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New Market: Unknown:
1858
Beccles Paper 27 Jul 

SALE; at Premises opposite Town Hall: Furniture & Stock in Trade of  George Harding, under a bill of sale.
Painters, plumbers & glaziers
ADVERTISEMENT:  WV  Feltham,  Boot & Shoe Depot, New Market. New stocks of Men & Women’s
Boots & Shoes of best manufacture.
TO BE LET: Shop & Dwelling House suitable for any trade in New Market at low Rent. [It does not seem to
be either number 11 nor 33]
SALE: Freehold Dwelling, Shop & Premises in New Market in occupation of Frederick Howlett, plumber &
glazier
TO BE LET: House furnished or unfurnished: 2 rooms in New Market. Apply WW Davy, plumber
Corbyn, Baking Powder Manufactury moving from New Market to larger & more commodious premises
lately occupied as Printing Office by Messrs Read Crisp & Moore in Hungate Lane.
Frederick Mills, tailor moving from Hungate to New Market near the church.
FF Mills leaving town. Sale of Furniture.
TO  BE  LET:  Commodious  House  in  Market Place; Entrance Hall, Dining, Drawing, Study & Business
Rooms, 7 Bedrooms & large walled-in fruit & flower garden.
COUNCIL:  Owner of Houses in New Market occupied by Mr Chalker in New Market to provide proper
privy accommodation & connect with the sewers

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Repair Churchyard public paths
Possible site for Public Convenience: Market Row in New Market
Possible site for Public Convenience: next to the Swan & Town Hall
Falcon Inn Yard. Stable in Yard
Fred Hall refused permission to boil bones in Falcon Yard
Arthur Pells to remove hoarding in front of White Horse forthwith
Additions to Mr McQueen's premises in New Market
Alterations to Mr Took's house and shop in New Market
Alteration to Mr Self's shop in [No 18] New Market
Additions to Mr AJ Ball's House in New Market. Explanation needed
Mr Arthur Leggett not to have Fish & Chip van in New Market
Sign 8ft above pavement for Beverley Bros in New Market
Alterations to Tower House for Mr Tracy
Fried Fish Vans to use New Market for 3 months with licence.
Alterations to WC & Urinal at King's Head
against Fried Fish Vans by Inhabitants of New Market
Fried Fish Vans no lomger to use New Market
Alteration Plans for Barclays Bank to be given to Council
Alterations to Barclays Bank
Direction arms to be placed on lamp, centre of Market: to Bungay etc
Swinging sign approved for Mr Leyneck on 32 New Market
Youngman & Preston; provide earth closets; cottages White Ho Yard
AR Scott to place coal hole in front of shop in New Market
Imorovements to drainage at the White Swan for Morse & Woods
Passage for Mr Brett in theNew Market
Signboard for Mr Rayner's Shop, 5 New Market
Alterations to premises in New Market for Womack Brooks
Alterations to Mr Loades' premises in New Market [No 18]

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New Market
SHOPS

14th Century and later:- The surviving evidence in East Anglia & elsewhere indicates that shops were set at the front of otherwise

quite normal houses with a passage at one side leading straight through to the hall and courtyard and with
a side entry from the passage into the shop. Many of the Kings Lynn ‘L’ shaped houses must have begun
like this. The unglazed serving bays had internal shutters which hinged up during business hours.
From the middle of the 18th century shopkeepers perceived that the advantage of the modern shop front
as a vehicle for increased sales, an early favourite being the bow front made up of many small panes. (see
High Street, Wells-next-the-Sea, but the best 18C. example is at the Paper Shop at Burnham Market.) The
style carried on. where trade was not good enough to replace it with newer fashions. Style still in use c
1840  (in  Victoria  Stores  in  Mattishall).  There  were  structural  disadvantages  with  the  bowed  front,
especially what to do about the cornice and the junction with the flat wall of the building behind.
Greek taste from about 1810 provided the solutions: rectangular in shape, an entablature for a fascia board
and a cornice for weather protection. eg late 18c No 14 Market Place Aylsham, advanced for the provinces
in its fluted Ionic columns under an entablature.
In the early 19C a variation was the double-fronted display window, with a door in the centre, which was
used where the front was wide enough.

