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Kitchen, Wash house & other offices; 3 Sleeping Rooms, Closets etc. Freehold, Land Tax redeemed.
Rent £16 pa. total. Apply W Lenny or Mr Sam Love.
£12. Apply WW Garnham.
SALE by Mortgagee in Fair Close. Newly built brick & slated Dwelling in 2 Tenements
Woodroffe.
convenient detached Wash Houses & other offices. Also neatly arranged flower & vegetable Gardens
enclosed in the front by pallisades occupied by Robert Charlish, James Blanch, E purland & JH Piper
SALE: of Mr Thornton’s freehold Property
LOT 4: Four newly erected & substantial brick & slated Residences fronting the Fair Close with
new brick & slated Mixing Bar, Refreshment Room & Summer House.
upon the Lane & Fair Close Road & containing upwards of 20 perches. [became the Institute]
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2 New Houses in Fair Close for Mr Davy
Nurses' Home in Fair Close by Arthur Pells
3 New Houses for Mr Elliott in Fair Close
New Boilermaker's shop for Elliott & Garrood
New House in Fair Close For Wm Smith
New Social Institute in Fair Close for Wm Elliott
2 New Houses for A Elliott in Fair Close
New Store for Elliott & Garood in Fair Close
New Lecture Room for Men's Social Institute disapproved
New Lecture Room for Men's Social Institute
Addition to Nurses' Home
Additions to Cottage in Fair Close for Mr Elliott
Wm Elliott to take extra underground light wire across Fair Close
Alterations to WJ Elliott's House in Fair Close
Hospital to lay Electric Light cable. To be removed if requested
Shed for Mr Elliott in Fair Close
Addition to Elliott & Garrood's Offices in Fair Close
Additions to 26 Fair Close for William Wilson
2 Houses in Fair Close Pathway for Mr Alec Elliott
4 New Houses by Mr Hindes for W Elliott in Fair Close Road
4 New Houses by Hindes for Mr Elliott in Fair Close Road, withdrawn
Small House in Fair Close Road for Messrs Hindes
Addition to property by Elliott &Garrood. Building beyond building line
Additions & alterations of amended plan of premises in Fair Close Road
Additions to workshops by Mr Allen approved
Mr Allen for New Foundry at Elliott & Garrood
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Dashwood, Esq. well planted with Fruit Trees and Bushes, and now occupied as a market garden by
William Delf containing 0a. 1r. 9p. more or less.
Lane, eligibly situated for building purposes at the back of lot 3, adjoining the garden of Robert
[Purchased by S Barkway £90 -Nos 63-73 Fair Close built on site. Four houses built by 1869]
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containing 0a 1r 9p more or less.
Fair Close Lane a good Building Site, in the occupation of William Delf as a market garden,
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to rights of way from Newgate Street to lots 4 and 6, as staked out and shewn on the plan.
[Purchased by Mr Thornton £95; Nos 75-81 built on the site by 1869]
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by Mr William Delf, containing 0a. 1r. 22p.
with a frontage of 91 feet next the Fair Close Lane, admirably adapted for a Building Site, occupied
upon the plan.
the owners of lots 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6.
The purchaser of this lot is to erect and maintain a fence to the North to divide it from lot 5.With lots
4, 5, and 6 are included a right of carriage way from Newgate Street across lot 2 and 5, as shewn
[Purchased by WW Garnham £105; The Institute built on this site]
Dashwood, Esq. well planted with Fruit Trees and Bushes, and now occupied as a market garden by
William Delf containing 0a. 1r. 9p. more or less.
Lane, eligibly situated for building purposes at the back of lot 3, adjoining the garden of Robert
[Purchased by S Barkway £90]
containing 0a 1r 9p more or less.
Fair Close Lane a good Building Site, in the occupation of William Delf as a market garden,
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to rights of way from Newgate Street to lots 4 and 6, as staked out and shewn on the plan.
[Purchased by Mr Thornton £95]
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WEST the Lots are fronting Fair Close Road.
