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1862
1862
1863
SALE: Two superior brick built, four roomed, Freehold Dwelling Houses with front garden walled in.
Situate in Northgate, one tenanted by John Mills, the other lately occupied by Mrs J Feltham, deceased.
Estimated Rentals £14.
TO BE LET with immediate possession: A commodious House & Shop with Garden in Northgate, now
in the occupation of Thomas Claxton, tailor, who is removing to New Market.
TO BE LET: House with front Shop, parlour, keeping room, kitchen, six sleeping rooms, good cellar &
yard in centre of Nothgate. Apply James Piper
MR C.W. JOHNSON ORGANIST & PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, Beccles, Begs to inform the Clergy and
Gentry of Beccles, Bungay, and the Neighbourhood, that his Pianoforte Tunist [sic] will attend every
fortnight during the winter season. Terms:-- Grand Piano, 7 Shillings and 6 Pence; Square ditto, 5 Shillings;
Cottage ditto, 5 Shillings. Northgate Street, Beccles.
1892
[Northgate?]
SALE: Furniture of Mr JA Capon, leaving town
Northgate, so that through traffic of a heavy character can be diverted
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Water supply contaminated. unfit to drink. Action forthwith.
Price to be asked for land on Old Brewery site in Northgate & Bridge St
If pigs are kept in cowsheds in Northgate Dairy Licence will be revoked
Asked price for land on Brewery Site cutting into 5 Houses, Rates £17
Alteration to premises in [No 47] Northgate occupied by Harmer
New Stable at back of Waveney Wine Stores [Northgate?]
Additions to Marquis of Granby for J Davies not agree to Bye Laws
Alterations to Marquis of Granby now accepted
Alteration to House formerly Marquis of Granby for Clifford Smith
Alterations to Cambridge Stores for Messrs Youngman & Preston
New House for Mr Bunn in Northgate
Granary removal from Quay by RJ Read to Woodroffe's premises
Improving corner of Northgate & Bridge Street too expensive
Alterations to Dr Allden's Stables in Northgate
AW Fairweather discontinue Northgate advert boards on pavements
Obstructions in Northgate by Mr Gibbons, objected to
Obstructions in Northgate by Wm Ingate, objected to
Alterations to W Delf's House in Northgate
Mr Allgar tenant of Cambridge Stores must remove swinging signs
Soil Pipe on Bent's House in Northgate obstructs pavement
Surveyor place signs at bottom of Northgate, to Loddon, Norwich etc
Walter Fenn to erect board on house 9ft over pavement
Additions to Home Lodge [33] Northgate for Mr Bent
Masters' exors attention to condition of 9 Jones's Score
Mrs Rix's exors attention to state of No 3 Town Score
Postmaster giving opening hours of Northgate sub office
Mr Napier Trollope complains of insanitary state of the Score
Slaughterhouse formerly of WJ Copeman, [26] Northgate: Powell, E
Motor Shed at Home Lodge [33] Northgate for Mr Bent occ Wm Hall
2 WCs at 11 & 13 Northgate
Letter from Capt Lush on condition of Northgate
Dangerous state of buildings of Mrs Rix etc in Town Score, Northgate
Additions to 21 Northgate for Mr ROP Humphrey
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Enforcement close property of Masters & Skevens in Score, Northgate
Cottages of Masters & Skevens in the Score, Northgate empty
1576
1593
1614c
1633c
1635c
1636c
1649
1655
1654c
1670
1671
1672
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1683
1693
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1727
Simon Thurston, for the house that he dwelleth in, late Robert Bradley
Widow Thurston, where she dwelleth late Robert Bradley [post Thomas Wright]
Thomas Wright, for a messe near the Old market sometime Thurston (folio 67)
post Henry Wright
Henry Wright, for a tent sometime Thurstone after Thomas Wright
vid Henry Wright(folio 124)
Benjamin Smith, for a tent sometime Thurston (folio 137)
Joseph Garrard, for a tent sometime Thurston (folio 139)
Benjamin Folkard, for his tent
Thomas Brereton, messe with a garden in the Old Market, between the messe of
Henry Elmy on the north; & messe of Thomas Clifton of the south; which he purchased
of Benjamin Folker
Thomas Brereton, for a tent in the Old Market, sometime Wright after Garrard late
Folkard, vid Joseph Garrard, (folio 191)
Richard Batty, for a messe bought of Thomas... between the messe of Henry Elmy,
north & John Phillips, south
Richard Batty, Survey: his tent late Brereton {in his own occupation]
Richard Batty, Poor Law, Nor 25
Richard Battie, for a tent sometime Wright, Garrard, late Benjamin Folkard & Thomas
Brereton vid Thomas Brereton
Richard Batty, Hearth Tax:: 1 Hearth
John Battie for a tent sometime Folkard & Brereton nup Richard Battie, vid Batty
John Batty, for houses in Old Market, late Brereton
Thomas Ward, for a tent late Batty before that Brereton
Henry Clarke, (died 1764) for a tent late Batty, before that Brereton since Thomas
Ward, decsd
Task 1s 8d
Task 1s 8d
Task 1s 8d
Task 1s 8d
Rent 2s 7d 1/2d
Value £8
Rate £4
Task 1s 8d
DIVISION A
1739
1746
1788
“1829”
1851
DIVISION B
1776
mill house, with a garden lying near the Old Market, formerly Folkard, since Brereton
William Elmy to pay 9d 3/4d for malting office & Mill House;
Henry Clarke to pay 9d 3/4d
William Elmy, tent or malting office, near the \old \market, late Batty, before Brereton
John Crisp & William his brother, tent or malting office late William Elmy, the Old Market
Crisp, John, late Elmy
SALE: by direction of John Crisp, who is retiring. Lot 3:
A substantial freehold Malting called “Elmy’s Office”, situate near the river & west
of the old Market, now in the occupation of the proprietor; containing 32 coomb steep,
2 working floors, barley chamber, malt store & kiln
Land Tax 18s; Free Rent to Manor of Beccles 9d 3/4d
Rent 9d 3/4d
Rent 9d 3/4d
Rent 9d 3/4d
1791
1799
1809
mother, formerly Henry Clarke
Abraham Clarke, (died 1808 aged 51) cordwainer, lately Joanna Clarke, his Mother,
formerly Bridget Clarke & Henry Clarke
H & B Clarke, themselves
Abraham Clarke, singleman, tent late Abraham Clarke, his Father, decsd, before Johana
Clarke his Grandmother, part of the estate of Bridget Clarke, widow, late Henry Clarke
Value 12s
Joanna Clarke, late of Abraham Clarke, formerly of Bridget Clake, wid
House now used & converted by Boatbuilder down The Score near Old Market, with Frontage of 80ft on
1824
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1849
1863
1866
1872
1876
1912
1931
THE SCORE (gone by 1907)
1841
1851
1861
THE SCORE 1
1841
from Mr Woodroffe, carpenter or Mr Sharpin.
Nine several tenements or cottages with convenient outbuildings and a spacious Staithe or Quay
extending along the River Waveney upwards of fifty feet, most conveniently and eligibly situated for
carrying on trade of a Timber, Corn or Coal Merchant or for a boat builder. All freehold; particulars
estate of Bridget Clarke
Samuel Simpson Jones, schoolmaster, tenement late John Jones, Henry Clarke, Bridget Clarke,
also remaining part of estate of Bridget Clarke
Rent 5d
Market. Apply SS Jones.
Waveney, and eight cottages situate in the Score, near Northgate.
SALE: Property in Jones’s Score, next the River
LOT 1: A most excellent Cottage fronting Northgate in the occupation of James Linder
ALSO three comfortable Cottages occupied by R Linder, Widow Oxborough [No 7] & H Farrow
ALSO: Substantial detached Cottage now in the occupation of Albert Lockwood
LOT 2: Four good Cottages at the West End of Lot 1, in the occupation of John Winsdale [No 5], B
Ward [No 4], John Goffin [No 3], & Thomas Bean [No 2]
LOT 3: Valuable business premises, substantially built brick & slated Dwelling House, large Boat
Builder’s Shop, Stable, with other buildings & offices adjoining, having a good River Frontage. In the
occupation of Samuel Wright, Boat Builder.. All in good condition. [No 1]
King’s Head.
brick built 40 Quarter Maltings with steeps, Working Floors & kilns of the most modern approved
construction, Malt Stores & Barley Chamber of ample extent, open ground & an enclosed Yard
communicating with a Staithe on the River Waveney, now in the occupation Messrs John & Edwin
[Bought in £1340]
LOT 2: Four Cottage Tenements in the Old Market Score let at rents producing £13 7s pa.
[withdrawn]
LOT 3: The Stone Cottage with ground in front in Northgate occupied by Mr D Delf at £6 pa
[Purchased By W Delf £120]
SALE: The SCORE: Cottages for the Trustees of late Mr Delf.
[purchased CC Betts £225]
SALE of St Peter’s House by Executors of late Samuel Grice, Esq by Read, Owles & Ashford at the
Built of Brick, plaster & tile with Yard having a frontage of 20 ft to the Old Score & being suitable for
conversion into Workshops, warehouses or other business premises.
NB This Lot is subject to a Right of Way over the Yard of all owners & occupiers adjoining it.
Jones, John
Jones, John
Garrod, late
Flowers, Jas
£4
£4.05
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1907
THE SCORE 2
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1881
1896
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1907
THE SCORE 4
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THE SCORE 3
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THE SCORE 5
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THE SCORE 6
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THE SCORE 7
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1851
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Wright, Sam
Wright, Sam
Tuthill, Dav
Lay, Emma
Crisp, John
Crisp, John
£7
£6
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Beane, Lydia
Beane, Thomas
Beane, Thos
Beane, Thos
Mills, Nath
Mills, Nath
Mills, John
£3
£4
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Freeman, late
Rouse, late
Lockwood, Albt
Skipper, Eliz
Davey, Jane
Davey, Jane
Davey, Mrs
£3
£6
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Simper, late
Barber, Thos
Goffin, John
Goffin, John
Cooper, Char
Cooper, Char
Cooper, Mrs
£3
£4
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Winsdale, Jn
Winsdale, Jn
Winsdale, John
Spall, Robt
-
Bickers, Geo
£1.05
£3
£3
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Garrod, late
Charlish, Wm
Read, Hannah
Lay, Robt
Thirtle
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£2
£3
£3
£4
Jones, John
Bennett, Wm
£1.05
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THE SCORE 8
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Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Oxborough, Eliz
Shirley, Edw
Davey, Wallace
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£3
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Steward, Robt
Syder, Geo
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Barber, Geo
Aldred, Amel
Aldred, Emily
Aldred, Mrs
£1.05
£4.05
Jones, John
Jones, John
Jones, John
King, Arthur
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Barber, late
Syder, Geo
Barnard, Wm
Grimmer, Chas
Beane, Harriet
Sturman, Mrs
£3
£4
Jones, John
Clarke, late
£1.05
known as Chievers
17th century with alterations including earlier work. 2 storeys and attic. 2 windows, 3 light sash with glazing bars. Brick and flint.
Pantile roof. Survival of part of wall of St Peter’s Church buildings. There is a well designed cut flint cross fleury, set in brickwork,
on base and 3 steps, approximately 5ft high, incorporated in the west wall. The upper part of this gable wall formerly had crow
stepping in flint, and the cross is on the left hand about 8ft up this wall which has been much cut about and patched. Interior: some
interesting curved beams and panelling
1600.2
1641c
1649
1653
1671
1672
1672
1674
1685
1693
Thomas Clifton
Henry Elmy [tanner, 1618-85] for a tent sometime Howlett, late Thomas
Clifton
Henry Elmy, late Howlett
Henry Elmy, for the messe with yard, next to the Common Watering Place, called
Chievers, purchased off Thomas Clifton, formerly Howlett
Henry Elmy, Survey: in his own tenure
INDENTURE: Henry Elmy of Beccles, tanner, of the one part & Thomas Lone, of the same
town, Esq, of the other part. Henry Elmy is to marry Prudence Doggitt of Beccles, widow,
heir of Thomas Lone ? Gives to Prudence one annuity or yearly rent charge of £10 out of
all messe or tents called Chievers now in the occupation of Henry Elmy with all the
buildings, houses, yards, orchards, tanning office or offices & appurtenances the rents
belonging adjoining the Common Watering Place called the Common Staith towards the
north.
All which premises Henry Elmy has purchased of Thomas Clifton, glazier as by indenture
between Thomas Clifton & Dorothy, his wife of the one part & Henry Elmy of the other part.
Henry Elmy, Poor Law,
Henry Elmy, Hearth Tax: 6 hearths
John Elmy, [tanner 1644-1726] tent late his Father’s, Henry Elmy, sometime
Howlett & Clifton
John Elmy, A tent near the Common Staithe, south
Rent 7d
Value £6-10
west.
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1739
1746
1746
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1759
1761
1796
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1799
1815
1833
1837
1840c
part and Benjamin Folkard of Gillingham, beer brewer and Abraham Browne, malster [who owned and
lived in Ravensmere House] of the other part:
ALL THAT messuage anciently called Chievers and with houses and outhouses, situated between the
way from the Old Market to the Watering Place on the north; the houses and yards of John Batty [later
called Jones’s Score] on the south; and abutting on the Way east; and on the River Waveney to the
Received by John Elmy as eldest son of Henry Elmy, from Thomas Clifton and Dorothy, his wife.
To hold for one year
INDENTURE: John Elmy the elder, gent, and John Elmy the younger, woollen draper, of the first part,
and Benjamin Folkard of Gillingham, beer brewer & Abraham Browne, malster, of second part and
William Elmy, one of the sons of John Elmy the elder, and Elizabeth Folkard, spinster of the third part. A
marriage to take place between John Elmy the younger and Elizabeth Folkard. The Chievers property.
William Elmy, [tanner, 1679-1746] for a tent sometime Howlett, late Thomas Clifton
after Henry Elmy & late John Elmy, Father of William Elmy
William Elmy, gent, tent near the Common Staithe near the old Market
John Elmy, [surgeon, 1705-1756] tent formerly Howlett & Thomas Clifton, after
Henry Elmy & late John Elmy & afterwards William Elmy, father of John Elmy
John Elmy, surgeon, tent near the Common Staithe
INDENTURE: John Elmy, surgeon, eldest son and heir of William Elmy, tanner, deceased, of one part
and James Elmy, tanner of the other part.
Messuage or tenement called Chievers, with houses, outhouses, edifices, buildings, tanning office, yard,
gardens and appurtenances late in the occupation of William Elmy and now of James Elmy, situated
between the Way leading from the Old Market to a place called the Watering Place on the north; and the
houses and yard ground late of John Batty and now of Bridget Clarke, widow on the south; abutting on
the said Way to the east; and the River Waveney to the west.
Rent of one Pepper corn.
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
second part; and Sarah Tovell of Parham of the third part.
Witness in consideration of intended marriage and £420 received by James Elmy as part of marriage
portion.
James Elmy, [tanner, b 1717]tent formerly Howlett, late his brother, John Elmy
[1759 James Elmy bankrupt, died in Guadelope]
James Elmy, tent near the Common Staith, late John Elmy, south
SALE: To be sold by Auction on Saturday, 24th instant between the hours of two and
four at the King’s Head in Beccles: The estate for life of James Elmy, tanner, a bankrupt,
of and in a very handsome Bricked Messuage, late in his own occupation, with a large &
commodious Tan Yard, convenient offices & outhouses proper for carriages in the said
trades, together with a Summer house, neatly finished & so situated as to command a
very agreeable & extensive prospect.
John Tovell, gent, tent near Common Staith, south, formerly John Elmy, James Elmy
Edward Arnold, [merchant 1740-1805] tent late James Elmy, before John Elmy &
formerly Howlett
Edward Arnold, currier, tent near the Common Staithe, formerly John Elmy, after James
Elmy & since Tovell
Edward Arnold; Land Tax:- in his own tenure
Edward Arnold [II], [1776-1837] tanner, tent near the Common Staithe, formerly
James Elmy, afterwards Tovell & late Edward Arnold, his father
SALE: benefit of creditors: Edward Arnold II
House now used and converted by boatbuilder down the Score, near Old Market
(frontage of 80ft on Waveney.)
William Delf, tenement now converted into Malting Office near the Common Staithe,
late Edward Arnold & formerly of Tovell
Undated Note by Rix on back of Deed No 24
Grant of Annuity out of Messuage called “Chievers”
Task 1s 10d
Rent 7d 1/2d
Value £1.04
1876
1909
the
the Cottages attached to those Maltings.”
SALE Executors of late William Delf
LOT 1: Mercantile Property on the Waterside in the Old Market Score: comprising Two Substantial
brick built 40 Quarter Maltings with steeps, Working Floors & kilns of the most modern approved
construction, Malt Stores & Barley Chamber of ample extent open ground & an enclosed Yard
communicating with a Staithe on the River Waveney, now in the occupation Messrs John & Edwin
[Bought in £1340]
LOT 2: Four Cottage Tenements in the Old Market Score let at rents producing £13 - 7s pa.
[withdrawn]
Extensive Malting used as a Fish Washing & Curing House, abutting at the east end upon the road to
Score, adjoining properties of late Clifford Smith [St Peter’s House], Mrs Rix [11-14 the Score] & Mr A
Gordon [No 10 The Score]
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1861
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1896
1904
SCORE 11
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1881
1896
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SCORE 14
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1851
1861
1871
1881
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1904
SCORE Gone by 1871
1841
1851
1861
1933+
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Smith & Eastaugh
Rix, Mrs Eliza
Hopson, Wm
Chapman, Wm
Rouse, Sarah
Prime, Geo
Briggs, Henry
Moore, Chester
£2-15
£3-10
£4
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Smith & Eastaugh
Rix, Mrs Eliza
Disney, D
Oxborough, Jn
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Emmerton
Fairweather, Edwin
Saunders, Jas
£2-15
£3-10
£4-10
£5
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Smith & Eastaugh
Rix, Mrs Eliza
Robinson, Jas
Robinson, Jas
Stuart, Chas
Stuart
Clarke, John
Clarke, John
£2-15
£3-10
£4
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Francis
Parker, Wm
Oxborough, late
Delf, Francis
Ho & Bldgs
£2-15
£4-5
£21
houseboat in 1919. Rebuilt by Woodroffe. 40 tons
1904
good repair. Situate alongside the River Waveney with Right of Wharfage. Rent clear of outgoings £16
pa. Apply William Woodroffe, builder, Beccles.
SALE: Read Stanford & Gayford to sell property the valuable Freehold Builder’s Premises consisting of
Range of Brick, Boarded and Tiled Workshops, Office, Vinery and
ALSO
a Well-built Brick & Tiled Dwelling House, the whole contained in a spacious Yard, having a frontage of
111 ft upon the River Waveney, and now in the occupation of Mr TW Woodroffe.
[Withdrawn]
1828
1832
1841
1851
Thomas Woodroffe
Thomas Woodroffe
Thomas Woodroffe
Thomas Woodroffe
Thomas Woodroffe
Thomas Woodroffe
£16
Thomas Woodroffe
Sarah Maria Woodroffe
Thomas Augustus Woodroffe
William Wright Woodroffe
M
U
U
62
14
34
F
M
M
Newcastle
Canada, Bytown
Beccles
Wife
grandson
son
1871
1881
William Woodroffe
William Woodroffe
William Woodroffe
William Woodroffe
Dwelling:
44
M
Margaret A. WOODRUFFE
Eliza M. WOODRUFFE
Alice M. WOODRUFFE
Gertrude S. WOODRUFFE
Thomas W. WOODRUFFE
Mabel R. WOODRUFFE
Grace C. WOODRUFFE
Harriet BROWN
Eliza GRAY
M
U
Harleston, Norfolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Aldeley, Norfolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Wife
Daur
Daur
Daur
Son
Daur
Daur
Serv
Serv
16
14
12
7
1
3 m
19
16
F
F
F
M
F
F
F
F
Scholar
Scholar
Scholar
U
U
Servant (Nurse)
1904
Mrs Thos Woodroffe
Mrs Thos Woodroffe
Task 8d
1593
1610c
1620c
1640c
1668
Christopher Richardson, (died 1609) tent late Bradley, before Gates, (post
Elizabeth Richardson/ Mayes)
Elizabeth Richardson, tent late Robert Bradley, before Gates (folio 50)
Roger Crome, [cooper, died 1640] tent sometime Richardson in Northgate
Thomas Clifton, tent sometime Richardson after Bradley
Thomas Clifton, for a tent in Northgate, late Richardsion, late Crome
Task 8d
Task 8d
Task 8d
Rent 5d
1679
1701
1711
Sarah Mays, widow, for the moiety of a tent in Northgate sometime Richardson
Jo Hurren, tent in Northgate, late Sarah Mayes, widow
Nick Wright, tent in Northgate, late Mayes, formerly Richardson
Task 4d
Task 4d
1593
1610c
1620c
1640c
1668
DIVISION OF PROPERTY
1672
1695
Christopher Richardson, (died 1609) tent late Bradley, before Gates, (post
Elizabeth Richardson/ Mayes)
Elizabeth Richardson, tent late Robert Bradley, before Gates (folio 50)
Roger Crome, [cooper, died 1640] tent sometime Richardson in Northgate
Thomas Clifton, tent sometime Richardson after Bradley (folio 151)
Thomas Clifton, for a tent in Northgate, late Richardsion, late Crome
Task 8d
Task 8d
Task 8d
Rent 5d
John Batty, tent late Richard Batty, his Father, decsd, formerly Richardson
Task 4d
My obserations:
Semi-detached. No 1 with 8 panes in top and bottom of each window [built shortly before 1871, see below]
No 3 double fronted with three vertical bars.
They appear to have been built at different times, the bricks are not the same, although the toothed cornice goes all the way along.
No 3 chimneys more decorative. More dripstones.
other Tenements in Northgate occupied by Widow Piper & Thomas Barber as under-tenants.
Rents £13 18s 0d
Purchased by Mr Thornton [brewer] £105
1871
1871
1872
1879
1882
1885
1885
“The west side of Northgate from and including the NEW HOUSE occupied by Goffin also Gray’s
LICENCE: Spread Eagle from William Goffin to Charles Roper.
LICENCE TRANSFER: Spread Eagle from S Wright to Robert Harper, carpenter
TOWN COUNCIL: Sanitary Ctte: 1) Spread Eagle to abate nuisance on pavement arising from want of a
LICENCES: Spread Eagle, Northgate to Martha Mills
TO BE LET: The Spread Eagle, Northgate, suitable for a Maltster or Labouring Man. Apply Barker
Stanford, Halesworth Brewery.
POLICE COURT: LICENCE: The Spread Eagle beerhouse temporarily endorsed to Mr George Hadingham,
late of St Andrews.
1893
1894
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LICENCES: 1) The Spread Eagle from Elizabeth Page to John Brown
LICENCE: Robert Porter, stonemason, Gorleston to the Spread Eagle, Northgate
SALE: of No 1 Northgate, property formerly of Mrs Alice Wood, deceased
Title starts with sale of 17 May 1870
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Jones, Sam
£1
V
Laws, Jemima
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Jones, Sam
Jones, SS
Thornton, Rich
King, Robt A
King, Robt A
£2.1
£7.05
£7
£5.15
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Beales, Jas
Flowers, Jas
Goffin, Charlotte
Goffin, George
Weeds, Mary
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No 250
Waterman
No 225
Charlotte GOFFIN
Matilda GOFFIN
Charlotte GOFFIN
Edward GOFFIN
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Hales, Norfolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Kensington, Middlesex
Goffin, James
V
Money, Hen
Hurren, Henry
Smith, Mary
Wife
Daur
Daur
Scholar
King, Robt A
King, Robt
King, Mrs Anna
Mc Queen, Ellen
Wherryman
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REBUILT AT THIS TIME & became a Pub
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Jones, Sam
Jones, SS
Jones, SS
Jones, SS
£8.15
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Isaac Piper
Isaac Piper
Isaac Piper
Piper, Isaac
Ho
Ho
Ho
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No 222
No 224
Thornton, Rich
King, Robt A
King, Robt A
King, Robt A
King, Robt A
£13
£13
£13
V
V
Roper, Chas
Wright, Samuel
Harper, Robt
Harper, Robt
Spread Eagle
Spread Eagle
Spread Eagle
Spread Eagle
No 249
Charlotte HARPER
Herbert HARPER
Edward HARPER
George HARPER
Robert HARPER
James HOOPNER
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owner: King, Mrs (Station Rd)
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Carter, Harry
Page, Hiram
Page, Hiram
Wife
Scholar
Scholar
King, Robt A
DIRECTORY
King, Mrs Anna
Spread Eagle
Beer Retailer
Spread Eagle
dwelling
Mc Queen, Ellen
£13
Hall, Emily
Ancient rendered building. Single storey on the street side, with large modern dormer window, steep pitched roof with pantiles.
Only one window, not sash, to street. Windows modernised.
Two decorative roundels on surface say:
Freehold Malthouse, enfranchised. P. Stead 1840. [they presumably came from buildings on Beccles Quay.]
1877
SALE: H & J Read on 28 May
Northgate: [probably No 5] Brick & Tiled Freehold Dwelling House: 2 front sitting rooms, Wash House & 2
sleeping rooms. Occupied by Henry Goffin
[Withdrawn at £120]
1887
attached, two stall stable, coach house, and chamber over, let to Mr H Goffin at £13. These premises have
recently had a considerable sum expended upon them, and are suitable for a carter or postmaster.
1875
proper privy accommodation & discontinue keeping pigs.
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Mayhew, Jas
Mayhew, Jas
Mayhew, Jas
Mayhew, Jas
Dowe, Jas
Dowe, Jas
Lockwood, Misses
£6.10
£9
£10
£9
£12
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£15
Garrod, Jn
Mayhew, Jas
Martin, Wm
Goffin, Harry
Goffin, Harry
Lockwood, Robt
Lockwood, Misses
Lockwood, Misses
Hair Dresser
Marine dealer
Fancy Depository
Modern building by Sabberton
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1937
No 9: Brick & tiled cottage adjoining in the rear. Yard with back entrance on the SCORE, and
Warehouse with loft over now occupied by Mrs Sillett and Mr George Rand, weekly tenants at £19 10s.
[Purchased by E Sillett £180]
Utton, Jas
Utton, Jas
Utton, Esther
Stannard, E
Pye, Eliz
Dennington, Mrs
Greaves, Ernest
£2.15
£4.05
£4.10
£10
£21
V
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Directy
Garrard, Wm
Woolner, Wid
Gray, Jos
Piper, Wm
Piper, Wm
Dennigton & Co
Sillett, Geo
Sillett, Geo
Hall, Samuel
Greaves, Ernest
Greaves, Ernest
Painter journeyman
Rope Maker
Silk Manufacturers
Greengrocer
Greengrocer
Antique Dealer
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Utton, Jas
Utton, Jas
Utton, Esther
£7.05
£6.05
£8.00
V
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Woolner, Geo
Piper, Wm
Piper, Wm
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Rope Maker
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1937
Stannard, E
Dennington, Mrs
see 7
£6
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V
see 7
see 7
Fairweather, Amel
Hardingham, Lousa
Rand, Geo
Rand, George
Own Means
Brick facade, painted. Pantile roof, continuous, but with gable ends projecting at each end. No chimneys. Change of angle of
pantiles at base, suggesting thatch, but the angle of the roof too shallow. Modern windows, but wider than tall flat arched.
No 11:- One ground floor window to street indented, but blocked up. One of two of first storey also blocked. Smaller height,
probably the original size. Sign of earlier doorway blocked up. Doorcase looks authentic. Dorscraper to left of door.
No 13:- Upper storey 2 windows, new, probably enlarged. 1 central window filled in and smaller.
Doorcase looks authentic, Adam-like swag decoration. Two lower windows, left one sash, 10 paanes top & bottom, but Victorian.
Right: modern.
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John Jackson, for his tent late Mr Berry
Thomas Clifton, tent sometime Berry & Terrold, late Margery Codd, sometime
Jackson & Bennett in Northgate (folio 189)
John Russell, tent in Northgate, late Clifton, before Cuslin, sometime Berry &
Jackson (Folio 191)
Widow Russells, late Ward at the Corn Staithe
Widow Russells, Survey, her tenement in northgate in her own use
Widow Russells, Poor Rate,
Widow Russells, Hearth Tax, 4 Hearths
Ann Russells, tent in Northgate, sometime Clifton, late John Russell, vid John Clifton
Ayleward, for a tent late Widow Russell
Ayleward heirs, for tent in Northgate late Widow Russell
William Bond, dish turner,sometime Clifton, afterwards John Russell, afterwards
Ann Russells
William Bond, a tent late Amplefords
William Bond, decsd, Hannah (daughter) wife of Edward Arnold (cophhold of Rosehall)
Edward Arnold [the Elder, died 1805, monument in St Michael’s], tent in Northgate, formerly Russells,
late William Bond, decsd
SALE by PRIVATE CONTRACT: [probably Sale of Edward Arnold, the younger]
LOT 1: Substantial freehold Messuage in Northgate in good repair in occupation of Daniel Smith,
currier, tenant from year to year. 2 Parlours, Shop, Counting Room adjoining. Kitchen, 2 cellars, 5
Chambers, 3 Warehouses, Drying Sheds, good Garden etc
LOT 2: Two Freehold Messuages in Northgate in occupation of Mrs Turner, Sam James, the Widow
Hindes & Widow Borrett, tenants from year to year. £18- 7s - 0d
Dan Smith, [curier] late Arnold, formerly Bond
Dan Smith, Tithe Map: 23 perches
[Esther] Smith, widow, tent or garden on west side of Northgate late Daniel Smith,
before of Edward Arnold
Rev George Wright, Baptist Minister, as executor of will of Daniel Smith, tent on west
side of Northgate, Daniel Smith, Edward Arnold
William Lenny,brewer, tent on west side of Northgate, late Rev George Wright,
Daniel Smith
SALE : Late Mr W Lenny
SUBSTANTIAL RESIDENCE: Entrance Hall, 3 Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Store Room, good Cellar
& 3 Bedrooms
ALSO
COMFORTABLE SMALL RESIDENCE adjoining: large Sitting Room, Kitchen, Pantry, Store Room,
Task 1s
Rent 1d 1/2d
Value £3-10
Rate £3-10
Rent 1d 1/2d
Rent 1d 1/2d
Rent 1d 1/2d
Rent
House,
ADJOINING are the Mill House with two floors & Brew House
ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE YARD are substantial brick & tiled Stable, Harness House, Gig
NEXT the last described building a brick & slate Ten quarter Malt Office approached from
the Old Market, with Barley Chamber for fifty quarters, two working floors, Kiln & Malt Store.
In close proximity to residence and abutting Northgate, valuable piece of Garden Ground tastefully
planted with flowers, well adapted for building.
The Malt Office is in the occupation of Messrs Crisp & Son, the tenancy expires at Michaelmas next.
The rest, with the exception of the small residence, occupied by the Proprietor.
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Smith, Wid
Wright, Geo Rev
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Masters, Edw
Alden, Geo
Trollope, CGN
0.015
0.035
0.025
£6
£8.15
£8
£9
£13
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
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Staunton, Chas
Hamment, Jas late
Barber, Eliel
Barber, Eliel
Shirley, Edmund
Breeze, Clifford
Breeze, Vertigan
Harrold, Clara
Inland Revenue
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Farmer Retired
Felmonger
Income Tax
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Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, wm
Lenny, Wm
Masters, Edw
Alden, Geo
£33
£33.10
£35
£12
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Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Lenny, Wm
Richardson, Hanh
Blundersfield, Mrs
Blundersfield, Mrs
Reeve, David George
Reeve, B Miss
Brewer/Coal Mcht
Waveney Brewery
Ins Agent
Brewer Retd
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Nor F
Own Means
Draper/Stationer
Fancy Draper
All one house, but two buildings. Brick, painted. Simple columns or pilasters at either end of No 11. Parapet roof to both buildings,
with shallow roofs. One chimney between two buildings, one on the left.
