Looking up Theatre Street towards the Theatre Royal.

The flags were certainly flying in Norwich’s bustling Rampant Horse Street in 1935.

The silver Jubilee celebrations for George V captured the imagination of everyone using and trading on this central shopping street, which looks as busy then as it does today.

This sunny photograph, loaned to us by Mr Clifford Temple, of 7 Waterman Road, Woodlands Estate, Norwich, shows just how the crowds flocked in.

As he points out, this thoroughfare looks narrow, yet still has enough space to allow for the luxury of parking cars – a far cry from today’s yellow lanes and the pressure of heavier traffic.

Another major difference was the multitude of small shops which existed where a handful of large stores can be found today.

In a trip down memory lane, Mr Temple has recalled many of them for us.

On the right-hand side of the photograph would have been Saxone, the shoe shop; Gordon Thoday, silk merchant; Timpson, the boot store; Curl, the draper; Fuller, the chemist and Boots on the corner of adjoining Brigg Street; the Co-operative Insurance Society; Lionel Standley, solicitor; Sadd, Bacon & Standley, solicitors; Miss Stockman; ladies outfitter; Haddlestone, dairyman; Nickall’s, china and glass; Chilvers, ladies’ hairdresser; Sidney Warner, hairdresser; and J.R. Dawson, tobacconist.