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Salhouse Rd: |
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From
Heartsease
Lane / Gurney Rd / Mousehold
Lane towards Salhouse |
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Salhouse Rd from Heartsease airfield view N [4230]
1953-10-25
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Sandy Lane: |
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From
Hall Rd to Mansfield Lane
passing Cooper Lane |
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Sandy Lane Old Lakenham church farmhouse [1706]
1937-06-10
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St John and All Saints Lakenham from NE [1696]
1937-06-07
St John the Baptist and All Saints. Mainly Perpendicular. |
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St John and All Saints Lakenham south aisle [2459]
1938-06-15
The arcade comprises iron pillars cased with wood. |
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St John and All Saints Lakenham interior E [2468]
1938-06-18
The roofs are modern. |
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St John and All Saints Lakenham interior NE [2475]
1938-06-18
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St John and All Saints Lakenham interior W [2469]
1938-06-18
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St John and All Saints Lakenham 16c font E [2473]
1938-06-18
Carved with Emblems of the Passion, the Evangelists etc. |
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St John and All Saints Lakenham 16c font SW [2474]
1938-06-18
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St John and All Saints Lakenham James Crowe [2470]
1938-06-18
James Crowe of Tuckswood House Old Lakenham, Mayor of
Norwich 1774 and 1797, died 1807, aged 56. |
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St John and All Saints Lakenham piscina [2472]
1938-06-18
Trefoil headed piscina, south-east corner of chancel. |
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Scoles Green: |
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Formerly
from Stepping
Lane to Rising Sun Lane and Market Lane |
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Scoles Green 7 [1784] 1937-07-13
Leading off King St, Stepping Lane, which now ends at
Rouen Rd formerly led to Scoles Green. It was a small
triangular-shaped plain of dilapidated Georgian houses
noted in the Norwich Plan - 1945 as of minor
interest but of good design. In one of them the artist
Robert Ladbrooke died on 11th October 1842. The
illustration shows one of them with a plain facade, the
central doorway of modest proportions, and with two of
the first floor windows blocked. An additional storey,
apparently added at some later date, and unlit by windows
on this side, gave the house a rather disproportionate
appearance.
According to "Jonathan Mardle" (Eric Fowler),
writing in 1968 about this area, which was soon to be
dominated by Prospect House, the new offices of Eastern
Counties Newspapers, "Scoles Green was originally
Scholars' Green, the playground of a school that was kept
before the Reformation beside the church of St Martin in
Balliva". He was here quoting the historian Francis
Blomefield, but on the other hand the historian John
Kirkpatrick wrote: "Then another lane…turns of
to the S.E. past the South side of the Churchyard of St
Martin's of the Bale into a void ground called Scolds
Green... One Willm Scoles had Tenements here Anno 9 Edw.
4 from whom probably it took its Name". |
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Silver Rd: |
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From
Barrack St to Sprowston Rd
passing Bull Close Rd, Mousehold
Avenue
East side |
|
|
St Mary Magdalene Pockthorpe from Silver Rd [4702]
1962-08-10
Built 1902-3, architect A.J.Lacey. |
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Silver Rd former depot tracks [4382] 1955-09-19
On 19th April 1925 the Aylsham Rd track was abandoned,
the first of a fleet of tramway motor buses being
substituted on amended routes. City Rd services withdrawn
October 1933. Trowse services withdrawn February 1934.