15 two adjacent inset doorways, arched with fanlights. Left one, simple spoked. Right one more decorative curved ends to spokes.
Three windows on top floor, 6 pane sash windows top & bottom. Not Victorian, but narrow glazing bars. Irregular spacing between
windows. Right window inset within arch, possibly original doorway, as it goes down to ground.
No 17: three sash windows, 6 panes top and bottom on upper storey, one blocked up, but inset. Similar window below. Door inset
arched with fan vault.
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Nathaniel Goddard, late Smith
Goddard Kett, house with yards and gardens in Northgate at the south end, late
Nicholas Goddard
John Turner, messe on west side of Northgate, late Kett
John Pedgrift, messe on west side of Northgate, formerly Kett, late Turner
TO BE LET: [Northgate 17] Residence in Northgate, containing Sitting Room, Kitchen, three Sleeping
Rooms, pantry, cellar etc. Now in the occupation of Mrs Pedgrift
TO BE LET: Two Maltings each with 60 coomb steep
ALSO: genteel Residence in Northgate, good Garden, Coach House. Apply Mr Maplestone, Aldeby
SALE: Freehold properties late Mr John Pedgrift,
LOT 6: Modern Double Residence in Northgate, [Nos 15 & 17] with convenient offices, stable, coach
house, excellent Vinery & well planted Gardens abutting upon the River, now occupied by Miss Parker &
Mr Thomas Hayes, yearly tenants at rents amounting together to £30 10s p.a.
[LOT 6 purchased R Boon £480]
LOT 7: A Thirty-Four & a Quarter Malting adjoining Lot 6, abutting the River Waveney, well arranged
with Steep, two Working Floors, Kiln, Malt Store & Barley Chamber, adequate for 400 Quarters,
occupied ny Messrs J & E Crisp, yearly tenanta at the Rental of £47 10s.
Lots 6 & 7 are Land Tax Redeemed.
[LOT 7 purchased Mr Saltmarsh £410.]
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
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Pedgrift, Jn
Pedgrift, Jn
Maplestone, J/Fox£24
Boon, Robt
Maddle, Geo
Maddle, Mrs M
Maddle, Mary
£22.05
£23.10
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Sweetman, Eliz
Cowles, Wm
Godfrey, Wm
Boon, Robt
Maddle, Geo
Maddle, Geo
Maddle, Geo
Maddle, Mary Mrs
Maddle, Mary
Clergy Daughter
Schoolmaster
£26
£32
Farmer Retd
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Pedgrift, Jn
Pedgrift, Jn
Maplestone, J/Fox£13.10
Boon, Robt
Maddle, Geo
£10.10
£12
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Stanford, Wm
Pedgrift, Sarah
Spencer, Mary
Hayes, Thos
Hayes, Mary
Relieving Off
Electrotyper
Schoolmistress
£12
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1922
1933
Maddle, Mary
£13
Woodthorpe, Miss
Woodthorpe, Miss
Woods, Walter
No 19: Brick facade, painted. Shallow roof, with projected eaves to the front with braces. Upper storey: 4 windows inset, 6 glaging
bars top & bottom, not Victorian. Lower floor: 2 windows, right one does not open, perhaps originally the doorway. Sash window, 6
panes. Door modern. Round window to the right, possibly original, no sign of disturbance to brickwork.
No 21: Brick, 18th century. Parapet roof , hipped, steepish , pantiled & house at right angles to street. Facade appears to have been
added to the front of the building. Square house. Upper floor windows flush with wall, seemingly 18th century with 8 panes.
Lower floor: 2 original arched doorways bricked up. Modern, odd, windows, one with new top. Doorcase very wide, broken
pediment.
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William Baker, for his tents, late Girling, before Woodward & Sikord
Ann Baker, widow, for a tent sometime William Baker, (folio 75)
Robert Boote, late Baker
Robert Boote, tent in Northagate west, late Baker
Thomas Boote, Poor Rate
Nicholas Goddard, for a tent in Northgate late Baker
Nicholas Foldson, tent in Northgate, late Nicholas Goddard, before Baker
Nicholas Foulsham, tent in Northgate late Nicholas Goddard
William Bond, tent in Northgate, late Nicholas Fouldsham, Nicholas Goddard,
formerly Baker
William Bond tent in Northgate late Nick Goddard since Nick Foldsom, formerly Baker
Elizabeth Buck, wife of Timothy Buck, glover, messuage in Northgate, late William Bond,
Nicholas Foldsom, Nicholas Goddard
Timothy Buck, tent in Northgate, late Willaim Bond, before Nick Foldsom, formerly
Nick Goddard
[Timothy Buck married Elizabeth Bond in Jan 1766]
Timothy Buck, messe in Northgate, formerly Nicholas Foldsom, since Wiliam Bond &
late Elizabeth Buck, widow, his mother, decsd (later TE Buck)
INDENTURE: All that messe & outbuildings in occupation of Timothy Buck & Jacob
Warne & Thomas Clare together with messe or double tent sometime since erected in
occupation of Timothy Buck, William Heywood & Mistress Langton, widow., partly in
occupation of T Bond Buck, John Rolfe Gordon & partly untenanted, for £750.
Timothy Buck & Edward Buck, fellmongers, messe on west side of Northgate, formerly
Nicholas Foldsom, William Bond, Elizabeth Buck, Timothy Buck, their father
Timothy Buck, trust for Sarah Bullock & others; garden 10 rods
TO BE LET: Small genteel House in Northgate, apply E Buck, wine merchant.
SALE: Extensive & Vauable Trade Premises (by direction of the Motgagees & under the power of sale.)
The Dwelling House & extensive trade premises in Northgate now occupied by Mr Edward Buck.
ALSO the comfortable White Brick & Slated Residences in the occupation of Mr Buck & Mr Alfred
Gooding.
These last mentioned Houses are of modern erection & replete with comfort.
The entire property is freehold & covers an area of half an acre, having frontage of 86ft on Northgate &
76ft on the River Waveney, The business of a wool stapler & wine merchant have been carried on for
Task 1s 6d
Rent
Rent 3d
Rate £2
Task 1s 6d
Rent 10d 1/2d
Task 1s 6d
Value 6d
ADVERTISEMENT: Edward Buck, Waveney Wine Cellars, Northgate. (established 1825)
executors of the late Mr Edward Buck desire to call public attention to Superiority of the Spirits.
SALE: Northgate by H & J Read at King’s Head on 4 October, of Freehold Trade Premises with Spirit
Dealer’s & Retail Licence attached now in the occupation of Mr EWT Buck, Wine Merchant, known as
“The Waveney Wine & Spirit Stores”
ALSO two brick & slated Residences adjoining, one occupied by Mr Buck, with Warehouses,
Outbuildings & Garden in rear; the whole nearly half an acre, with frontage on Northgate of 86ft & 0n the
Waveney of 76ft.
(Sold 8 Oct to Mr Morse £830)
1890
bottles, casks, cases, measures, old Iron etc.
The house & premises known as the Waveney Wine & Spirits Stores for many years occupied by the
late Mr E Buck, are put up for sale by public auction &
[purchased by Mr Morse for £830]
1894
WHITE LION BOWLING GREEN: Mr Bloom leaving. A new Bowling Green in the Town adjoins the river
and is connected to the Waveney Wine Stores [in Northgate] White Lion Cub dissolved..
BOWLS CLUB to be formed at the new Green at Waveney Hotel in Northgate. Mr TA Woodroffe elected
President, Mr Steer Secretary.
WATER CARNIVAL: Well illuminated Gardens and boats. At 8pm the Artillery Band set off along the
river from the Waveney Hotel [in Northgate], followed by Mr WT Woodroffe’s “Dr Jim” [Jameson Raid?]
with rapid explosion of firearms etc. Boats by Mr Smith & Miss Davies, Mr Bloomfield, Mr CE Field, Mr
Steer, Mr Wilkinson, Mr H Lawrance, Mr Ingate, Mr & Mrs McQueen, Mr W Darby
VISITORS’ LIST: Staying in Beccles (with or without wives): King’s Head 9; White Lion 7; Waveney Hotel
[Northgate] 3; Alexandra Hotel 3; Clifton Temperance Hotel 3; Laburnham Villa, Alexandra Road 1;
Kilbrack 1; Watermere House [Fen Lane] 3; Riverview House [Northgate] 2; The Laurels, London Road 3;
Suffolk Inn [Station Road] Pickerel Inn [Puddingmoor] 1; Yachts 8.
SIXTH ANNUAL DINNER of Guild of Corpus Christi held at the Waveney Hotel, NORTHGATE
TO LET: LONDON ROAD, Nos 2 & 4 Esdelle Terrace, Keys at H Brundell’s, Waveney Hotel, Northgate.
WAVENEY HOTEL DINNER for the Rowing and Swimming sections of the Caxton Club. Mr & Mrs
Brundell catered most liberally. Col Wilson presided over a party of 30.
ADVERTISEMENT: Waveney Hotel [Northgate]. Splendid Riverside situation; Boats etc.
*** SALE: Temperance Hotel, King’s Head, Waveney Hotel, Suffolk Hotel (Station Road), Railway Hotel,
“Hermon” (Ashman’s Road), “Ferndale” (Station Road), 3 Houses in Alexandra Road.
1899
1899
1905
Northgate (10); Suffolk Boarding House, Station Road (6); King’s Head, New Market (7)
1908
1910
remaining part.
All that messe lately known as the Waveney Valley Hotel in Northgate, now in the occupation of
Mansfield Mc Quire
AND dwelling house No 19 in occupation of - Davey
on the SOUTH by hereditaments of Messrs Smith & Eastaugh in part & - Maddle [Nor 15 & 17] in
each return fare, day or evening to Menargerie at Waveney Hotel, Burgh Staithe.
1926
for £1750
AGREEMENT: SJ Howard, then of Shanrahan & E Lacon & Co of Finsbury Square, of the Cambridge
Inn. Shanrahanan separated from the Cambridge Inn by passageway or score [Cambridge Score] &
certain stays or struts of timber had been attached to the Cambridge Inn to rest on the wall forming part
of the Shanrahan premises for providing support for Cambridge Inn. Agreed to allow them to stay.
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Buck, Prisc
Buck exors
Buck exors
Buck, Edw
Morse, Edgar
Moss, Edgar
Howard, Jn
£11.15
£14
£14
£57
V
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Brooks, Jn B
Brooks late
Reynolds,Jas
Buck, Edw
Davey, Wm
Davey, Nellie
Davey, Nellie
Howard, Jn (or Havard?)
Howard, Jn
Estate Agent
Wine Merchant
Dress Maker
Dress Maker
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
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1881 CENSUS
Buck, Prisc
Buck exors
Buck exors
Buck, Edw
£14
V
£16
Buck, Priscilla
V
V
V
Felmonger
Nor B
Wine Merchant
Wine Merchant
Wine Merchant
Buck, Edw
Buck, Edw
Nor B
Nor B
Boy)
Louisa G. BUCK
Edward W.J. BUCK
Harry J. BUCK
Walter G. BUCK
Ellen L. BUCK
Charlotte A. BUCK
Rosina WRIGHT
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1937
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Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Brandon, Suffolk, England
Blundell, Hen
Frakes, Wm
Griffith, Geo Col
Bloomfield, Chas
Son
Son
Son
Daur
Sister
Mechanical Engineer
Architect Apprentice (Art Student)
Scholar
Governess (R&N)
Domestic Servant
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Nor B
Morse, Edgar
Morse, Edgar
see 19
Waveney Hotel
Resident
Nor B
Flemish gable. 1 chimney at south end built outside. Steep roof. 2 large dormers, not original. Tiles. Rendered surface. Wooden?
beam projecting under roof line, irregular, projecting outwards. Upper windows well below eaves. Casement windows (newish) flush
with facade. Low ground floor. Steps up to door. Very low, inset, modern.
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Joseph Harbor, gent, I, Poor Rate
Mr Harbor, I, Hearth Tax: 7 chimneys
Joseph Harbor, senior, II, late his Father
Sam Sayers of Mettingham, tent on the west side of Northgate late Harbor in
occupation of Edward Brooks
Jacob Moore, late Sayers, tent on west side of Northgate before harbor
William Titshall, linen weaver, messe in Northgate, Jacob Moore, before Harbor
William Maria Titshall late Pain
Maria Titshall of Great Yarmouth, spinster, messe & shop on west side of Northgate
late in her own occupation, formerly Jacob Moore, late William Titshall her father
Rate £6-10
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
SOCIETY: First general meeting of the Beceles Waveney Angling Club held at the Cambridge Stores,
Northgate street. There was a good attendance and Col. Combe was elected president.
Cambridge Stores of Mr G Alllgar & the White Horse of Mr H Howes. In the District there are 31 “full
licences”, 10 for the sale of beer, wine or sweets, 5 for sale off the premises only, including 4 by grocers.
The population of the District 9111, one licence to 222 of population. Therevwre 15 convictions for
drunkenness last year.
ADVERTISEMENT: The Cambridge Inn, Northgate, Beccles; Adjoining River, Splendid Fishing, Motor
Boats, House Boats, Rowing Boats; Luncheons & Teas provided; Parties catered for; Every Convenience,
Electric Light, Baths, Private Apartments for Visitors, Winter Fishing; Terms on Application; Phone 94; SR
Allgar, Proprietor.
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Titshall, Maria
Titshall, Maria
DIRECTORY
DIRECTORY
Titshall, Maria
Titshall, Maria
DIRECTORY
Ward, Benj
£17.10
£17.10
£16
£16
V
V
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Gooderham, Jn
Tillett, Julius
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Grocer
Beer Retailer
Beer Retailer & Fishmonger
Ho Yrd Bldgs
Ho Yrd Bldgs
Beer Retailer & Cowkeeper
Public Ho
Nor YL
Nor YL
No 221
No 212
Elizabeth WARD
Charlie WARD
Grace WARD
Maria WARD
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Occupants
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Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Ward, Benj sen
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Lambert, Loftus
Allgar, Geo
Alger, Geo
Wife
Son
Daur
Inn Beer House Keeper Assistant
Inn Beer House Keeper Assistant
Ward, Ben senj
DIRECTORY
Ward, Benj
Ward, Benj
Lambert, Loftus
Youngman/Preston £24
Youngman Preston
Pub Ho Prem
Public Ho & Cowkeeper
Ho Bldgs Prem
Ho Bldgs
Pub Cambridge Stores
Inn/Cambridge
Cambridge Stores
No 319
Nor YL
Pub & Dwelling
Lacon & Co
£32
Allgar, Geo
Allgar, Sid
Inn/Cambridge
Inn/Cambridge
Nor YL
Nor YL
No 25: faairly steep roof. Flemish gablewith iron ties at north end. Upper storey red brick with 2 flush frame sash windows, 6 panes.
Doorway authentic? older brickwork.
No 27: Central plain chimney. New roof tiles. Older brickwork top and bottom. New windows and door. Much disturbance of brick.
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Nicholas Bradley, tent over the way [from 46?] late Lowes
John Sallows, tent sometime Loane in Bridge Street (folio 88)
John Sallows, tent in Northgate where he dwell, late Jo Sallows his Father, vid John
Sallows (folio 152)
John Sallows, late Peck
John Sallows, for the messe called Pecky in Northgate, between Joseph Harbor on the
north and the messe of Mr Phillips on the south, the street east, the river west.
John Sayer, Survey: his tenement late John Sallows
Mr Sawyer, Hearth Tax: 3 Hearths
John Sayers, tent in Northgate purchased of John Sallows, vid John Sallows (folio 270)
Joseph Bunfellow, for a messe in Northgate late John Sayers & before that of
John Sallows (folio 233)
Joseph Bunfellow, a tent in Northgate late Sayers
John Crowfoot, junior, tent late Sallows & Sayers in Northgate
Edward Donn I, tent in Northgate late Joseph Bunfellow
Edward Donn I, tent in Northgate late Sallows since John Crowfoot the younger
Edward Donn II, the son, for above tent
Edward Donn II, a tent & porch late Boonfellow
Edward Donn III, [grocer & draper] tent late Edward Donn
[Edward Donn died 1800, was buried in Meeting House yard]
Robert Perison
William Lee Pierson, wine spirit, hop & seed merchant. He has declined the business in favour of Mr
James Boyden, who has purchased the stock of choicest wines, spirits, ales London bitter, hops etc.
Task 6d
Task 6d
Rent 6d
Value £4
Rent 6d
Task 6d
Rent 6d
Task 6d
Task 6d
Rent 6d
Task 6d
Merchant, Beccles. ALSO a Modern Gig with lamps & cushions complete.
[To be sold by Robert Oswald. Premises of James Boyden in Worlingham. Farm goods sale]
John Fryer Whitehead, stone mason, messe on west side of Northgate, purchased of
Robert Perison, formerly Edward Donn, before Boonfellow
WE Crowfoot, Eleanor Whitehead & HJ Kerrison, executors of John F Whitehead, a
messe on the south side of Northgate, formerly Edward Donn.
Death of William Whitehead
SALE: Furniture: late William Whitehead, deceased in Northgate
TO BE LET: Old established Stone Mason’s in Northgate. Apply HJ Kerrison
TO BE LET: Two furnished apartments. Apply Mrs Thornton, Northgate
TO BE LET: Two comfortable furnished apartments in Northgate. Apply Mr RF Thornton.
SALE: Executors of John Fryer Whitehead: Two comfortably arranged Dwelling Houses in Northgate
with large Yard adjoining, abutting on the River Waveney & where a lucrative trade as a Stone Mason
has been carried on a great number of years. Substantial well built Dwelling House fronting Northgate,
now in the occupation of Charles Nursey - good quay abutting
ALSO a comfortable Dwelling House & Front Shop adjoining, now occupied by Mrs RF Thornton.
Freehold.
now in the occupation of George Stephenson under lease for 10 years commencing
6 April 1883 at rate of £18-10s-0d
Brick & Slated Residence adjoining above with Yard, Stables, Cart Shed & other buildings, now in the
occupation of Mrs Anderson, a yearly tenant: Rent £14.
NORTHGATE 25
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Crowfoot, WE
Whitehead, Geo
Whitehead exors
Whitehead exors
Bell, Geo
Stevenson, Mrs E
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£10.10
£11.05
£14
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Whitehead, Geo
Woodrow late
Thornton, Isabla
Anderson, Wm
V
Mason Stone
School/Shop
Teacher
Nor Q
Nor Q
Nor Q
Nor Q
Nor Q
Stevenson, Mrs E
Squire, Herbert
Squire, David Herbert
Squire, Herb
£20
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Whitehead, JF
Whitehead exors
Whitehead exors
Whitehead exors
Bell, Geo
Stevenson, Geo
Stevenson, Mrs E
Squire, Herbert
£15
£21
£23.10
£24
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Boyden, James
Whitehead, JF
Whitehead, JF
Whitehead, Wm/Geo
Nursey, Chas
Steel, Sam
Stevenson, Geo
Squire, David
Squire, David
Squire, Gertrude
Squire, Herbert
Mason Stone
Mason Stone
Mason Stone
Chemist Retd
Ironmonger
Ironmonger
Ironmonger
Ironmonger
Ironmonger
Squire, David
£28
My comments:
Steep roof with pantiles. Small high dormer windows. Change of roof angle at bottom suggesting earlier use of thatch. Facade
rendered, brick on south side. Chimneys either end. Raised gable ends. Upper storey: 3 squarish windows, with one opening central
casement. 9 panes. Doorcase possibly original. signs of neighbouring doorcase (now closed) Lower window, right, wooden.
Ironwork on north side: 1670: IH (standing for Joseph Harbor)
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Robert Cooper, a tent late Mr Duke, sometime Stephenson before Crowe
Roo, a tent late Robert Cooper before Mr Duke, Stevenson & Crowe
Joseph Harbor, gent, I, a tent sometime Kettle before Roo (folio 124)
John Sweetall, sometime Roo after Robert Cooper, first Mr Drake, Stevenson & Crowe
(folio 170)
Joseph Harbor, jnr, II, tent late his father before Kettle & Roo vid Joseph Harbor
(folio 187)
Joseph Harbor, jun, II, Survey: in his own use
Joseph Harbor, jun II Poor Rate
Joseph Harbor, II, Hearth Tax: 5 Hearths
Joseph Harbor, II, tent in Northgate west
Joseph John Harbor, tent in Northgate West
Task 1s
Value £5 10
Rate £5-10
SALE: To be sold, Dwelling House Mr Thomas Rede in Northgate, well accustomed
draper’s shop, parlour, kitchen & under kitchen, four good chambers, three garretts,
yard, garden, warehouse, stable, etc. Navigable river at end of yard.
Benjamin Chaston, [fellmonger & glover] messe in northgate, late Joseph Harbor, late
Thomas Rede
Benjamin Chaston, in Northgate, formerly Joseph Harbor, before Kettle & Roo
John Assey, surgeon, messe in Northgate, in right of Rachel, his wife, late Benjamin
Chaston, her father, before Mr Rede & formerly Harbor
Thomas Fuller, late Mr Benjamin Chaston, formerly Joseph Harbor before Kettle & Roo
Thomas Fuller, grocer, messe in Northgate, formerly Harbor, since Mr Rede, late
Benjamin Chaston
John Ward, liquour merchant, messe in Northgate, formerly Rede, before Harbor,
since Benjamin Chaston, late Thomas Fuller
James Thurlow, yeoman, messe in Northgate, formerly Rede, before Harbor, since
Benjamin Chaston late Fuller, since Ward
Philip Coleman Benns, shoe maker, messe in Northgate, late James Thurlow, formerly
Ward (later William Cox, 1864)
TO BE LET: Owner PC Benns: Two Dwelling Houses in Northgate.
Task 1s
Task 1s
LICENCE: Volunteer Arms to Mark Mills, late of Marquis of Granby; William Bugg takes license of
Marquis of Granby (previously kept Wortwell Dove)
POLICE COURT: Emma Sampson, wife of Roger Sampson charged with assaulting Martha Moore.
Complainant stated she met defendant in the yard, who commenced to abuse her. The defendant had
something under her apron, which proved to be a chamber pot. The contents of this defendant threw over
complainant, and then struck her in the face with the pot and caused the blood to flow freely. Upon that
the complainant struck her in return. The defendant’s statement was in complete variance. She said she
was going down the yard and met complainant, who commenced to abuse her and to use the most filthy
language towards her. She also struck the defendant and knocked her down. In the fall the chamber pot
was broken, and she struck complainant with one of the pieces. Defendant further said that complainant’s
children pelted her with the contents of the vessel.
In corroboration of her statements she called William Vyse, shoemaker, [of Thurlow’s Yard] Mrs Mills,
wife of Mark Mills, publican, [of the Lord Nelson, 29 Northgate] and Mrs Oxborough, shopkeeper,
SALE: by H & J Read for Executors of PC Benns:
LOT 1 Residence abutting Northgate & Thurlow’s Yard with garden occupied by H Benns.
The Lord Nelson, beerhouse, adjoining, occupied by Mrs Mary Ann Mills
[6 September: Purchased E Morse £600]
SALE of FURNITURE in LORD NELSON, Northgate of Mrs Mary Mills.
POLICE COURT LICENCES: Henry Bullen to the Lord Nelson, Northgate
POLICE COURT: Henry Bullen landlord of the Lord Nelson guilty of serving drink after hours at 10.30 on
Sunday. Fined £2 6s 8d and Licence endorsed.
LICENCES: Lord Nelson to Henry Aldred;
NELSON CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS: Bells rung at intervals, flags on Public & private Buildings,
Artillery Band played selections in New Market; Beccles College Dining Hall decorated with garlands &
British flags & shields & a portrait of Nelson ... Hockey historical survey of Nelson’s career, grants a day’s
holiday. :
Police Court: Many cases of drunk & disorderly, using filthy language, refusing to quit Lord Nelson pub
when landlord, Henry Aldred asked him+
LIGHTING ORDER: Henry Aldred of the Lord Nelson, Northgate not blacked out. “All lights, other than
those not visible from outside of any house, are to be kept extinguished from 5 pm to 7.30 am” Defendant
had lights blazing at 9pm.. He was detained in Police Station all night. As it was the first case he would be
fined £1 and 2s costs.
LICENCES: THE LORD NELSON, , NORTHGATE: a beerhouse owned by Messrs E & G Morse, Mr
Aldred, the tenant for 25 years, said he got a living out of the premises & had brought up a family of
seven. The house was used by the working class living in the vicinity. There was only one other pub in
the street, the Cambridge Stores, which did not do a quarter of the trade he did. Mr McQueen, 3 times
Mayor of Beccles, said the house always appeared very well conducted. The rooms were fairly large, well
ventilated, and always clean and in good order, and every comfort was provided for the customers. It had
as good accommodation as a club. The Bench decided to refer the licence for compensation.
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rooms, a counting room and kitchen on the ground floor, five good bedrooms and two attics; excellent
cellars, back kitchen and other convenient offices. Also capital newly-built two stalled stable, chaise
house and good granary, with a spacious quay by the side of the Waveney and a yard and garden
extending thence to the street.
The prmises are all leasehold and will be sold subject to a lease to Mr Saunders, the present occupier
(three years of which will be unexpired at Michaelmas next) at yearly rent of £30.
Stephen Saunders of Beccles, Spirit and Porter Merchant assigns estates to Robert Chipperfield, Beccles
for benefit of creditors.
R. Oswald to sell furniture and effects.
[Saunders seems to have been trading here since 1820.]
SALE: Executors of PC Benns: Lot 1
Residence abutting Northgate & Thurlow’s Yard with garden; occupied by H Benns.
The Lord Nelson, beerhouse, adjoining, occupied by Mrs Mary Ann Mills
ALSO 6 substantial Cottages in Thurlow’s Yard occupied by G Grey, Charles Spalding, Mrs Knights,
Thomas Vyse, Steven Cooper, & John Bellward with Yard & Staithe
DEMOLISHED 1935
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Benns, Phil C
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Benns, PC
Cox, Wm
Benns, PC
Benns, PC exors
Benns, PC
£14
£13
£14
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Cooper, Steven
Vesey, Jn late
Cooper, Steven
Nor BB
Nor BB
Nor BB
No 191
Mills, Mark sen
Lord Nelson
Mary A. MILLS
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NO LONGER A LICENCED HOUSE
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£14
£14
£14
£18
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Beccles, Suffolk, England
Mills, Mark sen
Bullen, Hen
Aldred, Hen
Aldred, Hen
Aldred, Hen
Aldred, Hen
Benns, PC exors
Morse, Edgar
Morse, Edgar
Morse, Edgar
Morse
Lord Nelson
Inn/Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson
Inn/Lord Nelson
Inn/Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson
Nor BB
Nor BB
Nor BB
LICENCE REMOVED
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No 304
Morse, EG
£21
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Benns, PC
Benns, PC
Benns, PC
Benns, PC
£12.15
£14
£14
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Parr, Edw
Sharp, Thos
Benns, S
Benns, Sam
Inland Rev Retd
Annuitant
Nor BB
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Nor BB
Mary BENNS
Henry BENNS
Fanny BENNS
Caroline BENNS
Beatrice E. BENNS
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Saxmundham, Suffolk, England
Saxmundham, Suffolk, England
Saxmundham, Suffolk, England
Saxmundham, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Wife
Son
Daur
Scholar
No Occupation
No Occupation
Grand Daur
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1933
Morse, Edgar
Morse, EG
£14
£20
Wisker, Chas
Wisker, Chas
Wisker, Chas
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Nor BB
Nor BB
Nor BB
Sutton, Sam
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1887
Knights, Thomas Vyse, Steven Cooper, & John Bellward with Yard & Staithe
The Lord Nelson, beerhouse, adjoining, occupied by Mrs Mary Ann Mills
ALSO 6 substantial Cottages in Thurlow’s Yard occupied by G Grey, Charles Spalding, Mrs
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1600.1
DIVISION OF PROPERTY
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Michael Hersant
Richard Bury, tent late Sir Joh Ireland, clk before Barfoot, Gibson & Gate
Lopham
Joseph Harbor, tent late his Father
Joseph Harbor, tent late Lopham in Northgate
Joseph Harbor, tent Lopham, afterwards of Joseph harbor, his Father
Joseph Harbor, tent late his Father in Northgate
Rent 6d
Rent 1s 3d
Task 6d
Rent 6d
John Meek, for a tent late Harbor formerly Gooday in Northgate
SALE: To be let or sold House with glovers’ shop & Fellmonger’s office adjoining,
BUSINESS: Thomas Hart, glazier & house painter (son of Philip Hat, late of Beccles, deceased) has taken
Shop late Meek’s [33 Northgate]
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business of felt monger in Bridge Street, late occupied by John Meek, decsd. The land
so large and the navigable river from Bungay running at the bottom of the yard,
makes it convenient for almost any brabch of trade: Enquiries: Mrs Meek, widow or
Robert Simons at Ringsfield Hall.
....Woodcock, tent in Northgate late John Moore before Joseph Harbor
Thomas Woodcock of Great Yarmouth, miller, messe in Northgate late John Meek,
Joseph Habor
Robert Nicholas Boby, linen weaver, messe in Northgate, late Joseph Harbor, John
Meek, Woodcock
Thomas Woodroffe, carpenter, messein Northgate, formerly Harbor, afterwards Meek,
since Woodcock & late RB Boby
Thomas Woodroffe, carpenter, messe on west side of Northgate, late his Father,
before Robert Boby, formerly Meek
TO BE LET: Waveney Lodge. Apply James Crisp
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Woodroffe, Thos
Woodroffe, Thos
Woodroffe, Thos
Woodroffe, Thos
Woodroffe, Mrs
Bent, Arth
£35
£32
£58
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Crisp, Jas
Crisp, Jas
Smith, Cliff late
Woodroffe, Thos
Woodroffe, Wm
Bent, Arth
Bent, Thos
Auctioneer
Auctioneer
Builder
Resident
Resident
Nor S
Nor S
Nor S
Nor S
Nor S
Nor S
It is difficult to trace back earlier than 1804 as it was not owned by either of the two manors of Beccles. It might have belonged to
one of the manors which owned a small quantity of property in the town, such as Barsham Hall, whose Court Books have been lost.
19th C
built in the last two years. Enquiries James Boyden or William Wright, boat builder.
“The “Emerald” was built at the local yard of Wrights, in Northgate,
Also built “ Matilda,” “Olive,” “Courier” and “Cygnet,” of 30-40 tons.
1833:
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[Wright’s boatyard closed about 1940]
“Waveney” built by Wright for Edward Fitzgerald about 1860.
“Victoria,” a 57 ft. wherry of 21 tons double-ended, clench-built. (their last?). Rebuilt by
Woodroffe. 40 tons. Converted to houseboat in 1919.
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Wright, Mary
Wright, Wm
Wright, Wm
Wright, Geo
Wright, Wm
Bent, Arth
£3
£3-6s-8d
£7
£7
£16
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£30
£35
John Wright
John Wright
John Wright
Boatbuilder
Poor Rate
Poor Rate
excused Mrs Wright
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Wright, Wm
Wright, Wm
Wright, Wm
Wright, Wm
Wright, Geo
Wright, Geo
Wright, George Mills
Wright, George
Wright, Geo
Wright, Geo
Wright, George Allan
Bennett, Granville
David Nevill Boats
David Nevill Boats
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Barge Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Boat Yard
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Samuel Gilbert, Survey: in his own tenure
Samuel Gilbert [died 1717] , his daughter’s
Samuel Gilbert, his daughter’s
Samuel Gilbert, his daughter’s
Gilbert heirs, now Lilistone, being three houses on west side of Northgate
John Lillistone, late Gilbert heirs, for two houses joined together on west side of
Northgate
Sam Lillistone, gent, messe in which Sam Gilbert formerly dwelt
Sam Lillistone, gent, another messe formerly Lone [glazier, died 1706]
Sam Lillistone, gent, another messe formerly Lone Gilbert
Elizabeth Lillistone, messe and premises on west side of Northgate on south side of
Staithe & Public House in which Sam Gilbert formerly dwelt, late Sam Lillistone
(later R Crickmer)
Elizabeth Lillistone, cottage in Welton’s occupation on west side of Northgate abutting
on last mentioned premises
Rent 7d
Rent 4d
Rent 3d
Rent 1s 2d
Rent 7d
Rent 3d
Sam Lillistone, John Lillistone & Benjamin Folkard (R Crickmer 1837)
R Crickmer, messe & premises on west side of Northgate on south side of Public House
in which Sam Gilbert dwelt
R Crickmer, messe now the Staithe Yard, late Sam Lillistone, John Lillistone, Folkard
(later John Crisp D p2)
Lillistone, Crowfoot, Clarke
SALE at the King's Head, Late the Estate of Robert Crickmer, decsd.
