Hungate was a short street until the 19th century. On the west side, the town ended at what is now the Conservative Club. The
earliest  of  the  houses  built  further  out  of  the  town  on  the  London  Road  seems  to  have  been  “The  Larches”,  built  by the
Independent Minister Heptinstall at the end of the 18th century. This was probably followed by Ingate House soon after 1814 and
Gothic House in the 1820s.
 
increasing in size until the advent of the car in this century. The Foundry & Brass works were built in the 19th century. A printing
works was developed there towards the end of the century. Some of the east side of the road was owned by the  properties in
Blyburgate which backed on to Hungate. The owners of the Conservative Club premises also owned some land on the east side of
the road.
 
According  to  the  Sale of  the estate of a subsequent owner, John Day in 1856 earlier conveyances are mentioned: To Bence
Sparrow, later called Bence Bence, conveyances of purchase were dated 1783, 1784, 1807 & 1816. A portion was taken in exchange
with  Robert Rede in a deed of 1807.
 
one time to Blythburgh. Before the advent of the railway the roadway passed up what is now the bottom of Frederick’s Road, then
called Wash Lane, straight on to Swine’s Green, up Darby Road, eventually joining the present main road at Cromwell Road. When
the Turnpike Road was built in 1802 the London Road undoubtedly became the principal road to the south. Before this time, in the
18th century, it  was however already known as the London Road.

1862 
1872 
 
 
1890 

Thomas Neal, Watch & Clock Maker & Jeweller, Hungate
Miss Harriet Cattermole moved to Hungate [from Ballygate?]; compelled to quit the one she has
occupied several years. The agency of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge has been
placed in other hands.
SALE: Mr EO Chenery leaving the Town: Household Furniture, Bay Cob, 3 Carts, harness etc

PLANNING COMMITTEE
1888 

Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 

5 Jun 
18 Jul 
20 Mar 
17 Apr 
8 May 
2 Oct 
2 Oct 
2 May 
20 Feb 

Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 
Hungate 

approved 
approved 
protest 
protest 
approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 

Additions & alterations to property in Hungate belonging to AW Jordan
Name board on his house over pavement 10ft above ground
Obstructions by Mr Page in Hngate objected to
New Foundry for Messrs SF Field referred back for details
Alterations to Walton's premises in Hungate occupied by Wicks
Addition of swinging sign to Cross Keys for Dowsing
New Buldings for Messrs SF Field near Hungate
Mrs Garrall to erect Hairdresser's sign on her shop in Hungate
Temporary building in Hungate for Mr Dowsing

1905 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1911 
1912 

Listed Building:
 
level. Doric pilasters and pediment with louvered opening. Centre ground floor window, and entrance each side.

Indenture between Robert Smith (of Wrentham) gent, & Sarah his wife & Abigail Nevill of Beccles, 30 May
widow of  Samuel Nevill (grocer), decsd, of the one part & Edmund Artis (timber merchant) & Francis  
Haylouck, (gent) of the other.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1696 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1723 
 
 
1739 
 
 
 
 
 
1809 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1803 
 
 
 
 
 

Samuel Nevill in his lifetime & Abigail conveyed to Sarah Smith, by name of Sarah Lincoln, widow, two
messuages anciently called Greenscornell & Sherrings with the yards etc. by the common way called
Hungate on the west;
& a messuage formerly Barmby’s [Blyburgate 4 - 10] in part & messe, sometime Utting’s, on the east
[ Blyburgate 12 & 14];  
one head abutting upon Blythburgh street north;
and the other head upon a messe late Mason then of  Joseph Cutlove’s south  [Hungate 1 - 7];  
for 1000 years from 18 May 1682 for securing £165 10s for Sarah, her exors etc.
And for reciting a further charge, 26 December 1682 to Sarah Lincoln upon said premises for £86 15s
for another term of 1000 years.
West side 72ft, east side 67 1/2ft; in breadth at the north end 42ft
Indentures of lease & release between Francis Haylouche of the first part & John Killinghall, (clerk),
Robert Sherwood, (hosier); William Crowfoot, (grocer), John Primrose, (linen weaver) Nathaniel  
Newton, (baker) John Utting, (baker) & Thomas Feaver (turner) of the second part & Elizabeth Artis,
widow & executrix of the will of Edmund Artis, decsd, of the third part.
ALL THAT piece of land with a house thereupon , newly built, being parcel of the garden & orchard
late of Abigail Nevill & to her messes or one of them anciently called Greensconnell & Sherrings.
Schedule: the said house to be kept in good & decent repair & continue to be emloyed for a house to
meet in for public worship.
Item: when the present feoffees ot trustees as only three of them shall remain alive, shall make a new
feoffment.
Lease & Release: John Killinghall (Queen Street, in the Park in Southwark & of Eltham in Kent) gent,
John Primrose, Nathaniel Newton & John Utting of one part & Philip le Fabeur, (dish turner), John
Crisp, (yeoman) John Courbould, (baker) & James Wyatt, (tailor).