The last service to operate was between Newmarket Rd and
Cavalry Barracks Riverside Rd the final car leaving
Orford Place 11:10pm on 10th December 1935. In 1955 the
only places where track remained were at the former
tramway depot Silver Rd and in Thorpe Station yard. |
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Somerleyton St: |
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From
Unthank Rd to Suffolk St |
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Silver Jubilee King George V copy of photo [0574]
1935-05-10
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Silver Jubilee Queen Mary copy of photo [0573]
1935-05-10
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Coronation Somerleyton St 8 greenhouse flag [1638]
1937-05-18
The photographer's parents' back garden. 1937 coronation
decorations. |
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Coronation King George VI copy of photo [1641]
1937-05-18
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Coronation Queen Elizabeth copy of photo [1642]
1937-05-18
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Somerleyton St 8 garden heavy snow E side [2859]
1938-12-22
The photographer's parents' back garden. |
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Somerleyton St 8 garden heavy snow view N [2860]
1938-12-22
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Somerleyton St N side rear air raid damage [3596]
1942-07-06
Some of the houses wrecked by the air raid of 29th April
1942. |
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Somerleyton St air raid damage cleared area [3620]
1946-04-09
Following clearance of ruined houses. |
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South Park Avenue: |
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From
Colman Rd to Bluebell Rd
passing Pettus Rd (Hurd Rd)
North side |
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Eaton Park fountains near entrance [B058] 1931-00-00
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Eaton Park lakes lavender and colonnade [B059]
1931-00-00
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Eaton Park yacht pond towards water gate [B086]
1931-00-00
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Eaton Park band playing in bandstand [B290]
1932-05-16
Whitsun. Military band concert. |
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Eaton Park rose gardens [B414] 1932-08-03
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Eaton Park main entrance South Park Avenue [B562]
1933-05-14
Formally opened by H.R.H.Edward Prince of Wales 30th May
1928. |
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Eaton Park rose gardens near main entrance [B563]
1933-05-14
Surrounding the fountain. |
|
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Eaton Park rose gardens [B564] 1933-05-14
Surrounding the fountain. |
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Eaton Park yacht pond from water gate [B567]
1933-05-18
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Eaton Park lily pond and pavilion [0179] 1934-08-07
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Eaton Park lily pond and pavilion [0180] 1934-08-07
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Southwell Rd: |
| |
From
Hall Rd to Grove Rd |
|
|
Southwell Rd bridge over Brazengate [7831] 2001-06-26
Site of former railway line from Victoria station to
junction with main London line. |
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Spitalfields: |
| |
From
Gurney Rd to Kett's Hill |
|
|
Spitalfields 1 Castle Tavern [6429] 1986-11-27
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Sprowston Rd: |
| |
From
Magdalen Rd to Mousehold Lane and
towards Sprowston
passing Silver Rd, Wall
Rd
South side |
| |
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Sprowston Rd Lazar House west side [0291] 1934-09-15
The Lazar House on Sprowston Rd, or the Magdalen Chapel
as it is sometimes known, was founded before 1119 by
Bishop Herbert de Losinga, and the Norman doorways on the
south and west are most probably his work. It was
intended for a Master, Brethren and Sisters who were
lepers and the late Dr Bensley considered that the actual
Chapel, dedicated to St Mary Magdalen, was contained in a
small portion only of the present building, at the east
end, and the hospital part, or wards, occupied the main
western portion, males and females being separated by a
screen.
In Blomefield's time it appears that some ruins stood to
the south of this building, which are thought may have
originally been the brewhouse, kitchen, storehouses and
Master's house, but no foundations were discovered during
excavations made at the beginning of the 20c.
Little is known of its history. In 1506 it was united for
a time with the St Giles' or Great Hospital in
Bishopgate, but the union did not prove satisfactory and
was soon broken. In 1548 it was granted by Edward VI to
Sir Robert Southwell and John Corbett, and in 1668 it was
an Almshouse for poor widows. By the middle of the 18c
part of it was being used as a barn. At the beginning of
the 20c Walter Rye rescued it from demolition and sold it
in 1908 to Sir Eustace Gurney who restored it - as much
as possible of the old fabric being left undisturbed. In
1921 he presented it to the City for use as a branch
library, and as such it was opened two years later.