All that very highly desirable, old established and very valuable mercantile property, most eligibly
situated in Northgate, by the side of the River Waveney, comprising a most extensive and complete
range of capital warehouses and granaries, capable of containing upwards of 500 lasts of corn and 150
chaldrons of coals, with malting offices and two malt kilns attached, in full trade, all most substantially
built and in good repair.
Also a spacious and commodious WHARF or STAITHE extending in width 88 feet by the side of the
River Waveney, and 150 feet in length from the said street, with which it has an entirely open
communication for the conveyance of corn, coals and other merchandize.
Contiguous to the warehouses is a very comfortable DWELLING HOUSE ( the late residence of the
deceased) with a good counting house adjoining.
Also a free PUBLIC HOUSE called the Marquis of Granby, well situated for trade ( the tenant whereof
is under notice to quit at Old Michaelmas next) and a brick and tiled building used as a store house,
together with spacious stabling for horses frequenting the Staithe.
All frehold. Land Tax £2 12 0. Free Rent to the Manor of Beccles 2s 4d.
Free Rent to the Manor of Rosehall 2s 1d [This is part of the property concerned with here]
Robert Butler
Robert Butcher
Maria Butcher of Islington, widow, tents late Edward Butcher, mistakenly called
Robert Butcher
Maria Butcher of Islington, widow, tents late Edward Butcher. mistakenly called
Robert Butcher
Rent 3d
Rent 4d
does not appear to be one of them, as the 1837 Manor record says that it is NOW a Public House, suggesting that this was not the
case in the past, perhaps ten years ago.The Marquis died in 1770 aged 49.
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Thomas Ellis, tenement in Northgate, late Colse, late Austen
Thomas Ellis, Hearth Tax: 2 Hearths
Thomas Steadman, for a tenement late Austen
William Bendy, junior, for a tenement late Steadman & Austen
William Stinnett, for a tenement in Northgate late Austen
William Stinnett, late Bendy
Elizabeth Stinnett, [d 1773] house on west side of Northgate, late her husband’s, William Stinnett, before
Bendy (now Lillistone)
Rent 1s 2d
Task 4d
Task 4d
Rent 1s 2d
1824
THE HOUSE PROBABLY BECAME A PUBLIC HOUSE ABOUT THIS TIME
1830
Sam Lillistone, John Lillistone, Cooper, Stinnett (R Crickmer 1837 )
1s 2d
Robert Crickmer, merchant, house now a Public House on west side of Northgate, on south side of Staithe
Yard, late Sam Lillistone, John Lillistone, Stennett (later John Crisp)
SALE at the King's Head, Late the Estate of Robert Crickmer, decsd.
All that very highly desirable, old established and very valuable mercantile property, most eligibly situated
in Northgate, by the side of the River Waveney, comprising a most extensive and complete range of capital
warehouses and granaries, capable of containing upwards of 500 lasts of corn and 150 chaldrons of coals,
with malting offices and two malt kilns attached, in full trade, all most substantially built and in good repair.
Also a spacious and commodious WHARF or STAITHE extending in width 88 feet by the side of the River
Waveney, and 150 feet in length from the said street, with which it has an entirely open communication for
the conveyance of corn, coals and other merchandize.
Contiguous to the warehouses is a very comfortable DWELLING HOUSE ( the late residence of the
deceased) with a good counting house adjoining.
Also a free PUBLIC HOUSE called the Marquis of Granby, well situated for trade ( the tenant whereof is
under notice to quit at Old Michaelmas next) and a brick and tiled building used as a store house, together
with spacious stabling for horses frequenting the Staithe.
All frehold. Land Tax £2 12 0. Free Rent to the Manor of Beccles 2s 4d.
Free Rent to the Manor of Rosehall 2s 1d [This is part of the property concerned with here]
James Crisp
Robert Butcher
ACCIDENT: Last Wednesday at 7 pm Mr Pulford, hay dealer of Broome, having purchased from Messrs
Horsley the mare which caused the accident to Mr Drewell on Saturday - which he knew had proved
vicious, proceeded on his way home, driven by Mr Swan of Geldeston, coachman to Edward Dowson, Esq.
When they arrived opposite Mr Cowles’ Academy [44 Northgate], the horse commenced kicking &
became quite unmanageable; until at length, with a view, as he hoped, of preventing an accident, Swan
pulled her into the opening between Mr Garrod’s residence [Tannery House, Northgate?] and his bark
barn; but unfortunately, by this means they were both thrown out with great violence against the wall. The
horse then turned round & ran back, smashing the window of Mr Garrod’s Counting House, and upsetting
a timber grill opposite the Marquis of Granby Public House [39, Northgate], after which, having cleared
herself of the Cart, she ran back to Mr Horsley’s Yard [in London Road, where the Job Centre now stands].
The two men who were quite insensible were conveyed into the Barn & medical aid having been procured,
they were subsequently conveyed to their respective homes.
Maria Butcher of Islington, widow, tenements late Edward Butcher, mistakenly called
Robert Butcher,
COURT: George Cardwell, Master Mariner, on Monday was in the Marquis of Granby Public House.
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Rent 1s 2d
1867
refused & defendant struck him on the nose.
Defendant gave a different version, alleging that complainant first got up & offered to fight; then
defendant struck him. Fined 5s/-; Costs 14s/6d
BREWERY of Messrs Thornton: Workmen’s dinner at the Marquis of Granby provided by Mark Mills. 50
sat down. Chair taken by RB Snowden.
Brewery Company Dinner at the Marquis of Granby, with friends numbered 50. Dinner provided by Mark
Mills highly praised. Mr Saltmarsh, the Manager in the Chair. Later in the week given a supper with Mr
White, the Brewer in the Chair.
LICENCE: Volunteer Arms to Mark Mills, late of Marquis of Granby; William Bugg takes license of
Marquis of Granby (previously kept Wortwell Dove)
POLICE COURT: Striking Constable Peck: Benjamin Ward, the younger -traced by Inspector Bardwell by
footmarks in the snow leading to his house; 28 days Hard Labour.
George Pitchers: in company with Ward in Ravensmere; Norwich Castle for 6 weeks Hard Labour.
Followed the trail in the snow to his house near the Marquis of Granby.
POLICE COURT: LICENCES: The Marquis of Granby, Northgate to Harry Orford
SALE: Northgate, Marquis of Granby, adjoining the Staithe, containing Sitting Room, Smoking Room, Bar,
Tap Room, Store Room, Pantry, 2 Excellent cellars & 4 Bedrooms
SALE: Northgate, Marquis of Granby, adjoining the Staithe, containing Sitting Room, Smoking Room, Bar,
Tap Room, Store Room, Pantry, 2 Excellent cellars & 4 Bedrooms
LICENCE: Walter Powell of Norwich to be licence of Marquis of Granby.
LICENCES: Licence not granted of transfer for of Marquis of Granby from Mrs Hadingham to Walter
Powell of Norwich.
BREWSTER SESSION: LICENCE of Marquis of Granby, Northgate, to Mr JB Holton.
MARQUIS OF GRANBY To Let.. Apply Coleman & Co, Norwich.
LICENCES: MARQUIS OF GRANBY to Henry Larter.
POLICE COURT: Alfred Larter, late of Marquis of Granby, failed to pay Poor Rate of £1 7s..Could not pay;
warrant of distress issued.
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1893 East Suff Gaz 8 Aug
Northgate: approved
1897
Alterations to Marquis of Granby now accepted
1899
NO LONGER A PUBLIC HOUSE
1899
Planning
occupied as a Public House known as the Marquis of Granby”.
Clifford Smith bought from Loftus Lambert a portion being at the north end of the tenement “then late
occupied as a public house.”
Wilfred Boulter, tailor, bought from Loftus Lambert for £250 numbers 37 & 39. He had a loan from the
Bungay Oddfellows
Mrs Eleanor Boulter, widow inherited from her husband on his death the messe & shop
Smith & Eastaugh bought “Freehold messuage or tenement and cottage with the yard and buildings
thereto belonging, formerly part of a public house, called or known by the name or sign “The Marquis of
Granby” and the site of a cottage called “The Old House”... having a frontage of 35ft or thereabouts and
abut upon a common lane called the Watery Lane towards the south... for £245
Smith & Eastaugh went bankrupt. Dr Henry Wood-Hill agreed with the liquidator to buy:
1.) The firm’s property - 74ft or thereabouts on Northgate. On the south, abutting on premises now or late
belonging to George Allan Wright, formerly a common lane and part of premises formerly known as “The
Marquis of Granby”.
2.) The freehold messuage as above, as in 1923
£600 the lot.
Dr Wood-Hill died. Mrs Wood-Hill inherited all the property described in the conveyance of 17 January
1940, as well as Nos 46, 48, 50 & 52 Northgate.
Mrs Wood-Hill gave Nos 37, 39 & 43 Northgate to Pen Wood-Hill
Mrs Ivy Bent bought the “Wherry” and boatyard for £1800 from George Allen Wright. Frontage 66ft.
Watery Lane not mentioned or shown on plan. Land sold, coloured red on plan right up to wall of 37
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1943
1950
whole building.
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Edward Butcher
Butcher, Edw
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Smith, Thos
Buggs, Wm
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Ellis, Edward
Barcham, Robt
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Mrs Darby
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Atmore, Sam
Page, Wm
Woods, Wm
Chapman, Jerh
Mills, Mark
Mills, Mark
Mills, Mark sen
Briggs, Wm
- Mark Burt
Marquis Granby
Marquis of Granby
Marquis Granby
Marquis of Granby
Marquis Granby
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Marquis Granby
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William BRIGGS
Mary Ann BRIGGS
Alice OTWAY
Ellen BRIGGS
Agnes BRIGGS
William H. OTWAY
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London, Middlesex, England
Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
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Grandson
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Lambert, Loftus
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Boulter, Wilfred
Tailor
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Smith & Eastaugh
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Edwards, Edward
Balls, Frederick
Balls, Frederick
Balls, Frederick
Balls, Ellen
Woolstone, Fred
Woolstone, Mrs
Woolstone, Mrs
Woolstone, Fred
Rt Rev Bishop Blackburn
confectioner
confectioner
confectioner
shopkeeper
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Balls, Fred
17th century, altered. Red brick with band and Dutch gable. 2 storey and attic. 3 dormers. Pantiles. 5 windows, casements in flush
frames. 6-panel entrance door.
1593 Task Book:
1649 Bec Manor Rental
1664 Bec Manor Rental
1677 Task Book
1679 Task Book
1684 Task Book
1693 Bec Manor Rental
1700 Bec Manor Rental
1723 Task Book
1736 Bec Manor Rental
1739 Task Book
1747 Bec Manor Court
1797
Stanfield [?]
Robert Clark for a tenement he dwelleth in late Peter Story before Browers
Oats and Stanfield
[At some time the property was split into two sections. The Task changes from 1s 8d to 8d. as "Edward
Davison for two tentemens one late William Welton, the other late Robert Clarke" 1s Task, appears
probably about 1666, but no date is given. The sum still does not seem to add up to 1s 8d. This must
have happened before 1649 as the rent to Beccles Manor remains constant for the next 200 years.]
Robert Clark for a tenement
Joseph Harbor Jun [Tanner & Portreeve 1677 & 1695] for a tenement near the Stathe
West
William Chevers [Mason] tenement in Northgate sometime Harbor's and Clarks
vid Robert Clark
Margaret Clarke for a tenement late her husband's before Joseph Harbor vid Robert
Clark
Joseph Clarke late Margaret Clarke his Mother, late Chivers and before that
Stacys [Story?]
William Shivers for a tenement and staithe in Northgate late Harbors
William Shivers tenement and Stath in Northgate late Harbor's
Benjamin Folkard [Brewer] for a tenement in Northgate sometime Harbors and
Clarks wid after Robert Clarke
John Lillistone for a tenement and stath in Northgate late Folkards before Shivers
and formerly Harbors
John Lillistone entered his tax for a tenement in Northgate sometime Harbors
and Clarkes late Folkard
John Lillistone, messuage and staithe late of John Lillistone his Father decsd
before Folkards
Desirable situation in the corn trade in Beccles. House & Staithe yard,
extensive granaries, malt house with 30 comb steep adjoining river. Enquiries
Sam Lillistone who wishes to resign the business
Rent 2s 4d
Rent 2s 4d
2003
I have looked up my original note on Sam Lilliston. He was paid £10 4s. 6d. for goods carried from Yarmouth to Beccles from 5
March 1795 to 19 Sept 1796. Goods included iron, glass, deals, wainscot and mahogany.
He may have carried goods at other times but is not specifically named. The clerk of the works, Rufus Marsden, went to Yarmouth at
least 14 times between March 1793 and May 1798. He usually bought (Baltic) timber, often at auction. His expenses for a trip were 4
or 5s.
An idea of carriage costs is given for a timber purchase in May 1778. The goods cost £43 7s.7d. Freight to Beccles was
£1 1s 11d and on to Henham 4s. plus 3s. for corn for the horses and assistance in loading at Beccles. This looks very much like the
estate carter doing the Beccles-Henham leg.
The first brick was laid on 26 March 1792 and the house was ready for occupation five years later, although work went on inside for
some time after that.
About 20% of the manhours were worked by tradesmen from London and their wage rate was about 75% above that for local men.
So some 30% of the wage bill reflected London not country wages.
1829 Bec Manor Court
1830 Bec Manor Court
John Lillistone, Gent, messuage and Staithe in Northgate late John Lillistone his
Father, before his Grandfather and Folkards
Elizabeth Lillistone messuage on west side of Northgate, on north side of Staithe
1837 Bec Manor Court
1840 Bec Manor Court
1851 Bec Manor Court
1851 Rate Book
1861 Rate Book
1871 Rate Book
1881 Rate Book
1896 Rate Book
1904 Rate Book
1906
1933 or before:
after 1933 Rates:
property elsewhere]
Robert Crickmer, Merchant, messuage on west side of Northgate late Sam
Lillistone, before his Father and formerly Folkard's
James Crisp the younger, [Maltster] Merchant, messuage on west side of Northgate,
north side of Staithe late Robert Crickmer, formerly Sam Lillistone
Robert Butcher [Maltster]: Messuage on west side of Northgate, on north side of
Staithe late James Crisp, junior, formerly Robert Crickmer
Edward Butcher, House £14, Granary and Malt Office £44
Butcher's Exors, House £20, Granary and Stables £20, Malting £60, Granaries £47 [this may include
Clifford Smith £179
Clifford Smith
Clifford Smith House £22 & a number of Malthouses, Granaries Stables, Coal Sheds at £87, £46, £93
[not all at this address]
DEATH of Clifford Smith, aged 58.
Dawson Crisp Smith [one of Clifford Smith’s sons]
Mrs AV Wood Hill
1576 Peter Story
1593 Robert Clark died 1597
1756 John Lillistone
1841 Robert Crickmer
1851 Thomas Smith , Corn coal & Seed Merchant lived there with wife and 5 children and two female servants. He was born in
1861 Thomas Smith
1871 Clifford Smith
1881 John White, Corn Merchant's Foreman, was born in 1834.
1896 John White
1904 Dawson Smith, & firm of Smith & Eastaugh
1908 Dawson Smith, & firm of Smith & Eastaugh
1922 Dawson Smith & firm of Smith & Eastaugh, maltster, corn and coal
after 1933 Mrs AV Wood Hill: House, Boathouse & premises £38
Late the Estate of Robert Crickmer, decsd.
of the River Waveney, comprising a most extensive and complete range of capital warehouses and granaries, capable of containing
upwards of 500 lasts of corn and 150 chaldrons of coals, with malting offices and two malt kilns attached, in full trade, all most
substantially built and in good repair.
150 feet in length from the said street, with which it has an entirely open communication for the conveyance of corn, coals and other
merchandize.
counting house adjoining.
quit at Old Michaelmas next) and a brick and tiled building used as a store house, together with spacious stabling for horses
frequenting the Staithe.
Free Rent to the Manor of Beccles 2s 4d. [This is the property concerned with here]
Free Rent to the Manor of Rosehall 2s 1d
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1851 CENSUS
Thomas Smith
Lucy Smith
James Smith
Clifford Smith
Anne Louise Smith
Robert Butcher
Mary Allen
Emma Spall
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1881 CENSUS
John WHITE
Elizabeth WHITE
Laura E. WHITE
1891 Census
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Butcher, Edw
Butcher, Robt
£58
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Butcher, Robt
Corn/Coal Merch
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wife
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servant
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partner to Householder
house servant
nurse maid
Smith, Thos
Smith, Cliff
Smith, Cliff
born Bungay
born Ellingham
born Ellingham
born Ellingham
Corn/Coal Merch
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Corn Merch
Corn Merch
Butcher exors
Butcher, Maria
Smith, Thos
Smith, Thos
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Smith, Cliff
Smith, Dawson
Smith, Dawson
Smith, Dawson
Carter, Mrs OM
Blundeston, Suffolk, England
London, Middlesex, England
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Wife
Corn Merchant & Maltster’s Assistant
Corn Merch
Smith/Eastaugh
Smith/Eastaugh
Smith/Eastaugh
Resident
Resident
Smith & Eastaugh
Smith, Cliff
Smith & Eastaugh
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£24
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ORIENTATION: Francis Davy
ORIENTATION: Arabella Crickmer
ORIENTATION: Arabella Crickmore, since of John Woods
ORIENTATION: late John Woods, decsd, now of James Culham, now occupied by George Kemp
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Smith & Eastaugh £21
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James, Sarah
James, Sarah
Stevenson, Geo
Lee, Chas
Wisker, Chas
Lee & Co
Wisker, Chas
Moyse, Ellen
Seago, Jane
Meadows, Jane
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
boot makers
Shoemaker
Provisions
Apartments
Shopkeeper
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Crickmere, Isabel
Woods, Jn
Woods, Eliz
Culham
Smith, Cliff
Smith, Cliff
Smith & Eastaugh £8
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Woods, Jn
Woods, Eliz
Culham
Ellwood, Jn
Weavers, Geo
Weavers, George
Moyes, Arth
Carpenter
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Thomas Nuttall, tent late John Nuttall in Northgate
Richard Power, tent late John Nutall in Northgate vid Thomas Nutall
Widow Power, Survey: her tenement in her own use
Richard Battie, tent in Northgate late Richard Powers, formerly John Nuttall vid
Richard Power
Charles Chandler, tent in Northgate, formerly John Nuttall afterwards Richard
Power, late John Batty
Henry Pond
Mary Pond
INDENTURE: Mary Alice Pond, dyer of the First Part; Robert Dashwood, surgeon, of Second Part;
Sam Haward, then a stonemason of Beccles, Third Part; Richard Bohun, Fourth Part .
All that messe or tent with yards and garden lying in Northgate between the messe formerly of Henry
Whitlock, afterwards of Francis Davy and now of Arabella Crickmer on the south [Northgate 43/45];
the lane leading from the street to the Waveney on the north; abutting on Northgate to the east; on the
River Waveney to the west
Formerly in the tenure of Philip Ely, afterwards of James Boast, since of Henry, the Father of Mary
Pond. Sold for £180
Indenture between Sam Haward of Beccles, First Part; George Whitehead, stonemason, Second Part,
Richard Bohun, gent, Third Part for £257
George Whitehead Conveyance
Task 4d
Task 4d
Value £2
late in the occupation of William Marshall & John Davey
Part; Francis Filby Clarke, coach painter of Second Part for £150
deceased, now of James Culham on the SOUTH, [Nor 45]
James Crickmore, butcher, mortgage with Order of Oddfellows: Divided into two tenements now or
House formerly in the occupation of James Crickmore now of Charles Barlow
INDENTURE between Robert Crickmore of Eliot Cottages, Blackheath, Kent, cabinet maker of First
William Harmer, coach trimmer & Elizabeth Harmer, his wife from Robert Crickmore for £200
William Robert Harmer of 34 George Street, Loughborough, Leics, coach trimmer & William Harmer of
Beccles, coach trimmer
ALL THAT messuage, James Culham to the South [Nor 45]
Formerly occupied by James Crickmore, since by Charles Barlow, since of George Kemp and now of
William Harmer
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Bird, Robt
Davey, Jn
Crickmer, Jas exors £14
Harmer, Mrs
Harmer, Wm
Painter, Ernest
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Davey, Jn
Barlow, Chas
Harmer, Wm
Harmer, Wm
Harmer, Wm
Harmer, Wm
Harmer, Mrs MA
Seago, Jane
Mason, Stone
Carriage Bldr
Boat owner
Hire Boats
boat owner
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Marshall, Jas
Bunn, Benj
Painter, Ernest
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Fellows, Cecil
Bunn, Benjamin
Bunn, Benj
Bunn, Benj
Painter, Ernest
Carpenter
Carpenter
belonged to the Manor of Beccles and were Copyhold. The boundaries also changed, so it is not easy to be certain which parts
the present garden - and house - is composed of.
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Thomas Le Fabeur died seized of Copyhold Lands. First two proclamations made.
Lands of Thomas Le Fabeur seized:
ALL THOSE messuages called a malthouse, late wasted, formerly Seaman in Northgate,
BETWEEN lands formerly Sweetall as well south as north.
Thomas le Fabeur died seized of copyhold lands. 1714 first proclamation.
ALL THOSE messuages or tent called a malthouse late wasted;
FPRMERLY Seaman's in Northgate
BETWEEN the lands formerly of John Sweetall as well as south as north;
and abut on the River Waveney to the west and street to the east.
FORMERLY between the lands of Andrew Horne afterwards of Richard Branch since of John Sweetall
to the south [Nor NN]
and the copyhold lands formerly of John Playford and since of John Sweetall on the north. [Nor YD]
also one other mess or tent in Northgate late Robert Paxton [Nor YID] to John Schuldham [Mary wife
John Schuldham, Regranted: one messe or tent in Northgate
BETWEEN the lands of Andrew Horne, afterwards of Richard Branch & since of John Sweetall on the
south.
And the copyhold lands formerly of John Playford & since of John Sweetall on the north;
the River to the west; the street to the east.
of James Smith [he was Shuldham’s son-in-law] (admitted 1749)
James Smith, by will of John Schuldham the devisee, of one part and William Leman of the other part:
2 messuages or tenements formerly called Morkers and sometime since converted into a malting office,
but now wasted with yards and gardens etc.;
BETWEEN the common way leading to the River on the south,
and another common way leading to the River on the north
the River to the west; and Northgate to the east;
late in the occupation of James Smyth
[Since this is a Deed & not a manor document it describes the whole garden on the west side of the
river, which is made up of more than one manor property NX, NN & perhaps YD]
Robert Le Grys, surgeon, and William Leman, gent on the one part
and Thomas Vere of Thorpe, Norwich, Esq of the second.
ALL THAT messuage, sometime Suckling Leman, Esq in the occupation of Thomas Lefebure, Gent;
AND all that messuage next adjoining in the occupation of Thomas Clarke
AND the messuage or tenement in the occupation of Esdras Carver; lease for a year
Mary Smith, [daughter of John Shuldham] wife of James Smyth, gent, land garden, formerly several
messuages afterwards a malthouse, and now wasted: in length 7 perches, breadth 4 perches,
BETWEEN a path to the River on the north
and the garden late of John Sweetall and now of James Smyth and Mary his wife on the south
(later T Rede 1760)
James Smyth in right of his wife for 3 tents now wasted containing 7 perches of land in length, and 4
perches in breadth in Northgate, late Jn Schuldham, gent, formerly Sweetall
Thomas Rede, the younger & Theophila his wife
John Cooper: land or ground formerly several messe. afterwards a malthouse & now wasted in
Northgate containing in length 7 perches & in breadth 4 perches,
BETWEEN the common footpath leading to the river on the north
& the land or garden ground, formerly John Sweetall, late John Schuldham, gent & since James Smyth &
Mary, his wife, and now of Thomas Rede, the younger & Theophila, his wife on the south;
the River to the west & the street on the east. (received by Thos Rede on surrender of James Smyth
1760) (Mrs Cooper admitted 1779)
Schuldham, Smyth, formerly Sweetall
Montagu, Edward P, A piece of ground, formerly several Messuages. Date of Admission 19 Feb 1823,
Fine £4 4s 0d; Quit Rent 10d; Rent 2d
BETWEEN between the common path leading from the street to the River Waveney on the north;
& the land or garden formerly of John Sweetall, afterwards of John Schuldham, since of James Smyth &
Mary his wife & late of Thomas Sheriffe on the part of the south;
the street to the east & the River to the west.
Which premises Emund Cranston Bacon received on surrender of Frederick Aleander, Mary wife of John
Drake, Amelia wife of Robert Manderoll & Caroline the wife of William Thurtell.
1859
1860
the
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1912
fruitful Vinery & an Orangery. Contiguous is a Meadow containing four acres.
29ft 9ins x 19ft 3ins & looks into Pleasure Garden; Dining Room, Study, Kitchen, Butler’s Room etc.,
Seven Sleeping Rooms & Three Attics,
Vegetable Garden of three quarters of an acre, with frontage of Ninety yards at River’s side.
A Boat House, Summer House, Stables & Coach House. In the Pleasure House is a well-stacked &
INDENTUREbetween William Edward Sharpin, [Steward of the Manor?], of the 1st part, the Rev
George Orgill Leman, George Peskett, Edward Colby Sharpin and Charles Bobbett of the 2nd part,
Mary Reynolds, widow of the 3rd part, Henry Sherlock Farr [Lord of the Manor?] of the 4th part and
the said EP Montagu of the 5th part [the copyhold parts of the heridatements therein are described...
unto ED Montagu his heirs and assigns for ever absolutely discharged from all customary copyhold
and other rents fines etc.]
called Northgate street and sometimes Bridge Street with a certain building there formerly a malting
office and then since converted in part into a stable and all other houses outhouses and buildings with
yard, garden and ground to the same messe. or tenement belong as the same are situate lying and being
in Beccles
between the messe. and yards then late of Wm Oswald and then of Martha Oswald widow on the south
part [Nor A] the messe and yards formerly of Thomas Claxton on the north part [Nor YB see below]
and abut upon a street called Northgate street towards the west
and upon the back lane called Ravensmere way towards the east.
1st Part: JK Garrod, Gent; 2nd Part: Wm Garrod of Tivetshall, Gent; 3rd Part: John Roger Rush
Godfrey, Gent; whereas indentures
5 July 1860 [Montagu House]
18 December 1864 [Oswald House]
13 January 1874 [King's House] between
1st part: Isaac Preston; 2nd Part: Mary Anne Birkett; 3rd Part: JK & WH Garrod Whereas sold for
£2500;
All three freehold mess on the east side of Northgate known as Oswald House, Montagu House and
King's House in occupation of William Haverson, [Oswald House], John Godfrey, [Montagu House] and
Charles Toll, [King's House] and gardens and heridataments; Also freehold cottage in occupation of
Charles Elvin in the garden in rear of King's House abutting on Ravensmere on east All bounded on the
north by stable yard and premises belonging to JK & WH Garrod; on the south by Waveney Valley
And freehold garden on the west side of Northgate for some time occupied with messuage called
Montagu House;
hereditaments conveyed 5 July 1860
on south by Waveney Valley Railway;
east by Northgate; west by River Waveney
SALE: LOT 1:
and Ten Bedrooms
is of pleaning elevation and approached from Northgate Street, Beccles, by a Side Entrance through the
103ft, wth Landing Stage and good anchorage for a Yacht. The Fence on the North side of the
Garden is subject to a covenant for maintenance entered into by the Vendor.
large Linen and Store Cupboards; Two good sized Bedrooms, suitable for Nurseries, one having
Fireplace; 2 excellent Bedrooms, one with Stove and having Dressing Room adjoining, Bathroom with
hot Cold supplies, 2 draw-off taps and lead lined tray. adjoining is a WC with Pedestal Closet.
Apple and Pear Trees, giving access to the River Waveney to which it has a frontage of about
On the GROUND FLOOR.—A Porch with Glazed Door leading to Entranc hall (with Cloak Cupboard)
giving access to Morning Room, 18ft 9ins by 16ft 6ins, Finely Panelled in Wood, with Carved Wood
Mantelpiece, Stove and Marble Hearth ; a well-proportioned Dining Room, 22ft.. 6in. by 16ft 6ins.. also
panelled in Wood, with fine old Mantelpiece (enriched by plaster docorations) and Stove; a comfortable
Smoking Room, 24 ft. by 16ft. into bay, with Wood Panelled Dado, fitted on one side with Range of
Shelving and lockers, open Brick Hearth, flitted with Nautilus Stove; adjoining this Room is an excellent,
Gentlemen’s Lavatory, W.C, and Bathroom, with Tesselated floor, fitted with Hot and Cold Supply Taps
to Bath and Lavatory Basin; and Door to Garden.
On the FIRST FLOOR, approached by Front and Back Stairs, in a charming and well proportioned
Drawing Room, measuring 24ft., by 19ft 6ins. into Bay Windows, with Register Stove, White Marble
Mantlepiece and Marble Hearth and Curb. This Room has a Richly Carved and painted Wood Ceiling,
with Carved and Gilt Cornice round Room. Capital Bedroom, 17ft. by 16ft. 6ins., with Register Stove
and Cupboard; Dressing Room adjoining; BEdroom, 17ft.. by 16ft., with SC Stove and Cupboard, 3
THE DOMESTIC OFFICES: On the Ground Floor comprise Kitchen 18ft 6ins by 18ft 6ins with capital
Range, Boiler, &c, and Tradesmen’s Entrance from Northgate Street; Scullery with stone-ware Sink, hot
and cold supply taps, small Cooking Range, large Copper Oven andFurnace and smaller ditto; Spacious
and cool Larder, fitted shelves; Housemaid’s Pantry fitted with range of Cupboards, stoneware Sonk,
with hot and cold supply taps; Large Store Room (suitable for a Dispensary) fitted with Cupboards and
Shelving, large lead lined Sink and 2 supply taps; Bicycle House, 12ft 6ins by 7ft 6ins; Apple Store; Deep
Cupboard; Knife House, etc.
In the BASEMENT are spacious Cellars
OUTSIDE: Paved Yard, Wood House, Closet, Pump of Water, Refuse Bin, &c, and Back Passage
leading to Street known as Ravensmere.
Gas and Water are laid on to the House from the Company’s Mains, The Drainage is connected with the
Corporation Sewers.
There is a capital walled-in Flower Garden with Lawn, and 2 Geenhouses. On the opposite side of
Northgate Street is a
FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDEN having a frontage of 115 ft to the Street, well planted with
This Lot is in the occupation of Captain RF Lush under a lease for 10 years from 25th ofMarch, 1907
OUTGOINGS: Land Tax £1 7s 6d; Tithe Rent Charge: as assessed.
[It does not appear to have sold]
John Rush Godfrey, barrister at Law changes his name to John Stuart, at present residing at Seville,
Spain [Property is leased to Colonel RE Lush; expires 25 March l918]
1917
1919
with grounds extending to the River, now occupied by Col Lush on lease expiring on Lady Day next.
Rent £80.