1700-1830  
 
 
 
 
1875
Beccles Paper 26 Jan 
COUNCIL: People using the Pump near the Town Hall to pay 6d a Quarter
1883
Beccles Paper 24 Apr 

 A new large lamp had been put up in the New Market by the Gas Company. The Councillors generally
deemed it a success. But would electric lighting be better, even if slightly more expensive?
TOWN COUNCIL:  The Gas Company asked to remove the lamp in the centre of New Market

1917
Beccles Paper 24 Jul 
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David Lindley, 16 Frederick’s Road, Beccles, 1990-2003 
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New Market 1   [Nationwide Anglia 27 April 1997] New Market BM

Listed Building:
18 century with alterations. 2 storeys and attic. Brick, painted. 3 windows, at first floor, near-flush-frame sash, with glazing bars, formerly with

cambered heads, the arches of which remain. 2 casement dormers. New pantiles. Bank windows at ground floor and
entrances in wood case with slender pilasters and bracket entablature.
Arthur Pells put in a new shop front (not the present one) & included the passageway on the left into the building.
See Pells list 22 No 19 undated

 
 
1846 
Norfolk News  8 Aug 

SALE  by  Fenn:  House  &  Shop  near  Corn  Exchange  occupied  by  I  Ward,  tailor & hatter, owned by
Zaccharia Bullen “Estate Agent”, Ingate Lodge.
CREDITORS: James Thirtle, grocer, tea dealer, draper, etc Sale of Stock in premises near Town Hall.
[No 1 New Market]
Abraham Brown, Boot & Shoemaker, thanks for 17 years support, has taken business of James Carr, New
Market.
OWNER

1848 
 
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Norfolk Mercury 26 Feb
 
Beccles Paper 16 Jan 
 
 
 
OCCUPANT 

1810
1814
1823
1827
1841
1851
1851 CENSUS
390 

Zacharia Bullen 
Zacharia Bullen 
Zacharia Bullen 
Mary Anne Gooderham
Mrs Gooderham 
John Garnham 

Zacharia Bullen 
Zacharia Bullen 
Zacharia Bullen 

 
 
 

saddler, auctioneer
saddler, auctioneer
saddler, auctioneer

£4

James Thirtle 
James Thirtle 

 
 

grocer 
grocer 

 
 

 
 

£13- 5s
£11- 15s

James Thirtle 


1879 @ 73]

44 
Sheringham, Norfolk 
 
Head 
Grocer & Provision Dealer 
[d

390 
390 
390 
390 
390 
390 

Esther Thirtle 
William Thirtle 
Esther Thirtle 
Ferdinand Thirtle
Mary Ann Thirtle
Robert John Thirtle

37 
 
14 
11 


16 



Norwich, Norfolk

Norwich, Norfolk
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Sufolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 

 
Briston, Norfolk 

Wife 
 
Dau 
Son 
Dau 
Son 

 
Son 
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
 

 
Scholar

 
[d 1888 @ 85]

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

[died 1862]

1861
1871
1881
1881 CENSUS
? uninhabited [shop?]
1896
1904
1906 Survey 
1907
1912
1914
1922
1927
1933
1937
1948
1954
1965
1974
 

John Garnham 
John Garnham 
Robert Block 

Robert Block 
James Carr 
David Soanes 

 
 
 

grocer 
 
shoemaker 

 
shoemaker 

 

£13
 
£18

£18
 

Mrs Block 
Mrs Block 

William H Delf 

 
 

fancy depository
fancy depository 
dwelling & shop 
fancy depository
fancy draper
fancy repository
Miss Evelyn Delf
E Delf 
Evelyn Delf 
Evelyn Delf 
E Delf 
E Delf 
National Provincial Bank
National Westminster Bank

William H Delf 
Block, AR    William H Delf 

 
 

£20
4 bedrooms 2 sitting rooms & shop 

5 occupants

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

William Delf 
William H Delf 
William Delf 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

fancy draper
fancy depository
 
fancy draper
fancy depository
fancy repository

 
WH Delf exors 

 
 
 
£50 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
I have not been able to idenify this property before 1810, or its earlier ownership. It may have been a part of 3 New
Market on the west side or Lloyds Bank or Sheepgate AE on the east.

ALSO
1954

 
 
 
 
Mrs FC Ross 
 
ladies’ outfitter 
 
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New Market 3 
[Midland Bank 25 April 1997]
 
New Market ZL

Building on the site prior to the Bank, built in 1863. Bank dates from 1921
Listed Buildings description:

Midland Bank, 1921, stone. 3 arched windows and arched entrance. Doric order with balustraded parapet. Group value. Nos 1 and 3
form a group with Lloyds Bank and premises  adjoining to the north and south in Exchange Square.