John Killinghall (of St Saviour’s, Southwark), gent, John Utting, John Crisp, John Courbould, & James
 
 
 
 
Utting, (of Great Yarmouth, watchmaker).

Wyatt  of  the  one part, and Thomas Tingay, gent, Benjamin Dawson, (linen weaver), Robert Taylor,
(cordwainer,  Edward  Utting,  (baker)  Benjamin  Primrose,  (linen weaver), David Barber, (grocer), John
Bird, (glover) William Courbould, son of John Courbould, John Strowgler, (cordwainer), Thomas
Lincoln, (blacksmith) John Morse, (grocer) & Thomas Wake, (of Southwold, merchant) & Thomas

Lease & Release between Benjamin Primrose (of Southwold, gent, eldest son & heir at law of Benjamin
 
 
 
 
other part
 
 
 
 

Primrose, decsd), the Rev Isaac Sloper, Thomas Ebbs (of Mutford,) gent & Thomas Ebbs, his son, &
William Crisp, (soap boiler), John Crisp,(merchant, William Crisp, junior (miller) Daniel Delf, (draper) &
Daniel Delf, his son, Robert Chapmanm (grocer) & Robert chapman, junior, his son, Jeremiah Taylor,
(butcher) & Jeremiah Taylor, jun, his son, Robert Ward, (grocer), & Thomas Fuller, (grocer) of the

Abigail Nevill’s land, since of Nathaniel Newton & then of Thomas Woodroffe [Blyburgate 2]  towards
the north;
Matthew Mason’s afterwards Joseph Cutlove, since of John Morse & then of Damant  
Knights towards the south. [Hungate 1 - 7]
Title of land purchased by Trustees of Mr Robert Ward (forming part of the site of the Chapel built in
1812)
Indenture between John Doggett, (of Mendham, farmer) & Esther his wife, John Foulger (of Burnham,
farmer) & Mary, his wife & Sarah Simpson (of Great Bealings, widow) - the three daughters &  
co-heiresses of Francis Harmer, grocer, decsd in the first part & Thomas Woodroffe, (carpenter) of the
second part. & Daniel Delf, (mercer) of the third part.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1810 
 
 
 
1810 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

John Woodroffe had contracted to purchase the hereditaments at price of £315.
ALL THAT formerly two messes anciently called Greensconnell & Sherrings & the gardens orchards &
tents, sometime since in the occupation of William Leman, Esq & then to Thomas Woodroffe; [north,
Blyburgate 2]
 Hungate to the west;
 & the messe formerly of Thomas Barmby, [Blyburgate 4-10] decsd & since of Joseph Martin, (in part)
& messe sometime of Easly Utting [Blyburgate 12 & 14] in part of the east:
& the other lands formerly of Matthew Mason, decsd, [Hungate 1 - 7] afterwards of Jos Cutlove to the
south.

Lease & Release between Thomas Woodroffe of the first part, Daniel Delf of the second part &  
 
 
price of £600.

[Robert Ward 3rd part?] Jeremiah Smith, gent of the fourth part.
Thomas Woodroffe had contracted with Robert Ward for  sale to him of premises [Blyburgate 2] at

Indenture of lease & release between Robert Ward of the first part, Jeremiah Smith, of the second part
 
 
son, Robert Chapmanm (grocer) & Robert Chapman, junior, his son, Jeremiah Taylor, (butcher) &
Jeremiah Taylor, jun, his son, Robert Ward, (grocer), & Thomas Fuller, (grocer)  Trustees or Feoffees  
of the Dissenters’ Meeting House of the third part.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Rev Isaac Sloper, Thomas Ebbs (of Mutford,) gent & Thomas Ebbs, jun, his son, & William Crisp, (soap
boiler), John Crisp,(merchant), William Crisp, junior (miller) Daniel Delf, (draper) & Daniel Delf, his