1920
Indenture between John Rush Stuart [solicitor’s address given] of first part; Frances Benson of 2nd part
[mortgagee]; Frank Farrell of Shanrahan, Beccles, silk merchant of 3rd part; Sale for £1750. but £1150
owed to mortgagee. £600 paid to Stuart £1150 to mortgagor
Oswald House & Montagu House and garden opposite
1829
Edward P Montagu waste ground laid into garden, late Cranston Bacon & Alexander
Rent 2d
with the said messuage last mentioned, was purchased by James Esdaile, Esq., a former owner of the said
Capital Messuage or Tenement of Elizabeth Rede, Mary Seal & Anne Rede, and by him laid into the
garden belonging to the said Capital Messuage; and which staithe
ABUTS upon a common lane leading from Northgate to the River Waveney on the north
and separated from the said common lane by a brick wall.
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Thomas Aylard, for his tenement late Cook
Elizabeth Aylard, widow
Thomas Allord, for a tenement in Northgate, west
Benjamin Folkard, for ye Three Mariners (west side)
William Elmy, gent., one tenement called the Three Mariners, formerly Thomas Allerd
Rebecca Wake, widow, tenement in Northgate, late Folkard, before Claxton
James Esdaile, Esq, messuage in Northgate, late Thomas Rede & Wake
John Martin of North Cove, farmer: TENEMENT in NORTHGATE, formerly Wake, since Thomas
Rent 1d
Rent 1d
Rent 1d
Rent 1d
Rent 1d
Rent 1d
Rent 1d
Rede, gent, late
1837
1853
Esq, late John Martin
John Garrod, tenement in Northgate, formerly estate of James Esdaile, Esq & since of
John Martin, formerly Wiliam Oswald
JK & WH Garrod, tenement in Northgate formerly John Martin, late John Garrod
Rent 1d
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1765
List no 10: Mrs Rebecca Wake
Value £2
1593
Boyce, Dunston for his tent late Matthew Prynt before Betts & Denham
Task 8d
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Sweetall, John for 2 tents late Branch before Dunston Boyce (folio 170) ]
John Sweetall, late Branch
John Sweetall, late Branch, west
John Seaman, late Branch in Northgate
John Crowfoot late Branch in Northgate
John Crowfoot late Branch in Northgate
John Schuldham, formerly Branch in Northgate, late Seaman
Rent 2d
Task 1s 3d
Rent 2d
Rent 2d
Rent 2d
Rent 2d
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1600.3
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Seaman
Chaston
John Sweetall late Paxton
John Seaman late Burgess
John Crowfoot late Catcham, Sweetall, Seaman, Chaston
John Crowfoot
John Schuldham, for a tent late Crowfoot
James Smith, in right of Mary, his wife, tent late Jn Schuldham, formerly Crowfoot,
before Burgess in Northgate
James Smyth, late John Schuldham before Crowfoot formerly Burgis in NorthgateRent 10d
Thomas Rede
John Cooper from Thos Rede garden in Northgate (reed 1760 from Jas Smith)
James Esdaile garden
Rev Thomas Sheriff garden from John Farr
Henry Alexander garden
Ker Cranston Bacon £1300 for estate & £20 copyhold
Edward P Montagu,, tent in Northgate formerly of Mary, wife of James Smith,
before Crowfoot, formerly Burgess. Previously Cranston Bacon & Alexander
EP Montagu paid 3s 5d 1/2d rent
Rent 10d
Rent 10d
Rent 10d
Rent 10d
Rent 10d
Rent 10d
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1660?
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1890
Heirs of Richard Gilbert for a tenement late Gregory Howes before White &
Doggett
Sam Gilbert (yeoman, died 1670) for one tenement in Northgate late Gregory Howes,
sometime White & Doggett
Joseph Harbor for the Common Staithe West
Joseph John Harbor the Common Staithe West
John Harbor, tanner, lands of Joseph Harbor, died many years ago. The Common Staithe
John Harbor for the Common Staithe West
Death of John Harbor; Robert Harbor, eldest brother, land called the Common Staithe
(received 1743)
Robert Harbor surrender his Copyhold to Benjamin Murrill of Ravenhingham, tanner
Benjamin Murrill of Raveningham, tanner. Surrender of Robert Harbor, wheelwright;
piece of land called the Common Staithe on the north side of messe late of Robert
Harbor the north side of the messe late Robert Harbor
Death of Benjamin Murrill; Elizabeth Murrill, an infant, of the age of - years, only child
at law of Benjamin Murrill, prays admittance to piece of land called the Common Staithe
on north side of messe of late Robert Harbor & now of Benjamin Murrill. Received 1768
on surrender of Robert Harbor (later William Oswald admitted 14 April 1791)
Under guardianship of Elizabeth Murrill, widow, her mother until she is 21
Bevill Paston Chamber of Oulton, Esq, his wife, lately called Elizabeth Murrill,
spinster. The Common Staithe on the north side of the Messe., formerly Robert
Harbor, since Benjamin Murrill, decsd. To William Oswald.
William Oswald, from Bevill Paston Chambers & Elizabeth Murrill (now Elizabeth
Chamber): the Common Staithe on the north side of messe formerly Robert Harbor,
since Benjamin Murrill, decsd, to William Oswald, tanner
Bankruptcy hearing against Robert Oswald
To tanners: To be sold or let with immediate possession: A good dwelling house, large Tan Yard and all
necessary outbuildings situate in Beccles, where a considerable trade has been carried on. Apply to
William Oswald, A staithe in Northgate The Tan Yard (Copyhold)
John Garrod, jun, from William Oswald for £450; the Common Staithe on the
north side of messe, formerly Robert Harbor, Benj Murrill & now William Oswald
Piece of land that is now built upon (later JK & H Garrod) Fine £20
John K Garrod, [died June 1898] tanner, & WH Garrod, currier, sons of JB Garrod; asks to be
admitted to
ALL THAT piece of land called the Common Staithe together with the Granary now
built thereon: on the north side of the messe., formerly B Murrill & afterwards
William Oswald & the late JB Garrod (received 1833 on surrender of William Oswald)
TALK given in October 1956 (Newspaper Cutting)
The Garrod family ceased to operate the Tannery during 1890 and for 10 years it was idle. In 1900
Messrs John Lees & Co took it over and restarted tanning. Mr AE Smith joined in 1901.
Bullock hides were mostly treated, cows considered too thin, while bull hides were too thick.
Hides on arrival were weighed - usually weighing from 70-80lbs - horns removed and the whole skin
stretched flat for examination. Then put into lime pits, weak lime used at first, and then the strength
increased, some 9 to 12 weeks covering this process.
From these pits - some 16 were in use in Northgate - the skins were taken into the “beam” house and
put into clean water for a day or two before the removal of hair, followed by another rinse for
“Fleshing”. [the description continued]
Rent 2s 0d
Rent 2s 0d
Rent 2s 0d
Rent 2s 0d
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Nor News 17 Nov
Nor News 21 Oct
Nor News 3 March
Nor News16 Nov
Nor News 17 Mar
Mr Joseph Harbor, jun
Mr John Harbor
Mr John Harbor
Mr John Harbor
Mr Murrill for late Harbor House
Benjamin Murrill, tanner, authorised by John Johnson of Ludham, patentee, to make
use of new Invention in the art of tanning leather.
Benjamin Murrill, tanner, had a chest broken open &
Benjamin Murrill, died aged 53 [buried in St Michael’s Church, where there is a
monument to him inside the vestry]
Mr Benjamin Murrill House
Mr Benjamin Murrill Tan Office
Mr Benjamin Murrill Dwelling House
Mrs Chamber empty
Mr Murrill the Tan Office
To be let: Tanning Office, late Benjamin Murrill. Handsome House, lately rebuilt .
To be let a House in Bridge Street, garden walled-in. Enquiries William Oswald or
BP Chamber, Diss [Northgate was frequently called Bridge Street]
Robert Oswald Offices & land
Robert Oswald
Robert Oswald House & Tan Office
Robert Oswald
£5-10s
£10
£10
£10
£10
£7-10s
£9
£50
£24-10s
1824
Henry Oldring House empty
£7-6-8d
1828
Mrs Fish
1832
late Fish
£6-15s
1841 509
Garrod, Jn
Garrod, Jn
[under Sheepgate]
1850
JB Garrod
JK Garrod
£2
Garden 1r 18p
1855 138
1855 138
1855 138
JB Garrod exors
JB Garrod exors
JB Garrod exors
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
£2 5s
£1 5s
£4 5s
Stable
Office
1860 141
1860 141
1860 141
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
£2 5s
£1 5s
£4 5s
Garden 1r 18p
Stable
Office
1861
1861
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
£ 1 5s
£4 5s
Stable
Office
1865 142
1865 142
1865 142
1865 142
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
£2 10s
£5
£4 10s
£7 5s
Garden 1r 18p
Stable
Office
Meadow late Montagu 2a 3r 29p
1870 152
1870 152
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
£2 10s
£5
Garden 1r 18p
Stable
1870 152
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
£7 5s
Meadow late Montagu 2a 3r 29p
1875 149
1875 150
1875 151
1875 152
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
[on the east side of the road]
[on Ravensmere East]
£2 10s
£10
£4 10s
Garden 1r 18p
Wegh Bridge & Stable
Office
£7 5s
1880 163
1880 164
1880 165
1880 166
1881
1881
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
[on the east side of the road]
[in Ravensmere East]
£10
£26 10s
£2 10s
Offices, buildings & sheds, Tan Pits, plant & premises
Stabling, Weigh Bridge & premises
Wegh Bridge & Stable
Offices
£7 7s
Garden 1r 18p
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
£300
£12
JK Garrod
Yard 2r 29p
1885 211
1885 212
1885 213
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
[in Ravensmere East]
£2 10s
£7 7s
Garden 1r 18p
Yard 2r 29p
1885 211
1885 212
1885 213
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
[in Ravensmere East]
£2 10s
£7 7s
Garden 1r 18p
Yard 2r 29p
1890 260
1890 261
1890 262
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
[in Ravensmere East]
£2 10s
£9
Garden 1r 18p
Yard 2r 29p
1895 260
1895 261
1895 262
JK & WH Garrod
JK & WH Garrod
JK Garrod
JK Garrod
[in Ravensmere East]
£2 10s
£9
Garden 1r 18p
Yard 2r 29p
1899 260
1899 261
1899 262
Garrod reps Whitmore Lees & Co
Garrod reps Whitmore Lees & Co
[in Ravensmere East]
£2 10s
£9
Garden 1r 18p
1906 Survey Whitmore & Son
1908
1913
1924
Wiles, Alfred
1933
Martin, Ethel
Martin, Ethel
House & Garden
Waveney Lodge
1937
Wiles, Alfred
Assembly Rooms on Thursday 7 July [Thanksgiving Day for the defeat of Napoleon] 10s/6d.
Stewards: JL Farr, B Bence, Nicholas Bacon, T Farr, I Blowers, G Bohun, S Lillistone, W Oswald
[John Mapes was Landlord of the King's Head & Daniel Nobbs of the White Lion]
Founded in 1934 to publish popular books for children, BURKE PUBLISHING COMPANY is now a major educational publisher
whose influence extends throughout the world.
In 1970, Burke established a Canadian subsidiary in Toronto and in the same year it became imperative that the parent Company
should handle its own distribution. And so it was that ‘The Barn’ in Northgate, Beccles, was converted and, on January 1st., 1971,
began operations as the Burke Book Distribution Centre despatching—On the same day—every order received by the Company.
The warehouse despatches 4,000 books a day.
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Joseph Harbor, jun, III a tent in Northgate late Elmy next the Staithe
Joseph Harbor, jun, III tent he dwelleth in
Joseph John Harbor, the tent he dwells in
John Harbor, for tent he dwells in late Joseph Harbor, formerly Elmy in Northgate by the
Common Staithe
Robert Harbor, tent in Northgate, where he dwells, near the Common Staithe
Benjamin Murrill. of Raveningham, tanner, tent in Northgate near the Common Staithe
William Oswald, tent on west side of Northgate, near the Common Staithe
John Garrod, jun, tent on west side of Northgate, near the Common Staithe, late Benjamin
Murrill, formerly Harbor, purchased of William Oswald (later JK & WH Garrod)
JK & WH Garrod, tent on west side of Northgate near the Common Staithe, late JB Garrod
formerly Murrill
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
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John Harbor,
Robert Harbor
Benjamin Murrill. of Raveningham, tanner, piece of land enclosed with posts and rails
against the said dwelling house
William Oswald, piece of ground formerly enclosed with posts and rails on the west
side of Northgate, on which part of a messe is now built
John Garrod, jun, piece of ground formerly enclosed with posts and rails on west side
of Northgate on which part of a messe is now built, purchased of William Oswald,
(later JK & WH Garrod)
JK & WH Garrod, piece of ground formerly enclosed with posts and rails on west side
of Northgate on which part of a messe is now built
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John Harbor,
Robert Harbor, part of tent in Northgate
Benjamin Murrill. of Raveningham, tanner, part of tent in Northgate
William Oswald, tenement on west side of Northgate
John Garrod, jun, part of another tent on west side of Northgate late Benjamin Murrill
& formerly Harbor, purchased of William Oswald (later JK & WH Garrod)
JK & WH Garrod, part of a tent on the west side of Northgate late JB Garrod
Rent 3d
Rent 3d
Rent 3d
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1853
Barcham
Schuldham
Smith
Dame Elizabeth L’Estrange, for a tent & porch late Schuldham afterwards Smith, formerly
Barcham & before Cutlove [probably includes the porch as Northgate YH Rent 1d]
Benjamin Murrill. of Raveningham, tanner
William Oswald, tent on west side of northhgate late Benjamin Murrill, before Lady
L’Estrange (later John Garrod)
John Garrod, jun, tent on west side of Northgate late Benjamin Murrill, before Lady
L’Estrange & formerly Smith, purchased of William Oswald
JK & WH Garrod tent on west side of Northgate late JB Garrod, formerly Murrill
Rent 4d
1842
Hawke, upon which a large barn has lately been erected (later Richard Burwood)
Richard Burwood, blacksmith
of Morkers which were formerly converted into a malting office but since that time wasted situated and being adjacent to Northgate
towards the east.
3) And also all that the aforesaid messe or tent [Nor YB, but wrongly described.. It has been confused with BD, King's House,
also owned by Garrod] formerly of Thomas Claxton with the yard and garden or ground to the same belonging
between the first mentioned messe and buildings formerly a malting office on the part of the south [Nor AB]
the messe and yards formerly of John Schuldham afterwards of Henry Bond then late of William Birkett and then of Mary Ann
Birkett on the part of the north [Nor BD]
upon Northgate to the west
and upon the highway called Ravensmere towards the east
Which said messe formerly of Thomas Claxton was taken down [Nor YB] and a dining room erected on the site and added to the
capital messe therein first mentioned.
4) And also all that staithe yard formerly belonging to a messe or tenement called the "Three Mariners" [Nor BFIBG but it went
out of the ownership of Montagu House in 1792, but was bought by Garrod in 1837 from Oswald, it probably formed part of the
tannery site] and which together with the said messe or tenement last mentioned was purchased by James Esdaile Esq a former
owner of the said Capital messe or tenement of Elizabeth Rede, Mary Seal and Anne Rede and by him laid into the garden belonging
to the said Capital messe and which staithe
abuts upon a common lane leading from Northgate to the River Waveney on the north and was separated from the said common
lane by a brick wall,
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Ward, gent, tent in Northgate near the Staithe
Yallop
James Carter, clerk, tent in Northgate near the Staithe, late Elizabeth Yallop,
formerly Ward
James Carter, clerk, tent next to it, late Elizabeth Yallop, formerly Ward, Theobald
Edward Blowers, late James Carter, clerk, tent in Northgate near the Staithe, late
Elizabeth Yallop, formerly Ward,
Edward Blowers, late James Carter, clerk, tent next to it, late Elizabeth Yallop, formerly
Ward, Theobald
Thomas Hawke, the younger, tent in Northgate near the Staithe, formerly Ward,
since Yallop. late James Carter, since Edward Blowers
Thomas Hawke, the younger, another tent next to it, late Edward Blowes, formerly
Theobald, after Yallop & since James Carter
Thomas Hawke junior, Tenement in Northgate near the Staithe late Edward Blowers,
before Yallop
Thomas Hawke junior, Tenement next to it late Edward Blowers before Yallop, Ward
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 8d
Rent 8d
1805
1842
DIVISION B
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1812
1818
1820
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1833
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1837
1852
which Thomas Hawke, the younger, lately deceased, held. (later W Wright) Whole
property Rent 3d 1/2d & 8d
William Wright, boatbuilder, part of two tenements, formerly Yallop, after Edward
Blowers, since Hawkes, late Oswald
James Last, flour merchant, part of two tents, formerly Edward Blowers, before Yallop,
afterwards of Thomas Hawke & late of John Norman
SALE: HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE: James Last. Amongst others: good mahogany Chests of Drawers,
Bureau, Writing Desks & bookcase.
James Last bankrupt; moved way
Edward Arnold, two tenements in Northgate, formerly of Thomas Hawke, formerly of Edward
Blowers, afterwards of John Norman & late of James Last (later TC Collins)
Edward Arnold bankrupt
Thomas Carr Collins, part of two tenements in Northgate, formerly Thomas Hawke after John
Norman, James Last late Edward Arnold
Elizabeth Crickmay, late widow of Thomas Collins
Thompson George, a messuage & premises on the west side of Northgate, late Atkinson
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Henry Gold for his Tent late Ropkins
The same for his Taynter Yard
Henry Gold for his Tenement where he dwelleth, late Ropkins being the
Corner House
And for a Taynter Yard
Thomas Chittleburgh Tent anciently Henry Gold's & Ropkins being the
Corner House in Northgate, Late Edward Chittleburgh
For the Tinters Yard
Roger Ward, gent: Tent near the Common Stathe
Ward, gent, tent in Northgate near the Staithe
Ward, gent, a tent late Theobald net to the other (later Elizabeth Yallop, widow) }
Yallop
James Carter, clerk, tent in Northgate near the Staithe, late Elizabeth Yallop,
formerly Ward
James Carter, clerk, tent next to it, late Elizabeth Yallop, formerly Ward, Theobald }
Edward Blowers, late James Carter, clerk, tent in Northgate near the Staithe, late
Elizabeth Yallop, formerly Ward,
Edward Blowers, late James Carter, clerk, tent next to it, late Elizabeth Yallop, formerly
Ward, Theobald
Thomas Hawke, the younger, tent in Northgate near the Staithe, formerly Ward,
since Yallop. late James Carter, since Edward Blowers
Thomas Hawke, the younger, another tent next to it, late Edward Blowes, formerly
Theobald, after Yallop & since James Carter
Task 1s 2d
Task 2d
Task 2d
}
Task 2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 8d
Rent 8d
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which Thomas Hawke, the younger, lately deceased, held. (later W Wright) Whole
property Rent 3d 1/2d & 8d
William Wright, boatbuilder, part of two tenements, formerly Yallop, after Edward
Blowers, since Hawkes, late Oswald
William Wright, for two tenememts, late Oswald
William Wright, two tenements, late Oswald
Rent 6d
1805
1812
James Last, flour merchant, part of twoTents, formerly of Edward Blowers,
afterwards of Thomas Hawke and late of John Norman
1833
of Edward Blowers, afterwards of John Norman & late of James Last
3 adjoining houses with bake house & rope maker's shop
1835
1836
yards of Beccles Bridge. Brewing Trade has been & is now carried on by the late proprietor. Edward
Arnold
Thomas Carr Collins [died Feb 1835 aged 26] part of two Tents in Northgate, formerly Thomas
TO BE LET: In Bridge Street, House with Stables & wash house adjoining River, suitable small Mercantile
man, now in posession of Messrs Charles Hursthouse & Co.
Crickmay, Mess on west side of Northgate, late Edward Arnold formerly
1837
1838
Charles Crickmay, Mess & premises on west side of Northgate, late Elizabeth
Crickmay, his wife, deceased, formerly Thos Collins, Edward Arnold, Hawkes
SALE:Brick & Tile Built Dwelling House: 2 sitting rooms, counting house & kitchen on
the ground floor; 5 sleeping rooms, granaries, outbuildings, yard & garden, and Quay
next the River Waveney of about 40ft in extent & within 50 yards of Beccles Bridge, having
every convenience for carrying on a considerable mercantile trade of almost any
description. Freehold, in excellent repair in Northgate; now let on a lease to Mr Hursthouse,
a highly respectable tenant, for a term of years expires Michaelmas 1841 at annual rent of £40.
Land Tax £1-2-0. Free rent To Manor of Beccles 5 1/2d to Rosehall 2d
on mortgage at 4 1/2%
SALE: House, Yard & Garden & Quay (140ft) within 50 yards of Beccles Bridge, on lease to Mr
Hursthouse. Sale by Oswald.
1836
TO BE LET: In Bridge Street, House with Stables & wash house adjoining River, suitable small Mercantile
man, now in posession of Messrs Charles Hursthouse & Co.
SALE: House, Yard & Garden & Quay (140ft) within 50 yards of Beccles Bridge, on lease to Mr
Hursthouse. Sale by Oswald.
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18ft 10 ins long, 11ft 4ins deep & every other convenience.
bankrupt to Samuel Emms Atkinson
containing sitting rooms, kitchen, store room, pantry, cellar, washhouse & 5 airy sleeping rooms
ALSO a capital Cottage, lately licensed as a Beer House, with two sitting rooms, two bed rooms,
washhouse, pantry and cellar. also [probably the Pub called the Coffin]
NEWLY ERECTED BREWHOUSE with tun & store rooms, capital 186 gallon copper, beer cooler,
malt store room.
ALSO an excellent tiled coal shed for 300 tons, capital Counting House, Gig House & Stable, with other
convenient outbuildings & spacious yard with a quay next the River Waveney of about 140ft in extent &
within 50 yards of Beccles Bridge.
There is also a well of excellent spring water upon the premises about 30ft deep, from which the water is
drawn by a capital force pump, which is nearly new.
The Auctioneer begs most respectfully to invite the attention of Brewers, Maltsters, messuage &
premises Title: Deed of conveyance of 10 October 1842 being the assignees of Charles Crickmay, a
SALE: near BRIDGE STREET: George Fenn to sell Residence close to Beccles Bridge: Stables, Coach
House, Walled-in Garden etc, now occupied by Mr C Hursthouse & his undertenants.
1853
1860
1878
Thompson George of Halesworth, Messuage on west side of Northgate late Sam
Atkinson formerly Chas Crickmay, before Dorothy [?] Crickmay
Thompson George, late Atkinson on a messuage & premises west side of Northgate
Rent 5d 1/2d
from the Railway Station, consisting of Brew House, with malt and hay lofts, working tun rooms, engine
and boilerhouses, stores, stabling, wharf. Containing Wharf, Counting House, two residences, 14 Shops
and Cottages; the whole forming a compact site with ample accommodation for increasing the
manufacturing capabilities, together with the 43 quarter plant, very complete and of modern
construction, with powerful machinery and appliances and embracing two Milburn’s Patent Dessicating
Cylinders.
FREEHOLD BREWEY PREMISES situate in Beccles upon the River Waveney and a short distance
1881
freehold stores at Ipswich and rented stores at Yarmouth.
The trade has been established upwards of 50 years and was formerly carried on under the firm of
Thornton & Co. and approaches 7000 quarters per annum.
BANKRUPTCY of AB WORTHINGTON & Marshall, brewers of Beccles & 141 Commercial Street,
London. Liabilities of £24,000. Assets: a brewery, public houses, plant, stock in trade & other property in
Beccles, besides public-houses at Yarmouth, Ipswich & other places. Debts include: Horsley & Co £10; E
Masters £19; EW Hindes £79; JM Brundell £51, GB Angell £2; NW Pels £10; N Pells & Son £10; FS Rix
£10; Churchwardens £33.
1887
SALE: BECCLES BREWERY, NORTHGATE: Important and valuable Freehold Business Premises with
comfortable & well-arranged Private Dwelling House, Offices, 12 Workmen’s Houses, Shops & Cottages,
20 Quarter Steep Malting, with working floors, barley & malt chambers, large range of convenient
buildings and storage room, recently erected. Modern stabling for 10 horses, Blacsmith’s Shop and
spacious Yard, the whole formerly known as the Beccles Brewery. An extensive frontage to Northgate and
Bridge Street, and in the rear bordering upon the navigable River Waveney, with a wharfage of
considerable length.
1900
The Magistrates refuse to grant the renewal of the licence of premises of the Old Brewery in Northgate
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Roger Ward
Thomas Hawke, senior
Thomas Hawke, senior, executors
Widow Hawke
John Norman
John Norman now Mr John Last
James Last
Late Last (empty) [no payment made as it was empty]
EJ Arnold
Beam House & Chamber over empty
Ed Arnold
Public House
Owner: Charles Crickmay
Tenant: James Boyden, seed merchant, House & outbuildings
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£4-13-04
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Richard Thornton
Maria Thornton
Victoria Thornton
William Thornton
Mary Ann Wigg
Ann Brown
dau
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housekpr
servant
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housekeeper
house servant
born Beccles
born Beccles
born Geldeston
born Oulton
born Willingham
1855 132
Thompson George
Richard Thornton
£40 15s
Brew House & buildings
1860 185
1860 185
1860 185
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
£49
£17 10s
£12 10s
Brew Office & buildings
New Brewery, Granary & Coal Shed
Beer Stores, Coal Sheds, Cart Lodge & Stable
1861 135 Thos W Read
1861 136 Thos Read
1861 136
1861 136
1861 136
1861 136
1861 136
Thornton & Co
House
£18
£4 5s
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thos Read
Thos Read
Thos Read
Thos Read
Beccles Corp
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
£49
£17 10s
£13 10s
£13 10s
Coal Shed on Quay
New Brewery, Granary & Coal shed
Beer Stores & Coal
Sheds, Cart lodge etc
1865 134
1865 136
1865 136
1865 136
1865 136
1865 136
1865 136
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Beccles Corp
Beccles Corp
Mary Ann Wigg
Richard Thornton
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
£16
£140
£5
£1 10s
House
[ Beer & Liquor Stores
[ Brew Office & buildings
{ New Brewery, Granary & Coal Shed
{ Beer Stores, Coal Sheds, Cart Lodge & Stables
Coal Shed
Coal shed
1870 139
1870 139
1870 139
1870 139
1870 139
1870 139
1870 139
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Thos W Read
Beccles Corp
Beccles Corp
Thornton & Co
Richard Thornton
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
£16
£140
£5
£1 10s
House
[ Office & Liquor Stores
[ Brew Office & buildings
{ New Brewery, Granary & Coal Shed
{ Beer Stores, Coal Sheds, Cart Lodge
Coal Shed on Quay
Coal shed on Quay
1871 141
1871 141
1871 142
1871 143
1871 144
1871 145
1871 146
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
£16
£148
House
{ Office & Liquer Store,
{ Brewing Office & buildings,
{ New Brewery, Granary
{ Coal shed
Beccles Corp
Thornton & Co
£1-10
Coal shed on Quay
1875 139
1875 140
1875 140
1875 140
1875 140
1875 141
*Richard Thornton died in 1875 aged 75
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Beccles Corp
Thornton & Co
Richard Thornton *
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
Thornton & Co
£16
£148
£6 10s
House
[ Brew Office & buildings
{ New Brewery, Granary & Coal Shed
{ Beer Stores, Coal Sheds, Cart Lodge
Two Coal Shed on Quay
1880 155
& Coal Sheds
1880 141
Worthington AB & Co Worthington, AB & Co £152 10s
Offices,Liquor Stores, Brew Offices & Boilers, New Brewery, Granary
Beccles Corp
Thornton & Co
£6 10s
1881
Beccles Corp
£6 10s
2 Sheds on Quay
2r 25p
1885 204
1890 253
Crisp, John
Crisp, John & Son
£22
Maltings
1895 253
Crisp, John
Smith, Clifford, Webly
£22
Maltings
1896 378
1899 253
Crisp, John
Smith, Clifford, Webly
£22
Maltings
Owner: Mrs Hawke Tenant: John Hawke £0-12-0
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Gaulter, Peter
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Smith, Josh
Burcham, Harry
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Hockey Crisp, JE
Fell, Thomas
Clark, Lewis
1930
valuable frontage of 17ft 9ins, large Front Room, suitable for a Shop, & convenient Yard in rear. Let to
Mrs E Keable, producing £10 pa.
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Skinner
Lockwood, Jonathan
Lockwood, Jonathan
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Ward, Frederick
Ward, Frederick
1842
LOT 1. NORTHGATE [Nos ]: House with Grocer’s Shop & 2 Cottages on West Side of Northgate near the
Bridge occupied by John Rand, grocer, & Robert Mills. Annual Rent £17
LOT 2. NORTHGATE: [Nos 76 & 78] House & Cottage on the East Side opposite Lot 1,
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Mills, Sarah
Mills, Mrs
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LOT 1. NORTHGATE [Nos ]: House with Grocer’s Shop & 2 Cottages on West Side of Northgate near
the Bridge occupied by John Rand, grocer, & Robert Mills. Annual Rent £17
LOT 2. NORTHGATE: [Nos 76 & 78] House & Cottage on the East Side opposite Lot 1,
Crisp, J, Hockey
Gilding, Frederick
Gilding, Frederick
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1974
1842
LOT 1. NORTHGATE [Nos ]: House with Grocer’s Shop & 2 Cottages on West Side of Northgate near the
Bridge occupied by John Rand, grocer, & Robert Mills. Annual Rent £17
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Howell, John
Howard, John
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DEMOLISHED 1935
UNFIT HOUSING; Nos 59, 61 & 63 Northgate: Owners Beccles Corporation
DEMOLISHED 1936
Old Market C
Listed Building: No 2
Early 19th century. Red brick, painted. 2 storeys. 2 windows and blank recess at first floor, and 2 windows on return, south, to Old
Market (Square), near flush-frame, sash, with glazing bars and cambered heads. Cambered headed entrance, way through, rounded
corner and ground floor shop fronts, south. Slate roof.
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Widow Poynton for the tent late John Poynton sometime Marlaye
Robert Surman for a tent. late John Poynton before Marley
Lockington
Edmund Fairweather tent. late Poynton before Michells (folio 73)
Edmund Fairthweather late Lockington
William Welton late Fairweather on the north [of Old Market]
John Seaman, Survey: in John Dyer’s use
John Dyer, Poor Rate, Northgate listing 38
Mrs? Seaman’s heirs, for a tent in Old Market late Fairweather (later
William Margerom)
John Seaman’s heirs in Old Market late Fairweather
William Margerom for a tent. in Old Market, late Tyes, before Seaman’s
& before Fairweather
Elizabeth [?] Margerom tent. in Old Market late William Margerom, Tyes,
Seaman
Task 1s
Rent 1s 1d
Rent 1s 1d
Value £3
Value £1-10
Rent 1s 1d
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Margorem, before Tyes
Daniel Smith, currier, messe at corner of Old Market, formerly William Margerom,
late Jane Margerom, widow
Henry Larke, messe at corner of Old Market, formerly William Margerom, since Jane
Margerom, widow, late Daniel Smith (later Mr Howman)
Rev Roger Howman, messe at corner of Old Market, late Henry Larke, before Daniel
Smith & formerly Margerom (later Mrs Howman)
Rhoda Howman, messe at west corner of Old Market, late Rev Howman, before Henry
Larke, formerly Margerom
Samuel Haward, stonemason, messe on north west corner of Old Market, late Rhoda
Howman, before Rev R Howman, formerly Larke
SALE: late PJ Gibbons: LOT 1: No 2 NORTHGATE; freehold SHOP & DWELLING HOUSE, having
frontages to NORTHGATE & OLD MARKET, containing Corner Shop, adjoining Shop, 2 Sitting
Rooms, Kitchen & 3 Bedrooms, WC, now occupied by Mr S Spaulding.
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before Tyes
Mary Gilney
John Whitlock of Chedgrave in right of his wife Ann (Gilney) & Catherine
Gilney, spinster, tent in Old Market formerly William Margerom late Mary
Gilney, widow
Henry Larke, carpenter, tent. in Old Market formerly William Margerom,
since of Mary Gilney & late Whitlock & Gilney (later Mr Howman)
Rev Roger Howman, tenement. in Northgate, adjoining [Northgate House, no 12]
late Henry Larke formerly Gilney
[Rector of Hockering & Shipmeadow from 1803; married Rhoda Lens died
1832]
1829
there
1842
cottages which he has lately purchased on the east side of Northgate at the
point where the same enters the Old Market, for the purposes of widening &
improving the street. Committee to consider the plan.
