After having run The Movie Shop in Norwich since 1985, I finally called it a day in 2020, and have decided it is time to concentrate on what most interests me, rather than spend six days a week dealing with customers in what was an increasingly unproductive enterprise. I will devote my time to writing about the history of Norwich over the last century, especially those aspects that most appeal to me such as the cinemas, and the old collectors shops and their often eccentric owners and customers. I have been immersed in this world since the end of the last war, and feel it is time to concentrate on sharing my memories, and the historical knowledge I have acquired, during these seventy years.
I will use my blog, and other pages, to tell the stories.
Some of these topics will be shared on Facebook on the sites 'Peter Cossey' 'The Icenian'
The Blog section will develop over time into a full personal memoir from the end of the war to the present, but along the way it will go back over my family history to the late Victorian era. I am only writing about personal memories, and I remember three of my Victorian grandparents well - the fourth is the subject of a little tragedy of the kind experienced by many families, and will be revealed in the course of the memoir.
Since working on the site it has acquired a life of its own, and I find I have added comments on the wider culteral scene inspired by my own extensive collection of books, magazines and comics that have obsessed and inspired me over many decades. It is all part of the tapestry of life, and I will add sections purely as a book, a film or any other artefact inspires my interest in the wider context.
The first part of the blog re-visits my book on Norwich Cinemas, and I have reprinted the main text, with a lot more photos that I have acquired since the first publication.
Please use the menus link in the top banner to access the other pages.
You can also use the link below to visit my other site, which I am now working on. It's a collectors site, and will also be a history of my favourite magazine:
thepicturegoer.com
I can be contacted at: peter.cossey@ntlworld.com
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