"This is certainly not one of the largest monastic
remains in Norwich, but in many respects one of its most
interesting, its date of erection - 1119 - makes it one
of the oldest building in Norwich and the two Norman
doorways, one on the west side, and the other on the
south form two good specimens of that early style of
architecture. Some authorities have stated that these
doorways are not in their original positions, but there
is no structural of documentary evidence that they have
been re-erected from another building or any part of the
same building. This is an excellent example of how a
mediaeval building can be restored and put to a really
legitimate modern use without in any way interfering with
the original character of the structure." From
"The Monastic Remains of Norfolk and Suffolk"
by Claude Messent, 1934. |
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Sprowston Rd Lazar House south side [1740] 1937-07-03
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|
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Sprowston Rd Lazar House S Norman doorway [1741]
1937-07-03
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Sprowston Rd Lazar House W Norman doorway [1742]
1937-07-03
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|
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Sprowston Rd St George's RC church [6458] 1987-05-19
Built 1962-63, architect J.Sebastian Comper. |
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Sprowston Rd Post Mill from Mousehold [B175]
1931-00-00
Beyond Pockthorpe we come to Sprowston, where the name
Windmill Rd still indicates the site of Harrison's post
mill, an example of the earliest kind of windmill known
in England; there is an illustration of one on the
memorial brass to Adam de Walsokne, who died in 1349, and
his wife Margaret in St Margaret's Church, King's Lynn.
In this type the box-like body revolves around the centre
post so that the sails always face the wind. The
supporting structure was often enclosed by a brick
roundhouse for storing the grain, as it was here.
Sprowston mill was built about 1730. It was destroyed by
fire on 23rd March 1933, the day before it was due to be
handed over to the Norfolk Archaeological Trust. A
working model of it, made by Mr H.O.Clarke of Norwich,
used to be on display at the Science Museum, South
Kensington.
For many years this mill at Sprowston had been known as
Crome's mill, from a painting by that artist entitled
"A Windmill on Mousehold Heath near Norwich".
In a paper in Norfolk Archaeology in 1966 this
identification was disputed by Dr M.Rajnai, who listed
various titles over which Crome's painting had appeared
since 1844; he particularly referred to an old label on
the back of the frame, to which attention had recently
been drawn, which said "Trowse Mill/near Norwich
by/Old Crome". Dr Rajnai also compared the painting
with a pencil drawing of apparently the same subject by
George Vincent, in which the hill crowned by a post mill,
the winding path, the sandpit and signpost are all found
in the same relationships to each other as in Crome's
painting. He concluded that the similarities were so
striking that there could be no reasonable doubt that the
scene was identical in both works. To clinch the matter,
although the signpost in Crome's painting appeared to
bear no inscription, Vincent's drawing shows it marked
"To Crown Point". Reference to Faden's
Topographical Map of Norfolk dated 1797 confirmed that
there was indeed a windmill close to Crown Point at
Trowse at that time.
That there should have been some confusion over the true
location of Crome's mill is perhaps not to be wondered
at, for old maps and "prospects" show the city
to have been dotted around by both tower and post mills.
These included at least two wood sawmills worked by wind,
of which one stood near another mill at the top of Gas
Hill. While only one is shown in this position on
Corbridge's Map of Norfolk, published in 1750, two are
shown on Faden's map in 1797, and both survived to be
marked on the Ordnance Survey's large-scale town plans
surveyed in the 1880s. |
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Sprowston Rd Post Mill from Windmill Rd [B193]
1931-00-00
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Sprowston Rd Post Mill from allotments [B194]
1931-00-00
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Sprowston Rd Post Mill burnt central post [B506]
1933-03-26
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Sprowston Rd Post Mill after fire [B507] 1933-03-26
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North
side |
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Sprowston Rd 140 Prince of Denmark PH [6671]
1991-05-10
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Sprowston Rd 140 Prince of Denmark PH sign [6670]
1991-04-29
Sculpted in concrete then coloured. The work of Moray
Smith, 1939. |
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Denmark Opening Derelict tramcar chassis [4565]
1960-07-23
The end of the road. |
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Station Rd: |
| |
From
Westwick St / Barn
Rd / Heigham St to Oak St
Renamed as part of Barn Rd and St Crispin's Rd |
|
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Coronation Station Rd 13 to 15 [1567] 1937-05-09
1937 coronation decorations. See also St Crispin's Rd. |
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Stepping Lane: |
| |
From
King St / Mountergate (formerly to Scoles Green)
South side |
|
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Stepping Lane 1 to 3 south side view east [3246]
1939-08-13
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Stoke Rd: |
| |
From
Mansfield
Lane towards Caistor St
Edmund |
|
|
Stoke Rd Old Lakenham Old Mill House [7817]
2001-04-27
Ancillary building. |
|
|
Yare Stoke Rd Bridge mill tributary [7806] 2001-03-06
Road leading to Lakenham water mill. |
|
|
Lakenham rail bridge view east with train [B639]
1933-07-22
Train heading for Ely. |
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Suffolk St: |
| |
From
Somerleyton
St to Union St |
|
|
Suffolk St 78 Alberic Barbiera rambler rose [1043]
1936-06-21
Just over 20 years old, the rose extended 15 yards in
length. |
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Surrey St: |
| |
From
St
Stephen's St to Queen's Rd
passing All Saints Green
West side |
|
|
Surrey St 1 with weavers' window [1048] 1936-06-21
Side of 9 St Stephen's St.