purchased the Land expressly for sale) has been very successful
Lots for smaller Residences, with Gardens in the rear & back entrances to a Private Road. On the
To the EAST the Lots are fronting on Station Road & towards the Station. On the SOUTH side 36
medium depth of 87ft
being nearly £350 per acre. The speculation was solely the Auctioneer’s, James Crisp (who
LOT 1: Corner at the North End near Station Road of 16ft & width at the South of 26ft 6ins,
LOTS 2-8: Pieces of Land lying South of Lot 1 & fronting the Railway:
(2) Thornton £18
(7) Thornton £19 (8 being the Corner Piece) James Barkway of Gillingham £36
LOTS 9-23 Pieces of Land with frontages to the South & abutting on Station Road property
(9-10) Mr Spilling £30 each (11-12) Mr Spilling £28 each (13-14) Mr Spilling £30 each
(15-16) RA King £30 each (17-18) John Crisp £32 each (19) H Wigg £34
(20-21) John Crisp £31 each (22) John Crisp £36 (23) HW Cutting £34
LOTS 24-39: Pieces of Land fronting the West next Fairclose:
(24) C Pearson, Esq £23 (25) Mills £22 (26) Ingram (27) Ingram £19 (28) S Barkway £18
(29) S Barkway £16 (30-31) Church £18 each (32) Pearce £22 (33-34) Youell £19 each
(35) Thornton £16 (37-38) John Crisp £18 each (39) John Crisp £28
LOTS 40-74 Pieces of Land with frontage to the North
(40-41) Isaiah Copeman £18 each (42-43) H Wigg £17 each (44-45) Garwood £16 each
(46-47) Cutting £16 each (48, 49, 50, 51) WW Garnham £15 each (52-53) R Larke £15 each
(54) Brooks £15 (55) James Mayhew £15 (56) Ingram £15 (57-58) H Wigg £15 each
(59-60) Cutler £16 each (61-62) Cutler £15 each (63-64) TA Laws £15 each
(65-66) WW Garnham £15 each (67-68) A Kent £15 each (69-70) Goodwin £15 each
(71-72) S Love £15 each (73-74) Mr Rix of Lowestoft £17 each
LOT 75 Corner Piece fronting the new Maltings: Mr Rix £38
Some years since the Fair Close was sold for about £100-£120 per acre: The present sale £1,554
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Bradnum, John
Bradnum, Mrs
Bradnum Mrs. Susannah, shop-keeper
Bradnum Mrs Susannah, shop-keeper
Bradnum Miss Ellen, shop-keeper
Bradnum Miss Ellen, shop-keeper
Bradnum Miss Ellen, shop-keeper
Girling, Jack
Scarffe, Donald
Scarffe, Donald
Scarffe, V
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29 March. JL Clemence, Architect
hymns “Onward Christian Soldiers etc.
spread the mortar, & a bottle containing an appeal on behalf of the Hospital, a list of the subscribers
to the building, a copy of the East Suffolk Gazette for the current week, & a list of the Municipal
Officers of the Borough, was deposited ijn acavity prepared for it by Master Claude Metcalfe. The
stone was then lowered into its place & Lady Clarke assisted by Mr JL Clemence, the architect,
having “proved” & delivered the customary taps with a mallet, declared the stone to be “duly & truly
laid.”
command of Band Master Fowler, 4th Suffolk Artillery Volunteers, proceeded to the site singing
Foundation Stone. A trowel, having been handed to her by the builder, Mr RA King, she deftly
few years hence, but there was one thing of which they were all most perfectly aware, and the poor
would never cease to be of the land, and that disease of every character & nature would never cease
out of the land. Therefore with that conviction, it was advisable that this hospital should be erected,
where such distress should be met & relieved by those qualified by education & knowledge to attend
to it.
what a day might bring forth - they couldn’t assert what would happen to them a day, a month or a
practical knowledge of all the details of building. They had also in their contractor a man well known
by every one there & no step would be wanted in the building of the Hospital.
The other work .. almost all the fittings & other work had been taken by by persons residing in the
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The Hospital Building is rapidly approaching completion and will be ready for patients by 24 June
the playing of the Band of the 4th Suffolk Artillery. Collections £25 11s
receipts £102.
Capt Crowfoot formed in front of the Council Chamber [in Smallgate] & marched to the Church to
Suffolk, Revs FF Tracy & JH Raven. Mebers of the two Volunteer Corps under Capt Metcalfe &
Esq, MB. The Dispenser is Mr W Flower, MPS, and the Matron Miss Going
Hospital. The new ward which was added brings up the accommodation to 15 beds and 3 cots. The
honorary medical officers are WM Crowfoot, Esq, MB, RJ Metcalfe, Esq MD, and EB Crowfoot,
and expressed regret that he should need to resign through ill health, the office he had held with such
great benefit to the Hospital for so many years. He proposed that Dr Metcalfe be elected honorary
consulting physician in recognition of his services.
appointed to the medical staff of the Hospital. Proposed by Mr Masters, seconded by Rev Muncster.
Larkman sang; Vocal quartet: Messrs AW Jordan, DA Soanes, JL Holt, LG Laws; Miss Grace E
Woods; Piano duet by Mr & Mrs Warder Harvey. (Mendelssohn)
benefits of this noble institution.
were on parade. A section of Yeomanry was also present.
they being without a Band at present - played the Church Call in the Old Market, and subsequently a
selection in the Newmarket. The Artillery Volunteers paraded 100 strong. Upwards of 100 Riflemen
Gymkhana. In the evening there was a cycle and fancy dress parade, followed by a parade of
illuminated bicycles. Proceeds to the Hospital Fund.
annum.
by John Crisp, Esq. Two wards were added in 1887, at a cost of about £400: there are now 15 beds.
is now in the occuption of the owners who give vacant possession on the purchase.