1593
1637c
 
1638
 
1640c
1649
 
1653

Task NMar 15 

Mr Bungay, for a tenement late Turner's before Francis  
Robert Soane, mercer, for 2 tenements, messuage late Debden before Bungay  [folio 144] 
[Robert Soane married Mary Brouning in 1632]
Robert Soane, for one messuage an Inn called the Bell in the New Market and
another late Bungay, Ben Fuller 
William Crane, Tenement late Debden before Bungay  [folio 166]
William Crane, the Elder, mercer, late Fuller 
[William Crane, senior, born 1595; died June 1651]
William Crane, Messuage and yard in Sheepmarket near the Market next to the house of Henry Parker on
the west, which descended to him from  William Crane
William Crane, junior, Tenement late his Father's formerly Soane's, of old Debden's [folio 187]  Task 8d.
HEARTH TAX: 
William Crane, Gent, [born 1624; died 1691] for a tenement in the New Market south  
Indenture  between  Mary  Warner,  widow, one of the daughters & co-heiresses & executrix of William
Crane, gent, of the one part & Thomas Stubbs, brazier, of the other..  
ALL  THAT  messuage  wherein  William  Crane  for  a  long  time dwelt & wherein he also died & where
Thomas Stubbs dwells, with outhouses, stables, yards, orchards, etc. situated
BETWEEN the messuage formerly of Edward Tyrell now of Richard Playters [New Market no 5 (FA), now
Boots]
 in part & parcelsof one other messuage called the Falcon [New Market no 9 (FA) now Martin’s]
in part of the west:  
& another messuage late William Crane now in the use of John Rogers [Sheepgate AE] in part  & parcel of
a messuage now of Mary Warner & formerly of Philip Nevill [Sheepgate, now Lloyd’s Bank (H)] in part &
in her occupation formerly parcel of the same premises on the EAST;
 & abutting the street to the NORTH;
& a lane to the SOUTH [Hungate Lane?]
AND a small piece of land near the gate of the above messuage or Inn called the Falcon, adjoining the
house, formerly a stable, but now used by Thomas Stubbs for a warehouse, extending from the south end
of the stable or warehouse towards the north 40ft & 10ft breadth.
[Visitation of the County of Suffolk: “The Cranes resided in a good old house in a conspicuous part of the
Town of Beccles, but which has  lately been rebuilt. (date?)”]
Thomas Stubs,Tenement late Crane's formerly Soane's
Stephen Bootman, tenement late Crane's formerly Soane's since Stubbs
Stephen Bootman: huge inventory of shops etc: Framlingham, Halesworth, Beccles; Value £577
SEE full copy of Inventory in Inventories file.
[Stephen Bootman died in January 137/38, his wife Mary in February 1737/38 & their daughter Mary in
June 1738, aged 2]
TO LET: Shops in Beccles & Halesworth to be let, late in the use of Stephen Bootman, brazier, deceased
Stephen Bootman, one messuage in or new New Market next Sheepgate, formerly Crane's, since Stubbs

 
 
 

Task 8d.
Task 8d.

 Task S 21 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
Task 8d.
 

Rents 2s 10d
Task C 4 
Bec Man Rental 65 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.
 
Bec Man Court 14 
 
 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.

1653c
1674
1693
1708 

Task C 38 
 
Mr Crane 
6 hearths 
 
Bec Man Rental 82 
Rent 2s 10d.
5April 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

1708
1730c
1737/38 Inventory 26 Jan 
 
 

Task S 50 
 
 

 
 

 
 

Task 8d.
Task 8d.

Task B 101 

 
 

1738/9 Norwich Paper 11 Mar 
1739

Bec Man Court 3 

 
Relief of 2s 10d. by death of  Stephen Bootman, his Father.
John Field, tenement late Bootman's before Stubbs in Sheepgate near New Market. 
Thomas Blowers, Messuage in or near New Market next Sheepgate formerly Stephen Bootman

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent   2s   10d.

1746
1757
 
1769

Bec Man Court 2 
Rent 2s 10d.
Bec Man Court 4 
 

 
Catherine  Blowers,  Widow,  messuage  near  New  Market  next  Sheepgate  late  Thomas  Blowers,  her
husband, Stubbs, Bootman and late Field. 
Mary Blowers?
James  Courtnall,    [He  died  in  May  1829  aged  73 & was buried in the Congregational graveyard]
Messuage late Mary Blowers 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.
Bec Man Court 12 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.

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1797

Bec Man Court 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.
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1830
Bec Man Court 5 

Sarah Courtnall, widow, messuage near New Market, late James Courtnall, her husband and before of Mary
Blowers.
James  Courtnall,  of  Barnet,  Herts. Messuage in or near New Market late Sarah Courtnall before Mary
Blowers.
ADVERTISEMENT: 1 June 1849: William Woods, premises late Mr Woodward, opposite Kings Head Boot
& Shoe

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.
1839
Bec Man Court 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 2s 10d.
1849
Advert Rix Coll 

Grocer, tea dealer & cheesemonger; low price cigars
received  in his dairy  Suffolk Cheese

1857
1857

ADVERTISEMENT:
ADVERTISEMENT:

