The new venue: The Royal Hospital School hall
The SYWO at Holbrook, and a Trip to Norwich - 1st April 2026
Fred's residential at the Royal Hospital School with the Suffolk Youth Wind Band finishes up with a performance at the school, but luckily rather than the impressive but cave-like chapel, it's in the newly-refurbished assembly hall, which provides an infinitely better experience. The next day, we're back at the Norfolk and Norwich for Isobel's weekly appointment, but this week's timing gives us a bit of time for a walk around afterwards. Isobel fancies a look down by the river, so for a change we park up by the Adam and Eve, walk down to Cow Tower and around to the Cathedral, and finish off with a pint of Guinness Zero in the Adam and Eve itself - a place not visited since around 1995. The pub also has a few photos of old Norwich on walls, which are duly "pinched".
previous album: Harry's Escape Room, Timber Hill, Norwich - 28th March 2026
A pair of cellos wait for the Suffolk Young Strings
There's an impressive model of a Japanese ironclad
An Ocean of Tears art installation
A close-up of An Ocean of Tears
The Royal Hospital School at night
The RHS's main entrance
Victorian park gates by the Wensum
Isobel looks at paddlers on the Wensum
An impressive new-ish bridge over the river
The paddlers continue down the river
England's last Swan Pit
Cow Tower and some late daffodils
A herringbone fireplace in Cow Tower
Inside the mediaeval Cow Tower
There's a swan on the nest
Isobel wanders down to look at Bishopsgate Bridge
Norwich Cathedral across the old rugby pitches
Pull's Ferry on the Wensum
There's a dinosaur in a false window
Isobel walks up towards the Cathedral Close
An impressive house from 1662
The cathedral from the Close
Some sort of modern art
Norman arches and a very non-Norman clock
Isobel pokes her head into the cloisters
More modern art, in the cloisters
A view of the tower from the oldest end
Isobel outside the Adam and Eve
Isobel ducks to enter the pub
The side room at the Adam and Eve
Isobel finishes her Guinness Zero
The unchanged-from-the-80s Adam and Eve
The tramlines are dug up in around 1935
Norwich's Castle Meadow in the 1940s
Norwich market and the Guildhall in the late 1920s
The bar of the Adam and Eve
Norwich market and St. Peter Mancroft
The Adam and Eve - Norwich's oldest pub
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The new venue: The Royal Hospital School hall
The new venue: The Royal Hospital School hall
A pair of cellos wait for the Suffolk Young Strings
There's an impressive model of a Japanese ironclad
An Ocean of Tears art installation
A close-up of An Ocean of Tears
The Royal Hospital School at night
The RHS's main entrance
Victorian park gates by the Wensum
Isobel looks at paddlers on the Wensum
An impressive new-ish bridge over the river
The paddlers continue down the river
England's last Swan Pit
Cow Tower and some late daffodils
A herringbone fireplace in Cow Tower
Inside the mediaeval Cow Tower
There's a swan on the nest
Isobel wanders down to look at Bishopsgate Bridge
Norwich Cathedral across the old rugby pitches
Pull's Ferry on the Wensum
There's a dinosaur in a false window
Isobel walks up towards the Cathedral Close
An impressive house from 1662
The cathedral from the Close
Some sort of modern art
Norman arches and a very non-Norman clock
Isobel pokes her head into the cloisters
More modern art, in the cloisters
A view of the tower from the oldest end
Isobel outside the Adam and Eve
Isobel ducks to enter the pub
The side room at the Adam and Eve
Isobel finishes her Guinness Zero
The unchanged-from-the-80s Adam and Eve
The tramlines are dug up in around 1935
Norwich's Castle Meadow in the 1940s
Norwich market and the Guildhall in the late 1920s
The bar of the Adam and Eve
Norwich market and St. Peter Mancroft
The Adam and Eve - Norwich's oldest pub