On the southern corner of St Stephen's St and Surrey St
was a four-storeyed building of red brick, some two and a
half centuries old, occupied before the Second World War
by Gerald Spalding's stationer's shop and post office. A
prominent stringcourse of moulded brick divided the first
and second floors, but the chief feature was the long
range of weavers' or thoroughlight windows, which lit the
top floor on the Surrey St side. This lost its glass and
was boarded up in 1942, but the building escaped the
serious damage suffered by its neighbours. The whole
building was, however, taken down some years later when a
start was made on widening St Stephen's St.
For centuries weaving was one of the city's staple
industries. In the 14c artisans from Bruges and Ghent
began to settle in the city because, it is said, of the
initiative of Philippa, Queen of Edward III. Towards the
close of the 16c the industry was considerably augmented
by a "great wave" of Flemings seeking refuge
from the religious persecution of the Duke of Alva,
followed a century later by French Protestants escaping
from the consequences of the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes.
From this time onwards the production of silk fabrics was
greatly increased. A comprehensive account of the Norfolk
and Norwich silk industry communicated by Walter Rudd
will be found in Norfolk Archaeology Vol.21. Rudd
gives a vivid description of its flourishing state during
the 18c, followed by an account of its general decline
when from 1812 yarns spun by power looms began coming
from the Yorkshire mills. Nevertheless, despite the fact
that about 1830 the East India Company ceased to export
Norwich camlets to the east, sufficient business remained
to inspire the building in 1836 of the great yarn factory
in St James's (now Jarrold's printing works) and the
following year of the Albion Mills in King St (now
flats).
Unfortunately the optimism, expressed by these building
proved unfounded, due at least in part to the city's
considerable distance from any coalfields. Nevertheless,
in 1901 some 60 men and 643 women were still being
described as silk weavers, although it was then feared
that in the process of time the old textile industry
would disappear from Norwich completely. In fact the
large silk mills of Courtaulds (formerly Francis Hinde
and Hardy) were demolished only in February 1983, having
closed down two years previously.
For reminders of this once-great Norwich industry one
must now visit the Bridewell museum to see examples of
the old looms, with specimens of their products, or
inspect the main doors of the City Hall, where a bronze
plaque, one of 18 by James Woodford ARA, depicts a girl
operating a power loom. |
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Surrey St 3 [1049] 1936-06-21
|
|
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Surrey St 3 Georgian doorway [0425] 1935-03-28
|
|
|
Surrey St 7 Bignold House [1050] 1936-06-21
Built 1764 for a rich Norwich brewer by architect Robert
Mylne. |
|
|
Surrey St 7 Bignold House lamp standard [7751]
2000-05-06
One of four lamp standards. |
|
|
Surrey St 11 Stanley House [1051] 1936-06-21
|
|
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Surrey St 11 Georgian doorway [0483] 1935-04-20
|
|
|
Surrey St bus station booking office [7695]
1999-10-13
Opened 1936. |
|
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Surrey St bus station NW corner [7688] 1999-09-26
|
|
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Surrey St bus station NW side [7687] 1999-09-26
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Surrey St 21 to 23 [1034] 1936-06-16
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Surrey St 25 to 27 Georgian portico [2187] 1938-03-21
Further up Surrey St, on the west side at the corner of
All Saints Green, stands a terrace of houses (Nos 29-35)
four storeys high, built by the Norwich architect Thomas
Ivory in 1761. The adjoining pair, Nos 25-27 (demolished
in 1963), while similar to and perfectly harmonising with
those adjoining, had a number of minor differences which
led Stanley Wearing to believe that Ivory's son William
took some share in their execution. One of the most
obvious of these differences was to be seen by comparing
the porticos, that of 25-27 being much more ornate than
those of the earlier houses.
