Ethel Colman

Colman's childhood was spent at Carrow House, a neoclassical mansion built in 1861 with internal woodwork carved by local sculptor James Minns.

[3] Meanwhile, at the age of 14, Colman had been sent to study in London, at Miss Hannah Pipe's School for Young Ladies in Clapham Park.

[4] The sisters, who would become lifelong companions, returned to Norwich and rejoined the social life expected of upper-class young ladies of the time.

Diagnosed with tuberculosis, Laura and Helen accompanied Alan to Egypt for treatment by the dry desert heat.

Jeremiah hired the Hathor, and the party travelled in it to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, where Alan died, aged 30.

This took the form of building a traditional Norfolk wherry, named Hathor after the vessel on the Nile on which Alan took his last journey.

[12] In 1913 James Stuart, Ethel's brother in law, husband of her elder sister Laura, died at Carrow Abbey.

[14] With more recent modifications, Stuart Hall remains in community use, now as Cinema City, part of the Picturehouse chain.

On 31 October 1923, it was announced that Ethel Colman had agreed to become the first woman to become Lord Mayor of Norwich.

[17] During Colman's year in office the Norfolk and Norwich Festival was revived, having been suspended since the start of WWI.