Published:
2:34 PM January 12, 2021
Updated:
2:47 PM January 12, 2021
Children bathing in the paddling and wading pools at Wensum Park, Norwich in the 1930s.
- Credit: Archant Library
Nestled against the sloping valley of the River Wensum is a well-loved Norwich park. Many of us will have visited there to feed the ducks, take a stroll and perhaps even splash through our first strokes as we learned to swim.
Boys enjoying the sunshine, near the paddling pool in Wensum Park in Norwich. Date: April 8, 1969.
- Credit: Archant Library
But the Wensum Park we see today emerged from life as a rubbish dump at the turn of the twentieth century.