On 30th July 1940, at about 6am a single enemy raider
dropped a stick of bombs, one of which exploded outside
these houses, blowing the portico into fragments. The
pieces were carefully gathered up, leading to the
discovery of a number of pencilled inscriptions, one of
which said "James Rump, carpenter and
joiner...Norwich, made this portico in the year
1821". There were other, earlier inscriptions which
Mr Wearing, in a letter to the Press, thought could be
explained only by some portions having been adopted from
an earlier structure, but he would certainly have put the
date of the portico as earlier than 1821. The pieces,
stored in a builder's yard pending reconstruction after
the war, were unfortunately destroyed by fire during a
later raid on the city. |
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Surrey St 25 to 35 [0588] 1935-05-19
Architect Thomas Ivory. 29 to 35 built c1761; 25 and 27
built c1773, according to a date on one of the beams in
the attic. Its portico however was dated 1821. Some years
ago when the portico to 29 and 31 was being repaired the
words "Robert Forstor, March 1762" were found
on a piece of the woodwork. |
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|
Surrey St 29 to 31 Georgian portico [2117] 1938-03-06
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Surrey St 47 to 79 Carlton Terrace [6461] 1987-05-19
Built 1881. |
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East
side |
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Surrey St 2 thatched Boar's Head Inn [0130]
1934-06-17
Much could be written with regard to the Boar's Head inn
at the corner of Surrey St and St Stephen's. Sufficient
here to refer to the historian Francis Blomefield, who
said that "this was the ancient house where the
Brownes lived, as Richard Browne, Alderman in 1456",
adding that the Brownes' arms impaling those of the
grocers' and mercers' companies were to be seen in the
windows there. Richard was a man of considerable note,
being Sheriff in 1449, Mayor in 1454 and burgess in
Parliament in 1459. He died in 1461, his wife three years
later, and both were buried in St Crouch's [Crowche's]
church, the site of which lies close to the lower end of
Exchange St.
In the 17c and 18c the property was known as the
Greyhound, the sign apparently being changed to that of
the Boar's Head when Mr John Norgate acquired the
property about the beginning of the 19c. It was then that
the arms of the Norgates of Cawston were inserted; their
crest is a demi-boar rampant. Until about 1870 the
portion of the building that faced St Stephen's was a
grocery store. Acquired by Diver and Son Ltd early in the
20c, the old inn was carefully restored by them on the
reconstruction of the company in 1925, but it met a fiery
end in April 1942. A fine groined arch in the cellar was
thought to have exhibited traces of 11c work. See also 5
to 7 St Stephen's St. |
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|
Surrey St 2 Boar's Head Inn from yard [1047]
1936-06-21
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|
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Surrey St 2 rear old hall air raid damage [3991]
1951-05-17
Remains of old hall at rear of Boar's Head Inn, gutted by
fire in 1942. Here in 1854 the first music hall in
Norwich was started known as "The Shades". |
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|
Surrey St 2 rear old hall air raid damage [3992]
1951-05-17
Remains of old hall at rear of Boar's Head Inn. |
|
|
Surrey St Norwich Union Surrey House lit [2822]
1938-10-27
Erected 1901, architect George J.Skipper. |
|
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Surrey St Norwich Union Surrey House [4372]
1955-09-01
|
|
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Surrey St Norwich Union William Talbot [7359]
1996-07-07
William Talbot, Bishop of Oxford and founder of the
Amicable Society. |
|
|
Surrey St Norwich Union Samuel Bignold [7360]
1996-07-07
Sir Samuel Bignold, Secretary of the N.U.Fire Office
1854-57. |
|