Robert Ward had contracted for the sale at the price of £100.
ALL THAT ground on Hungate Street, in a little part & the Meeting House towards the west;
upon the messe sometime since of Easly Utting & then of Thomas Aldis [Blyburgate 12 & 14] towards
the east;
one head abutting upon the Meeting House in part, on the messe & land late of Joseph Cutlove & since
of John Morse & then of Damant Knight [Hungate 1 - 7] (in part) & upon the garden of Thomas Aldis
[Blyburgate 12 & 14] (in part) south;
& the other head abutting on the residue of the yard & ground of Robert Ward [Blyburgate 2] in part &
upon an outbuilding & land belonging to George Roberts [Blyburgate 4 - 10] in part towards the north;
 intended to be separated by a brick wall, to be 10ft high & 9ins thick.
The original Chapel was pulled down. A new Chapel building was put up, partly on new ground.
The Protestant Dissenters, through Rev Isaac Sloper, requested the use of the Assembly Room as a
place of worship for morning and afternoon worship on a Sunday only until their new Chapel be
completed. Agreed.”
[Gowing’s Diary: December 1812: Old Meeting House began to be taken down this month.]
[Gowing’s Diary: 7 February 1813: The first preaching at the New Meeting House. Mr Sloper] 
Non Conformist Chapel Extension 1836. Possibly designed by James Fenton (1805-1875)
Ref: HM Colvin: Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1978: John Murray p. 305)
“Architect & Surveyor & Engineer, Chelmsford & London.
In 1830 married the daughter of John Copland, a wealthy Non Conformist solicitor. Fenton specialised
in designing Non Conformist Chapels.”

 
 
 
1812  
1812 
 
 
1812 
1813 
1836 
 
 
 
 
1840 
 
 
the  
 
 
 
 
1873 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Agreement reciting that Robert Ward, jun, had pulled down & rebuilt the wall 9ft high & 9ins thick &
 
 
 
 
 
 
Taylor, jun, Robert Ward, sen & with the approval by John Flower, Sam Tovell, J Mayhew, deacons

erected thereon a building with span roof of  three feet, perpedicular height from the top. The Trustees
agreed that the wall continue to be the property of the Trustees & Mr Ward, jun, agreed not to suffer
wall to be weakened & to put up & keep properly cleaned water troughs from the south side of the roof
away from the wall & not to put any window in the wall. The Trustees agreed that Robert Ward, jun,
may continue the building, but not more than four feet perpendiclar height from the top of the wall.
Robert Ward, jun, Thomas Barlow, elder, John Crisp, William Crisp, Jeremiah Taylor. sen, Jeremiah

Retirement Meeting of Rev John Flower. £325 collected for presentation.
Presided over by SW Rix, with R Ward & JL Kent (deacons), Rev J Blake, SK Bland & H Stacey  
(Beccles) Rev J Brown (Wrentham) etc.
RIX: “They met that night under very afflicting circumstances. It was not merely that they were parting
with their old Pastor; but one could not help feeling the singular fact that another Minister in the town,
only yesterday had left his church - had left it in good old age ... Never, truly had a Minister or man left
this town more universally respected than their friend Mr Wright.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1874 
 
 
1874 
 
1874 
 
1878-80
 
 
 
 
 
 

Robert Ward gave a History of Congregationalism in Beccles, ending with Mr Flower - then gave him
the present.
Mr Kent gave Mrs Flower a plated tea & coffee service.
Mr Flower: He came to Beccles on a Summer evening forty yeras ago, and during the earlier part of his
visit he wept as he walked about to think that his future years would be passed where no hills arose to
vary the landscape, and  to send gladness into the soul, but he had since learned to drink in joy from
communion in nature in her gentle aspects, & to believ there is a beauty everywhere.
Soon he was ill for eleven months commencing with pleurisy. He recovered , against all expectation &
resumed his duties. After twelve years he broke down utterly and suffered from nervous debility. Rev
Hickman was appointed to assist him and for the last seven years Rev Henry Stacey has been the
afternoon preacher.
There had been changes to the chapel over these years. Enlargig the church & adding galleries had cost
£1,000; The schools cost more than £400.
He had seen several Ministers who by remaining too long in the pastoral office had outlived their own
usefulness, & in some degree at last lost the love & esteem of their people. He had gradually found
 
That for so long a period they had laboured so harmoniously & successfully together would do much to
commend Congregationalism, for that could not be a bad system under which the pastoral labours of
three ministers had covered a whole century.

INDEPENDENT CHAPEL: Mr John Robinson, late of Springhall College, has accepted the cordial
invitation of this church to become their Pastor. It is expected that he will commence is duties on 28th  
June.