Rev Howman’s letter: two alternatives: the second & more expensive chosen.
Mr Thomas Woodroffe’s estimate:
It does not appear to be necessary to meddle with the lower storey of Lark’s dwelling house, but the
projection must be taken away & the breach made good. From the end of his dwelling house where
is a kind of offset (a little nearer to the Old Market than the stem of the vine) the whole should be swept
away - to the corner of my dwelling house, with the removal of the garden wall and the removal of a
building connected with it which must be rebuilt.
[I shall] be obliged to place the cottages so much backwarder, encroaching thereby on the garden
ground, which to cottagers is of great importance.
Cost £95 for work to be done. The wall is to commence from the window of Mr Larke’s shop.
Samuel Howard for tent. on the east side of Northgate adjoining {Northgate
House] now in several dwellings; Rhoda Howman, Rev R Howman;
formerly Larke.
1927
Lot 8 [No 2] Dwelling House & Shop let to Mr John Bracey, yearly on 11 October Rent £15
House:
Market;
9’’ x 14’ ; Pantry, Store; Room, Wash House, Coal House; First Floor: Sitting Room & 4 Sleeping
Rooms; Shop: Commanding Corner Entrance & fronts both on Old Market & Northgate Yard:
Passage entrance from Northgate. Detached Wash House & Loft over. Right in common with owners &
occupiers of adjoining property Lot IX and use of pump in back yard.
Lot 9 [Nos 4-10] Robert Baley, Isiah Dunn, Harvey Piper, Mary Ann Hunt; Rents £30
Uniform range of brick & slated tenements in good repair with back entrances at north end from the
street. 2 Ground Floor Rooms, Pantry & 2 Sleeping Rooms & Garden & detached Wash Houses behind.
Right in common with Lot 8 & occupiers of an adjoining property, use of Pump & draw water from well.
Land Tax 14s 8d
SALE: late Mr PJ Gibbons, Four Frehold COTTAGES Nos 4, 6, 8 & 10 NORTHGATE, with Gardens,
Washhouses & 2 WCs, Rental of £44 4s, landlord paying rates.
Ground Floor: a room adjoining shop & separate entrance from Old Market; sitting room 14’
OWNER
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Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Chalker, Sarah
Lockwood, Chas
Lockwood, Chas
Gibbons, Percy
Gibbons, Percy
Taylor, Arth
NORTHGATE 4
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Chalker, Sarah
Smith, Shepherd
Syder, Geo
Bracey, Jn
Lockwood, Chas
Lockwood, Chas
Ingate, Louis
Meadows, John
Cracknell, Chas
Taylor, A
Shopkeeper
Grocer
Grocer
Grocer/Tobacco
Furniture Dealer
Engineer
0.06
£15
£15.10
£15
£25
£25
Laws, Hannah
Laws, Hannah
Hunt, Mary
Annuitant
Annuitant
£5
£6
£7
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Lockwood, Chas
Gibbons, Percy
Youell, Jas
NORTHGATE 6
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Lockwood, Chas
Lockwood, Chas
Gibbons, Percy
Taylor, Harry
NORTHGATE 8
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Lockwood, Chas
Lockwood, Chas
Gibbons, Percy
Chaston, Geo
NORTHGATE 10
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Haward, Sam
Chalker, Sarah
Lockwood, Chas
Lockwood, Chas
Gibbons, Percy
Fairweather, Rupert
(see 2)
Gibbons, PJ
Yoell, James
Youell, Jas
Whitehead, Elenr
Whitehead, Elenr
Whitehead, Elenr
Ford, Wm
Jacobs, Geo
Jacobs, Geo
Goffin, Mrs H
Gibbs, Geo
Annuitant
Annuitant
Annuitant
Compositor
Printers Rollers
£5
£6
£7
Carter, Wm
Blaxill, Sam
Berry, Henry
Sawyer, Jn
Flowerdew, Wm
Goffin, George
Chaston, Geo
Customs Retd
Compositor
Carpenter
£5
£6
£7
Piper, Jas
Piper, Jas
Cann, Jn
Goffin, Jas
Elvin, Jas
Fairweather, Arth
Fairweather, Arth
Fairweather, Arth
Fairweather, Arth
Fairweather, Arth
Tailor Journmn
Tailor Journmn
Wherryman
Engine Driver Stat
Window Cleaner
Window Cleaner
Window Cleaner
Painter
Painter
£5
£6
£7
18th century. Palladian elevation to main front. 2 storeys. Red brick, with stone cornice, and parapet with stone coping. Rendered
plinth. Centre breaks forward with 2 storey brick pilasters with moulded brick caps and bases. Centre portion only has brick
architrave and frieze. Main roof with end gables with apex chimneys. Pantiles. There is a lower 2 storey., 3 window wing on north
end without stonework, but with wood bracket cornice. Main block windows, 1:3:1, sashes in flush frames, with flat arches and
stone keys and cills. 6-panel door in pediment mutular Doric case, arched patterned fanlight, 3/4 columns, and triglyphs. (Oak
staircase with slender turned balusters. Adam type mantel. NMR photos.
Pevsner: Buildings of England: Suffolk by Nikolaus Pevsner:
Good 18th century house. Has 5 bays & 2 storeys, the middle emphasised by heavy giant pilasters and a heavy attic. Big stone
doorway with Tuscan demi-columns, a metope frieze and a pediment. The date is probably c 1720.
My comment: The brick facade of the main entrance front post-dates the Victorian building to its north (originally part of the same
house). The brickwork overlaps the Victorian part built perhaps in 1880. The drawing of the town of Beccles from the river dating
probably from the 1760s shows the house with a pedimented top, rather than the present parapet top.
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Nicholas Lockington for the tenement wherein he dwelleth late Harris before
Bradley, Camell
Roger Ward for 3 tenements sometime Print after Lockington in the Brigg Street,
burnt. (folio 118)
Mrs Mary Brownrigg, Poor Law, Northgate listing 35
Mrs Brownrigg, Hearth Tax: 8 Hearths
John Schuldham, for tenement in Northgate against [opposite] Widow Russell
John Schuldham, the messuage wherein he now dwells late Lockington
James Smith
William Leman, messuage late Mr John Schuldham before Lockington
Bence Sparrow
Rev John Amyas late Mr Bence Sparrow [Rector of Beccles] , Leman, Schuldham Rent 1s 1d
Beville Paston Chamber, Esq, messuage. in Northgate formerly Schuldham, since
William Leman, Esq & lately of Rev John Amyas
Elizabeth Chamber, widow, a messuage. in Northgate formerly Schuldham
afterwards Leman & since Amyas
Rev Robert Page [born 1772, died 1852 aged 80; Diary of JB Scott]
Diary of John Barber Scott of Bungay:
In January, as a private pupil, together with James, Henry and William Yeames
and Richard Brownsmith, I followed Mr Page, to his newly purchased house in
Bridge Street [Northgate], Beccles, which once belonged to Mr Purvis, since the Bacons
and Howmans, and later owned by Mr Crowfoot. £105 per annum was paid for
my tuition, board and lodging, besides extras.
[ This seems to have been written up many years later. I think the information
about the ownership of the property is confused. Mr Page sold the house and
moved to Ipswich in June 1807. I do not think Purvis or Crowfoot owned the house]
Hester Jewson, spinster, one messe. in or abutting upon Northgate, late Rev
Robert Page, clerk, before Elizabeth Chamber, widow, sometime William Leman,
Esq. & formerly Schuldham
Nicholas Bacon, Esq., messuage in Northgate later Hester Juson, before Rev Robert
Page & previously Elizabeth Chamber, widow & formerly William Leman, Esq.
SALE: Samuel Crowe to sell Mansion House in Bridge Street [Northgate] with coach house,
stable, etc., 1 1/4 acre gardens, walled in and planted with fruit trees, residence
of Mrs Juson, decsd
Nicholas Bacon of Beccles FIRST PART
Jane Bowker, spinster, of Kings Lynn, aged 19 SECOND PART
Anne Bowker, widow of Kings Lynn, mother of Jane, & Robert Green, merchant, of Kings Lynn of the
THIRD PART
(Bacon, son of Sir Edmund Bacon & Lady Ann Bacon, deceased) intended Marriage
Value £8
Task 1s 8d
INDENTURE BETWEEN:
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Buildings, Yards, containing two acres.
ABUTTING on Ravensmere EAST;
Northgate, WEST
Houses and Yards formerly John Pleasants [No 14], decsd, purchased of Rev Bence Bence, NORTH
House & yards, formerly of Wiliam Pritchard, [Old Market 11], & since of William Margerom
AND houses & Gardens, formerly of John Seaman [Nor 2-10] late of James Downing & now of (blank)
part; AND a Common Way [Ravensmere] towards the SOUTH
ALSO all that piece of Land containing 10 Rods, lately part of the Yard belonging to the Bear & Bells
and now separated thertefrom by a wall and laid into the Garden of Nicholas Bacon.
Thomas Farr
Rev Roger Howman, messuage in Northgate purchased of Thomas Farr, lately estate
of Nicholas Bacon, before of Hester Juson & formerly of Rev Thomas Page.
Rhoda Howman, messuage on east side of Northgate late Rev Roger Howman, her
husband, deceased, late Nicholas Bacon, Hester Juson
large and lofty kitchen, servants’ hall, housekeeper’s room, store room, larder, pantry & scullery; on the
first floor, drawing room, four very airy bedrooms with three dressing rooms & water closet; and also
five capital attics and excellent cellerage.
All that capital brick- built family mansion situate in Beccles in the County of Suffolk lately occupied by
Mrs Rhoda Howman, decsd, with an extensive range of convenient outbuildings: walled-in garden &
pleasure ground well laid out & planted for profit & ornament & containing with the site of the building
two acres.
The house is erected in a handsome style of architecture; contains on the ground floor a spacious
entrance hall , ante-room, dining room 21’ x 19’ exclusive of bay window, breakfast room 17’ x 11’,
comprise brew house with 95 gallon copper & plant complete, wash house with laundry & additional
chamber over; two coach houses, stabling for 5 horses, saddle & harness houses, hay & straw lofts, coal
house & other offices.
These large & convenient premises are in thorough repair and in all respects adapted for the residence of
a genteel family. They possess the advantages of retirement connected with those of a market & post
town, a good neighbourhood, and short distances from the watering places on the coast of Norfolk &
Suffolk.
Early possession may be had if desired. The green house and its appendages are not included in the sale,
but the purchaser will have the option of taking them at valuation.
The extensive frontage towards the two streets between which the property is situated, as well as the
quantity of ground & the arrangement of the house and offices, present facilities for the ready
Annual outgoings: Land Tax £3-4s-6d; Free Rent to Manor of Beccles 1s 1d;
Free Rent to Rosehall 1s 9d
[Not sold. Put up for sale again on Monday, 24 August 1840]
investment than as a single residence.
rector of Shipmeadow in this County, and of Hockering in the County of Norfolk.
Norwich. Buried in family tomb at Hockering.
Death on 22 Instant [September] at Beccles of Mrs Chalker, relict of late James Chalker, Esq. of Aldeby,
aged 75 years
TO BE LET: Residence of late Mrs Chalker, containing on Ground Floor: Entrance Hall, Dining Room
& Drawing Room leading into Conservatory & Fernery. Housekeeper’s Room & well arranged &
complete domestic offices. On the First Floor: five Bedrooms, 2 Dressing Rooms & water closet. On the
Upper Floor: Servants’ Rooms.
The Outbuildings comprise: 2 Coach Houses, Stable & 2 Lose Boxes, Harness House, Laundry &
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The Pleasure Grounds are about one acre in extent, in which are Vinery, capital Orchid House, Stove
House, etc.
SALE of Stove & Greenhouse Plants: Up to 1,800 plants in pots, many large Stove Plants, Orange &
Lemon Trees, Fuschias, Geraniums etc. Bedding-out plants & seedlings in boxes & about 300 Strawberry
plants in pots.
To BE LET: Residence in Northgate, lately in the occupation of Mrs Chalker, deceased. Apply Mr
Moore.
(jointly concerned) Are favoured with instructions to Sell by Auction, at the LION HOTEL,
BECCLES, on Tuesday, the 29th ofJune, 1875, at Four for Five o’clock in the Afternoon, by direction
of the Trustee of Mr. WILLIAM MOORE’S Estate,
Lot 11.—A Large and Substantial MANSION, in Northgate Street, formerly occupied by the late Mrs.
Chalker, with Coach-houses, Stables, Harness House, Ornamental Garden
which are Conservatory, Circular Fernery, Peach House, and Cucumber House
[Mr William Moore was manager of the Caxton Press and fraudulently left a debt of £42,000 when he
disappeared from Beccles rather suddenly. He built Douglas Place in the grounds of Northgate House]
TERRIFIC GALE: The most destructive gale in this country since 4 August 1879, prevailed on Sunday
afternoon. The noise and confusion were most alarming, particularly when the shutters of several shops
were simultaneously carried away by one of the most furious gusts of wind. The buildings in
NORTHGATE suffered more from the gale than any other part of the town, All along NORTHGATE
broken tiles and brick ends strewed the road, covering it entirely in two or three places. Mr E Masters’
house was almost completely unroofed, and his conservatory was practically ruined.
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William Leman
William Orgill
Mr Rede
William Leeman
Mrs Sparrow
Rev John Amyas
Capt Robert Purvis RN
Late Page- Mrs Juson
Nicholas Bacon, Esq
Rev RJ Howman
Mrs Henrietta Leman
£10
£10
£10
£10
£15
Thomas Rede VII married Theophilla Leman, co-heiress of William Leman VI
date
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Howman, Dorothy
Howman, Dor
Howman, Dorothy
Howman, Dorothy
Howman, Dorothy
Chalker, Sarah
Chalker, Sarah
Moore, William
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Alden, Geo
Howman, Dorothy
Crowfoot, WH
Howman, Dorothy
Howman, Dorothy
Independent
Surgeon
Landed Proprietor
Landed Proprietor
£87.05
1.01
£70
Moore, William
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
Alden, Geo
Allden, Geo
Alden, Geo
manager Caxton Press
Ironmonger
Ironmonger
surgeon
£50
£75
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1937
Warner, Howard Dr
Warner, Howard Dr
Warner, Howard
Resident
1907
1922
Boon, Mrs JE
1576
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1680
1693
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1918
The Widow Clerk, for the tent. late John Wrythock before Preston
Post Edmund Clarke
Christopher Hassett his tenement late Welton
Christopher Hassett, Survey: his tenement late Welton
Christopher Haslett, Poor Rate
Christopher Haslett, Hearth Tax: 2 Hearths
Christopher Hassett for a tent late Murdoch in Northgate
ORIENTATION: The lands of William Welton towards the north
Mary Haslet a tent in Northgate late Welton
Youngman for a tent late Hassett in Northgate in occ Widow Warner
(post John Schuldham)
John Youngman tent. late Haslett in Northgate
John Youngman’s shop
John Schouldham a tent late Youngman before Haslet, formerly Welton
Wiliam Leman, gent, tent. in Northgate late Schuldham before Youngman
John Pleasants, tent. late William Leman before Schuldham & formerly
Youngman
Robert Chinery, tent formerly Youngman late William Leman
Charles Chinery, tent. in Northgate late William Leman, formerly Schuldham,
Robert Chinery, his father
Thomas Farr, house in northgate late Chinery formerly Leman
Thomas Farr, tent on east side adjoining premises of Rev Mr Howman, late
Charles Chinery before Leman (later Farr)
HS Farr, tent. on east side of Northgate adjoining premises of Miss Howman,
late T Farr, before Charles Chinery
SALE: Property of HS Farr
Two Houses in Northgate occupied by RA King & W Crowfoot
[Reached £310 Reserve £400. Not sold.]
SALE: Tuesday 29 July 1902. Executors of Mr Nathaniel Pells
Lot 6:
Northgate: Well built brick & tile Dwelling House with spacious builder’s yard
in rear, with entrance from Ravensmeer, in occuoation of executor of late FJ Allen;
& a Dwelling House adjoining in the occupation of Mr A Harris
Rate £2
Value £2-10
Rent 8d
John Youngman for a messe. late Christopher Hassett before that Wrythock
Rent 8d
Rent 8d
Task 1s 4d
Rent 8d
Closet, Large Front Sitting Room with Register Stove, Kitchen with Cooking Stove, Pantry and Closet,
Small Covered Way in rear, Large Front and Back Bedrooms with Stoves and Closets, W.C ,and
Landing Closet on First Floor; Large Bedroom with Stove, Small Bedroom and Landing Closet on
Second Floor.
with Register Stove, and Two Recess Closets, Kitchen with Cooking Stove, Pantry and Two Bedrooms,
one having Stove, and Large Attic.
Water laid on, W.C., and Back Yard, now in the occupation of Mrs. Anderson, whose tenancy expires at
Michaclmas next, at the annual Rent of £20.
The adjoining RESIDENCE, No. 16 NORTHGATE, containing Entrance Lobby, Front Sitting Room
Coal house and Back Yard, now in the occupation of Mr. Alfred William Harris, as a quarterly tenant, at
the annual Rent of £8 10s 0d.
SPACIOUS BUILDER’S YARD, in rear of the ahove and extending to Ravensmere, with Entrance from
same,
arrangement.
of Water, now in the occupation of Mr. H. Catling, at the low Rent of £2, with early Possession hy
The Passage leading into Ravensmere at the rear of these houses is included in this Lot, but subject to a
Right of Way over the same Passage to and from Ravensmere for the owners and occupiers of Lot 15
[19 & 21 Ravensmere] as far as that Lot extends
Sold to AE Mickleburgh £410
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NORTHGATE 16
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1933
Farr, HS
Farr, HS
Farr, HS
Farr, HS
Pells, Nath
Pells, Nath
Pells, Nath
Pells, N exors
Mickleburgh, AJ
King, Wm
King, Wm
King, Robt
King, Robt
King, Robt
Hopson, Hen
Allen, Chas
Simnett, George
Anderson, Mrs
Chapelow, Edwin
Westwood, Jn
Builder
Builder
Builder
Builder
£10.05
£12
£14
Farr, HS
Farr, HS
Pells, Nath
Pells, Nath
Pells, Nath
Pells, N exors
Mickleburgh, AJ
Chaplin, Edw
Crowfoot, Wm
Whitehead, Maria
Wright, Geo
Wright, Gep
Harris, Alfred
Harris, Alfred
Harris, Alfred
Harris, Alfred William
Harris, Alfred
Farmer, Retd
Boat Builder
Boat Builder
Compositor
£5.05
£7.10
£8.10
17th century. 3 storeys. Red brick with bands. Dutch gable with arched window. Wrought iron ties in gable with initials ER. 5, 2
windows sash with flush frames, glazing bars and flat arches. Powder closet on 1st floor. At the entrance to the cellar under the main
building is a part of the “Old Beccles harbour wall”. A wooden platform and steps on each side have been erected to circumnavigate
it.
see Plans IV & XIII
1615c
1620.1
1657c
1664
1669
1671
1679
1693
1700
1736
others (post Cully)
Alice Kidd for tenement sometime Berry after John Soames (folio 81)
Nathaniel Cully
William Chesten [gent. died 1670] for tenement in Northgate sometime Sames
late Nath Cully called Seggs (folio 204)
William Chesten late Cully, east
Francis Haylock, [gent; d 1701] for a tenement formerly Seggs & Sames
late Chestens vid
Edward Wiggon, his tenement late Haylock, now William Baker
William Barber, [married Joan Blowers 1677] messuage late Wiggons in
Northgate
William Barber for a tenement in Northgate late Wiggons
William Barber tenement in Northgate late Wiggons
Edmund Skipper, [butcher; born 1690; married i ) Ann Doughty 1719, died 1720.
ii) Rebecca Mickleborough 1727 died 1768; aged 70; member of the XXIV 1730,
died 1771] , late Barber before Wiggins
Task 6d
Rent 6d
Valuation £3
Rent 8d
1765
marriage 1727
Henry Skipper [butcher; born 1729 died 1797]
Edmund Skipper for a tenement, Henry Skipper, his father & Edmund Skipper
his grandfather.
Northgate or Bridge Street, Freehold Estate of Edmund Skipper. Substantial dwelling House, Cottage in
the Yard in three Dwellings, Back House, Granary, Slaughter House, Stable for six Horses, Hog styes, &
all other necessary outbuildings for a butcher in large business.
Henry Winter, [seedmerchant] part, late Edmund Skipper
SALE of Edmund Skipper’s properties, but not including this property.
1797
1802
1829+
1836
1837
1847
1871
1890
1891
1897
1904
RATES
DATE
1841
1851
1861
Ravensmeer A: apportioned rent 2d; Ravensmeer B: apportioned rent 3d.
Henry Winter, [shopkeeper; Baptist; married Ann Bullock in 1815]
Ann Winter, widow, messuage on east side of Northgate, Edmund Skipper,
Henry Skipper
Benjamin Young
SALE: Northgate: Freehold Property, for many years occupied by Mrs Young, in which a considerable
business is carried on. Substantial Residence & Grocer’s & Corn Chandler’s Shop, with spacious
Warehouse. Granary & Offices in rear.
SALE: Mrs B Young: Freehold: Substantial Residence & Shop with spacious Warehouse, Granary etc
SALE: Mrs B Young: Residence and Grocer’s Shop & Corn Chandler’s Shop with spacious
Warehouses, Granary & Offices in rear [withdrawn £300]
Albert Mickleborough
Winter, Hen
Winter, Ann
Winter, Ann
Winter, Hen
Winter, Betsy
Young, Benj
Merchant
Grocer
Seed Merchant
£13.10
£17.10
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1922
1933
1936
1937
1948
1954
1965
1974
Young, Betsy
Young, Betsy
Mickleburgh, Albt
Mickleburgh, AJ
Young, Betsy
Mickleburgh, Albt
Mickleburgh, Albt
Mickleburgh, Albt
Woolner, Percy
Garrett, Fredk Wm
Watkins, CA
JW Constable, proprietor
JW Constable, proprietor
Kirby, JS
Kirby, JS
Grocer
Own Means
Printer
Printer
Printer
draper
Waveney Press
Waveney Press
Waveney Press
journalist
journalist
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1661
1664 }
}
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1693
1736
1751
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1799
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1913
1951
1951
1985
Charles Carter [physician] messe with yards in Northgate late Bradley
ORIENTATION Messuage & yards now in the occupation of Mary
Carter, widow to the north
Widow Carter, Hearth Tax: 2 Hearths [excused payment]
Charles Carter for a tenement in Northgate late Coleman’s
Edward Whincop late Hunter before Carter & Colman
William Bendy [born 1701 Portreeve in 1742] tenement in Northgate late
Whincop in juxor before Carter
Avis Bendy, widow, tenement in Nortgate, Whincop, Carter
Thomas Osborne [baker; he married Sarah about 1738 and had 11 children.
He was elected into the XXIV in 1767 and resigned in 1788. He died in 1791
aged 84] tenement in Northgate late Bendy, Whincop formerly Carter
An Inventory of his possessions exists that was taken at his death on 24 March 1792
I have a copy see File “Deeds & Inventories”
Thomas Osborne (baker) tenement in Northgate late Whincop, Carter,
Bendy, freehold
Osborne Savage, tenement in Northgate late Osborne, Whincop
Osborne Savage, an infant, heir of Osborne Savage & Hannah Savage,
Bendy, tenement in Northgate
Osborne Savage, married man, killed by a fall from a cart, aged 49
William Titshall, (baker; member of the XXIV 1823), Freehold tenement in
Northgate, formerly Thomas Osborne, before Bendy, late Osborne Savage
Keziah Titshall late William Titshall late Savage
Keziah Titshall, spinster, mesuage & baking office on eastern side of
Northgate, formerly Osborne Savage late William Titshall
Mortgaged by Mr D Titshall to Mr Samuel Burton for £50 @ 5% p.a.:
20 Nortgate, 1-7 Titshall Alley & 23 Ravensmere
SALE: In liquidation: Trustees of Mr James Aldred, baker and confectioner. Household furniture &
baker house fittings.
Will of Mr Deverson Titshall, shoemaker, leaving his property to his daughter Maria, the wife of Mr Gill,
the Elder
SALE : Mrs Maria Gill, Dwelling House: 2 Sitting Rooms, 3 Bedrooms, 3 Attics with Confectioner’s
Shop & Bake Office, 2 Stall Stable, Cart Shed, Hay loft, paved Yard. Occupation Fred Gibbs; Rent £16
AND Titshall Alley: 7 brick & tiled Cottages occupied Matilda Spall, William Tillett, Georgiana
Winsdale, Ann Stone. Rents:- £13 (3 unoccupied)
Convyance to Mr Fred Gibbs of House, Bake Office, stableyard & 7 freehold premises in Titshall Alley
(4 in occupation, 3 empty) & Cottage [23 Ravensmere] (Shadrach Moore)
Conveyance to Charles Clarke for £500.
Conveyance of 1-7 Titshall Alley to WE Wigg
Abstract of Title of Mrs Faith Clarke 20, 22 & 24 Northgate & Salvation Army Hall
Conveyance of 22 Northgate to Alan Clarke
Conveyance of 20 Northgate to Peter & Pat Hopes.
Rent 2d
Rent 2d 1/2d
Rent 2d 1/2d
Rent 2d 1/2d
1799
1838
1841
1851
1861
1871
Mark Savage
Keziah Titshall
Keziah Titshall
William Crickmer
William Crickmer
William Crickmer
Mark Savage
James Aldred b 1814
James Aldred
James Aldred
James Aldred
James Aldred
gardener
baker
baker
baker & confectioner
baker & confectioner
baker & confectioner
£6-10
£15-10
£10-10
£10
£12
1881 CENSUS
James ALDRED
M
67
F
Aldeby, Norfolk, England
Wife
Baker Wife
1891
1896
1904
1907
1908
1914
1922
1927
1933+
1936
1948
1954
1968
1974
Mrs Gill
Frederick Gibbs
George Kerridge b 1846
Frederick Gibbs
Frederick Gibbs
Frederick, Gibbs
Charles Clarke
Daniel Clarke
Daniel Clarke
Daniel Clarke
Daniel Clarke
Allan Clarke & Stan Bramwell
Allan Clarke & Stan Bramwell
Allan Clarke
Allan Clarke
/
baker
baker
baker
baker
baker & confectioner
baker & post office
baker & post office
baker & post office
baker & post office
bakers
baker
baker
22 & 24 Northgate were between 1853 and 1877
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1620c
1632c
Nicholas Bradley, jnr or the Widow Bradley for the head house late her
husband’s (later Thomas Horth 1s)
Thomas Horth for a parcel of a tent sometime Bradley (folio 88)
John Walpole [yeoman] tent. sometime Bradley after Thomas Horth (folio 125)
Task 1s
Task 1s
No mention is made of the house. “ I give £100 to my son Thomas on condition he releases my
son-in-law Joseph Garrard from a bond by which he stands surety in the sum of £100 for the
payment by my son Thomas of £50 to Mr Smith of Bungay..... I give £20 to my son-in-law
Joseph Garrard and my best bedstead and the furniture belonging to it... and to my grandson
Joseph Garrard, £5 at his age of 21.
1636
before Horth vid Walpole
Joseph Garrard in jur ux. for a tent in Bridge Street [Northgate] sometime
Bradley (post Wm Bendy jnr) [Joseph Garrard married Jane Walpole in 1630 &
Renaldo Pitfield tent. formerly Bradley late Horth (folio 231)
Charles Carter, gent, tenement late Nicholas Bradley in Northgate (folio 177)
William Bendy jnr for tenement in Northgate late Charles Carter
William Bendy jnr tent in Bridge Street [Northgate] sometime Garrard
late Mr Rede
William Bendy, late Pallants before Pightlings
William Bendy the younger tent in Northgate late Charles Carter
Task 1s
Task 1s 4d
Task 1s 4d
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1764
1765
1765
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1773
Rent 1s 2d
Task 1s 4d
Rent 1s 2d
Beccles, widow THIRD PART;
Avis Bendy, widow & relict of William Bendy, decsd & Richard Bendy, ONE PART;
William Ketteridge, mariner, of Lowestoft, the OTHER PART, for £41
ALL THAT Messuage, Barn, Stable, Yard & Garden:
BETWEEN Messuage and yards of John Ayers in part & yards of Sam Woods on the NORTH;
Messuage & Yard of Avis Bendy in occupation of Thomas Osborne [no 20] on the SOUTH;
Northgate WEST;
Ravensmeer EAST.
-- Late in occupation of John Hawk & William Bendy (son of Avis Bendy)
Avis Bendy of Bishopsgate, London (relict of William Bendy) of FIRST PART;
Richard Bendy & Mary his wife SECOND PART;
William Bendy of Beccles, tanner, eldest son & heir of William Bendy, deceased, THIRD PART;
John Leyland of Bishopsgate, grocer, FOURTH PART;
William Leman, Esq of Beccles, FIFTH PART;
Edward Brooke of Beccles, currier, SIXTH PART.
Edward Brooke paid £102, £40 also due. same abutments.
Late in the occupation of John Hawke & William Bendy, then Sam Tooke, William Bendy & John
Lillistone
William Kitteridge FIRST PART; Edward Brooke SECOND PART; Dame Elizabeth Le Strange of
Edward Brooke tent. late Bendy in Northgate formerly Rede
Rent 1s 2d
charge of £10 p.a.on premises by weekly payments of 4shillings.
Edward Brooke by his WILL bequeathed to his sister, Margaret Riches, widow, an annuity or Rent
Riches a Rent Charge of £2 12s p.a.
To his niece Mary Moore, wife of Robert Moore of Bungay, grocer.
ALL THAT Messuage above subject to paying above
1774
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1774
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1788
1801
1805
1805
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1810
1811
1812
Rev Robert Leman of Beccles of the OTHER PART
Chrographer’s Ind. of Fines BETWEEN Rober Leman, clerk, plaintiff & John Worts & Deborah, his wife
& Robert Moore & Mary, his wife, Deforciants.
Robert Leman & John Worts & Deborah his wife: 5 houses, 1 Barn, 2 Stables, 2 Gardens & common
pasturage.
SALE: 23 April 1774
To be Let & entered into at Michaelmas next, a house situate in Northgate, now in the occupation of Mr
Edward Arnold, carrier. Consisting of a Shop, Parlour, Kitchen, & Wash-house, 4 Chambers, 3Garrets,
very good cellar, Pantries etc, with a large yard (walled-in) 2 Gardens, a Barn, a Stable & Workshop in
the Yard, with a right of Commonage on Beccles Commonage on Beccles Common.
Enquiries Mr Edward Donn, grocer & draper opposite.
NB The present tenant will quit the house sooner if required.
Robert Moore & Mary his wife FIRST PART;
William Oswald, tanner SECOND PART;
Edward Holl THIRD PART, stone cutter.
Purchased at £160. Premises lately in the occupation of Jacob Heath, then in the occupation of William
Oswald & John Lincoln. (both the Rent Charge people being dead)
Mary Meen Hart paid £130
[Dame Le Strange’s will 25 Oct 1779, Thomas Rede executor; - Perogative of Canterbury]
INDENTURE of Assignment between Thomas Rede of Beccles, gent FIRST PART; Robert Moore &
Mary, his wife SECOND PART; William Oswald, THIRD PART; Jeremiah Taylor, butcher Fourth Part
Wiliam Oswald tent. in Northgate late of Edward Brooke before Bendy
& formerly Rede
Rent 1s 2d
THIRD PART; William Barnard, gent FOURTH PART.
William Oswald FIRST PART; Edward Holl, SECOND PART; Charles Chinery, plumber & glazier,
Robert Cattermole.
