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Norwich War Memorial

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Norwich City Football Club holds a prominent place in English football, based in Norwich, Norfolk. Established in 1902, the club participates in the Championship, providing a significant focus for local pride and community engagement. Their home ground, Carrow Road, has been the setting for their matches since 1935, and the team is known affectionately as 'The Canaries'.

The club's history includes notable achievements such as winning the League Cup twice and securing a third-place finish in the Premier League during the 1992-93 season. They also made a memorable appearance in the UEFA Cup in 1993-94, notably defeating Bayern Munich at their home stadium. Their enduring identity is symbolised by the canary on their badge and their traditional yellow and green colours, reflecting the area's historical association with the birds. The club's fan base is recognised for one of the world's oldest football chants, "On The Ball, City", which continues to be sung today.

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Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) - never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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