Rev Henry Stacey who has assisted in the Independent Chapel for eight years is leaving the town. He
was presented with £30 from members of the Church. [another 17gns presented 30 June]
Rev Henry Stacey & his wife killed in a train crash at Thorpe. They had been staying a few days at
Yarmouth.
Alterations & additions & attached School Buildings 1878-1880
Ref: Norfolk Record Office, 10 drawings: BR 35/2/194. Contract Invitation: Architect 20/12/1879. 
Foundation Stone 14/4/1879.  School Building: Architect: 17/8/1878 opposite page 92
Square headed windows at front & side replaced with arched ones. Ref: Lowestoft Journal 11/9/1880
Architect: Edward Boardman & Son (father 1833-1910)
Norwich architect articled to JL Clemence founded firm in 1860. Assisted in rebuilding Norfolk &
 

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1687 
1696 
1728 
1729  
1761 
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1772 
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1809 
1812 
“1829”
1865 
1878c ?
1933+
1974 -

Sam Nevill, for 2 tents in Hungate, late Crowe & Thomas Murton
Sarah Smith by name of  Sarah Lincoln
Edmund Artis & Francis Haylock
John Killinghall
Philip le Febuer
Peter Frabure, late his Father, the Meeting House (Newton’s)
Meeting House late Febure 

Rent 5d
 

Benjamin Dawson,  for the Meeting House
Benjamin Primrose
Rev Isaac Sloper
John Crisp
John Crisp & other Trustees of the Chapel
Henry Read 
About 1878 they presumably bought the land to build the new schoolroom
Congregational Trustees
Chapel became the United Reformed Church

This property is to the south of the Independent Chapel, where the Chapel Hall now stands.
Nos 1-5 was a shop for riding equipment. 2004: Now a Bookie’s shop
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1613c 
 
1620  
 
 
 
 

Roger Crome
Matthew Mason, for a tent in Blyburgate late Roger Crome (post 6d part to
Joseph Cutlove (folio 58)
WILL:
Beccles, with yards, orchards, gardens & appertunances bought of Thomas Bacon, lying between
lands of  Roger Crome & Matthew Mason on the north; & lands bought of Robert Bunfellow on the
south, abutting on Blythburgh on the east & on a street or highway on the west. On their deaths to
 

 
John Manthorpe: to son in law, John Soane & his wife, Alice, testator's daughter, tent in

1646c 
 
 
1704 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1713 
1779 
1810 
1810 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
other grounds late of Abigail Nevill, now of Nathaniel Newton, in part; & the Lands or grounds of
Samuel Mason, in part; & the lands late of Edward Tyrell, and now of Edward Wiggon in the NORTH;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
since
Thomas Aldis [Blyburgate 12 & 14] (in part) SOUTH;
 
 
 
 
 

Joseph Cutlove, late Matthew part of Capital Messuage late Matthew Mason,
which paid 16d - about a third part. Cutlove is to pay  vid Matthew Mason
(post John Morse) (folio 183) 
INDENTURE between Joseph Cutlove of Ipswich, clerk, Isaac Brand of London, draper, Robert  
Snelling of Ipswich, gent, John Russell of London, merchant, John Mann of Norwich, mercer, & Joseph
Brooke of Norwich, worsted weaver of ONE PART & John Schuldham, gent, the other.
ALL THAT  piece of Land where a Messuage lately stood & lately wasted with fire; with outhouses,
late in the occupation of Mary James, widow & Robert Whale.
BETWEEN the Lands late of Abigail Nevill, widow, now called the Meeting House Yard, in part; &

And the Lands late of John Manby, now of Isaac Debnam in right of Margaret, his wife, late widow &
relict of John Manby on the SOUTH;
Abutting on Hungate to the WEST;
And the grounds of Samuel Mason in part; & houses & lands of William Cawston, in part; & lands late
of John Manby, now of Isaac Debnam to the EAST.
Received 1689 from Joseph Cutlove, draper. [Joseph Cutlove died in November 1689]
John Morse, tent in Hungate late Joseph Cutlove 
Francis Knights, tent in Hungate formely Cutlove & lately Moss 
Damant Knights
ORIENTATION of Congregational Church:
ALL THAT ground on Hungate Street, in a little part & the Meeting House towards the WEST;
upon the messe sometime since of Easly Utting & then of Thomas Aldis [Blyburgate 12 & 14] towards
the EAST;

Task 6d
Task 6d

one head abutting upon the Meeting House in part, on the messe & land late of Joseph Cutlove &
of John Morse & then of Damant Knight [Hungate 1 - 7] (in part) & upon the garden of  

 
 