INDENTURE of Mortgage between Charles Chinery of ONE PART; & William Oswald OTHER PART.
Charles Chinery, messe formerly Edward Brooks, since Moore’s, late
Mr Oswald on east side of Northgate
In tenure of Charles Chinery, Nicholas Bacon, John Ward, John Allcock, Widow Press & Edward
Bennyfield or their assignees.
INDENTURE Lease & Release between Charles Chinery ONE PART; Nicholas Bacon SECOND PART
Nicholas Bacon FIRST PART; Samuel Shaw of Gillingham St Mary carpenter SECOND PART;
Abraham Clarke THIRD PART;
Purchased for £370. ALL THAT ground whereon lately stood a messuage then pulled down, on
EAST side of Northgate & newly erected stables and coach house at the East & South ends thereof next
Ravensmeer & the Yard, Ground & half pump & well, in the Yard of Avis Bendy, since of Thomas
Osborne, late of Osborne Savage & then of ... to the South [Nor 20]; now in occupation of Robert
Ecclestone.
Which premises taken down & new premises erected
Samuel Shaw of Gillingham, messe in Northgate now wasted upon the
ground thereof several cottages & a schoolhouse have been lately erected
& built, formerly of Edward Brooke, afterwards Moore, since of Wm Oswald
afterwards of Charles Chenery late of Nicholas Bacon, Esq..
1828
in 1812, which moved to the Assembly Rooms in 1823, presumably because the premises were too small]
younger of Gillingham) directed to sell the property.
1830
Samuel Taylor of Aldeby, wheelwright SECOND PART;
BETWEEN Avis Bendy, since Thomas Osborne, Osborne Savage, now William Titshall, SOUTH,
[Nor 20];
John Ayers, now John Lay NORTH, [Nor 26];
Premises formerly Stables and Coach Houses, late Samuel Shaw and now of Jer. Ebbs East;
-- Premises in the occupation of Nicholas Bacon, late John Whitehead. 1s to Manor of Beccles [sic];
Land Tax 2s. For £125.
Richard Shaw, Ann Shaw & Benjamin Brundell, executors of Samuel Shaw.
Site of messe. used as a stone mason’s yard on the east side of Northgate late
Nicholas Bacon before Charles Chinnery (later Sam Taylor 1831) Apportioned
1832
1833
1833
Aldeby, wheelwright of the other part.
Brundell the younger, farmer of FIRST PART; Jeremiah Ebbs of SECOND PART; GWB Bohun of
THIRD PART; Richard Bohun, gent of FOURTH PART
AL:L THAT Yard, lately a garden, upon which a messuage or tenement heretofore in the occupation of
John Hawke & William Bendy, afterwards of William Oswald & Robert Lincoln formerly stood,
BEING on the EAST SIDE of Northgate with Northgate with buildings and appurtenances, together
with one half of the pump & well standing in part thereon,
as the Yard abuts on the premises of William Titshall on the SOUTH;
on the premises of John Lay on the NORTH
& the premises of Jeremiah on the EAST.
Purchased by him Samuel of Richard Shaw etc.
Samuel Taylor of Aldeby, wheelwright, site of a messe lately used as a stonemason’s yard on the east
side of Northgate late Samuel Shaw, formerly Chenery (Trustees of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 1835)
Barber (cooper), Charles Punchard (tailor), William Beecroft (butcher) & William Flowerdew,
(carpenter) all of Lowestoft [Trustees of the Weslyan Methodist Chapel] of 2nd Part; William Welbourne
(Superintendent Preacher of Methodists) 3rd Part; William Vince Barnard of Lowestoft (gent), 4th Part;
John Crisp Webster (gent) of Beccles, 5th Part.
William Keer (farmer) of Mutford, Charles Warne (grocer), James Fish (cordwainer), both of Hulver,
James Dodington (brickmaker) of Sotterley, Robert Brame (merchant), James Fisher (grocer), John
Purchasing a piece of Ground & erecting a Chapel for Methodists for £122-10s;
ALL THAT Yard, then lately a Garden & upon which a messuage formerly in the occupation of John
Hawke & William Bendy, William Oswald, Robert Lincoln, formerly stood.
On the East side of Northgate.
BETWEEN a lane or alley & premises formerly of Avis Bendy, since of Thomas Osborne, late Osborne
Savage, then William Titshall SOUTH [Nor 20];
Premises of John Ayers, then of John Lay, NORTH [Nor 26];
Premises next Ravensmeer formerly stables & Coach Houses then converted to cottages late of Samuel
Shaw & then of Jere Ebbs EAST [Shaw’s Yard];
-- SINCE in Occupation of Nicholas Bacon then, late John Whitehead, then in the occupation of Robert
Edmonds, together with the walls on all sides.
MEMO of Agreement BETWEEN Samuel Taylor of Aldeby, wheelwright, of ONE PART
Robert Brame of Lowestoft, merchant, the OTHER PART
ALL THAT building used as a Meeting House by the Wesleyan Methodists, with Yard & appurtenances
at the price of £120; £80 part thereof having been paid this day, paid as a deposit and in part of the
purchase money.
1835
Robert Edmunds, Charles Long, William Taylor, John Powley, James Mendham, William Keer, Charles
Warne, James Fish, James Dodington, Robert Brame, James Fisher, John Barber, Charles Punchard,
William Beecroft & William Flowerdew (Trustees of the Weslyan Methodist Chapel) The site of the said
Chapel with the yard, late the estate of Samuel Taylor before Samuel Shaw & formerly Chinery
1853
The Directory of 1844 states that it was built in 1833. It subsequently became a Salvation Army centre & is now a store for car tyres]
the sale of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Beccles.
Robert Brame of Lowestoft (gent) & James Fisher (gent) of Lowestoft on behalf of themselves and other
Trustees of the Wesleyan Chapel of one Part; William Barber of Beccles (carpenter) the other Part;
ALL THAT tent called the Wesleyan Chapel with the School Room and other outbuildings & yard and
all other Pews, Pulpit, Gas Pipes, Gas Fittings, Pallisades & all other Fixtures etc. (except such effects if
any, belonging to - Eade, Schoolmaster in respect of the Schoolroom in his occupation) in Northgate for
£125
Declaration: I, George Whitehead, stonemason, declare that my late father, John Fryer Whitehead,
stonemason, was tenant & occupier of ground with a stonemason’s shop upon which the Wesleyan
William Barber of Beccles (carpenter) of one Part; John William Barber (carpenter) of 2nd Part;
[Mortgage mentioned]
for £220
ALL THAT tent theretofore used as a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel with Schoolroom & other buildings
one half of pump and well.
ALSO 2 messuages erected & built upon the Yard, all of which abut upon Northgate WEST; Upon
Titshall Alley SOUTH; Upon Premises of Joseph William Robins NORTH [Nor 26]; Upon Premises of
Samuel Francis East.
Death of JW Barber 27 July. His eldest son, George William Barber inherits property.
George William Barber of 34 Falmer Road, Enfield, Middlesex, (compositor) of one part; Daniel Clarke
of Northgate, (baker) for £280; ALL THAT tenement known as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, which
were then used as the Salvation Army Hall.
ALSO two messuages built upon the yard known as 22 & 24 Northgate in occupation of Salvation
Army & George Lockwood; Northgate WEST; Titshall Alley SOUTH; Upon hereditaments of the
Purchaser North [Daniel Clarke, Nor 26]; & hereditaments formerly of Samuel Francis & now of ....
1853
1854
that which
1877
&
1907
1921
1945
was occupied by my father.
EAST.
26 October 1937, proved 15 September 1944: to Miss Faith Clarke, widow, of 38 Ravensmeer, retired
baker, ALL THOSE two freehold cottages number 22 & 24 Northgate & the building in the rear used as
a Salvation Army Hall in occupation of Gower & Clarke.
22 NORTHGATE
Faith Clarke of 29 Queen’s Road, Beccles, widow of ONE PART (the Vendor)
Alan Clarke of 20 Northgate, baker of the OTHER PART (the Purchaser)
for £125
ALL THAT freehold Dweling House with Yard known as 22 Northgate recently in the occupation of
Mrs Gower, now unoccupied
Ronald Richards Clarke of 81 Grove Road, Beccles, retired baker & confectioner & Allan Clarke of 20
Northgate, Beccles, baker & confectioner, the VENDORS
Alfred George Stockdale of 26 Northgate, company director & Joan Ethel Stochdale his wife, the
PURCHASERS
1964
1971
WHEREAS Faith Clarke of 29 Queen’s Road died on 31 July 1955 appointed the Vendors her executors
ALL THAT freehold Dwelling House with the Yard, No 24 Northgate.
Approval given to convert two cottages into one: 24 & 26 Northgate, Beccles [mentioned in schedule
August 1971]
Woolwich Building Society, 5 August:
ALL THAT freehold property formerly two Dweling Houses known as 24 & 26 Northgate, ... all which
property is now one Dwelling House known as 26 Northgate.
1963
1978
1979
Ronald Richards Clarke & Allan Clarke as personal representatives of Faith Clarke, widow FIRST PART
Percy Herbert Callow, of the SECOND PART
ALL THAT Freehold Property site near Northgate, known as the Old Salvation Army Hall
Approval given 3 April, for storage and light repairs to vehicles at rear of 24 Northgate, (formerly
Salvation Army Hall) [mentioned in schedule August 1971]
Change of use from general storage to use as hall for use by Boxing Club, formerly Salvation Army Hall.
Approved conditionally, 12 April.
Demolition of former Salvation Army Hall. Approved 11 December. [Surely it is still standing?]
1841
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1891
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1907
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1933
1954
Trustees of Chapel
Barber, Wm
Barber, Wm
Barber, Jn
Barber, Jn
Barber, Jn
Clarke, Dan
Baxter late
Barber, Wm
Barber, Wm
Barber, Jn
Salvation Army
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Officers’ Quarters
Salvation Army Officers’ Quarters
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Hall
Joiner
Joiner
Carpenter Journmn
Salvation Army
£2.15
£4
£6
1861
1871
1881
1904
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Barber, Wm
Barber, Jn
Barber, Jn
Clarke, Dan
Knights, Jn
Garner, Jn
Lockwood, Geo
Lockwood, George
Lockwood, George
Clarke, Mary
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John Corfield for a tent in Northgate late Nicholas Bradley
Richard Burgis for a tent. or the moiety of a messuage late Palgrave (folio 81)
Task 6d ?
Thomas my 2 sons my house in Beccles to be sold and equally divided. To Priscilla my
daughter my miele at Southcove. My household stuff to be sold to pay debts, and the
remainder to be equally divided between my 2 sons Richard and Thomas. Proved 22 March.
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John Sweetall late Burgis
Esdras Carter messuage, sometime Burgiss late Sweetall, between messe of
Benj Folkes on the south; & messe of Richard Youngman, copyhold of
Wadehall in part of the north; abutting on the street to the west. Bought of
William Prickett
Esdras Carver [oatmeal maker d. 1670] tent in Northgate, sometime Burgess
late John Sweetall vid John Sweetall; post John Strowger
William Prickett, for a tent late Corfield since Burgis
John Seaman tent late Burgis in Northgate
John Crowfoot tent late John Burgess in Northgate
William Strowger tent in Northgate sometime Burgess late Sweetall since
Esdras Carver
John Strowger tent in Northgate sometime Burgess, that Esdras Carver
John Crowfoot late Burgess in Northgate
John Ayers tent in Northgate formerly Sweetall’s afterwards Esdras Carver,
since William Strouger late John Strowger
Benjamin Chaston tent in Northgate formerly Strowgers late Ayers
Isaiah Copeman taken the premises in Bridge Street [ie Northgate] so many years occupied by Mr Lay.
Best meats on reasonable terms.
Isaiah Copeman, butcher, taken premises in Blyburgate, recently occupied by Robert Reeve & for
many years in the occupation of Robert Copeman.
James Moore, butcher moved from Blyburgate to Northgate, for many years occupied by Mr Lay, lately
by Isaiah Copeman
Indenture between Joseph William Robins of Aldborough, Norfolk of one Part; Walter James Copeman,
butcher, of 2nd Part for £450;
ALL THAT messuage on the East side of Northgate, now & some years past in the occupation of Walter
James Copeman. - Salvation Army Barracks & Yard & in part by George Lockwood SOUTH [Nor 24];
Messe & Yard & ground formerly of Susan Clarke, late Edward Gaze, afterwards Gooderham, now - , in
part, & Yard & ground formerly Elizabeth Mickleburgh, then Job Smith & then Hannah Smith NORTH;
[Nor 28] Shaw’s Yard, East; [Ravensmere]
Reciting Indenture 22 December 1866: Samuel Tovell 1st Part; John Lay, 2nd Part; & JW Robins 3rd
Part.
Walter James Copeman of Bullsbrooke in the Colony of Australia one Part; Charles Benjamin Clarke of
22 Northgate, fish merchant; for £500; ALL THAT messuage, shop & premises with yards, offices &
buildings on the East side known as 26 Northgate, formerly in the occupation of the vendor but now of
the purchaser. Mortgage of £350.
Mortgage 28 February BETWEEN
Charles Benjamin Clarke, the MORTGAGOR
William Bryan Forward of Lowestoft, solicitor, the MORTGAGEE
borrowed £350 at £5-10s per £100
[The Mortgage was held by numerous different Mortgagees later]
Rent 6d
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PURCHASER
Lowestoft, solicitor THE VENDORS [executors of CB Clarke]
Florence Elizabeth Playford, the wife of Thomas Playford of 2 Newgate, Beccles, general dealer the
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Charles Benjamin Clarke, late of 26 Northgate, fish merchant, died 25 September 1943
ALL THAT Messuage or Tenement and Shop with outbuildings on the east side, No 26 Northgate
Conveyance 12 August BETWEEN
Florence Elizabeth Playford, the wife of Thomas Playford, general dealer the VENDOR
Benjamin Robert Shreeve, of the Beeches, Normanston Drive, Lowestoft, company director, the
PURCHASER
for £650
ALL THAT Messuage or Tenement & Shop with outbuildings, 26 Northgate, having a frontage of 27
feet 3 inches on Northgate.
The right of way to those living in 28 & 30 Northgate.
Barclays Bank: Lowestoft Branch to Beccles Branch: Valuation of Property:
26 Northgate: House & Shop & Garage at the rear [in Ravensmere]
Freehold Cost £650 on 12 August 1947, but large alterations done since then & improvements made.
Now worth £2,000. House £850; Garage £1,156
The house has been recently renovated and the shop front removed.
Insurance Certificate: BR Shreeve, (motor coach proprietor) the Beeches, Normanton Drive, Lowestoft.
PURCHASERS
Alfred George Stockdale of 26 Northgate, coach manager, & Joan Ethel Stockdale his wife
ALL THAT Messuage or Tenement with the outbuildings, No 26 Northgate, having a frontage of 26
feet 3 inches on Northgate.
For 21 years from the death of the survivor of the Purchasers.
Valuation: Semi-detached Brick, part-roughcast & slated, small modernised residence, with brick, part
cement-rendered & tiled range of outhouses & flower garden in rear. ALSO the enclosed Coach Garage
72ft x 37ft, erected in recent years on brick footings with corrugated iron sides & roof, steel trusses &
uprights, brick ends & concrete floor with large inspection pit. There is a frontage to Ravensmeer of 57ft
& consequently a good entrance which is fully concreted, for large vehicles. All main services. Rateable
Values: House £23, Garage £40; Valuation £3,200 (Durrants)
Alfred Stockdale of 26 Northgate; Insurance Certificate; (BR Shreeve, wife of Mr Stockdale)
Approval given to convert two cottages into one: 24 & 26 Northgate, Beccles [mentioned in schedule
August 1971]
Woolwich Building Society, 5 August:
ALL THAT freehold property formerly two Dwelling Houses known as 24 & 26 Northgate, ... all which
property is now one Dwelling House known as 26 Northgate.
Death of Joan Ethel Stockdale, 15 May.
Search of Property, 7 September
Outline of property [in yellow]. Part of Right of Way built on. [last line incomprehensible]
Conveyance, 13 February, BETWEEN
Alfred George Stockdale, of 26 Northgate, of ONE PART, the VENDOR
David Sydney Penfold & Grace Louisa Penfold of 30 Waveney Residential Park, [Pound Road]
Ravensmere, the PURCHASERS
for £31,000
Conveyance, 29 July, BETWEEN
David Sydney Penfold & Grace Louisa Penfold, of 26 Northgate the VENDORS
Marie Isobel Holroyd of Eastgate Holme next King’s Lynn, the PURCHASER
for £34,500
ALL THAT freehold Dwelling House with outbuildings, 26 Northgate (formerly two properties 24 & 26
Northgate)
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Robins, Jos
Robins, Jn
Robins, Jn
Copeman, Walter
Clarke, Chas
Copeman, Isaiah
Moore, Jas
Copeman, Walter
Copeman, Walt
Copeman, Walt
Copeman, Walt
Clarke, Chas
Clarke, Chas
Clarke, Chas
Clarke, Chas
Clarke, Chas
Butcher
Butcher
Butcher
Fishmonger
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Richard Fenn, late Gibbs ...?
Clarke, Thomas, late Fenn, before Gibbs COPY OF WADEHALL
ORIENTATION from No 32: Richard Fenn & since of Thomas Clarke, deceased, in part, (& messuage
& Yards formerly of Richard Bendy, then Robert Moore in right of his wife)
Thomas Clarke (died 1755)
Clarke, Susan
Chaston, Benjamin late Susan Clarke, late Fenn in Northgate COPYHOLD of WADEHALL, (later
Gaze, Edward
Gooderham
Rent 9d
now - , in part, & Yard & ground formerly Elizabeth Mickleburgh, then Job Smith & then
Hannah Smith NORTH; [Nor 28] Shaw’s Yard, East; [Ravensmere]
b) Cottage adjoining in occupation of Mr Fryer & others [Northgate 30] Rents; £24 9s
Conveyance [mentioned in deed of 1935 (below) as showing boundaries] 13 May, BETWEEN
William Lay of ONE PART
Herbert George Lawrence of the OTHER PART
ORIENTATION:- Indenture between Joseph William Robins of Aldborough, Norfolk of one Part;
Walter James Copeman, butcher, of 2nd Part for £450;
ALL THAT messuage on the East side of Northgate, now & some years past in the occupation of Walter
James Copeman. - Salvation Army Barracks & Yard & in part by George Lockwood SOUTH [Nor 24];
Messe & Yard & ground formerly of Susan Clarke, late Edward Gaze, afterwards Gooderham,
Walter Hill Forster of 28 Westminster Palace Gardens Artillery Row, London, LORD of the MANOR of
WADEHALL, gentleman, of the FIRST PART
Lloyds Bank Ltd (Mortgagees of the Manor) of the SECOND PART
Eva Christina Lawrence of Kaltag, St Margaret’s Road, Lowestoft, spinster & Frederick Driver, of St
Albans, The Street, Blundeston, retired engineer of the THIRD PART
for extinguishing Manorial rights £58
ALL THAT Messuage or Dwelling & Shop together with a Cottage, Offices & Yard adjoining in
Northgate, now or late in the occupation of Joe Daniel Mills [No 28] & Herbert Lacey [No 30] described
in the Court Books:
“ALL THAT Messuage built upon land 41 feet in length and 21 feet in breadth which Isaac Green took
up at a Court on 8 July 1857”
“Indenture of Sale, 3 April 1886, BETWEEN
James Simpson Brandford & Frederick John Roper [executors?] of ONE PART
Elizabeth Lawrence of the OTHER PART”
“Elizabeth Lawrence admitted 14 April 1886”
Conveyance 11 December BETWEEN
Eva Christina Lawrence of Kaltag, St Margaret’s Road, Lowestoft, spinster & Frederick Driver, of St
Albans, The Street, Blundeston, retired engineer THE VENDORS
Charles Benjamin Clarke of 26 Northgate, fish merchant THE PURCHASER
Whereas Elizabeth Lawrence, deceased, widow, formerly of 28 Northgate, Beccles, & late of Kaltag, St
Margaret’s Road, Lowestoft. She died 13 August 1935
Enfranchised for £58 of the Manor of Wadehall on 1 November 1935.
for £200
ALL THAT Messuage with the Yard & Street thereto belonging in or near Northgate
ALSO ALL THOSE two Cottages known as 3 & 4 Meacham’s Yard at the rear of 32 Northgate
ALSO ALL THAT Messuage or Shop with a Cottage Offices & Yard adjoining.
[I have marked these yellow on the plan of 1935]
Together ALSO with the rights of way leading into Northgate
1935
Mortgage, 13 December, BETWEEN
Charles Benjamin Clarke of 26 Northgate, fish merchant, the MORTGAGOR
William Bryan Forward of Lowestoft, solicitor, the MORTGAGEE
borrowed £170 at 5%
ALL THOSE properties [described above]
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Gooderham, Jn
Green, Isaac
Green, Isaac
Green, Isaac
Lawrence, Herb
Lawrence, Mrs E
Lawrence, Eliz
Steward, Chas
Sprunt, Francis
Howard, Rich
Oxborough, Chrsta
Lawrence, Herb
Drewell/Fenn
Lawrence, Mrs
Drewell/Fenn
Drewell/Fenn
Fenn, Caroline
Mills, Joseph
Labourer
Grocer
Grocer
Compositor
Grocer
Grocer
Grocer
Grocer
Grocer
Shopkeeper
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Green, Isaac
Green, Isaac
Bunn,
Bunn, Beryl
Lawrence, Mrs E
Lawrence, Eliz
Ingram, Benj
Beck, Anna
Moore, Chas
Buggs, Harry
Elvin, Mary
Youell, Herbert
Youell, Herbert
Lacey, Herbert
Bricklayer
Carpenter journmn
Dressmaker
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Edward Meachem, bricklayer, since deceased, 2nd Part;
Thomas Clarke
Indenture between John Chinery of Beccles, tanner, 1st Part; Edward Meachem of Beccles, bricklayer &
Thomas Rede , gent his Trustee, 2nd Part; John Cuddon of Beccles, wheelmaker, 3rd Part; Rev Robert
Leman of Beccles, Clerk of 4th Part. It is witnessed that for several considerations by the direction of
Ephraim Clarke, John Neal & Susan his wife, Robert Cooper & Elizabeth his wife, Morris Coleman &
Mary his wife, Thomas Clarke & Benjamin Hargreaves & Bridget his wife testified therein mentioned did
bargain and sell to Thomas Rede & his heirs;
ALL THAT messuage late Thomas Clarke, deceased, formerly in the occupation of John Carsey, then
Thomas Osborne & Elizabeth Barr, widow.
AND ALSO All that messuage formerly a stable at the back of the East end thereof & after it was
converted into a Messuage in the occupation of Daniel Mayes, then William Draper and yards and
BETWEEN the messuage & Yard late of Richard Fenn & since of Thomas Clarke, deceased in part &
messuage & Yards formerly William Bendy, then Robert Moore in right of his wife [22 & 24] SOUTH;
Messuage & ground late Edward Brown, after of Thomas Boast NORTH;
Northgate West;
Messuage & Yards formerly John Warner, then Charles Aldred, EAST.
Sum of £30 Residue of £70 To John Cuddon
Indenture between John Cuddon, turner, 1st Part; Edward Meachem, 2nd Part; Richard Goldsmith, 3rd
Part; Quoting:
Richardson, then of Jacob Moore.
ALSO all that messuage formerly a stable at the back or East end sometime since in the occupation of
William Draper & then of William Draper & Widow Press, with yards, gardens & moiety of a well &
Pump.
BETWEEN messuage & Yards late of Thomas Clarke, deceased in part, & messuage & Yards formerly
of Robert Moore, SOUTH;
Messuage & ground formerly of Thomas Boast NORTH;
Northgate WEST;
Messuage & Yards formerly of John Harmer & since of Charles Aldred EAST.
Sold by John Cuddon to Edward Meachem. Sum of £60. Did pay on 5 July 1804 John Cuddon £20 in
part of £60.
John Crickmay, schoolmaster, first part; Edward Meachem, son of Edward Meachem, 2nd Part; Susan
West, 3rd Part.
Will of Edward Meachem: bequeathed to his wife Rebeca Meachem all those cottages in Northgate
consisting of 7 dwellings. After his death to be sold & divided between his sons: William, Edward,
George, Charles, Henry, John & Benjamin. He died 19 October 1843.
Edward Meachem, the son died in the 1840s without issue. (Susan West (mortgagor for £100, died, left
to Edward Last, her son-in-law.)
Edward Last, yeoman of Beccles 1st Part; Rebecca Meachem, No. 5 Nottingham Place, Walworth 4th
Part; William Meachem & George Meachem & Charles Meachem of Beccles, tailor, Henry Meachem of
2 Ann’s Place, Walworth, bricklayer, John Meachem of 7 Holloways Place, Middlesex, shoemaker,
Benjamin Meachem, tailor of Beccles 5th Part; William Read of Beccles, yeoman, 6th Part; Robert
Henry Francis of Beccles, gent, 7th Part.
E Watson
Edward Rigby Watson of Beccles, chemist. Mortgage from Norwich & Norfolk Provident Permanent
Building Society for £175
SALE: LOT 1: Seven convenient Cottages in Meachem’s Yard & with excellent frontage to Northgate,
in the occupation of Widow Smith, S Moore, C Aldous, Widow Barber, Widow Cooper, W Secker & F
Rouse. £160 may remain on mortgage.
Samuel Culley, Public Accountant, Liquidator of Norwich & Norfolk Provident Permanent Building
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NORTHGATE 32
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default in 1869.
weelkly or monthly tenants.
Cooper, Maria Barber, Susan Barber, Sarah Smith, Shadrack Moore, Emma Woolner & - as
carpenter’s labourer, Other Part; for £100.
ALL THOSE freehold cottages with land belonging in Meachem’s Yard
Benjamin Bunn of Northgate, cornchandler & pork butcher by his will appointed his brother, Joseph
Bunn executor & Trustee.
Joseph Bunn of 3 Wisset Road, Halesworth, platelayer, one Part; Elizabeth Lawrence of 28 Northgate,
widow, for £220;
ALL THAT freehold dwelling House & shop & the two cottages in the rear thereof situated in
Meachem’s Yard; The dwelling House & Shop being known as No 32 Northgate & the two Cottages as
No 3 & 4 Meachem’s Yard - the dwelling House & shop now unoccupied & the two Cottages in the
occupation of Charles Clarke & Robert Sporle. Which premises were formerly used as seven Cottages.
Bunn, Beryl
Lawrence, Mrs
Lawrence, Eliz
Thrower, Robt
Fenn, Margt
Fenn, Miss Margt
Fenn, Margt
Smith, Jack
Fairweather, RuptBoot/Shoemaker
Ives, Benzil
Musical Agent
Butcher Pork
Butcher Pork
Butcher Pork
Butcher, Pork
Shoemaker
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Robert Armyger for a tent in Northgate late Roger Wilson before
Baker & Gibson
John Thursby for a tent late Robert Armiger in Northgate
Joseph Harbor
ORIENTATION from no 36/38
Priscilla Mickleburgh, wid, tent late Nursey in Northgate between house of
Richard Powers, late Brissingham, [Nor T no 40] on north & messe of Joseph
Harbor, late Myles [Gregory] [Nor KK no 34] on the south. Abutting street
westwards
Miles Gregory for a tent in Northgate late Thursby
Task 8d
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William Chittleborough
ORIENTATION to no 36/38: Mortgage between John Carsey, baker & Mary
his wife, who was the only child & heiress of John Dobson, linen weaver & also
devisee in the will of Anne Mallard of certain messes; of the 1st Part:
& Edmund Skepper, butcher, of the 2nd Part.
In Northgate between the messe heretofore of Thos Rede, afterwards of Edw
Chettleburgh, & since of Wm Sheriff on the south; Ravensmere on the east:
Northgate on the west; then or late in the several occupations of Widow Chitock,
John Harbor, Wm Skepper, Thomas Gosling & Widow Meek.
ORIENTATION: Messuge & grounds late Edward Brown, after of Thomas Boast
SALE: Lot 1: Northgate
Substantial Brick & Tiled Residence & Shop in the occupation of William Vyse
Rent [R] 4d
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Long, Chas
Long, Chas
Culham
Moyse, Mrs E
Pitkin, Matthew
Press, Isabella
Murray late
Vyse, Wm
Vyse, Wm
Rouse, Jn
Rouse, John
Rouse, Jn
Rouse, Jn
Pitkin, Matthew
Pitkin, Matthew
Shoemaker
Tailoress
Shoemaker
£2.15
£7.15
Shopkeeper
Grocer
Grocer
Shopkeeper
Shopkeeper
Double Cottage & Garden adjoining Lot 1. Occupied by Benjamin Ward & Widow Barber
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1938
No 1 ? Demolished 1937
UNFIT HOUSING numbers 3 & 4 Meachem’s Yard: owner Mrs E Lawrence
Demolished 1937
RATE BOOK: cancelled 31 August 1938
Valued at £8 each
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Moyse, Mrs
Pitkin, Matthew
£8
Bensley, Caroline
Clarke, Charles
Smith, George
Leach, Mrs
Donegan, John
Seago, Elizabeth
Sago, Miss
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Moyse, Mrs
Pitkin, Matthew
£8
Stone, James
Stone, James
Stone, James
Gibbs, Charle
Gibbs, Charles
Clack, Reg
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Lawrence, Elizabeth
£8
Boon, Lewis J
Flegg, Arthur
Fairweather, Stanley
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Lawrence, Elizabeth
£8
Eastoll, Fred J
Simpson, George
Lacey, Herbert
Wisker, Fred
1576 Task Nor 42
1593 Task Nor 43
1617 Task F6
1649 Beccles Manor Rental 19
1650c Task M34
1657 Manor Court
1664 Manor Court Rental 28
1671 Manor Book
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1672 Poor Rate Book
1677 Task B70
1689 Task M39
Henry Nursey, for the tent next late Nursey
Heirs of Henry Nursey, for a tent Gibson 6d; And for the tent next late Green 6d now united
Margaret Fleming, for a tent formerly Gibson (folio 82)
Robert Mickleburgh, late Nursey
Robert Mickleburgh, for 2 tents in jur ex sometime Gibson & Green after Henry Nursey
Priscilla Mickleburgh, wid, tent late Nursey in Northgate between house of Richard Powers, late
Brissingham, [Nor T no 40] on north & messe of Joseph
south. Abutting street westwards
Widow Michleburgh: east
Robert Mickleburgh, [late ?], late Gibson & Green later Nursey
Roger Bransby, Survey: his tenement in Northgate
Roger Bransby, messe in Bridge Street which descended to him after the death of Priscilla Mickleburgh,
widow
Roger Bransby [tanner]
Ann Bransby, relict of Roger Bransby, for 2 tents united sometime Gibson & Green after Henry Nursey
& Roger Bransby in Northgate vid Henry Nursey
John Martin, tent in Northgate in right of Ann his wife late Ann Bransby, wid
Task 6d
Task 1s
Task 1s
Task 1s
Value £4
Poor Rate £2
Task 1s
1700 Beccles Manor Rental
1736 Beccles Manor Rental 74
1751 Task C101
Wid Bransby, Tent in Northgate late Mickleburgh
John Carsey, [baker; XXIV 1737; died 1765] late Bransby before Mickleburgh
John Carsey, in right of Mary his wife for 2 tents in Northgate late John Martin in right of Ann his wife
before Ann Bransby
Rent [B] 6d
Rent [B] 6d
1754 Deed 83, 13 Aug
1761 Beccles Manor Rental 43
1765 Beccles Manor Rental
1765
INDENTURE between Edmund Skipper of Beccles, butcher First Part, and John Carsey, baker & Mary
his wife, who was the only child & heiress of John Dobson, linen weaver & also devisee in the will of
Anne Mallard of certain messes; of the 2nd Part:
ALL THAT messuage BETWEEN the messuage heretofore of Thos Rede, afterwards of Edw
Chettleburgh, & since of Wm Sheriff on the SOUTH [Nor 32 & 34]; Ravensmere on the EAST:
Northgate on the WEST;
then or late in the several occupations of Widow Chitock, John Harbor, Widow Skepper, Thomas
Gosling & Widow Meek.
