Norwich Detectives

Norwich Detectives have been operating in Norwich and East Anglia for almost 20 years.

• Norwich's geographical isolation was such that until 1845 when a railway connection was established, it was often quicker to travel to Amsterdam by boat than to London.
• Norwich is a city in England.
• Norwich is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk.
• During the 11th century, Norwich was the second largest city in England, after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom.
• Norwich is the fourth most densely populated local government district within the East of England.
• Norwich has 3,480 people per square kilometre (8,993 per square mile).
• Norwich received a royal charter from Henry II in 1158, and another one from Richard the Lionheart in 1194.
• By the middle of the 14th century Norwich's city walls, about two and a half miles (4 km) long, had been completed.
• These, along with the river, enclosed a larger area than that of the City of London.
• However, when the city walls were constructed it was made illegal to build outside them, inhibiting expansion of the city.
• From 1808 to 1814 Norwich hosted a station in the shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in London.
• Norwich also has a long association with chocolate manufacture, primarily through the local firm of Caley's.
• Norwich suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II, affecting large parts of the old city centre.
• The new Chapelfield shopping mall has been built on the site where the Caleys (later Rowntree Mackintosh and Nestlé) chocolate factory once stood.
• Chapelfield opened in September 2005, featuring as its flagship department store House of Fraser.
• Norwich has long been associated with the manufacture of mustard.
• The world famous Colman's brand, with its yellow packaging, was founded in 1814 and continues to operate from its factory at Carrow