1816 
 
1841 
1858 
 
1858 
1865 
1865 
1872 
1875 
 
1875 
 

& the other head abutting on the residue of the yard & ground of Robert Ward [Blyburgate 2] in part &
upon an outbuilding & land belonging to George Roberts [Blyburgate 4-10] in part towards the NORTH
ORIENTATION: Deeds for buildings in the yard of 18 & 20 Blyburgate:
Damant Knights in occupation of James Warne
TITHE List: James Dodds etc, occupied by Alfred Boon
ADVERTISEMENT: Thomas Brown, (late assistant to Mrs Shreeve) Baker & Confectioner, Hungate:
Wedding Cakes made on shortest notice. Family baking carefully attended to.
ADVERTISEMENT:  James Beales, Messenger, Bill Poster & Distributor, Hungate Street
James Beales, Bill Poster, Auctioneer’s Assistant has moved to Hungate.
Fire in row of houses next to the Independent Church. This row of houses is very old.
COUNCIL order Mr James Beales to remove encroachments created by his new shop in Hungate
COUNCIL: A connection to the sewer to be made from cottages in Hungate occupied by Markwell &
Beales & tenants be required to discontinue keeping pigs.
SALE: by William Sayer of Four Freehold Dwelling Houses with 40 rods of excellent Garden Ground at
the back in Hungate, now in the occupation of Joh Fairweather, William Beales, John Woolner & Robert

 
1875 
 
1875 
 

Steward.
COUNCIL: Mr William Sayer: work must be done on his property in Hungate or proceedings will be
taken against him (Committee Meeting 2 March)
COUNCIL: Reported that Mr Sayer & Miss Dodds asked Mr Fenn to sell property (Committee Meeting
6 Apr)

1879 
 
 

TO BUILDERS: Sole or separate tenders are invited for the erection of four dwelling houses in Hungate
for Mr William Harper. Plans, etc to be seen at proprietor’s or Mr N Pells & Son, Surveyor

1877 
 

ADVERTISEMENT: Hungate Street, Beccles, James Beales; Bill Poster, Auctioneers Assistant &
Town Crier.  Umbrellas & Parasols Manufactured & neatly repaired. All frames recovered.

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Palmer
Crome
Mason, Matt 
Cutlove, Jos 
Mason, Sam 
Morse, Jn
Knights, Francis 
Knights, Dammant ?1810 
Dodds, Jas 

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1713 
1779 

 
 
1.04 
0.06 
1 
0.06 
0.06 
 
1851 

 
 
T 
T 
T 
T 
T 
 
£4.10 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
V 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Beales, Jas 

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1858 
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ADVERTISEMENT:  James Beales, Messenger, Bill Poster & Distributor, Hungate Street
James Beales, Bill Poster, Auctioneer’s Assistant has moved to Hungate.
Fire in row of houses next to the Independent Church. This row of houses is very old.

1861 CENSUS 
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Frederick Fish 
Dodds, Jas 

aged 40
1871 

 born Beccles 
£7 

tailor 
Beales, Jas 

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1851 CENSUS 
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see 1.1 Hungate 
Dodds, Jas 

1841 
 

 
1851 
aged 72
1861 

 
£4.10 
born Norwich 
£6 

 
V 

 
Page, Robt 
glove maker 
Fish, Fred

 
 
wife, son
 

Hun C
 

Robert Page 
Dodds, Jas 

1858 
 

ADVERTISEMENT: Thomas Brown, (late assistant to Mrs Shreeve) Baker & Confectioner, Hungate:
Wedding Cakes made on shortest notice. Family baking carefully attended to.

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1861 CENSUS 
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1861 
age 38
1871 

£6 
born Beccles 
£7 

Browne, Thos 
confectioner & baker 
Markwell, Jas 

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wife, 1 son, 1 dau, mother
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Thomas Brown 
Dodds, Jas 

SALE: STOCK IN TRADE: James Crowfoot & William Browning, Coach-Builders, Beccles. Catalogues
from Jarman’s Printing Office

1869 
 
 
1872 
 
1894 
 
 
1903 
 
 
1933

SALE: Hungate: from William Sayer in one Lot. Freehold
4 Cottage Tenements & about 30 perches of land. Frontage of 74ft on Hungate. “A pleasant &  
improving part of the Town.”
TO BE SOLD: 4 Cottages in Hungate with good size gardens, apply to W Sayer, Thurlton. NB This site
is well adapted for building purposes.

Partnership between Henry Read, John Read & George Alfred Stanford in business as Auctioneers &
 
Read & GA Stanford together with Henry G Read & Kilton Gayford as Read, Stanford & Gayford,

ADVERTISEMENT: Read, Stanford & Gayford, Auctioneers, Valuers, & Land Agents; Hungate
Street, Beccles; Fortnightly Sale of Horses & fat & Store Stock of every description, at Beccles Stock

Mart
ADVERTISEMENT: Read, Owles & Ashford, Established 1867; Telephone and Telegrams Beccles 45 and
Bungay 42.