ALSO Messuage or tenement: Northgate WEST; John Farr the Younger NORTH [Nor 40]; House &
Yard late of Matthew Spence to the SOUTH;
In the occupation of, John Carsey, Phenwick Dyer, John Dolling & Thomas Boast
Late part of Estate of Anne Mallard devised to Mary Carsey together with the Capital Messuage lately
conveyed by John Carsey & Mary his wife to Lady Bacon & Elizabeth Castell [Nor 44 Staithe House]
For £157-10s in 1752 in his Mansion House.
To Mr Obed Aldred for payment of £160 at rate of £4 per annum.
Carsey, late Martin
John Ayers, late Carsey, Bransby
INDENTURE between John Ayers of Beccles, cooper 1st Part; William Grimmer, gent, of Herringfleet
2nd Part; Joseph Knights of Bungay, saddler 3rd Part; Thomas Roe of Sotterley, bricklayer, 4th Part;
Thomas Dade of Hedenham, gent, 5th Part for £150 [Mortgage]
ALL THAT dwelling House or Cottage with a shop adjoining in use of John Carsey the younger.
ALSO another Dwelling House or Cottage with a Baking Office thereunto adjoining, late in the
occupation of John Dann.
ALSO 2 other Dwelling Houses adjoining with outhouses, Yards & backside, late in the occupation of
Frances Waller & John Gibbs.
ALSO the messuage or tenement of John Ayers, Yards etc. occupied formerly by the estate of William
Strowger, deceased. Afterwards by John Strowger, his brother.William Strowger’s WILL gave it to John
Rent [B] 6d
1765 Indenture
1768
1770 Indenture
1773 Indenture
John
1774 Indenture
1779 Indenture
1792 Indenture
1794 Beccles Manor Court 5
1796 Task C 125
1809 Indenture
1814 Beccles Manor Court 18
1828 Beccles Manor Court 6
1828 Indenture
1852 Beccles Manor Court
Indenture between Negus, Mary Carsey, widow of John Carsey; John Ayers, cooper, Joseph Knight of
Bungay, saddler; Ayers to buy premises for £135.
Money outstanding on mortgages. Edward Grimmer is involved in dealings.
£100 only due to John Grimmer
Purchased property formerly Strowger. Purchased by John Fisk of Beccles, carpenter.
Indenture between Grimmer 1st Part; Ayers 2nd Part; Mary Verdon, late of Raveningham then of
Beccles, 3rd Part; Verdon agreed to purchase for £200
Tent with houses and outhouses belonging in Northgate in the use & occupation of Mary Verdon &
Ayers, undertenant
Mary Verdon, 1st Part; Daniel Bonhote of Bungay, gent, 2nd Part; Henry Doughton of Bungay, peruke
maker, 3rd Part: In consideration of the natural love & affection which Mary Verdon has towards Lydia,
her grand-daughter
Thomas Hart, plumber & glazier, [ XXIV 1777, resigned 1784] purchased premises for £168 or part of
£340 for the whole from Lewis & Lydia Doughton
Thomas Hart sells to Sam Chamberlain, maltster
purchased of Thomas Hart, plumber & glazier 6 October 1792.
Robert Liffen of Ratingdon, Essex, farmer: All that messe consisting of 3 tenements or dwelling houses
late of S Chamberlain, decsd, with houses, outhouses, stable yards, garden & backside situate in
Northgate or Bridge Street formerly in the use & occupation of Thomas Hart & Haywood & now or
late of Samuel Chamberlain, Eliz Clarke, wid, & William Claxton.... which premises Sam Chamberlain
Mrs Liffen)
Eliza Liffen, widow of Robert Liffen, yeoman, messe in Northgate formerly of Sam Chamberlain since
Sarah Chamberlain, wid, late Robert Liffen (later Charles Long)
Indenture between Eliza Liffen of 1st Part; Charles Long, yeoman, 2nd Part; James Copeman, & John
Cole of 3rd Part:- ALL THAT messe consisting of three tents now in several occupations of Eliza
Liffen, Henry Winter, George Knights... John Cooper & John Martin
Charles Long, basket maker, messe in Northgate late Sarah Chamberlain, wid, since Robert Liffen, late
Eliz Liffen
him in a small workshop of 500 cubic feet; the Act requires 250 cubic feet per person.
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Charles Long
Charles Long
Charles Long
Charles Long
Charles Long
Sam Knight
Sam Knights
Susan Knights
Josh Foyster
S Clarke
Charles Long
Isabell Press
Charles Long
Charles Long
Fred Calver
Amelia Palmer
Walter Fenn
Walter Fenn
Walter Fenn
Walter Fenn
Walter Fenn
Alf Alger
Zirreeka Wood
basket maker
tailoress
basket maker
greengrocer
tailor
tailor
£6-10 + £2 shop
£2-15
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£8-10
tailor
wardrobe dealer
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Eliza Liffen
George Knights
baker
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Charles Long
Charles Long
Sam Knights
Sam Knights
Sam Knights
Sam Knights
Josh Foyster
George Knights
George Knights
Sam Knights
Sam Knights
Sam Knights
Susan Knights
Charles Clarke
Daniel Clarke
Daniel Clarke
Daniel Clarke
baker
baker
baker
baker
baker
£8-15
£8-15 + £5-5
£14
baker
baker
baker
£21
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[1925
Wyatt, James
Daniel Clarke moved to no 20 Northgate]
baker
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1936
1937
1948
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1965
Barcham S Clarke
James Davey
Claxton, Mrs E
Stan Revell
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D Clarke
D Clarke
baker
baker
baker
BAKER
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William Walker for his tent. in Northgate late Gibson & Churches
John Sallows for a tent. late Walker (folio 75)
Robert Bressingham tent in Northgate late Walker
Widow Rysing, tent. late Walker
Richard Power, for a tent in Northgate late Bressingham called Gibson’s
Widow Power for a tent. east
Widow Power, Survey: her tenement in Gregory Clarke’s use
Gregory Clarke, Hearth Tax: 1 Hearth [tax excused]
Widow Kent, late the Widow Powers
Widow Kent, late the Widow Powers
INDENTURE: between Robert Kent, innholder, son & heir of Joan Kent, widow, decsd, of one part &
William Fox, tailor, of theother part, All That part of his messe called Gibson’s now in the occupation of
William Fox, between the messe late of Henry Nursey on the south [38 Northgate] & abutteth upon or
near the messe sometime of Thomas Girling on the north part [I cannot identify this at present];
Northgate on the west; and the common way towards the east [Ravensmere] for one year.
William Fox, tent in Northgate late Richard Powers formerly Bressingham
John Schouldham for a tent late Widow Kent formerly Powers
James Smith, in right of his wife, daughter of John Schuldham, tent late John Schuldham formerly Kent,
before Power in Northgate. [note: now Mr John Farr, junior]
John Farr the younger, tent. in Northgate, late James Smyth & Mary, his wife, formerly John Schuldham,
gent, before Kent, before Power
John Farr, tent in Northgate late Fox, before power, formerly Bressingham
Thomas Farr, tent in Northgate formerly Smith, before Schuldham,
Trustees of Thomas Farr, FW Farr, George Whittacre & WE Crowfoot, tent
formerly Smith’s in occupation of Chapman & Hines
Trustees of Elizabeth Goldsmith; Robert Read, yeoman, & Nathaniel Pells, carpenter,; tent late Thomas
Farr, late in occupation of Chapman & Hines
Task 6d
Task 6d
Rent 3d
Task 6d
Rent 3d
Value £1-10
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Rent 3d 1/2d
Morgan & Co of Norwich
Occupied by Isaac Amis & Fred Hembling
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Goldsmith, Eliz
Goldsmith Trust
Goldsmith Trust
Woodroffe, Thos
Woodroffe, Thos
Clarke, Chas
Wyatt, Jas
Bell, Sam
Wigg, Horace
Wigg, Horace
Pain, Robt
Hembling, Fred
Wigg, Wm
Gould, Fred
Gould, Frederick
Moyse, Robt
Cowkeeper
Railway Labourer
Malt Labourer
£2.15
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EDMUND KING DIED OF PLAGUE IN 1597
Richard Bury, gent, for a parcel [piece] of Hall’s tenement
Myles Rising [died 1637] for a parcel of land sometime Hall’s now a tenement new built
(folio 91) His will 1636: [see separate sheet]
Widow Rising, [died 1646] tenements
John Sallows for a parcel of land late Rising before Hall now a tenement lately
erected vid [see] Myles Rising (folio 186)
John Seaman for a parcel of land late Rising, formerly Hall, now a tenement lately
erected
George Alborough at a Council held 28 July 1691 for a tenement late Sallows,
sometime Rising
William Blake juve [married] late Alborough
George Alborough died [Dec 1738]. Eleanor wife of William Blake & Sarah wife of John
Gowing (his only daughters), tenements to be sold; freehold; messuage in
Northgate, formerly of William Alborough & late of George Alborough.
received 1695
John Farr, messuage in Northgate, late William Blake & John Gowing in right
of their wives, Alborough
Thomas Farr, [brewer, died 1850] messuage in Northgate formerly Alborough afterwards
Blake & Gowing
Thomas Farr, formerly Blake
Trustees of Thomas Farr: FW Farr, Rev Geo Whittaker, & WE Crowfoot,
messuage in Northgate late Blake & Gowing
Trustees of Elizabeth Goldsmith, late Thomas Farr: Robert Read, yeoman &
Nathaniel Pells, carpenter, messuage in Northgate late Thomas Farr
Rent 6d
Rent 3d
Rent 3d
Morgan & Co of Norwich
Occupied by Isaac Amis [number 42] & Fred Hembling [number 40]
NORTHGATE 42
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CENSUS 1851
Dwelling: Northgate Street
Farr, Thos
Farr, HS
Crickmore, Robt
Davey, John b 1799
Merchant
£6.15
£4.10
Waterman
Hannah Davey
Robert Davey
George Davey
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Goldsmith Ben exec Davey, John
Goldsmith Trust
Goldsmith Trust
Goldsmith Trust
Goldsmith Trust
Knights, Thos b 1805
Knights, Thos
Knights, Thos
£8
CENSUS 1881
Thomas KNIGHTS
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Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
Wife
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Woodroffe, Thos
Clarke, Charles
Clarke, Chas
Wyatt, Jas
Amis, Isaac
Ward, Wm
Boon, Edgar
Boon, Edgar
Boon, Ellen
Boon, Mrs
Boon, Mrs
Boon, Mrs
Boon, Mrs
Wyatt, James
Wyatt, James
Wyatt, James
Richards, Basil
?
Gower, Ernest
Coachman
Taxidermist
Baker
Baker
16th, 17th and 18th century with some late 19th century additions. 2 storey and attic. Road front has 3 windows to an earlier part and
2 to a later. Both red brick. Wood cornice with ogee brackets and bed mould. Main entrance on north side, front with one gable and
earlier window openings with rusticated brick jambs and rusticated brick quoins. Windows have segmental brick drip moulds, and
late 18th century sashes in flush frames, not fitted exactly to the earlier openings. Rear portion with dated brick 1766.
Central portion is 17th century but there are indications of a sixteenth century basis both inside and out. 6-panel entrance door with
wood case. Windows mainly sash with wood frames, and flat arches.
Fine oak stair with concave twist balusters. Good Adam type mantel in panelled room with carved harvest scene with children
carrying sheaves etc. to a seated female figure holding a sickle. NMR photos.
Facade stands at right angles to the street. It has a north gable of c 1700 with two upright oval windows & below windows with
brick frames and segmental pediments.
was demolished in the 1930s. The Beccles Prison was first built in the 1680s and rebuilt about 1800. It ceased to be a prison in the
1860s when the prisoners were removed by train to Ipswich (much to the indignation of the people of Beccles, for it created
unemployment at a period of great poverty in the town. The Assize - a social event for the County - was also moved to Ipswich).
The building became a Police Station until the present police station was built in London Road in the 1930s.
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Richard Benslaye for a tenement late Edward Baas before Beverley (post: James Bailey)
James Bailey
Chamberlayne for one messuage or tenement in Northgate formerly James Bailey (folio 95) Task 4d
Isaac Smith , tenement in Northgate late Chamberlaine vid Nicholas Chamberlaine
Isaac Smith for a tenement in Northgate late Chamberlaine since Burrows
Isaac Smith, his tenement in his own use
Task 4d
Rent [R] 3d
Valuation £4
Isaac Smyth, Hearth Tax:- 5 Hearths
Stephen Amyas, gent, tenement late Isaac Smith, formerly Chamberlaine
XII of the
4d
linen weaver & also devisee in the will of Anne Mallard of certain messuages, - including this]
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Dame Mary Bacon, tenement in Northgate late John Carsey before Stephen Amyas formerly Isaac
Smith
probably the
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Samuel Lillistone tenement in Northgate, formerly Carsey, since Lady Bacon
Task 4d
merchant,
Blythburgh road. He was paid £10 4s. 6d. for goods carried from Yarmouth to Beccles by water, from 5 March 1795 to 19
He may have carried goods at other times but is not specifically named. The clerk of the works, Rufus Marsden, went to
Yarmouth at least 14 times between March 1793 and May 1798. He usually bought (Baltic) timber, often at auction. His
expenses for a trip were 4 or 5s.
£1 1s 11d and on to Henham 4s. plus 3s. for corn for the horses and assistance in loading at Beccles. This looks very
much like the estate carter doing the Beccles-Henham leg.
The first brick was laid on 26 March 1792 and the house was ready for occupation five years later, although work went on
inside for some time after that.
About 20% of the manhours were worked by tradesmen from London and their wage rate was about 75% above that for
local men. So some 30% of the wage bill reflected London not country wages.
Cowles Academy was opened in 1818 and was housed in St Mary’s Cottage, Ballygate, Beccles. About 1840 it moved to 44
Samuel Lillistone dwelt, late estate of Henry Verelest, before of Mrs Bacon & Mrs Castell formerly
Malllard
half year will be arranged for the inspection of the public on Friday 5 Decenber & will remain open until
following Wednesday.
use of globes. Extra charge for other acquirements.
EDUCATION: Beccles Classical & Commercial Academy. Mr Cowles has a vacancy for a clever
industrious youth to be articled for 3-5 years.
EDUCATION: Cowles Academy.
EDUCATION: Beccles Academy: Mr Cowles: well situated School Building; Pupils attend Lectures of the
Beccles Scientific Institution.
EDUCATION: Classical & Commercial Academy, Beccles. Mr Cowles. [established 1818] This
establishment has been carried on by the presnt Master for 19 years & has varied so little in a number of
points in the past ten years that the Conductor confidently trusts his plan of Tuition will merit continuance
of that support which he has so long received ...
VACANCY for a well educated Youth (not under 14 years of age) to be articled for 3 to 5 years. He will
have great advantages in Classical& Commercial Instruction.
EDUCATION: COWLES ACADEMY Articled Youth Wanted .. continue Classical Studies & treated as
one of the Family. ALSO English Assistant to be superior Penman & good Arithmetician.
EDUCATION: Beccles Academy: Mr Cowles. Vacancy for articled Pupil. Will be Treated as one of the
Family.
EDUCATION: Cowles Academy: Greek, Lain & French: sound English Education. 18-22 Gns pa.
EDUCATION: Pupils of Cowles Academy present Mr Cowles with silver Inkstand worth £8. Tables laid
out in Boarders’ Plyground. Tea & Refreshments for Parents & Friends: School Room decorated, Company
assemble, Half Yearly Prizes. Plate presented by Mister Fletcher of Gravesend.
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house. He
between 1838 and
pulled down. The
behind what are now garages as
1841. The school had other buildings - for classrooms and dormitories? in the grounds which were later
1851
EDUCATION: Beccles Academy: Mr Cowles announces “association” with him of his son, William
Cowles, who will teach Classics. Mr Cowles teaches Maths, Surveying & Mercantile Accounts. French by
resident Master.
EDUCATION: Cowles Academy. English Assistant Required.
LITERARY & SCIENTIFIC Institution AGM: WJ Crowfoot (Chair), W Cowles (Sec) vice SW Rix, retired.
Memorial presented by George Fenn:
“Extension of benefits to the numerous class of persons excluded by present Management. Wht is
required is Reduced Sub, Newspsper Reading Room, Cheap & Instructive Lectures, Museum of collection
of Scientific Apparatus.”
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COUNCIL: William Cowles & M Knowles elected to Council in place of R Thonton & W Lenny; J
Thompson & H Gilbert re-elected.
VESTRY MEETING: W Cowles , (13 years) & Mr Kerrison (17 years) re-elected Churchwardens
TOWN CLERK: Long debate on Election of Town Clerk (salary £30). Rix had been 25 years in Beccles. His
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Ward, Knowles, Scott, Cowles.
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Voting 8 for Angel (formerly Fauconberge Scholar & Cambridge), 6 for Rix.
MAYOR: Mr W Cowles (of Beccles Academy) succeeds Mr Steel as Mayor.
MAYOR’S DINNER, William Cowles entertained at the King’s Head - a party of Freiends including the
Rector & leading inhabitants.
INSURANCE: Annual Meeting of the Beccles Provident Society. Three of the Trustees: Messrs Cowles.
Steel & W Garnham “such useful & benevolent instuitions”.
EDUCATION: Beccles Academy, Messrs Cowles & Son. Vacation terminates Monday 21 July. Classical
Department conducted by Mr W Cowles; French by Monsieur Pringee. Mr Cowles supervises the English
Department assisted by competent masters.
Mr. Dolais Entertainment. Educated at Commercial Academy. Given in Assembly Rooms
Beccles Academy Vacation terminates on 21.July
MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. A PUBLIC BALL Will be held in the
Assembly Rooms, Beccles on Tuesday, the 10th March, to Celebrate the important event. PATRONS: Col.
A.S.ADAIR J. KERRICH, Esq. The Mayor F.A. OAKES, Esq. A. W. GARDEN, Esq. Charles DASHWOOD,
Esq. COMMITTEE: Mr STEEL Mr E. BUCK Mr W. GARNHAM Mr W. COWLES Mr HUNTER Mr SCOTT
Mr HORSLEY Mr BURSTAL And others. Tickets (to include Tea, Coffee, and Refreshments) -- Gentlemen,
7 Shillings and 6 Pence; Ladies, 5 Shillings; may be had of Mr STEEL, Honorary Secretary, or any of the
Committee. HOWLETT'S BAND WILL ATTEND.
LIBRARY: AGM of Library. WM Crowfoot, Secretary; Dr Metcalfe, Treasurer. Dr Crowfoot retires from
Committee, W Cowles succeeds
EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS: M GA Gayfer, Assistant Master at Beccles Academy gains Degree of Royal
College of Preceptors.
EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS: Arthur Gayfer, assistant master at Beccles Academy in the Royal College of
Preceptors’ Associate Exam did especially well in English subjects.
BECCLES ACADEMY: one of the Masters, Arthur Gayfer, passed exam for Dublin University.
PARTNERSHIP dissolved between William Cowles senior & W Cowles, junior, schoolmasters, Beccles
Death of William Cowles, aged 82, at his residence, Northgate
EDUCATION:: Beccles Academy: Dramatic Entertainment on Thursday 30th in spacious School Room.
Latin Inscription “Magna est ventas et praevalebit”, “Fortuna favet portibus”; W Russell,second master,
i/c. Harvest Storm, Witches from Macbeth; 16,000 years ago; burlesque of “Robinson Crusoe”; songs;
Carol “Good King Wenceslas”.
BECCLES ACADEMY: for Young Gentlemen; Principal: Alfred Hockey (late Mr Cowles) Head Master: WC
Puxty; Assistant Masters: TY Bethell, E Plowman; French Master: Mons Pringee; German Master: Carl
Schrieber; Pupils prepared for the Cambridge Local Examinations & the Science & Art Department , South
Kensington.
BECCLES ACADEMY changed its name to Beccles College, under Mr Hockey, about this time and moved
to 16 Ballygate, which was subsequently pulled down in the 1930s and then became the Regal Cinema, and
in turn was pulled down in the 1980s and College Close built in its place.
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practised in Beccles. He was the grandfather of Mrs Janna de Vere Green.
He was Mayor of Beccles in the 1930s, the first Mayor from outside the membership of the Town Council. The Town Sign
& the Dell, close to which it stands are lasting reminders of his constant efforts to make Beccles a more beautiful and
worthy place.
owner
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Cowles, Wm
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1871Cowles, Wm sen
1881Cowles, Wm exors
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm jun
Smith, Cliff
Schoolmaster
£43.15
Schoolmaster
Corn Merchant
[41] Northgate Street
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Thomas C. SMITH
William R. SMITH
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Sybil C. SMITH
Thomas I. SMITH
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Walter I. SMITH
Eliza COOK
Ellen COOK
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Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Ellingham, Norfolk, England
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Stowmarket, Suffolk, England
Syleham, Norfolk, England
Beccles, Suffolk, England
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Mrs Cary-Elwes
Col Keith E Ferguson
Col Keith E Ferguson
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houses,
Roger Ward, gent, for the Hempland
Thomas Green, for a Hempland late Woods on the east [of Northgate]
Thomas Greene, Survet:- in his own use
Thomas Green, Poor Rate,
Mr Greene, Hearth Tax:- 6 Hearths
William Shivers, for a Hempland late Green
William Shivers, his porch on house
William Bohun, a Hempland late Shivers & formerly Green’s
Edmund Skepper, for a Hempland late Audley, before Shivers & formerly
Green in Northgate (now Wm Skepper)
Edmund Skepper, for a building on it
William Skepper, a Hempland late Edmund Skepper, his father, formerly Audley
Mark Savage, gardener, Northgate: Hempland & house, formerly
Edmund Skepper
Elizabeth Lillistone, freehold Hempland, formerly William Skipper, before
Edmund Skepper, late Mark Savage (later William Clowes)
Elizabeth Lillistone, building thereon
Mrs Lillistone, late Mark Savage, formerly Skepper, a Hempland in Northgate
Mrs Lillistone, for a building thereon
Mrs Lillistone, late Mark Savage
Mrs Lillistone, for a building thereon
William Clowes, schoolmaster, Hempland formerly Mark Savage, William
Skepper and late Thomas Farr as Trustee for William Lillistone
William Clowes, building thereon
Charles Cowles
Rate £2
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tenants, at the aggregate annual rent of £31 4s. The whole producing a rental of £49 4s 0d.
cupboards, (one with shop window and cupboard with glazed sliding doors), wash-house withstove and
copper, large bedroom and attic. There are Small Gardens and two W.C.’s.
This lot has a frontage to the street of 44ft; and there is a right of way for the owner and occupiers
thereof over the passage on the south side to and from Northgate, which passage forms part of Lot 2.
(purchased W Browne £200)
SALE: Lot 2: A well-built brick and slated block of
Four Dwelling-Houses adjoining lot 1 and being nos 46 to 52, Northgate
No 46 contains: Entrance Hall with cupboard under stairs, Sitting Room with slow combustion stove,
tiled hearth and cupboard, Dining Room with slow combustion stove, tiled hearth and two cupboards,
Kitchen with cooking range, moveable enclosed dresser, sink with tap over, cupboards adn shelving,
Storeroom with lattice partition, Landing with falling slab and bookshelves, Four good Bedrooms, two
with stoves (one for gas) and two cupboards.
Nos 48, 50 and 52 each contain:- Front Sitting Room with two cupboards, Kitchen with portable
cooking stove, Pantry and cupboards, Two Bedrooms, one with stove.
In the rear is a range of good brick and slated lean-to buildings, comprising:- Wash-houses, coal
sheds and W.C.’s
Small Gardens with paved paths and soft water cisterns
No 46 is in the occupation of Mr James Stone, at a yearly rental of £18. Tenant paying rates.
Nos 48, 50 and 52 are tenanted by Mr H Drewell, Corpl R Bullimore and Sergt M Harmer, weekly
The passage on the north side will be included in this property, subject to the right of way above
mentioned.
(withdrawn £640)
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Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm exors
Cowles, Emily
Norman, Jn
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Eliz
Cowles, Georgina
Cowles, Miss
Cowles, Miss
Stone, Jas
Stone, James
Stone, Jas
Stone, Jn
Schoolmaster
House Owner
Own Means
£6
£12
Tailor
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Emily
Baker, Eliz
Baker, Eliz
Barber, Sam
Barber, Sam
Aldred, Fred
Harvey, Arthur
Curtis, Philip
Gardener
Gardener
£6
£12
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, C
Cowles, Emily
Whitehead, Sarah
Buck, Chas
Buck, Chas
Buck, Charlotte
Ramblants, Wm
White, Jn
Pye, Mrs
Salter, Mrs
Salter, Alf
Salter, Alf
Interest on money
Woodman
Houses Proprietor £4.15
£12
Carpenter
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, C
Cowles, Emily
Fryer, Lucy
Harper, Wm
Woolner, Hen
Governess Retd
£4.15
£6
£12
Lipscombe, Geo
Thrower, Arth
Harmer, Mrs
Youell, Geo
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, C
Brady, Jn
Welton, Jn
Welton, Jn
Welton, Jn
Chandler, Thos
Freeman, Zaborrah
Smith, Robt
Pitchers, Mrs
Bales, William
Alfred, Herietta
Shoemaker
Boot/Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Warehouseman
Engine Fitter
£5.10
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NORTHGATE 58
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Johnston, Wm
Bryant, Geo
Bryant, Mrs
Francis, Charles
Hembling, Cliff
Maltster
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, Wm
Cowles, C
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Elvin, Chas
Elvin, Chas
Elvin, Chas
Thorley, Jn
Thorlet, John
Tanner Foreman
£4.05
£5
Brady, Jn
Legood, Robt
17th century with 18th century facing. 2 storeys and attic with pedimented dormers. Red Brick, with band and plinth. Dutch gables.
Rusticated brick quoins, chamfered, at ground floor. Wood ogee bracket cornice with bedmould. 3 windows, sash with flush frames,
glazing bars, and flat arches. Lead rainwater head and downpipe, on return, south. Screen wall with brick moulded cope wit elliptical
arched entrance courtyard, right.
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John Bayspole for his head house late Dunston Boyce before John Locke &
Whyte (post John Elmy)
John Elmy messuage lying in Northgate
Elmy to Harbor (folio 187)
Joseph Harbor, for tent & Headhouse late John Elmy before Bayspole,
Dunston Boyce
Joseph Harbor, jnr, entered his tax on 3 December 1689, late Joseph Harbor, his father,
formerly Elmy
John Harbor, entered his tax on 9 March 1732, for a tenement, late his father, sometime
Elmy
Benjamin Murrill, tent. late Mr John Harbor, before Joseph Harbor, formerly
Elmy
To be let (Tanning Office) late B. Murrill & Handsome house lately built
William Oswald, a tent late B. Murrill before Harbor formerly Elmy
House, 2 Stalled stable etc.) next to that of EP Montagu, Northgate [and other properties]
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west side of
part of
on south
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A comfortable FAMILY RESIDENCE pleasantly situated in Northgate, with paved Cortyard & large
Garden, well planted with choice fruit trees & bushes walled all round, a pump of excellent spring water
& conveniently arranged Stable, Gig House & Offices.
The House contains Entrance Hall, Breakfast, Dining & Drawing Rooms, Three Sleeping Rooms, Three
Attics, Kitchen, Store Room, Pantry, Wash-house & Cellars. Annual Outgoings: Land Tax 16s 11d 1/2d.
This property is all Freehold, was in the possession of the late proprietor & possession may be had at
Michaelmas.
1st Part: JK Garrod, Gent; 2nd Part: Wm Garrod of Tivetshall, Gent; 3rd Part: John Roger Rush
Godfrey, Gent; whereas indentures
5 July 1860 [Montagu House]
18 December 1864 [Oswald House]
13 January 1874 [King's House] between
1st part: Isaac Preston; 2nd Part: Mary Anne Birkett; 3rd Part: JK & WH Garrod Whereas sold for
£2500;
All three freehold mess on the east side of Northgate known as Oswald House, Montagu House and
King's House in occupation of William Haverson, [Oswald House], John Godfrey, [Montagu House] and
Charles Toll, [King's House] and gardens and heridataments; Also freehold cottage in occupation of
Charles Elvin in the garden in rear of King's House abutting on Ravensmere on east All bounded on the
north by stable yard and premises belonging to JK & WH Garrod; on the south by Waveney Valley
SALE: LOT 4: Oswald House
Well Built of Brick and Tile, approached from Northgate Street, and containing:
Entrance Hall, Dining Room with panelled Dado 14ft by 14ft 6ins, fitted Slow Combustion Stove, and 2
Cupboards; Small Room with Stove and fitted Cupboards.
UPSTAIRS: Drawing Room, 3 Bedrooms, and 3 Attics. In the BASEMENT are Coal and Beer Cellars.
The Offices comprise: Kitchen with Range and Cupboards; Scullery with sink and Tap, Copper, and
Furnace.
Northgate for some time occupied with messe called Montagu House; bounded on north by
Waveney Tannery belonging to JK & WH Garrod, part of hereditaments conveyed 5 July 1860
by Waveney Valley Railway; east by Northgate; west by River Waveney
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Tenant paying Rates.
Gas and Water are laid on from the Company’s Mains; the Drainage is connected with the Corporation
Sewers.
This Lot is in the occupation of Mr SJ Owles, on a Quarterly Tenancy, at a Rent of £24 per annum,
SALE; LOT 2: NORTHGATE: Freehold Residence, OSWALD HOUSE occupied by Mr Marshall. Rent
£38.
[withdrawn £400]
Indenture between John Rush Stuart [solicitor’s address given] of first part; Frances Benson of 2nd part
[mortgagee]; Frank Farrell of Shanrahan, Beccles, silk merchant of 3rd part; Sale for £1750. but £1150
owed to mortgagee. £600 paid to Stuart £1150 to mortgagor
Oswald House & Montagu House and garden opposite
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OWNER
John Hunter
Mrs Chamber
William Oswald
William Oswald
William Oswald
Oswald, Robt
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OCCUPIER
Oswald, Robt
Oswald, Robt
Oswald, Robt
Oswald, Robt exors
Garrod, JK & WH
Garrod, JK WH
Garrod, JK & WH
Garrod, JK WH
Garrod, HK & WH
Garrod, HK & WH
Garrod JK WH
Garrod, JK & WH
Fellows, A Cecil
Farrell, Frank exors
Auctioneer
Oswald, Martha
Independent
£26.05
Edgerton, Wm
Lea, Wm
Green, Jn
Larter, Wm
Fellows, A Cecil
Marshall, Malcolm
Angell, Gertrude
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck
Brewery Accountant
Bradbury, Gerald
Bamforth, My A
Farmer Retd
£16 & garden 31p
£15 & garden 10p
£19.10
1986?
Pollock, John
18th century with early 19th century additions at side and rear, and late 19th century alterations. 2 storeys, attic, and basement. Red
brick wih chamfered rusticated brick quoins. Plinth. Centre portion breaks forward with pediment, with high screen wall parapet. In
this are 2 blank panels, and acentre blank recess with rusticated arch. Wood ogee bracket cornice with bedmould. Windows to main
block 1:3:1. Flat arches, stone triple keys and stone cills. Early 19th century entrance door in wood case. Porch on return, south, with
slender wood columns. Oblong fanlight with Montagu coat of arms; the family occupied the house circa 1800 [1830-1859] .NMR
photos.
Pevsner: Buildings of England: Suffolk by Nikolaus Pevsner:
Ealy 18th century & has 5 bays, brick rusticated quoins, the three bay centre also emphasised by such quoins and a three bay
pediment with a blank arch with alternating rustication in it.
