Life experiences

A lifelong passion for exploring and teaching about wildlife (1950s to 2025)

Peter has loved wildlife since a very young age and was able to turn this passion into a career of teaching others to love nature

Learning Chinese at Wensum Lodge (1980-1991)

Ming tells about his encounter with Wensum Lodge during his schoolboy days attending the Chinese school set up by the Chinese Association of Norwich in

Painting a clearer picture: The Norwich Refugee Committee. A Jewish family in wartime Norwich and beyond (1930s – 2024)

Barry talks about the Norwich Refugee Committee formed by the Norwich Hebrew Congregation and the Norwich Quakers during World War II. It rescued and housed

Levetons in the Norwich community. 135 years of picture framing and art restoration (1887- 2024)

Barry is the third generation of a family business of picture framing and art restoration. The business was started by his grandfather as a picture

Coming home (1946-2023)

Michael has previously spoken with WISEArchive in 2019. He joins us again to tell us about finding family connections to Norfolk and his fascinating working

The RAF radar operator (1945-1960)

Janet talks about her life, wartime rationing and working at RAF Neatishead as a radar operator in the 1950s. I was born in North Norfolk

The marshland post office (1950s – 2022)

Freda tells about her life growing up in Freethorpe post office, a family history, and taking over the running of the post office in 1977,

Creating St Clement’s Common (1972-2022)

Maurice describes how St Clements Common, Rushall, became the first new common in 150 years and how he came to own his right of common.

The world is my oyster (1960-2022)

Pearl talks to us about her life, from her nursing training, raising a family, WI committees and markets, short term foster caring and fundraising. I

Labour camp to municipal engineer Part Two (1946-2021)

In Part One, Frank told of his life before moving to London in 1946. In this second part of his story he talks about his

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