It was recently announced that following an agreement between South Norfolk Council and the town council around £955000 would be available to make the town centre more attractive.
It’s worth recalling, therefore, that nearly thirty years ago £640000 was spent on a traffic management scheme for the middle of the town.
Cars parked on Market Place in the 70s.
The main photo shows work being undertaken on the scheme in September 1995. A one-way system, traffic calming measures and a new look Market Place, which was surfaced with granite setts to replace a tarmacadam surface (which had become pitted with potholes), were all features.
From then on parking was prohibited on the Market Place, the other picture showing cars parked there about twenty years or so earlier.