R Block, [3]
New Market,
Beccles Mthly Adv 2 Feb

Robert Block, has
ADVERTISEMENT: R. Block.  Good rice for feeding
Contractors for pulling down & rebuilding the shop belonging to Mr Block. Apply to see plans.
Recent Improvements of Streets:- Houses formerly a disgrace & an eyesore have been pulled down &
supplanted by buildings erected in a more modern style. ... By far the most marked improvement which has
of late years been made, is the new premises erected in front of the Kings Head by Mr Block. They consist
of a very fine house built of white brick and containing a large and commodious shop, very handsomely
fitted & well arranged, forming on the whole an improvement which has long been needed in this much
frequented entrance to the Market Place.
CHRISTMAS: The Shops in this Town are gay with their usual Christmas decorations, especially those of
Mr R Block & Mr CF Parker, grocers.
LOCAL ELECTIONS: Retiring Councillors: C Horsley, H Read, JL Kent, A Kent.
Elected C Horsley 245, Read 225, Kindred 165, WW Garnham 137.

Beccles Wkly News 6 Oct

1862
1863
1863

Beccles Wkly Nws 27 May
 
Beccles Paper 27 Oct 
1863
Beccles Wkly Nws 29 Dec

1865
 
 
1877

Beccles Wkly 7 Nov 

 
 

Failed: JL Kent 112, A Kent 99, W Thornton, W Wright, R Block, A Brown 88.
MUNICIPAL  ELECTIONS:  Candidates:  Mr  Block,  E  Masters,  N  Pells,  JP  Walton.  Mr  WP  Garrod has
withdrawn.
ELECTION: Elected: JM Brundell 350; E Masters 316; A Brown 252; N Pells 244;
NOT ELECTED: Isaiah Copeman 228; JP Walton 225; R Block 39, H Newson 30. About 590 burgesses took
part. With the working classes Isaiah Copeman & A Brown were the favourites, which shows what can be
done by personal canvas & liberal promises!

East Suff Gaz, 23 Oct 

1877
 

East Suff Gaz, 6 Nov 
 

1880
1882

East Suff Gaz 23 Nov 

ELECTED: Robert Block, elected without opposition.
TO BE LET: Three Villas, Salisbury Place, Station Road, each containing Drawing Room, Dining Room,
Kitchen, Scullery, 4 Bedrooms. Rent 18 gns pa. Apply Robert S Block.
NOMINATIONS  OF  PARISH OFFICIALS: Overseers: JM Brundell, TA Woodroffe, RA King, A Pells;
Guardians:  R  Block,  J  Boutell,  JK  Garrod,  H  Cunningham, B Woolnough & WR Clarke. Assessors &
Collectors of Taxes: James Mullet & Jonathan Nobbs
BECCLES WATER & GAS COMPANY AGM: Present *JP Walton (Chairman), *J Crisp, *WM Crowfoot,
*CF Parker (Managing Director) *WH Tacon, H Read, W Read, S Steel, *RS Block, H Hopson & W Delf.
Profit £999. Dividend Paid in 1888: 9% of £8600 = £774. Manager’s Salary £150; Secretary £40; Wages

Beccls Paper, 24 Oct 
1883
East Suff Gaz 20 Mar 
1889
East Suff Gaz 4 June 

£234;  Coal £820. [*Directors, reappointed] Dividend 9% to be paid.
             BLOCK, Robert  Shimmon, retired  grocer, 67 years,  16 May 1891 

1891 
1890

Burial 

consecrated ground
ADVERTISEMENT: PJ Jolly of Ipswich has succeeded to old fashioned Italian Stores of Mr RS Block in
New Market. Experience of Tea & Provision Trade.
Mr RS Block thanks for support of last forty years.

Beccles Paper Jul 
 
 
 
OWNER 
 
OCCUPANT

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1851 CENSUS
390 
390 
390 
390 
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1871
1881
1881 CENSUS
5117

James Courtnall 
James Courtnall 

 
 

William Smith 
Charles Suggate 

 
 

 
Shoemaker 

 

£6- 10s
 

£5- 5s

Charles Suggate 
Elizabeth Suggate 
Elizabeth Suggate 
Charles Suggate 
James Courtnall 
Robert Block   
Robert Block 


34 
31 

11 mths
Robert Block 
Robert Block,  
Robert Block 




Brampton, Suffolk
Somerset
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Beccles, Suffolk 
 
 
 

Head 
Wife 
Dau
Son 
 
 
 

Shoemaker
 

 
 
 
 
 

Grocer
Grocer
Grocer

£6
£40
£40

NMar 
Alfred Robt. BLOCK
28 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Head 
Grocers Son & Assistant
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1896   
1904
1906 Survey   Block, AR    Jolly, PJ 
1907
1912
1914
1922
1927
1933
1937
1948
1954
1965
1974

NMar 
NMar 
NMar 
Mrs Block  
 

Esther ROSE 
George PRETTY 
Amy MULLITT 


66 
19 
21 
 
Philip Jolly 
6 bedrooms, 3 sitting rooms & shop 2 occupants  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