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occupants
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Sayers, Jn
Crisp & Son 

1841 
1906  

£13.10
Bryant, EJ 

Crowfoot, G late 
 

Coachmaker 
Dwelling & Shop

Hun C
Printing Office 

 
 
 
 
Dowsing, Wm 
1 
1 
1 
 
 
 
 
 

1907 
1914 
1922
1927 

Bryant, Edward 
Bryant, Edward 

steam printer 
printer

Greengrass, Percy
£45 
1933+ 
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 
1965 
1974 
1974 

confectioner
 
Dowsing, Wm 
Goldsack, Mrs Rose
Sago, JB
Battell & Son Ltd
Medland, Rodney
Hughes (Lowestoft) Radio [nos 1-5]
Link, Roy
Hughes & Norfolk Radio, television sales [Nos 1-5]

1933+ 
Dowsing, Wm 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
warehouse 
confectioner 
shpkeeper
china dealers 

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1881 CENSUS
5477 
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5486 
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Harper, Wm 
Crisp, J Edw 
Crisp & Son 
 
 
 
Read, Owles & Ashford  £30
 
 
 
 
 

Samuel F. FIELD
Esther W. FIELD 
George F.H. FIELD
Ellen V. FIELD 
Francis F. FIELD
Amy E. FIELD 
Henrietta M. FIELD
Winifred R. FIELD
Harry FIELD 
Harriet PLAYFORD

M 
M 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
U 
 
£16 
Read, Stanford & Gayer 
Read, Stanford & Owles 
Read, Stanford & Owles 
Read & Owles 
Read Owles & Ashford 
Read, Owles & Ashford 
Cross, JNT 
Harris, Philip
Robinson, Miss
Hughes (Lowestoft) Radio 

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Read/Gayer/Stanfd
Read/Gayer/Stanfd

Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Stockton, Norfolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
(British Subject), India 

Head 
Wife
Son 
Daur 
Son 
Daur 
Daur 
Daur
Son

Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar

Serv 
Auctioneer 
Auctioneer 
Offices
auctioneers
auctioneers, estate agents & valuers
auctioneers
offices
auctioneers
 

General Serv (Domestic)
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1927 

1936 
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1948 
1954 
1965 

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see 1.1 Hungate 
Sayers, Jn
Sayers, Jn

1835.1
1841 
1851 

 
£4 
 
aged 71
1861 
age 32
1871 
£16 

 
V 
V 
born Redisham 
£6 
born Beccles 
£7.10 
V 

 
Dodds, Jas 
Piper, Jas

Hun C
 
Hun C

 
 
tailor 
Fairweather, Jn 

 
widower

Isaac Piper 
Sayer, Wm 

Hun C
wife
Hun C

John Fairweather
Sayer, Wm 
Harper, Wm 

agricultural labourer 
V 
Wells, Thos 

 
1881 

Labourer Agr 
Tailor master 

Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Hun 5 
Harper, Wm 
Crisp, J Edw 
Crisp & Son 
 
 
 
 
Crisp, JR exors 
 
 
 
 
 

Thomas WELLS 
Anna WELLS 
Anna E. WELLS 
Rachel WELLS 
John S. WELLS 
William T. WELLS
Albert E. WELLS 
George E. WELLS
Harry F. WELLS 

M 
M 
U 
U 
 
 
 
 
 
 
£16 
Coddle
Coggle, George 
Singer Sewing Machine Co 
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Singer Sewing Machine Co 
Singer Sewing Mahine Co 
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Barlow, John

46 
45 
19 
16 
14 
12 
11 
9 
5 
V 
V 
dwelling & shop 

M 
F 
F 
F 
M 
M 
M 
M 
M 
Childs, Chas 
Ward, Jas

St Marylebone, Middlesex,  
Bungay, Suffolk, England 
Bungay, Suffolk, England 
St Pancras, Middlesex 
St Pancras, Middlesex 
St Pancras, Middlesex,  
St Pancras, Middlesex,  
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 

Head 
Wife
Daur 
 
 
Son 
Son 
Son 
Son 
Hun C
Hun C

Tailors Machinist
Daur 
Son 
Gasfitters Apprentice
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar

Dressmakers Apprentice
Tailors Apprentice

1896 
1904 
1906 
1907 
1914 
1922 
1927 
1933+ 
1936 
1948 
1954
1965 
1974 

4 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms & shop 
Sewing Machine Agent

(Ernest Moore)
£36

Hughes (Lowestoft) Radio 
Hughes & Norfolk Radio, television sales [Nos 1-5]

HUNGATE PRINTING WORKS
DIRECTORIES
1888  
1892  
 
 

Jordan, Arthur William, printer 4 Hungate
Jordan, Arthur William, printer, bookbinder, publisher & account book manufacturer, Hungate Printing Works.
(by this time they were at 7 Hungate)
The firm is listed in 1900 but had disappeared by 1904.