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Surrey St 10 Water department [1435] 1936-09-22
Municipal offices until 1938. Water department. |
|
|
Surrey St Waterworks Yard Georgian house [1052]
1936-06-21
North-west side of yard. |
|
|
Surrey St 18 to 20 [1027] 1936-06-14
|
|
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Surrey St Norwich Union from bus station [4711]
1962-09-07
Built 1959-62, architects Sir Thomas P.Bennett and son. |
|
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Surrey St Norwich Union Sentinel House [7741]
2000-03-19
|
|
|
Queen's Rd Norwich Union office [7719] 1999-11-28
Sentinel House. |
|
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Surrey St Norwich Union Gaea bronze [7376] 1996-07-27
Gaea, Earth Mother, sculptor Colin Miller 1990. |
|
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Surrey St 30 to 34 [1028] 1936-06-14
|
|
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Surrey St 32 Regency Georgian doorway [0468]
1935-04-19
|
|
|
Surrey St Norfolk Tower from south [7591] 1998-10-02
Built 1971, architects Furze and Haydon. |
|
|
Surrey St Chapel Loke Surrey chapel [6023] 1979-07-26
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel. Built 1854. Demolished 1986. |
|
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Surrey St house by Notre Dame High School [6544]
1989-04-27
|
|
|
Surrey St Notre Dame School part [6576] 1989-07-21
Former Surrey Rd Boys school. Site of abandoned proposed
Inner Link road extension. |
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Sussex St: |
| |
From
St
Augustine's St to Oak St
North side |
|
|
Sussex St 3 to 11 [2798] 1938-09-10
|
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Sussex St 15 to 21 [2046] 1937-10-11
|
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Sussex St 21 Regency Georgian doorway [6545]
1989-06-12
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Sussex St 27a late Georgian doorway [6546] 1989-06-12
|
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Sussex St 29 to 31 [2045] 1937-10-11
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Sussex St 29a late Georgian doorway [6547] 1989-06-12
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Sussex St Ebenezer Terrace 14 to 21 [4492] 1959-05-31
Situated behind 35 Sussex Rd and westwards, backing onto
St Martin at Oak Wall Lane. |
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South
side |
|
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Sussex St 12 to 22 [6553] 1989-06-23
|
|
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Sussex St 22 Regency Georgian doorway [6548]
1989-06-12
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Swan Lane: |
| |
From
London St to Bedford St |
|
|
Swan Lane 3 and left Dipple's swan clock [7733]
2000-02-20
|
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Sweet Briar Rd: |
| |
From
Dereham Rd / Guardian
Rd to Boundary Rd / Drayton
Rd
passing Hellesdon |
|
|
Wensum Sweet Briar Rd Bridge east side [B618]
1933-07-09
Opened 21st October 1932. No previous bridge occupied
this site. The present bridge and roadway (opened without
ceremony) were built as part of the ring road which
girdles much of the city. This was a scheme commenced
soon after the Great War to employ surplus labour and to
help relieve traffic congestion within the city. The
bridge is of concrete, having a double span of some 75
feet, the width between the parapets about 40 feet. |
|
|
Wensum Sweet Briar footbridge view upstream [7429]
1997-02-09
Built to give access from the riverside path on the North
side of the Wensum to Sycamore Crescent Wood Nature
Reserve. Officially opened 5th May 1997 by Julian
Swainson, City Planning Committee Chairman. |
|
|
Sweet Briar Rd at Hellesdon Hall Rd [B653] 1933-08-05
|
|
|
Sweet Briar Rd at Drayton Rd [B654] 1933-08-05
Boundary Rd beyond. |
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Synagogue St: |
| |
Off
Mountergate |
|
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Synagogue St 15 to 25 [2164] 1938-03-14
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Norwich Street Photographs