Private Nursing Home.
of the Town. This commodious building is specially well adapted for a School, Boarding House, or
water rates)
TRUSTEE of Mr. WILLIAM WOOLNER GARNHAM’S ESTATE, to Sell by Auction, at the
WHITE LION HOTEL, BECCLES, on Tuesday, 11th August, 1875, at Four for Five o’clock in the
Afternoon, THE following Valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTIES, namely—
Rooms, with Pumps for Hard and Soft Water, and PRODUCTIVE GARDENS. This Property is
enclosed by a Wall on the West and South, and in Front by an Ornamental Iron Area Fence, and has
a back entrance from a roadway adjoining the Nursery Grounds. This Lot is occupied by HENRY
LARKE and BENJAMIN BRADFIELD, as Quarterly Tenants, at the aggregate Annual Rent of £21.
MANN, as Quarterly Tenants, at the aggregate Annual Rent of £22.
Yarmouth; and of the AUCTIONEERS, Beccles, and Carlton Colville near Lowestoft.
STREET; each Residence containing Front Parlour, Kitchen, Back Kitchen, and Three Sleeping
STREET, similar to and adjoining Lot 3. This Lot is occupied by WILLIAM FRAKES and JOHN
LOT 4. Two newly-erected and substantial Brick and Slated RESIDENCES, also in FAIR CLOSE
length, with a frontage of 30 feet, and abutting upon the Property of Mr. Laws and Mrs. Gooding,
Great Yarmouth of Mr. LOVEWELL BLAKE, Public Accountant, Hall Quay Chambers, Great
LOT 5. A Valuable Plot of FREEHOLD BUILDING LAND, in FAIR CLOSE STREET, 118 feet in
belonging to Mrs Taylor.
LOT 1: Building Land on NORTH side: depth 129ft; 30ft frontage on road adjoining garden
LOT 3: Similar Plot on the EAST adjoining Lot 2
LOT 4: Similar Plot on the EAST adjoinig Lot 3
bedrooms. In the Yard in rear of house is soft water tank & 2 boarded buildings used for trade
purposes. Small front garden, iron railings.
Road, with Gardens attached, each containing two sitting rooms, four bedrooms and good offices. No
1 let to Mr Piper at £14 10s, and the other occupied by Capt Osborne, who gives immediate
possession. [the houses have been renumbered, probably nos 1342 & 1344 on 1885 list, owned by
Edward Wm Hindes]
[withdrawn at £195 each]
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tenants. Rent £12. [Nos 8 & 10?]
DWELLING HOUSES, each with Sitting & Living Rooms & 3 Bedrooms. Let to quarterly Tenants
at £43 pa
Scullery & 3 Bedrooms and has small Garden. In the occupatio of quarterly Tenants £26 pa
Bedrooms, Coal House, small Gardens at front &rear, encosed by ornamental iron palisading & brick
wall on south & west sides. In Occupation of Miss Knights & Mr MC Woodward, quarterly Tenants
at rentals of £32 pa.
SALE; FAIR CLOSE: No 14: Begrove Villa.
[purchased GA Dunn £245]
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by Mr William Delf, containing 0a. 1r. 22p.
with a frontage of 91 feet next the Fair Close Lane, admirably adapted for a Building Site, occupied
upon the plan.
the owners of lots 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6.
The purchaser of this lot is to erect and maintain a fence to the North to divide it from lot 5.With lots
4, 5, and 6 are included a right of carriage way from Newgate Street across lot 2 and 5, as shewn
[Purchased by WW Garnham £105]
buildings thereon, and planted with choice fruit trees, as occupied by the Executors of the late Mr
Henry Read, and
and the Pathway connecting the same with Newgate, both lots being freehold & Land Tax redeemed.
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250 members and is open from 9.30 am to 10.30 pm. adjoining is a Lecture Hall, erected in 1904, by
Mr W Elliott, which, including the platform, will seat 480 persons.
contains billiard and reading rooms, lending library, refreshment bar and hot and cold baths: it has
& WC on north side, 2 Cloak Rooms, Lavatory & WC on south side. Side entrance to staircase
leading to large room from passage way on the north. LECTURE HALL with match-boarded roof
50ft x 45ft, with stage & back entrance from passageway on to the north. Kitchen with range, copper
& sink; boiler house, staircase leading to large Room with folding doors, making 3 rooms, Gallery
over Lecture Hall 41ft x 9ft.
Manager of the Cinema.
light. Fittings included. Sold free of all restrictions. Viewed on application to Mr Robert Atkinson,