Grocer

Worlingham, Suffolk, England
Hoxne, Suffolk, England 
Wissett, Suffolk, England 
 
 

Aunt 
Assistant
Serv 

Annuitant
Grocers Assistant
General Serv (Domestic)


Philip Jolly 
 
dwelling & shop 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Mrs Block

 
Grocer
 
£75

Water supply from King’s Head pump
grocer
Wine Dealer
grocer

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Philip Jolly 
Philip Jolly 
Philip Jolly 
Midland Bank
Midland Bank (HE Davis, manager)
Midland Bank 
Midland Bank
Midland Bank (OL Smith, manager)
Midland Bank  (OL Smith, manager)
Midland Bank
Midland Bank

 
 
 

 
 
 
£136
NEW MARKET 3.1
1861

ADVERTISEMENT:  Harriet  White,  bookseller  &  stationer  has  taken  over  Premises  in  New  Market
occupied by Miss Cattermole

Beccles Wkly Nws 13 Aug

1841
1851 CENSUS
390 
390 
390 
390 
1851
1861

James Courtnall 
 
Sam Cattermole 
 
Bookseller 
£15-5

Samuel Cattermole
Harriet Cattermole
Samuel John Cattermole U 
Harriet Boon 
James Courtnall 
James Courtnall 


76 
 
48 
 
Harriet Cattermole
Robert Block 


49 

18 

Beccles, Suffolk 

Beccles, Suffolk 

Bookseller 
 

Head 
Beccles, Suffolk 

Stationer
Dau 
Stationer
Serv 

Housekeeper

Son 
Trowse, Norfolk 

Household Servant

 
 

£15-15
 

Grocer
£8
NEW MARKET 3.2 near

1841
1845
1849
1850

 
 
 
 

James Courtnall 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Ayers, Wm
Woodward, Wm
Woods, Wm 
Jarman, George 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

boots & shoes
printer

1851 CENSUS
390 

empty (late Jarman)
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New Market  5  [now Boots 21 April 1997]  New Market CG

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1644
1649
1664 
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1675
1693
1700
1736
1748
 
1783

Henry Barker, for one messuage in New Market Way late Osborn 
Henry Barker for a tenement late Osborne 
Henry Barker 
Edward Turrell, in the New Market, late Osborne after Barker 
Mr Turrell, Hearth Tax, 5 Hearths
Eliz Turrell for tenement late Barker in New Market 
Robert Collyer tenement in New Market South
Richard Playters, (apothecary)  tenement in New Market late Colliers 
Taylor, Robert [died 1746] tenement late Playters before Collins
Francis Sewell, Mess in New Market late Robert Taylor before Playters & Colliers
[Francis Sewell married Martha Matthews in 1757; He died in 1783; she died 1772]
Martha Sewell, [born 1757; died 1823 aged 65] tenement in New Market, late her father’s, Robert Taylor
before Playters 
Robert  Wall,  of  Great  Yarmouth, gent., messuage in or near New Market late Martha Sewell, spinster,
before Francis Sewell,  formerly Robert Taylor
Rev Thomas Wall, of Toft Monks, messuage near the New Market now in occupation of John Mayhew,
late Robert Wall formerly Sewells 
Robert  Wall  a bankrupt, Sale 12 Nov 1838: messuage with Banking Room, Chemists & Linen & Wool
Draper in front near the Market Place in occupation of John Mayhew 
JB Corbyn, Market Place, Beccles. Stock of the newest & most popular music, including songs, dances,
duets, glees, quadrilles, waltzes etc. Also pianoforte music in great variety.
John Garnham, messuage near New Market now in occupation of Joseph  Corbyn, late Thomas Whall
formerly Robert Whall 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Rent 10d
Rent 10d
Rent 10d
Rent 10d

Bec Manor Court  

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

Bec Man Rental 
 
 
 
Bec Man Rental  
 
Bec Man Rental
Hearth Tax 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
Rent 10d
 

Rent 10d
Bec Man Spec 
 
Bec Man Rental  
Rent 10d
Bec Man Rental  
 
Bec Man Rental  
 
Rent 10d
Bec Man Rental
 
 
Bec Man Court  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 10d
1809
Bec Man Court  
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 10d
1837
Bec Man Court 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rent 10d
1838
Sale 12 Nov  
 
 
 
1847
Trade card 
1852
Bec Man Court 

 
JB Corbyn, [5]

 
New Market, Baking Powder manufacturer, packets 1d, 2d, 4d, 6d, 1s,

 
 
 
 
 
Rent 10d
1857

ADVERTISEMENT:
wholesale & retail

Beccles Mthly Adv 2 Feb
New Market, Chemist & Druggist, prescriptions prepared

1857
1857

ADVERTISEMENT:
ADVERTISEMENT: Mrs Corbyn, [5] New Market, Piano & Singing, instruction in the accomplishments;

