{"id":12213,"date":"2024-02-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2024-02-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:00:00","slug":"norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich&#8217;s Hidden Street Tour saved!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As many of you know, we were expecting to lose the lease on our Castle Meadow community hub, which meant closing access to our one-of-a-kind medieval <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tours\/\">hidden street<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re delighted to announce that, due to the outpouring of support from tour-goers, social media followers, content creators and media outlets, our landlord has had a change of heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our lease has been extended for another three years! ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Norwich&#039;s Hidden Street Tour and Shoebox Community Hub saved!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pi31UASYQaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tom Gaskin CEO, The Shoebox Enterprises CIC announces our new lease<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst we\u2019re really pleased about this, we don\u2019t want to find ourselves in this position again. The only way to secure the future of our community hub and the \u2018hidden street\u2019 below the venue is to purchase the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re proud to be the stewards of the hidden street; a rare, fascinating and historically significant landmark that helps to make Norwich such a unique city. But there is the very real chance that it\u2019ll be closed off to the public at the end of our renewed lease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be launching a Crowdfunder campaign soon to help raise funds to try and buy the building so we can secure its long term future. We\u2019ll share a link to the campaign once it\u2019s live and we\u2019d be grateful for any support you can provide in donating or helping to spread the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details of how this news affects our eGift vouchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/gift-vouchers\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you all so much for your continued support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the overwhelming response to our impending closure from our community, customers and supporters, our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease has now been extended for another three years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,7,27],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shoebox-experiences","tag-hidden-street","tag-history","tag-the-shoebox"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Norwich&#039;s Hidden Street Tour saved! - The Shoebox Experiences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s &#039;hidden street&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Norwich&#039;s Hidden Street Tour saved!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s &#039;hidden street&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Shoebox Experiences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-01T09:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hidden-Street-Tour.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"940\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"627\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tom Gaskin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Norwich&#039;s Hidden Street Tour saved!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s &#039;hidden street&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hidden-Street-Tour.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Gaskin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/\",\"name\":\"Norwich's Hidden Street Tour saved! - The Shoebox Experiences\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Experiences-facebook-socials.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-01T09:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#\/schema\/person\/ca7d79ff48c592c2b151612a59266c99\"},\"description\":\"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s 'hidden street'.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Experiences-facebook-socials.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Experiences-facebook-socials.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Norwich&#8217;s Hidden Street Tour saved!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/\",\"name\":\"The Shoebox Experiences\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#\/schema\/person\/ca7d79ff48c592c2b151612a59266c99\",\"name\":\"Tom Gaskin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94b97f645b894b1d0a36ac324e06c5926ffaabb7d0cd7289b5abf6123532575c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94b97f645b894b1d0a36ac324e06c5926ffaabb7d0cd7289b5abf6123532575c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tom Gaskin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/author\/kindak\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Norwich's Hidden Street Tour saved! - The Shoebox Experiences","description":"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s 'hidden street'.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Norwich's Hidden Street Tour saved!","og_description":"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s 'hidden street'.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/","og_site_name":"The Shoebox Experiences","article_published_time":"2024-02-01T09:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":940,"height":627,"url":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hidden-Street-Tour.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Tom Gaskin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Norwich's Hidden Street Tour saved!","twitter_description":"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s 'hidden street'.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hidden-Street-Tour.png","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tom Gaskin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/","name":"Norwich's Hidden Street Tour saved! - The Shoebox Experiences","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Experiences-facebook-socials.jpg","datePublished":"2024-02-01T09:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#\/schema\/person\/ca7d79ff48c592c2b151612a59266c99"},"description":"Our landlord has had a change of heart and our lease for The Shoebox has now been extended for another three years! This means we can continue to operate our Community Hub and our tours of Norwich\u2019s 'hidden street'.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Experiences-facebook-socials.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Experiences-facebook-socials.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/norwichs-hidden-street-tour-saved\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Norwich&#8217;s Hidden Street Tour saved!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#website","url":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/","name":"The Shoebox Experiences","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#\/schema\/person\/ca7d79ff48c592c2b151612a59266c99","name":"Tom Gaskin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94b97f645b894b1d0a36ac324e06c5926ffaabb7d0cd7289b5abf6123532575c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94b97f645b894b1d0a36ac324e06c5926ffaabb7d0cd7289b5abf6123532575c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tom Gaskin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/author\/kindak\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshoebox.org.uk\/the-shoebox-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}