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September 2017 By Wayne Kett Visitors to Norfolk Collections Centre are able to see some very large and cumbersome objects; a giant wooden mustard stamper used by Colmans, our two Snap Dragons, industrial machinery used by Rowntree Makintosh and even a … Continue reading →

May 2017  We are very excited to announce the launch of a series of guided tours of the world famous ‘West Runton Mammoth’ with Dr David Waterhouse (Senior Curator of Natural History). Initially these will be held on two dates … Continue reading →

By Wayne Kett In the past I have written blogs about iconic Norwich companies and famous people from our fine city, but this blog is about an ordinary Norwich man called W.H Everitt. The images below show an upholsterers tool box and … Continue reading →

By Jamie Everitt What links these four things together? Perhaps one of my favourite objects in the Norfolk Collections Centre, the enigmatic silk press. Let us find out how. Norwich was once the most important cloth manufacturing town in Britain. … Continue reading →

November 2015 The Norfolk Collections Centre covers an area a little over 800m2 and provides us with approximately 3,645m3 of storage space. We store a vast array of different objects meaning the job of collections care is no simple task. … Continue reading →

By Wayne Kett We have these tram lines in our store, salvaged from the days when Norwich operated a tram service. This inspired me to write a brief history of Norwich’s tram network, however I soon discovered this has been more … Continue reading →

By Wayne Kett The thing I love most about pub names is the variety, whilst there are plenty of Red Lions (518 in the UK according to a 2011 survey) there are also the rather less common names like, Ribs of … Continue reading →