JB Corbyn, [5]
Beccles Mthly Adv 2 Feb
Beccles Mthly Adv 2 Feb

terms on application
FIRE  at

1857
1857

JB Corbyn’s,
Baking Powder Factory at 8am while the manager (C Crickmer) was at breakfast
Beccles Mthly Adv 1 Apr

MUSICAL SOCIETY: Assembly Room concert: Alfred Stanford, flute, superior amateur; Mrs Corbyn, Mr
Steel

Beccles Wkly News 21 Apr
1860

MUSIC: Selection of Sacred Music in the Assembly Rom by a Band & Choruses of Amateur Performers
conducted by Mr & Mrs Corbyn. 29 March: Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Haydn)
ADVERTISEMENT: Mrs. Corbyn  Piano student
ADVERTISEMENT: JC Corbyn, Chemist, Summer Beverages: Persian Sherbert & Gingerade. In packets of
1d each, for a refreshing, grateful & Cooling Draught.
BANKRUPT: JB Corbyn, Chemist & Druggist, Nw Market
Bankruptcy Act: Joseph Bishop Corbyn, chemist & druggist. Send details of debts to W.W Garnham, one
of Trustees of Assignment.
SALE under Trustees of Bankruptcy. Goods of Mr Corbyn.
William Flower [son of the Minister of the Congregational Chapel] takes dispensing chemist business of
Mr Corbyn. For the past five years he has been assistant to Messrs Randall & Son of Southampton &
head of the Dispensary Department.

Beccles Wkly Nws 20 Mar

1862
1858

Beccles Wkly Nws 8 Jun
Beccles Paper 8 Jun 
 
 
 

1865
1865

Beccles Wkly 26 Dec 
Beccles Paper 26 Dec 

1866
1866

Beccles Paper 2 Jan 
 

 
1875
1875
1878
1880
1880

 

ALSO TO LET: two sitting rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 attics, kitchen, wash-house. Apply W Flower.
LICENCES:  William Flower, New Market, Intoxicating Liquor Licence; owner John Garnham
ADVERTISEMENT: William Flower, Wines & Spirits, Chemist
ADVERTISEMENT: Flower, Chemist, Market Place. Wines, Spirits, Champagnes, Whiskey.

East Suff Gaz 3 Aug 
East Suff Gaz, 23 Nov 
East Suff Gaz, 1 Jan 
East Suff Gaz 6 Jan 

ADVERTISEMENT: William Flower, chemical & drug warehouse, Market Place.
Congregational Schools. Superintendents: E Masters & JL Kent,; Treasurer W Read; secretary C Chase.
Mr Flower resigned secretaryship after 13 years, who recalled that he took over from Mr ward, who on the

East Suff Gaz 2 Mar 
Beccles, Streets, Newmarket properties 
David Lindley, 16 Frederick’s Road, Beccles, 1990-2003 
10

night he resigned the post of Superintendent, died.
ACCIDENT to Mrs Corbyn, who fell down the stairs carrying some linen.
Mrs CORBYN leaving Beccles. She has been intimately associated with the local musical world of Beccles
during the last 50 years. A few years ago no one thought of getting up a concert or an entertainment
without asking Mrs Corbyn to assist. Many a first class concert has been promoted in Beccles by Mrs
Corbyn and her late husband, and the Beccles public past and present, owe much to her in the elevation of
musical taste of the community. I hear she is about to reside wih her son in London.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY of Great Britain have elected William Flower a member
DEATH of Mrs FLOWER. She went to Cookley, near Halesworth, to make arrangements for the marriage of
her sister, but she caught a chill and became very seriously ill. Mr Flower spent his time in nursing his wife
at night and attending to his business in the day-time, until he too, exhausted by his unwearied attentions
and by anxiety, was prostrated, and the sad intelligence of his wife’s death of kidney disease reached him
as he lay helplessly weak and ill in bed. Mrs Flower, who was the daughter of Mr Tacon of Wrentham,
leaves seven young children. [she was 44]
ADVERTISEMENT: AW Rayner, MPs, MICO, Chemist and Optician, Photographic Materials; Drugs and
Galenicals.  Established  1812.  Market  Place,  Beccles; Toilet requisites bu leading makers; Private Sight
Testing Room. Phone 110. Registered Optician under National Health Insurance Additional Benefit.
Pulled down & replaced with new building

1882
1889

East Suff Gaz 5 Dec 
East Suff Gaz 28 May 

1887
1887

East Suff Gaz 19 Apr 
East Suff Gaz 17 May 
1933
Beccles Advert Cttee 
1962
 
 
OWNERS 
OCCUPIERS 
OCCUPATION

1644
1650
1668
1694
1756
1781
1820  
1824  
1828  
1832  
1841
1851
1851  CENSUS
389 
389 
389 
390 
390 
390 
390 
390 
390 
390 
390 
390 

