We’ve got our first AGM scheduled for 7:30 pm Tuesday 11 January – in the Scouts Hut. Now that we are working with the Council and other organisations – we need to have a rule book and formally elect a committee and we’ll be doing this at the AGM. We will send out more info …
First AGM scheduled- Tuesday 11 January – in the Scouts Hut. Read More »
Planning the event & who we invited We got 500 flyers printed by Minuteman Press in Norwich, these were posted through homes around the two parks; Sandy park and Kett’s cave. The streets we targeted were Gertrude road, Balfour, Anchor Street, Silver Road, Mousehold Ave, Romany Road, Crome Road area. We shared the event on …
Last year a group of volunteers came together to try and improve the Council owned land at Kett’s Cave and Sandy Park and run community events to help more people to enjoy these open spaces. Our group is called the Pockthorpe Community Group – we’ve used the old name for our part of the City. …
Over the last few years we have seen plenty of evidence of hedgehogs scurrying around the Pockthorpe neighbourhood. They have been spotted on Dibden Road near the old Shoe Factory, on Balfour street near Ketts. On Morley Street around the passageways and in many other places too! Whilst I was leafleting only last week my …
As a group, we are proposing Norwich City Council removes these hazardous wire fences at Kett’s cave, NR3 1NH. They are historic and serve no purpose in my opinion. I have been told by local residents they have been crushed down to the ground since at least the 70’s. We found a skeleton of a …
Dangerous broken wire fences at Kett’s cave- volunteers needed Read More »
We reported our two street benches to be repaired in Jan 2021 to the Labour party, Norwich City Council and Norfolk county council. Sadly they never came to repair them. One of our lovely residents self-funded and repaired the bench on Mousehold Avenue. The broken bench on Crome Road is sponsored by the Labour party. …
Timeline and information on the derelict piece of land next to the Kett’s cave park. Owned by Norwich City Council housing Derelict, boarded up site since 2006 in Norwich, NR3. Crome Ward. Timeline 1883 Site of Ketts Cave lime kiln 1889 Mousehold Estate: Morley Street, Harcourt Street, Balfour Street, Anchor Street, Infantry Street, Dragoon Street …
We have some great news. Anglian Water has approved for us to paint the two Anglian water cabinets on Silver Road, Norwich NR3. I have asked our local school if they would like to take this on as a project. I am pleased to say they are very keen and already making designs. If you …
This year the residents of city centre Pockthorpe in Norwich are creating a Halloween trail for the local children. Join our FB group to get involved!
Norwich as a city is really lacking public 24-hour access defibrillators. I am currently trying to piece together all the information I need to get us one for Pockthorpe, NR3. What is a defibrillator? “A defibrillator is a device that gives a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac …
