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Bookscapes Collective at the Undercroft,   Bridewell, Museum of Norwich.

6/15/2023

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 Bookscapes Collective will be showing work relating to the Bridewell Museum collections. The venue will be the undercroft; a rather special place which is saturated in history. Originally built for a wealthy merchant Geoffrey de Salle in the early fourteenth century, the Bridewell is one of just eighteen late medieval secular buildings to have survived in Norwich. The building changed from a private dwelling in 1583, when it was converted into the Bridewell, a house of correction ; "a place to keep and staye ydle persons to somme honest worke and labor ".

A devastating fire in 1752 destroyed much of the medieval building so all that survived were two medieval arches, a flint wall and the undercroft. It was rebuilt and continued as a prison until 1828 when its use changed once more. as the city became more prosperous various industrial businesses moved in; a tobacco factory, a leather warehouse, and finally a shoe factory. 


The building was eventually granted to the city in 1923 by Henry Holmes, a successful shoe manufacturer. Following this it became the Bridewell, Museum of Norwich and celebrates the story of Norwich’s industries and the people who lived and worked in the city.

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Victorian nails -  leftover from when the space was used as a shoemakers workshop. So full of character and a great opportunity to make work with these in mind!
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  • About
  • Musings
  • Gallery
  • Artist Books
    • Reverberations
    • The Poems of Mrs Opie: A Return To Possibilities
    • Out of the Ashes
    • At Melville's Tomb
    • The Ark
    • The Great Gathering
    • Lost Voices - Whaling
    • Salts - LighthouseKeeping
    • The Future of Ice
    • The Sea
    • Holuhraun 2014 -2015
    • Silent Spring Revisited
    • Capturing the Moment.
  • Contact