1893 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1903 
 

ADVERTISEMENT: All Classes of Printing Well & Expeditiously done by AW Jordan, Printer &
Bookbinder, Hungate Works, Beccles
Long numbers turned out at shortest notice.  Handbills, 3s 6d per 1000; 20,000 for 20s; Memorandun
Forms, 5s per 1000; 5000, 17s 6d; Ruled Bill Heads, 3 sizes, from 6s 1000; A specially good Business
Envelope, with name printed on Flap in any coloured Ink, at 5s per 1000. Business Cards from 7s 6d per
1000.
The Type used in this Office is of the very Newest Designs, & excellent Machinery & Appliances are
fitted for facilitating the rapid output of work.  Your orders respectfully Solicited.
ADVERTISEMENT: North Suffolk Printing Co; Printers, Publishers, & Bookbinders, Hungate Works,
Beccles. Manager - TL Price.

Hun 7 
Hun 7 
Hun 7 
1851 CENSUS 
Hun 7 
1861 CENSUS 
Hun 7 
Hun 7 
1881 CENSUS
5462 
Boys)
5463 
5464 
Hun 7 
Hun 7 
Hun 7 
Hun 7 
 
 
 
 
Hun 7 
 
 
 
 
 

Sayers, Jn
see 1.1 Hungate 
Sayers, Jn

1841 
1841 
1851 

£2 
 
£1.15 
aged 47
1861 
aged 55
1871 
£16 

V 
 
V 
born Beccles 
£3.10 
born Beccles 
£4 
V 

Walker, Rhod 
 
Browne, Jeff 

 
 
 
 
Shoe Maker 
wife, dau
Shoe Maker 
 

Hun C
Hun G
Hun C
wife, son

 
shoemaker 
Stuart, Robt 
shoe maker 
Stuart, Robt 
 

Jeffrey  Browne 
Sayer, Wm 

Robert Stuart 
Sayer, Wm 
Harper, Wm 

 
1881 

V 
/ 

Hun 7 
Hun 7 
Harper, Wm 
Crisp, J Edw 
Crisp & Son 
 
 
 
 
 
Balls, Alfred 
 
 
 
 
 

Hannah HARPER
Sarah UTTING 

M 
U 
 
£17 
Biggart
Hungate Cycle Co
Balls, AJ
Seppings, WJ 
Balls, AJ
Sepping, WJ  
Balls, Alfred 
Balls, Alfred

68 
53 
V 
V 
 

F 
F 
Jordan, Arth 
Galley, H
dwelling

Minories, Middlesex, England
Wheatacre, Norfolk, England

Serv 
Printer
 
6 bedrooms, 4 sitting rooms

1896 
1904 
1906 
1914 
1914 
1922 
1927 
1927 
1933+ 
1936 
1948
1954  
1965 
1974 

Hun C
Hun C

pork butcher [& no 9]
 

Hill, Mrs
Balls, Mrs
Ball, Mrs

AW JORDAN
produced the Beccles Almanacks, the Beccles Parish Church Magazine & the East Brooke Deanery Magazine. Established in 1885
(Beccles Almanack 1896 advert) in Hungate. Ceased in the early 1900s.
In December 1895 premises enlarged “so as to enable the proprietor to meet the increasing demands of his numerous customers”
and new machinery installed..
Extract from “A Visit to the Hungate Printing Works”, by RHC:
“An  electric  bell  apprises  that  gentleman  (Jordan)  of my visit, and also assures me that I am in an up-to-date establishment.
Specimens of posting bills, etc of various sizes are arranged on the walls, thereby displaying at the same time the splendid selection
of large type, suitable for this class of work, together with the elegant and tasty manner in which the bills are printed. Remarking
that I supposed the bills shown were specially selected ones, I am at once assured that such is not the case, the posters etc., being
indiscriminately taken from the ordinary everyday work... I learned that Mr Jordan commenced business in August, 1885, in a very
unpretentious way, but soon found that larger premises were needed, and removed to his present address in December of that year.
Here again, the accommodation soon proved inadequate to the constantly increasing business which flowed into his hands, and
extensions and additions have been necessarily made at frequent intervals.
Taken upstairs, the first room I am shown into is the Composing Room. This is a well-lighted room of about forty feet or more in
length, containing a double row of frames, each filled with numerous partitioned trays or “cases” for holding the metal type, of
which several tons must here be stored....we ... visit the Machine Room, a large room on the ground floor, added to the works
during the present month (December).
Here are several platen machines busily engaged working off various orders, some in black ink, some in colour... The machinery in
this room is capable  ... of turning out 100,000 handbills or circulars per day. Sufficient space is left for the fixing of a machine of
much larger size, and for the application of steam power, which it is the proprietor’s intention to add shortly.
The Binding and Finishing Room ... occupies the whole front of the building, and several hands are here busily engaged folding,
collating, and stitching the numerous sheets of printed matter as they come up from the machine room. The beautifully finished and
ingeniously contrived machines for stitching attract my attention, as does also the powerful guillotine or paper-cutting machine,
which will cut through a solid block of paper 26 inches in width by 5 inches in depth with the greatest ease and smoothness.
Separate warehouses are utilised for the large stock of plain and fancy paper, cards, and drapers’ and bakers’ bags, etc.