Barker, Henry 
Barker, Henry 
Turrell, Edward 
Playters, Dr 
Sewell, Francis 
Sewell, Francis 
Robert Wall 
Robert Wall 
Robert Wall 
Robert Wall 
Garnham, John 
Garnham, John 

Barker, Henry 
Barker, Henry 
Tyrell, Edward 
Playters, Dr 
Sewell, Francis 
Sewell, Francis 
John Mayhew  
John Mayhew 
John Mayhew 
John Mayhew 
Corbyn, JB 
Corbyn, JB 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Banker & draper 
Banker & draper 
Banker & draper 
Banker & draper 
Chemist
Chemist

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

9.02 s
11.06 s
13.09 s
14
£4
£6
£10 
£13-6-8
£13-6-8
£13-6-8
£26.10
£26

 
[d 1853 @ 68]

 
 

Joseph Corbyn 
Eliza Corbyn 
Catherine Corbyn
Joseph H Corbyn 
Eleanor Corbyn 
Anna Maria Corbyn
Alfred T Corbyn 
Ellen Copeland 
William C Smith 
Edward Wods 
Eliza Barkway 
Sarah Hammond 


35 
36 





19 
19 
16 
22 
21 












Halesworth, Suffolk
Botesdale, Suffolk
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Islington, Mddx 
Uxbridge, Mddx 
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Geldeston, Norfolk
Halesworth, Suffolk

Head 
Wife 
Dau 
Son 
Dau 
Dau 
Son 
S-in-Law
App 
App 
Serv 
Serv 

Chemist & Druggist
Professor of Music
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
Governess
Druggist Apprentice
Druggist Apprentice
Domestic Servant
Domestic Servant

[d 1889 @ 73]

 
 
 
 
 




 

1861
1871
1881
1881 CENSUS
5107
5108
5109
5110
5111
5112
5113
5114
5115

Garnham, John 
Garnham, John 
Flower, Wm 

Corbyn, JB 
Flower, Wm 
Flower, Wm 

Chemist
Chemist
Chemist

 
 
 

 
 
 

£26
£30
£30

William FLOWER
Jane S. FLOWER 
Catherine FLOWER
Annie G. FLOWER
Marion J. FLOWER
William T. FLOWER
Henrietta S. FLOWER 
Alice  FLOWER 
Eliza KENT 


59 
37 






 









17 

Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 

Head 
Wife
Daur 
Daur 
Daur 
Son 
Daur

Chemist & Drug 11 Men & 1 Boy

 
 
 
 

Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar

 

Daur
Covehithe, Suffolk, England

Serv 
Cook (Domestic Serv)
Beccles, Streets, Newmarket properties 
David Lindley, 16 Frederick’s Road, Beccles, 1990-2003 
11

1896
1904
1906 Survey Flower, Wm 
1907
1912
1914
1922
1927
1933
1937
1948
1954
1965
1974
2001

Flower, Wm 
Flower, Wm 

Flower, Wm 
Ground, Wm 
Rayner, AWdwelling & shop 
Ground, WD! 
Rayner, Arch 
Archibald Rayner 
Rayner, Arch 
Archibald Rayner 
Rayner, Arch 
Rayner, Arch 
Boots  
Boots 
Boots 
Boots 
Boots 

Chemist/Wine merchant 
Chemist

£30
 
5 bedrooms, 3 sitting rooms & shop 

 
£45
2 occupants

 
 
 
 
 
Rayner, Arch 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Chemist
Chemist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

chemist
Chemist
chemist & optician
Chemist
Chemist
cash chemists
chemist
chemist
chemist
chemist

 
 
£60

 
 
 
 
 

Beccles, Streets, Newmarket properties 
David Lindley, 16 Frederick’s Road, Beccles, 1990-2003 
12
New Market  7  [John’s, Butchers 27 April 1997]

Listed building:
17 century with alterations. Rough-cast. 3 storeys. Oversailing 2nd floor. Near-flush-frame windows, now with central glazing bars only. slate

roof. Shop, ground floor, with plate glass sheet. Eaves board.

 
Until c1770 
1770+
1782

 
This property was probably owned by the owners of the Falcon Inn.

