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1946 - 1970
Investment and grants meant that with peace came prosperity to Norfolk’s farming community and with modern tools and artificial fertilisers farming by the early 1950 was again a very profitable way of life. However modern methods meant that less manual workers were required. In little more than 10 years the numbers halved.
In 1953 on The 31st January flooding extensively damaged the Norfolk coast. The county had been subjected to flooding many times before over the centuries but never on such a scale. Force 10 winds and exceptionally high spring tides resulted in the sea defences all along the coast being breached and villages such as Salthouse and Cley were under several feet of water and apart from property damage large areas of grazing were flooded.
In the Heacham area 65 people were drowned. At Kings Lynn much of the town was flooded and 15 died the picture was repeated all along the coast.
The coastal defences of Norfolk although repaired and reinforced are still vulnerable to attack and in many places remain very weak, shingle banks and decaying wooden groyns are all that protects much of the coast line.
1970
From the 1970’s Britain including Norfolk suddenly woke up to the fact that unless measures were taken to protect our historical sites, buildings and our unique flora and fauna much of it would be lost forever. In 1970 there were some 5,000 listed buildings in Norfolk by the mid 80’s there in excess of 10,000. In recent years the unique Norfolk broads have been declared Britain’s newest National Park. Norfolk now has numerous stately homes open to the public. Beautiful broads and rivers that are beginning to recover from the onslaught of tourism and are looked after by the Broads Authority. Picturesque villages that through strict planning regulations will remain typical Norfolk villages
It is a county steeped in history that has managed, just in time in many cases, and sadly to late in others to save enough of its heritage to be well worth a visit.
The Roman town of Caistor St Edmund was once Norfolk's capital. 1700 years ago you would have been standing outside the high walls of a large bustling market town, a centre of local government, trade and entertainment.
Caistor is one of only a few Roman towns in Britain that have not been damaged or hidden by later buildings. A general site map shows the wealth of Roman remains that have been found in and around the town.
The most impressive part of Roman Caistor, the town wall on the north side, still stands to a height of 6 metres (20 feet). Since the end of Roman rule other areas of the town have not fared so well. As it fell into disuse, flint and tiles were taken away by the cartload and re-used for new buildings and road mending. Fortunately the lower parts of the buildings and town wall were left untouched, with much of the rich archaeological evidence safely preserved below ground.
The objects found in the area can be viewed at the Norwich Castle Museum in the centre of the City.