My Britain: NORWICH

"What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!'" - Novelist JB Priestly

Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the UK with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library, then I have yet to hear of it. So said comedian Stephen Fry of the city he calls home. Indeed, while Norwich is often spoken of for its most famous fictional native, Alan Partridge, it lays claim to having once been the largest city in Britain after London, with its enormous cathedral, statuesque castle and beautiful medieval Tombland area still standing in testimony to the influence it once wielded over the rest of the British Isles. Today, the city is a hub of arts and culture with two universities, a modern art gallery and countless music venues making it an unforgettable place to live and visit.

DANNY KEEN, 72, arrived in London in 1952 as part of the Windrush generation. Today, he calls Norfolk home, and is a well renowned artist. He's also the chairman of Norwich's Black History Month committee.