Published:
12:30 PM January 23, 2021
Updated:
1:22 PM January 23, 2021
A delighted Sir Michael Caine with the blue plaque he unveiled outside the school he attended as a wartime evacuee in North Runcton.
- Credit: John Hocknell
Pablo Fanque s blue plaque
- Credit: Antony Kelly
The Beatles, Norwich
On May 17, 1963 Beatlemania came to Norwich when the Fab Four played their one and only concert in the city. The venue was the Grosvenor Rooms in Prince of Wales Road and the queue of eager fans stretched back to the ABC Cinema. To mark the show, the EDP and Norwich School of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) put up a blue plaque on Grosvenor House as part of a series highlighting surprising aspects of the county s cultural heritage. Another of the city s blue plaques has a Beatles link too. At John Lewis on All Saints Green there s a Discover Norwich blue plaque dedicated to Pablo Fanque. Real name William Darby, he was the first black British circus prop
Published:
12:30 PM January 23, 2021
Updated:
1:22 PM January 23, 2021
A delighted Sir Michael Caine with the blue plaque he unveiled outside the school he attended as a wartime evacuee in North Runcton.
- Credit: John Hocknell
Pablo Fanque s blue plaque
- Credit: Antony Kelly
The Beatles, Norwich
On May 17, 1963 Beatlemania came to Norwich when the Fab Four played their one and only concert in the city. The venue was the Grosvenor Rooms in Prince of Wales Road and the queue of eager fans stretched back to the ABC Cinema. To mark the show, the EDP and Norwich School of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) put up a blue plaque on Grosvenor House as part of a series highlighting surprising aspects of the county s cultural heritage. Another of the city s blue plaques has a Beatles link too. At John Lewis on All Saints Green there s a Discover Norwich blue plaque dedicated to Pablo Fanque. Real name William Darby, he was the first black British circus prop
High Wycombe town centre to get huge £15 million cash injection to renew and reshape it
High Wycombe town centre is set to get a £15 million cash injection High Wycombe town centre is set to get a cash injection of £15 million in a bid to renew and reshape the area. More detailed plans about how the cash will be spent on improving the town centre are expected to be drawn up within the next few weeks. A large portion of the cash - £11.7 million - came from a successful bid for funding from the Future High Street Fund competition run by the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government (MHCLG).
B&M is coming to High Wycombe Bargain retailer B&M is reportedly moving into a historic building in High Wycombe s High Street. According to UK Property Forums, B&M will be moving into a 16,000sq ft unit over the ground and first floor at Red Lion House in March. The building, which also houses Iceland, is on the site where Red Lion Hotel once stood, and both Benjamin Disraeli and Sir Winton Churchill clambered onto the portico to deliver election speeches there. B&M has reportedly got a five-year lease on the shop unit. The arrival of the popular store, which sells just about everything from wallpaper, furniture, toys and home accessories to food and drink, follows exciting announcements about other new businesses moving into the town.
A Creams café is coming to High Wycombe A Creams café is set to come to High Wycombe. The well-known dessert chain has advertised for full and part-time team members, saying the new café will be in White Hart Street, near Wimpy’s and Specsavers, and will be open for delivery and click and collect only during the pandemic. It has also advertised for a team leader/supervisor with a salary of £9.10 per hour. Currently, those looking for their Creams fix have to travel to Slough, Windsor, Reading or Uxbridge – but High Wycombe does have a Treatz dessert parlour in Oxford Street.