in Chapelfield
Harry, Fred and Isobel walk back from the bogs
Fred and a hundred trainers
Harry points to an acceptable trainer for school
More of a cyber-punk dinosaur
Isobel sorts out a screen protector replacement
Flowers outside St. Stephen's
A green dinosaur by Hay Hill
The boys in Montezuma's chocolate shop
Isobel buys chocolates
A balloon seller on Gentleman's Walk
More wisteria on London Street
Another empty shop
We head out onto Redwell Street
Empty shop on Redwell Street
Amusingly-altered no entry sign
Looking down Princes Street
On Elm Hill
The top of Elm Hill
The Mandell's Court water pump
The bottom of Elm Hill
Graffiti on Waggon and Horses Lane
The former Samson's nightclub on Wensum Street
Tombland in Norwich
In the cathedral close, on Upper Close
The cathedral's newish café area
We wander around the cathedral close
The boys look at footage of kestrel chicks
Fred gets a photo of Edith Cavell's grave
The Bishopgate end of the cathedral
The boys lean against a wall as we queue
Flying buttresses on the cathedral
There's a very long queue to see Dippy
The boys move position the the cloisters
The queue behind us
Picnic in the cloisters
David Attenborough, carved in coprolite
Another view of the cloisters
The boys hang around
Fred and Harry discover a carved board game
We walk through a thousand shiny fish
Dippy the diplodocus in Norwich Cathedral
Dippy looms over the crowds
Isobel gets a photo
An altar, and the cathedral organ
Dippy's tail whips around at the end
The crowd subsides for a brief moment
A head-on view
The boys are bored already
The great nave window
Autumn leaves on a tapestry altar cover
Modern stained glass
Graffiti from 1661
We're back in the cloisters
A red GR post box
A view of the cathedral spire
The boys queue for a slushie
Harry slurps something blue
There's a Sherlock Holmes dino in the close
A knitted turtle in a window
The South Gate and Tombland
St. Andrew's Hall
A dinosaur tile by St. Andrew's car park
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The boarded-up Laura Ashley on London Street
The boarded-up Laura Ashley on London Street
A space dinosaur on London Street
Shiny dinosaur outside the former Habitat
Wisteria hangs over London Street
Photos with the dinosaur
There's a motorbike outside an empty shop
Fred, Harry and Isobel on Castle Street
Another dinosaur on an alley up to Castle Meadow
Ceiling art over an alley
Another empty shop
Graffiti on the wall of York Alley
A dinosaur on Timber Hill
A mobile Churros van outside Chapelfield
Fred and Harry in Yo! Sushi
Yo! Sushi in Chapelfield
We eat sushi outside
A spotty dinosaur outside Chapelfield
A dino with cakes on its head in Chapelfield
Harry, Fred and Isobel walk back from the bogs
Fred and a hundred trainers
Harry points to an acceptable trainer for school
More of a cyber-punk dinosaur
Isobel sorts out a screen protector replacement
Flowers outside St. Stephen's
A green dinosaur by Hay Hill
The boys in Montezuma's chocolate shop
Isobel buys chocolates
A balloon seller on Gentleman's Walk
More wisteria on London Street
Another empty shop
We head out onto Redwell Street
Empty shop on Redwell Street
Amusingly-altered no entry sign
Looking down Princes Street
On Elm Hill
The top of Elm Hill
The Mandell's Court water pump
The bottom of Elm Hill
Graffiti on Waggon and Horses Lane
The former Samson's nightclub on Wensum Street
Tombland in Norwich
In the cathedral close, on Upper Close
The cathedral's newish café area
We wander around the cathedral close
The boys look at footage of kestrel chicks
Fred gets a photo of Edith Cavell's grave
The Bishopgate end of the cathedral
The boys lean against a wall as we queue
Flying buttresses on the cathedral
There's a very long queue to see Dippy
The boys move position the the cloisters
The queue behind us
Picnic in the cloisters
David Attenborough, carved in coprolite
Another view of the cloisters
The boys hang around
Fred and Harry discover a carved board game
We walk through a thousand shiny fish
Dippy the diplodocus in Norwich Cathedral
Dippy looms over the crowds
Isobel gets a photo
An altar, and the cathedral organ
Dippy's tail whips around at the end
The crowd subsides for a brief moment
A head-on view
The boys are bored already
The great nave window
Autumn leaves on a tapestry altar cover
Modern stained glass
Graffiti from 1661
We're back in the cloisters
A red GR post box
A view of the cathedral spire
The boys queue for a slushie
Harry slurps something blue
There's a Sherlock Holmes dino in the close
A knitted turtle in a window
The South Gate and Tombland
St. Andrew's Hall
A dinosaur tile by St. Andrew's car park