went for a stroll around the city centre tonight found 22 and that took some walking, apparently there are 57.....
57 ! really!
I've got to say It's 18 years this week scince I've moved to Norwich. I love Architecture and I remember so clearly wandering around the streets of this new place I've moved into. Tonight I've done the same. So many artistic unique buildings, so mant intricate fine details, styles, aspects.
I've seen quite a few places across the uk but here I find captivating, I can understand- dare I say "Beadeker's" view of the city. Once in a while I look a bit more closely, wow!
Floydoid, I can readily recomend the following site
http://www.the-plunketts.freeserve.co.uk/ It's one of my all time favorite web sites.
When I first moved here, shortly afterward radio 1 announced the first ever "Sound City". There was allsorts of live music coming from everywhere for weeks. And then there are always all sorts of artistic events constantly popping up. There are quite a few things which the local council can do ohh so badly to an unbelivable degree. But as an exsample the latest chain of events including this Elephany thing. It's no small undertaking, Ok their all sponsored. However all the exibits are on a substansual base, the sculptures are very well made and secured, and there's the artwork and the idea of scattering them around the city
I've always seen such a good forward thinking enthusiasim for the arts here over and over, I love it
PS if you get the chance to see it my fave so far is the one on Cinema City's site. The elephant is painted as clouds and sky, the only one I've seen with any additions to it (the 3 explorers heads on top) but he way it's painted and as you see it through the railings It seems to be alive in an odd way, quite ethierial
(mind you saying all of the above this is the same city who've decided that instead of looking afterthe pre-medieval city gates and walls, decided to blow most of it up just after the war. It'll be like going to Stonehenge and saying year nice but where's me hammer cos i can do a better patio than that")