John Farr [probably]
Property Divided. No 7 sold to Joseph Lambert
 

WILL: Joseph Lambert. I give all my property purchased of .... John Farr, to grand-daughter Hannah Tyrell,  
otherwise Lambert. [probably this building]
WILL: Hannah Pain, wife of James Pain of Mutford, farmer [grand-daughter of Joseph Lambert]
My tenements or dwellings, with yard, land etc. adjoining the Falcon, now in the occupation of Robert
Beane and others.
SALE: 24 February 1865, Late Thomas Woodthorpe.
LOT 8: An excellent trade situation with frontage of 15ft next the New Market -consisting of the premises
occupied by Mr Corbyn as a “baking powder factory” next his Chemist’s shop [NMar 5] containing two
lower rooms and three upper rooms and an outer wash house, also right of using Pump in the Yard, paying  
one third of the expenses of repair.  Mr Corbyn is a yearly tenant from Michaelmas quarter at £9 p.a.
NB The cellar under the house belongs to the adjoining house, the Falcon Inn.
Tenure: Freehold
[Sold for £145]
Corbyn, Baking Powder Manufactury moving from New Market to larger & more commodious premises
lately occupied as Printing Office by Messrs Read Crisp & Moore in Hungate Lane.
ADVERTISEMENT:  AJ  Balls,  Fish,  Ice,  Game  amnd  Poultry  Dealer, Market Place, Beccles; Phone 43;
Established  1894;  “Travel” Agent for Eastern Counties Omnibus Coy. Parcel Rates: 7lbs 4d; 14lbs 8d;
Delivery 2d.

1831
 

Deeds 105 
 

1865
 

Low Rec Off 1227/1/26/4
 

 
 
 
1868

 
 
 

Beccles Paper 6 Oct 
1933
Beccles Advert Cttee 
 
 
 
 
OWNER
OCCUPANT

1841
1851
1851 CENSUS
389 
389 
389 
389 
389 
389 
389 
1861
1871
1881
1881 CENSUS:
uninhabited
1896
1904
1906 Survey 
1907
1912
1914
1922
1927
1933
1937
1948
1954
1965
1974
2001

James Pain 
Thomas Woodthorpe

 
 

Charles Layton 
Charles Layton 

 
 

Hairdresser 
Hairdresser 

£9-05s
£8-05s

Charles Layton 
Maria Layton 
Emily Layton 
Charles Layton 
Frances Layton 
Harriet Layton 
Joseph Horne 
Thomas Woodthorpe
William Hubbard 
John Read 

M  

38 
40 




 
Joseph Corbyn 
William Spear jun
John Read 







59 

Linwood, Norfolk
Reydon, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 
Beccles, Suffolk 

 
 
 

Head 
Wife 
Dau 
Son 
Dau 

Hair Dresser 
[d 1853 @ 40]

 
 
 
 

Scholar
Scholar

Dau
Yarmouth, Norfolk
 
Ironmonger 
 

Visitor
House Painter, journeyman

 
 
 

£9
Watchmaker 

£9

Samuel White 
Alfred Balls 

 

Alfred Balls 
Alfred Balls 
AJ Balls
Alfred Balls 
Alfred Balls 
Alfred Balls 
Alfred Balls
Alfred Balls 
Alfred Balls 
Edith Balls 
Hill, Stanley 
Little, Walter 
Little, Walter 
Express Cleaners
John’s Butchers

 

Fishmonger 
Fishmonger 
4 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms & shop 
fishmonger
Fishmonger
fishmonger

 
AJ Balls 

 
dwelling & shop 

£16
6 occupants

 
 
 
 
 
Mark Buck exors 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

fishmonger
Fishmonger 
 
Fishmonger
Outfitters
Outfitters

£35
Fishmonger

Beccles, Streets, Newmarket properties 
David Lindley, 16 Frederick’s Road, Beccles, 1990-2003 
13
Beccles, Streets, Newmarket properties 
David Lindley, 16 Frederick’s Road, Beccles, 1990-2003 
14
New Market  9, The Falcon, [now Martin’s 29 June 2001]  
 
NMar FA
Demolished in a few days in 1963 [see: “The Story of a Beccles Inn” by Dorothy Smith]
1576
 

James Bungay, for Francis’s house & tenement called the Falcon 
5s 0d
James Bungay, for 3 tenements Bonns late Francis 
Peter Burrow, parcel of tenement called The Falcon, Bungay, with consent of Thos Fletcher, the owner, by

 
 
 
Task

1593
1617c

 
 
 
 
 
Task 1s 0d
[folio 78] 

the New Market 
Hester Page, (widow)  of  FIRST PART
Thomas Page (gent) eldest son & heir of Hester Page of SECOND PART
from John Seaman (woollen draper) for £34
ALL THAT Messuage, now used as a stable & hay house over it, being the WEST side of the SOUTH
gatehouse belonging to the Common Inn, the Falcon, wherein Robert Lane now dwelleth & all three small
pairs of yards or grounds being also parcel of the yards or grounds belonging to the Inn, with the walls &
edifices.
BETWEEN William Collins on the WEST [Newmarket 11 west part]
Some of John Seaman’s land abuts on EAST [Newmarket 11 east part] & NORTH]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Task 4d

[1660
 
 
 

Deeds 26 

 
 
 

 
 
1668 

 
 

Rosehall Rental