By Rosemary Bailey
This article was published in the April 2026 edition of Soul Search, the Journal of The Sole Society
In the pavement of Elm Hill, Norwich, UK, there is an imprint that resembles a keyboard which you can see below. This imprint appeared when concrete had been laid between 1998 and 2001. Some people believe it is a computer keyboard while others swear it is an 18thC print plate from a monastery.
What could it be? Well Peter Leigh (Nostalgia Nerd from Youtube) discovered that it is actually an imprint of an old Amstrad PC which was created by Molly Sole, a Norwich School of Arts and design student as part of her final art project. She had made moulds of an old computer and created porcelain casts which she bent into strange shapes which looked like laundry hanging on a line. The idea was that she was representing how the internet was damaging the family.
So it seems that Molly saw the wet concrete one day on her way to university and came back to press the cast of the keyboard of the into it. Molly graduated in 2001. She now works as a digital artist.
The keyboard imprint on Elm Hill, Norwich which caused such confusion in people who saw it.