If Stones Could Speak-An Introduction to an Almost Human Family.
 
Taking the ancient city of Norwich as a typical example of the working of time, RH Mottram has traced the course of English social history through its streets. Here, over the slow passage of 15 centuries, ships have sailed upriver, Merchants have settled, streets have grown, a town has sprung up, dominated by a mighty cathedral and a grim castle. The streets acquire not only souls but names, and into them English history is gradually built. Here is a new and delightfully approach to social history put forward expertly by one who has loved and studied his native city for over half a century past and has now been elected his coronation year mayor.