The buildings facing the street were built in the 1880s.
But something was designed by Arthur Pells in 1906 for Mr Field [see Pells Drawings list 19 no 18]
The foundry had been set up in 1837. It probably started in Hungate lane and moved here by 1861.

1863 
 
1868 
1881 
1882 
 
at  
 
1890 
 
1903 
 
 
 
 
1906  
 
 
 
 

ADVERTISEMENT: William Harper, Ironfounder: Chaff Cutters & Horse Powers, Cake Mills, Ploughs,
Harrows, Rolls, Turnip Cutters & Pulpers
ADVERTISEMENT: William Harper: Ironfounder & Agricultural Implement Maker: Hungate.
SALE: Iron & Brass Foundry. Executors of William Harper. Stock in Trade
ADVERTISEMENT: Iron & Brass Foundry, Hungate Street, Beccles.
Upon succeeding to the Old-Established Business carried on for the last 45 years by the late W Harper
the above premises, respectfully calls the attention of all Agriculturalists to his Chaff Cutters & Horse
Powers. [etc]
ADVERTISEMENT:  Agricultural engineers, etc. Washing Machines, Wringers,
Spades, Shovels, Forks, Rakes
ADVERTISEMENT: SF Field & Son, Agricultural Engineers, Iron & Brass Founders etc.
Sole makers of Harper’s celebrated Chaff Cutters & Horse Gears, Oil CakeMills, Turnip Cutters,  
Ploughs, Harrows, Rolls, Water Carts, Cultivators, etc. Agent for all the Leading Implement Firms both
English & American for: Binders, Mowers, Reapers, Rakes, Leaders, Swarth, Turners, Toplers, Hand
Rakes.    Hungate Street, Beccles.
SALE:- Late SF Field:  Block of residential Buisness Premises Brick & slated Residence, extensive
premises in rear comprising Store Shed with loft & cellar, Paint Shop with loft & coal cellar, Warehouse,
spacious Foundry, Blacksmiths' shop, Pattern Shops, Stabling & Yards having a frontage of 51ft on
street. Well adapted for a Motor or Cycle Factory, Shops or any business requiring large warehouse
accommodation. (Withdrawn £550)

DIRECTORY
1850   
1855   
1882   
1907 
RATES

William Harper     
William Harper     
Samuel Field        
Redhead & Co 

Iron Founder         Hungate Lane
Iron & Brass Founder      Hungate
Iron Founder & Agricultural Implement Maker  
Cycle Agents

1861   
1871   
1881   
1896   
1904   
1906 
CENSUS

 
 
 
 
 
House Survey 

William Harper     
William Harper     
William Harper     
Samuel Field              ""                         
Frank Field         

Shop, Foundry & Yard      
Shops, Yard & Foundry     
Foundry Buildings         

£23-10-0
£30-00-0
£66-00-0

1881  
1881  

William Harper  66 married, 1 female servant, Iron & Brass
Samuel Field    36 married, Forman Iron & Brass Moulder

1906 
 
coal cellar,  
on street. Well  
accommodation.
 
1914 
1922
1927
1933+
1936
1948
1954
1965
1974

SALE: Late SF Field Block of residential Buisness Premises
Brick & slated Residence, extensive premises in rear comprising Store Shed with loft & cellar, Paint Shop with loft &
 
 

Warehouse, spacious Foundry, Blacksmiths' shop, Pattern Shops, Stabling & Yards having a frontage of 51ft
 

(Withdrawn £550)
Field, Samuel Frederick & Son Ltd 

DIRECTORIES:
 

NEWSPAPERS
1922 

 
 
First & Second Day: Spades, Forks, Rakes, etc, Galvanised pails, Ash Fork Shafts, Spade, Pick And Hammer Handles, Plough Trace, Scythe Sticks and
Rabs,Whippletrees, 25 Iron Pig Troughs, Quantity of nails & Screws, 230 lots of Fittings for various makes of ploughs & Cultivators used in the
District, 67 lots of various Cha