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John Dowsyng for a tenement wasted next sometime Old Robards
Thomas Baylye for a tenement in Northgate, late Downing Smyth
Thomas Baylye for another by it wasted
John Smith messuage now in his occupation & for one toft adjoining in Northgate
eastwards
John Smith from Bayly , the Toft (folio 4)
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Edward Clarke [he was a maltster, Member of XXIV 1680, & died in 1682] 2 tenements sometime
Simon Gisleham re Smith (folio 163)
Edward Clarke’s Heirs, tenement in Northgate, late Gislingham
John Clarke [born 1675; living here in 1715] tent Gisleham, Smith, since Edw Clarke,
his Father
John Clarke, tenement in Northgate, late Gisleham
William Smith, entered his tax for a tenement, sometime Simon Gisleham, before Smith,
and since John Clarke formerly 2 tents, Ed Clarke
John Prentice tenement Northgate late Smith, Clarke, Gisleham
Thos Rede younger [lawyer and descended from the family who obtained the Fen for the town and the
Manor for themselves after the Dissolution of Bury Abbey and caused 50 years of friction and legal
dispute. Later he built St Mary’s House in Ballygate after a dubious deal. He was born in 1732,
a Member of the XXIV in 1756, of the XII in 1759, Portreeve in 1760, became Steward of the
Corporation and died in 1811.], entered his task for a tenement in Northgate Street, heretofore
Gislehams, before Smith, since of Clarke, gent formerly 2 tenements and late of Wm Smith
Thos Rede younger, gent, tent in Northgate late Prentice, before Smith, and before that
John Clark, gent, freehold
SALE:- To be sold by auction by Samuel Malton Creed, Appraiser & Auctioneer on Wednesday, 21
November and the following days
The elegant household furniture of Thornas Rede, gent at his late Dwelling House in Beccles. Consisting
of four post bedsteads with moreen, check and window curtains, chests of drawers, chairs and tables in
mahogany, walnut tree, etc. Pier and dressing glasses, a large walnut tree cabinet and a large Wilton
carpet, a very good eight day clock in Japan case, one ditto in wainscot, paintings and copper plates
framed and glazed, with kitchen furniture and brewing utensils etc, all in very good condition.
Catalogues: Norwich, Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Southwold, Haleswotth, Yoxford, Samundham,
Woodbridge, lpswich, Framlingham, Strodhook, Harleston, Bungay, Lodon.
Add to Rede's Sale:
N.B. The house, which is new built and extremely convenient and handsome, with gardens walled-in and
well planted, a stable etc. to be sold on the last day of sale.
John Cooper, tenement in Northgate, formerly Clarke’s, afterwards Smith, late of
Thomas Rede
Rent 11d 1/2d
Rent 11d 1/2d
Rent 11d 1/2d
SALE:- To be sold by auction, Capital substantial well-built freehold brick mansion, situated in
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navigation on the River Waveney for many miles, a large walled garden, planted with the choicest fruit
trees, now in full perfection, a fish pond, Boat house and the river at the bottom of the garden. The
house consists of three Parlours, Servants Hall, Housekeeper's room, Butler's room, China room,
Kitchen, Store room, Brewhouse etc. Ten room, six Bedchambers, Dressing room and garrets, a large
handsome six-stalled stable, coach house for three carriages, Hay and corn chambers over the same, with
2 large yards walled in, fine pasture for a certain number of horses and cows, with every convenience for
a gentleman of Fortune or Capital Merchant and fit for their immediate reception, the whole being in
perfect repair.
Enquires of Samuel Maltwood Creed, Beccles (This will be advertised but twice more)
Hannah Cooper, widow of John Cooper
James Esdaile of Bunnel Row in the City of London, tenement in Northgate from Hannah
Cooper, Clarke, Smith, Thomas Rede, Hannah Cooper (freehold]
James Esdaile, Esq., of Caister, Great Yarmouth entered his tax for a tenement in
Northgate Street, late of John Cooper before T Rede, heretofore Gisleham, before
Smith, since of John Clarke, gent, formerly two tents & late of John Cooper
John Farr, jun, Esq, entered his tax for a tenement in Northgate Street, late of Jas Esdaile
before Cooper
Rev Thomas Sheriff tenement in Northgate
Henry Alexander tenement in Northgate, John Cooper after James Esdaile lately Rev Thomas
Sheriff
Frederick, Amelia, & Caroline Alexander, several freehold tenements in Northgate, formerly
John Cooper, after James Esdaile, since Rev Sheriff & late Henry Alexander
Kerr Cranston Bacon, Esq., [He was a relation of the Bacons of Raveningham] for tenement in
Northgate for £1320 including £20 of which for copyhold opposite
To be sold by private contract: The freehold MANSION situate in Northgate Street, Beccles, in the
occupation of Cranston Bacon, Esq, the proprietor, with walled-in garden and greenhouse at the back,
and another walled-in garden containing about an acre of land across the said street in front of the
Mansion, next the River Waveney, well planted with fruit trees. Also about five acres of pastureland
across Ravensmere Street, opposite the back of the Mansion and over which, an extensive view from the
east windows is commanded to Lowestoft and into Norfolk. Also avery valuable assortment of building
materials. Apply Mr Bohun, solicitor.
Mansion House and premises in the occupation of Cranston Bacon, Esq., the propietor, Northgate
Street, Beccles to be sold by S. Crowe. Also furniture and building materials.
To be sold by public auction by Sam Crowe:
LOT 1: The Mansion & premises in Northgate, with walled-in garden in front, adjoining the River
Waveney, in the occupation of Cranston Bacon, Esq., the proprietor.
LOT 2: The piece of Pasture Land at the back of the above premises containing about five acres, alsdo in
the occupation of Cranston Bacon.
The Estate is freehold with the exception of a few perches of land at one corner of the garden. May be
viewed by applying at the house, and possession at Michaelmas next.
ALSO on the third day of the same month will be sold by auction all the household furniture, bedding
& co of the said Cranston Bacon, and a large assortment of very valuable building materials.
INDENTURE of Lease & Release dated 30 April & 1 May, 1822
BETWEEN Edmund Kerr Cranston Bacon of the FIRST PART
George Wm Browne Bohun [solicitor] of the SECOND PART
Abraham Clarke [Bank cashier] of the THIRD PART
Edward P Montagu [purchaser] of the FOURTH PART
Rev Richard Aldous Arnold of the FIFTH PART
Such parts that were Freehold of the hereditaments conveyed to EP Montagu
Rent 11d 1/2d
(received 24 January 1821)
Edward P Montagu, Esq., [He was a retired Naval Captain and as a Midshipman on board HMS
Proserpine on 8 February 1809 commanded by Captain Otter, stationed off Toulon was captured and
1832
"Society
The Rules
information
for
him.
his exploits. It is in the Record Office at Lowestoft] tent in Northgate, formerly Thomas Rede before
Prentice, and formerly Clarke
THE FOOTMAN TEMPTED from "Beccles Matters" by EA Goodwyn
IN THE DAYS before Sir Robert Peel established the Police Force, and when for various reasons crime
was rife in the country - not least in East Anglia - it was customary for property owners to form local
associations for mutual protection and insurance. Beccles, like other East Anglian towns, had its
For Capital Felony
Grand Larceny
Petty Larceny
Robbing Gardens and all other Trespasses
Wanton and Malicious Damage
Misdemeanours
Among the members in the 1830's was E. P. Montagu Esq. who lived in Northgate Street; and among the
household staff at his residence was Samuel Tubby, aged 28, footman and groom, who had been there
four years, with wages of 12 guineas per annum.
On October 25th, 1832, Montagu received from his banker four £5 notes, ten sovereigns and two
half-sovereigns which he placed in a desk in his study. As he was taking down the numbers of the notes,
Tubby entered the room and saw what he was doing. Montagu and his wife went out to dinner on the
30th, Tubby driving them out and back. They reached home about 10.30 p.m. The groom went to the
stables to attend to the horses, whilst Montagu went into his study, and took one £5 note from the desk,
which he locked, leaving £35 in it. At the same time he saw that all the keys were hanging in their proper
places, and that all doors and windows were made fast before the family retired to rest - the usual routine
of safety precautions in those years.
About three o'clock the following morning, Tubby entered his master's bedroom, saying he had heard
footsteps in the house. Mr. Montagu loaded his pistol, then he went downstairs with Tubby. As they
reached the passage leading to the kitchen, someone appeared to rush past. Thinking it was one of the
robbers, Montagu fired in the direction of the kitchen door. He was much agitated, and it was quite dark.
Just as he fired, his gardener, who had been roused by the noise, seized him violently - apparently
thinking he was the robber. Lights were then procured. Tubby went into the kitchen and reported eleven
of the keys missing. The doors leading from the kitchen to the scullery, the garden, and the entrance
court were all open; but, though it was a wet night, there were no marks of footsteps in any of the rooms
that had been entered, except some loose sand or gravel in the study from which the desk was missing.
The upper sash of the school-room window was down, and a pane of glass broken.
Tubby and the gardener were sent out during the morning to get any information they could about the
robbery. The desk was later found in the river at the bottom of the garden; it looked as though someone
had tried to burn it. There was a crow-bar in the harness-room, which fitted the marks made on the desk.
Notice was given that the servants would be searched and they were ordered into the parlour. Tubby
attended but soon left the room. Montagu followed and found him in his room; he said he was unlocking
his drawers, in preparation for the search by the constable. It was at this point in the investigation as
appeared at Tubby's trial at the County Assizes the following March - that strong suspicion fell upon
of the latter included: "The following rewards are to be given to Persons who shall give such
as will convict offenders, guilty of the following crimes, on the Property of any Member:
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£3
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£1
stockings with marks of gravel on them. A steel-spring from the desk was found in the ashes of the grate
in the harness-room. On this evidence, Tubby was arrested and lodged in Beccles gaol.
Here a strange thing happened. The morning after his committal, Tubby told the gaoler he would find
some money buried in the garden near a drift. The gaoler went directly to the house, and, apparently
without authority from Mr. Montagu - dug up seven sovereigns and two half-sovereigns. He took them
back to the gaol and Tubby claimed them as his. Did Tubby hope to bribe the gaoler with part of the
stolen money?
Another curious aspect of the case appeared at the trial, when Daniel Olden, the gardener, who slept in
the room next to Tubby's, gave evidence. Olden said the prisoner came to him one morning and told him
but he
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heard them below and followed. It was then, he stated, that he seized Mr. Montagu as the latter fired his
pistol, supposing him to be the robber.
However, after his conviction, Tubby not only confessed the theft but asserted that he alone was
responsible.
At Beccles Quarter Sessions that year, the Chairman of the Magistrates referred to the change in the law
by which the number of capital felonies had been reduced and the offences punishable by transportation
had been increased, so that it "was deemed expedient to render that kind of punishment more rigorous all
persons sentenced to transportation for seven years were to labour in chains for four years, those
sentenced to fourteen years to labour in chains for six years, and those transported for life, to labour in
chains for eight years."
At the County Assizes, the Jury having found Tubby guilty, the Judge commented on the heinousness
the offence. He sentenced the footman to transportation for life.
fruitful Vinery & an Orangery. Contiguous is a Meadow containing four acres.
29ft 9ins x 19ft 3ins & looks into Pleasure Garden; Dining Room, Study, Kitchen, Butler’s Room etc.,
Seven Sleeping Rooms & Three Attics, Vegetable Garden of three quarters of an acre, with frontage of
Ninety yards at River’s side.
A Boat House, Summer House, Stables & Coach House. In the Pleasure House is a well-stacked &
INDENTUREbetween William Edward Sharpin, [Steward of the Manor?], of the 1st part, the Rev
George Orgill Leman, George Peskett, Edward Colby Sharpin and Charles Bobbett of the 2nd part,
Mary Reynolds, widow of the 3rd part, Henry Sherlock Farr [Lord of the Manor?] of the 4th part and
the said EP Montagu of the 5th part [the copyhold parts of the heridatements therein are described...
unto ED Montagu his heirs and assigns for ever absolutely discharged from all customary copyhold
and other rents fines etc.]
called Northgate street and sometimes Bridge Street with a certain building there formerly a malting
office and then since converted in part into a stable and all other houses outhouses and buildings with
yard, garden and ground to the same messe. or tenement belong as the same are situate lying and being
in Beccles
between the messe. and yards then late of Wm Oswald and then of Martha Oswald widow on the south
part [Nor A] the messe and yards formerly of Thomas Claxton on the north part [Nor YB see below]
and abut upon a street called Northgate street towards the west
and upon the back lane called Ravensmere way towards the east.
INDENTURE Between EP Montage
& JK & WH Garrod for sale of Hereditaments at price of £1020
ALL THAT Capital Messuage in Northgate with a Building formerly a Malting Office, & then since
converted in part into a Stable & all other houses and Outhouses and Buildings, with Yards, Garden &
Ground
BETWEEN the Messuages & Yards late of William Oswald & then of Martha Oswald, widow SOUTH
[Oswald House, 60 Northgate]
The Messuage & Yard formerly of Thomas Claxton on the NORTH
Northgate to the WEST & Ravensmere EAST
ALSO ALL THAT Garden Ground whereof formerly stood 2 Messuages known by the name of
Morkers, which Messuages were Formerly converted into a Malting Office, but since wasted [now 51
Northgate, before the coming of the Railway]
ABUTTING on Northgate to the EAST
ALSO ALL THAT aforesaid Messuage Formerly of Thomas Claxton, with Yard & Garden or Ground
BETWEEN the first mentioned Messuage, formerly a Malting Office SOUTH
The Messuage & Yards formerly of John Shuldham, afterwards of Henry Bond, then late of William
Birkett & then of Mary Ann Birkett on the NORTH
Northgate to the WEST; Ravensmere EAST
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whole or portions of the Messuage or Lands shall give 3 months notice, and a fair value given, shall take
immediate possession of the whole or parts of the Messuage or Lands.
site [when?] & added to the Capital Messuage. [is this 62a?]
ALSO ALL THAT Staithe Yard formerly belonging to a Messuage called the “Three Mariners”, which
together with the last mentioned Messuage, was purchased by James Esdaile, Esq, a former owner of the
Capital Messuage, from Elizabeth Rede, Mary Seal & Ann Rede, and laid into the Garden belonging to
the Capital Messuage, [is this part of the garden, now 51 Northgate, but it seems to include the Tannery,
as the wall and Common Lane are to the north of the Tannery?] which
ABUTS upon a Common Lane from Northgate to the Waveney NORTH & was separated from the Lane
by a brick Wall
Formerly in the occupation of John Farr, afterwards of Robert Purvis, then of Thomas Sheriff, afterwards
of Henry Alexander, afterwards of Mary Alexander, then of EK Cranston Bacon, and then of the late EP
Montagu
INDENTURE 5, June, 1863
BETWEEN Waveney Valley Railway Company of FIRST PART (later the Great Eastern Raiulway)
JK & WH Garrod for the sale to them for £426
ALL THAT Freehold or Charterhold Messuage with outhouses, edifices & buildings, Yard & Garden
Northgate to the WEST, Ravensmere EAST,
One head abuts upon late part of these presentments belonging to the GER Co SOUTH
Upon the Messuage & yards Formerly of Thos Sheriffe, Clerk, afterwards of EP Montagu, then of JK &
WH Garrod NORTH
The said Messuage formerly in the occupation of Elizabeth Chambers, then of John Lincoln, afterwards
of Robert Oswald, late in the occupation of Martha Oswald
AND ALL THAT Land NORTH of the GE Railway from Becles to Bungay as the same was bounded:
On the WEST by the River Waveney
On the EAST by Northgate cdontaining 21 Perches, with River frontage of 44ft
On the Street od 43 Feet {plan originally attached]
IT WAS AGREED further that if the GER Co at any time require to retake & use for the Railway the
1st Part: JK Garrod, Gent; 2nd Part: Wm Garrod of Tivetshall, Gent; 3rd Part: John Roger Rush
Godfrey, Gent; whereas indentures
5 July 1860 [Montagu House]
18 December 1864 [Oswald House]
13 January 1874 [King's House] between
1st part: Isaac Preston; 2nd Part: Mary Anne Birkett; 3rd Part: JK & WH Garrod Whereas sold for
£2500;
All three freehold mess on the east side of Northgate known as Oswald House, Montagu House and
King's House in occupation of William Haverson, [Oswald House], John Godfrey, [Montagu House] and
Charles Toll, [King's House] and gardens and heridataments; Also freehold cottage in occupation of
Charles Elvin in the garden in rear of King's House abutting on Ravensmere on east All bounded on the
north by stable yard and premises belonging to JK & WH Garrod; on the south by Waveney Valley
SALE: LOT 1:
and Ten Bedrooms
is of pleaning elevation and approached from Northgate Street, Beccles, by a Side Entrance through the
Garden. It contains:
On the GROUND FLOOR.—A Porch with Glazed Door leading to Entranc hall (with Cloak Cupboard)
giving access to Morning Room, 18ft 9ins by 16ft 6ins, Finely Panelled in Wood, with Carved Wood
Mantelpiece, Stove and Marble Hearth ; a well-proportioned Dining Room, 22ft.. 6in. by 16ft 6ins.. also
panelled in Wood, with fine old Mantelpiece (enriched by plaster docorations) and Stove; a comfortable
Smoking Room, 24 ft. by 16ft. into bay, with Wood Panelled Dado, fitted on one side with Range of
Northgate for some time occupied with messe called Montagu House; bounded on north by
Waveney Tannery belonging to JK & WH Garrod, part of hereditaments conveyed 5 July 1860
by Waveney Valley Railway; east by Northgate; west by River Waveney
large Linen and Store Cupboards; Two good sized Bedrooms, suitable for Nurseries, one having
Fireplace; 2 excellent Bedrooms, one with Stove and having Dressing Room adjoining, Bathroom with
hot Cold supplies, 2 draw-off taps and lead lined tray. adjoining is a WC with Pedestal Closet.
and Pear Trees, giving access to the River Waveney to which it has a frontage of about 103ft, wth
Landing Stage and good anchorage for a Yacht. The Fence on the North side of the Garden is subject to
a covenant for maintenance entered into by the Vendor.
Gentlemen’s Lavatory, W.C, and Bathroom, with Tesselated floor, fitted with Hot and Cold Supply Taps
to Bath and Lavatory Basin; and Door to Garden.
On the FIRST FLOOR, approached by Front and Back Stairs, in a charming and well proportioned
Drawing Room, measuring 24ft., by 19ft 6ins. into Bay Windows, with Register Stove, White Marble
Mantlepiece and Marble Hearth and Curb. This Room has a Richly Carved and painted Wood Ceiling,
with Carved and Gilt Cornice round Room. Capital Bedroom, 17ft. by 16ft. 6ins., with Register Stove
and Cupboard; Dressing Room adjoining; BEdroom, 17ft.. by 16ft., with SC Stove and Cupboard, 3
THE DOMESTIC OFFICES: On the Ground Floor comprise Kitchen 18ft 6ins by 18ft 6ins with capital
Range, Boiler, &c, and Tradesmen’s Entrance from Northgate Street; Scullery with stone-ware Sink, hot
and cold supply taps, small Cooking Range, large Copper Oven andFurnace and smaller ditto; Spacious
and cool Larder, fitted shelves; Housemaid’s Pantry fitted with range of Cupboards, stoneware Sonk,
with hot and cold supply taps; Large Store Room (suitable for a Dispensary) fitted with Cupboards and
Shelving, large lead lined Sink and 2 supply taps; Bicycle House, 12ft 6ins by 7ft 6ins; Apple Store; Deep
Cupboard; Knife House, etc.
In the BASEMENT are spacious Cellars
OUTSIDE: Paved Yard, Wood House, Closet, Pump of Water, Refuse Bin, &c, and Back Passage
leading to Street known as Ravensmere.
Gas and Water are laid on to the House from the Company’s Mains, The Drainage is connected with the
Corporation Sewers.
There is a capital walled-in Flower Garden with Lawn, and 2 Geenhouses. On the opposite side of
Northgate Street is a
FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDEN having a frontage of 115 ft to the Street, well planted with Apple
OUTGOINGS: Land Tax £1 7s 6d; Tithe Rent Charge: as assessed.
[It does not appear to have sold]
John Rush Godfrey, barrister at Law changes his name to John Stuart, at present residing at Seville,
Spain [Property is leased to Colonel RE Lush; expires 25 March l918]
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with grounds extending to the River, now occupied by Col Lush on lease expiring on Lady Day next.
Rent £80.
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Indenture between John Rush Stuart [solicitor’s address given] of first part; Frances Benson of 2nd part
[mortgagee]; Frank Farrell of Shanrahan, Beccles, silk merchant of 3rd part; Sale for £1750. but £1150
owed to mortgagee. £600 paid to Stuart £1150 to mortgagor
Oswald House & Montagu House and garden opposite
OCCUPANTS Poor Law & Rates
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Montagu, EP
Rede, Thomas, jun. Ho & Malt Ho
Rede, Thomas, Ho now Mr Cooper
Cooper, John, Esq., for dwelling Ho
Cooper, John, Esq.,
Cooper, John, for dwelling Ho
Easdell, Jas, Esq.,
Alexander, Henry
Alexander, Henry
Starkie, Miss [d of Nicholas & Katherine Starkie decsd m Cranston Bacon d 1837 @ 37
Montagu, ER, Esq.
Montagu, ER, Esq.
£12
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£37 6s 8d
Montagu, Edward Proudfoot [until 1859, d 1862]
1851 CENSUS
Edward P Montagu
Eleanor Montagu
Julia Montagu
Octavius Montagu
Decimus Montagu
James Carter
Maria Coleby
Eliza Harper
Emma Brown
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22p
1860 147
22p
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3r 8p
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1875 161
1880 168
1881 CENSUS
William H. GARROD
Sophia MONEY
Eliza WATERS
Ellen SAUNDERS
1885 205
1890 264
1895 264
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Garrod, JK
Garrod, WmH
tanner
Garrod, JK & WH
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Garrod, WH
Garrod, Wm H
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Garrod, JK & WH
Garrod, JK & WH
Godfrey, JRR
Godfrey, John
Godfrey (London)
F
F
F
Godfrey, John RR
Godfrey, John
Hurst, John
Lush, Capt
Beccles, Suffolk, England
Ringsfield, Suffolk, England
Ringsfield, Suffolk, England
Garrod, WH
Garrod, WH
Godfrey
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Domestic Servant Housekeeper
Domestic Servant
Domestic Servant
20
18
Servant
Servant
tanner
tanner
£4
£50 }
£4 }
£50 Ho & Gdn & prem 1r 22p
£50
Kitchen Garden 1r 14p
Ho & Garden & prem 1r 22p
Kitchen Garden 1r 14p
391
392
9 bedrooms 4 reception (including kitchen) 6 occupants
Farrell, Frank
Lush, Capt
Farrell, Frank
Farrell, Frank
Farrell, Frank
Cranmer, Admiral
Poyser, Captain
Poyser, Capt & Burdett, Albert
Poyser, Mrs & Lumley, Miss
Poyser, Mrs G & Vincent, Mildred
silk merchant
silk merchant
£80
1670c
1693
1700
1721
1736
1751
BECAME PART OF MONTAGU HOUSE:
1860
1764
1765
1779
1781
1792
1797
1803
1829
Ann Johnson tenement Northgate late her Father
Ben Folkard PART tenement late Ann Johnson (post Schuldham)
Ben Folkard, PART of tenement late Ann Johnson (later Barber, widow)
John Schuldham late Folkard, Barber
John Schuldham, tenement late Folkard, Johnson, Barber in Northgate
James Smyth, in right of his wife, Mary [daughter of John Schuidham] tenement late Jn
Schuldham, formerly Folkard, before Johnson, and heretofore Barber in Northgate
Rent 6d
Rent 8d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
and garden or ground to the same belonging
BETWEEN the first mentioned messuage and buildings formerly a malting office on the part of the
SOUTH [Main part of House: Northgate 62]
the messuage and yards formerly of John Schuldham afterwards of Henry Bond then late of William
Birkett and then of Mary Ann Birkett on the part of the NORTH [Northgate 64]
upon Northgate to the WEST
and upon the highway called Ravensmere towards the EAST
Which said messuage formerly of Thomas Claxton was taken down [Nor YB] and a dining room
erected on the site and added to the capital messe therein first mentioned.
John Cooper, another tenement late Jas Smith, in right of his wife, formerly Folkard,
before Johnson, heretofore Barber
John Cooper, tenement late Schuldham, Smyth, Folkard, Barber
Hannah Cooper, another tenement formerly Folkard
James Esdaile tenement late James Smith [freehold]
John Farr, several tenements in Northgate
Rev Thomas Sheriff, of Uggleshaw, one of two tenements in Northgate late James Esdaile
Henry Alexander one of two tenements in Northgate, John Cooper, Jas Esdaile lately
Rev Thos Sheriff
Edward P Montagu tenement formerly Mary Smith, before Schuldham, formerly Folkard
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
1693
1725
1736
1749
1751
1765
1789
1803
1805
1812
[Northgate],
to
equally
1814
1829
1846
1846
1846
1847
1874
Thomas Claxton, part of tenement in Northgate late Hills
Thomas Claxton, for part of a tenement in Northgate late Hills
John Schuldham, late Claxton, before Hills
James Smith, late John Schuldham, formerly Claxton before Hill (now R Bond later Oswald) Rent 6d
James Smyth, PART of tenement in Northgate late John Schouldham, before Clarkson [Claxton]
and formerly Hills (now Pond)
Robert Bond, PART tenement in Northgate late Smith, Claxton, Hills
Henry Pond, tenement in Northgate late Robert Bond, James Smyth, formerly Claxton
Mary Garnham, widow, messuage in Northgate late Henry Pond, before Robert Bond
formerly Claxton
William Birkett, messuage in Northgate, late Mary Garnham, widow, before Pond
William Birkett, by his will devised to his wife Elizabeth Birkett tenement with yard, garden, building &
hereditaments in his own occupation & John Patman, (also certain copyhold hereditaments not the
amongst their children at the age of 2l or at marriage. Proved Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, 11 April 1813
Elizabeth Birkett, messuage in Northgate, formerly Mary Garnham, before Pond, late
Wm Birkett
Elizabeth Girling, late William Birkett
Death of Elizabeth Girling, formerly widow of William Birkett, nee Jessup, in Sept 1846
Indenture between EC Sharpin: First part;
Elizabeth Mather, [born 1799] of Beccles, widow, John Raby, of Norwich, weaver, widower of Louisa,
before Louisa Birkett, spinster , his wife lately deceased, and the five surviving children [??]:
Elizabeth Mather, Louisa Raby [b 1803] (then since deceased), Martha Raby (the second wife of John
Raby), Mary Ann Birkett [born 1800] , John Raby now married to Martha , his second wife, lately
Martha Birkett of the second part &
Mary Ann Birkett, of Hoveton, spinster in the third part.
Jeremiah Taylor died 5 May 1846, leaving EC Sharpin sole executor.
Mary Ann Birkett to be purchaser at £300, the others to receive their share. £60 to each of them
All those freehold messe etc, formerly in the occupation of John Chenery, then of Catherine Barber, [in
Ravensmere: see Rates] widow, Thomas Wright,[in Ravensmere] George Hayward, Richard Hayward &
Elizabeth Mather between messuage formerly of Henry Alexander & then of Edward P Montagu Esqs to
the south;
tenement of Sarah Allington, since of Wm Oswald then J Garrod to the north;
Northgate to the west; Ravensmere to the east
Mary Ann Birkett to be purchaser at the price of £300; £60 to each of them. £240 shared. 10% to EC
Sharpin
Indenture between Mary Ann Birkett & Henry Burroughes, of Hoveton Hall, Esq;
Mortgage of £200, to be repaid in 1 year’s time & interest of £4 l0s per cent.
Mary Ann Birkett, messe in Northgate, late Pond, William Birkett, late Eliz Birkett
As to premises formerly Birkett’s:-
By Indenture between Isaac Preston, of Great Yarmouth of the 1st part;
Ann Birkett, spinster of the second part;
JK & WH Garrod, tanners, of the 3rd part;
Reciting Indenture between John Burroughes of of Birlingham Hall, Norfolk, Esq., 1st part;
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Beccles, which was then in the occupation of John Patman, during her lifetime. After her death
Jeremiah Taylor, Butcher, & EC Sharpin, gent, to sell the property and distribute the money
Rent 6d
1896
1912
Isaac Preston of Great Yarmouth of the 3rd part;
Reciting agreement between MA Birkett & JK & WH Garrod to sell the said hereditaments, free from
incumberances but only to pay land tax, at the price of £425, and reciting that £200 was still due to Isaac
Preston. £200 out of the purchase money to be paid to Isaac Preston. Granted
All those freehold messes or tenements with the yard, and garden to the same belonging in the
occupation of John Chinery, afterwards of Catherine Barber, widow, Thos Wright, George Hayward,
Richard Hayward And Elizabeth Mather, as the same were then or then late in the occupations of the
said MA Birkettt, George Hindes, Angelina Elliott & Eliza Nunn and were situated
BETWEEN the messuage formerly of Henry Alexander, Esq, afterwards of Edward P Montagu & then
of JK & WH Garrod towards the south [Montagu House];
the site whereon formerly stood a tenement of Sarah Allington, afterwards of William Oswald & then
since of John Garrod, which site then belonged to JK & WH Garrod towards the north [now the garage
of Montagu House]
upon Northgate towards the west; & upon Ravensmere towards the east.
Paid MS Birkett £225 & Isaac Preston £200
1st Part: JK Garrod, Gent;
2nd Part: Wm Garrod of Tivetshall, Gent;
3rd Part: John Roger Rush Godfrey, Gent; whereas indentures
5 July 1860 [Montagu House]
18 December 1864 [Oswald House]
13 January 1874 [King's House] between
1st part: Isaac Preston; 2nd Part: Mary Anne Birkett; 3rd Part: JK & WH Garrod Whereas sold for
£2500;
All three freehold messe on the east side of Northgate known as Oswald House, Montagu House and
King's House in occupation of William Haverson, [Oswald House], John Godfrey, [Montagu House] and
Charles Toll, [King's House] and gardens and heridataments;
ALSO freehold cottage in occupation of Charles Elvin in the garden in rear of King's House
abutting on Ravensmere on east
All bounded on the north by stable yard and premises belonging to JK & WH Garrod;
on the south by Waveney Valley Railway
on the east by Ravensmere;
on the west by Northgate;
And freehold garden on the west side of Northgate for some time occupied with messe called Montagu
House;
BOUNDED on north by part of Waveney Tannery belonging to JK & WH Garrod,
part of hereditaments conveyed 5 July 1860 on south by Waveney Valley Railway;
east by Northgate;
west by River Waveney
SALE: 64 NORTHGATE: Substantially built of Brick & Tile containing:
On the GROUND FLOOR: Two Sitting Rooms with Stoves; Kitchen with Range and Pantry; Scullery
with Sink and Tap; Copper Furnace and Oven, and Cupboard under Stairs.
On the FIRST FLOOR are 3 Bedrooms, and above are 2 Attics; and Outside, WC and Yard.
At the back of the House is a good Garden.
This Lot is in the occupation of Mr Bolingbroke, a Yearly Tenant, at a Rent of £14 per annum. Tenant
paying Rates.
The Property is connected with the Corporation sewers. Gas and Water are laid on from the Companies’
Mains
This Lot is sold with a Right of way over Lot 3 to the Street known as Ravensmere, for the purpose of
removing dust and refuse in a Sanitary Bin.
OUTGOINGS: Land Tax 7s 7d
[It is probable that Charles Bolingbroke purchased the house at this time]
1838}
Girling, Mrs
Girling, Mrs
Barber, Jas
Girling, Mrs
£4 10s
£2
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Girling, Mrs
Girling, Mrs
Hayward, George
Knights, Jas
Girling, Eliz
Girling late
Barber, John
Algar, Robt
Hayward, George
Knights, Jas
Mather, Eliz
Barber, Kiirturah
Wright, Thos
37
47
cooper
waterman
£4 5s
£1 5s
£4
£2]
£4 10s
£3
£1 5s
£3 10s
£1 15s ]
b Bungay
Girling, Mrs
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
m
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1933c
1936
1948
1954
1965
1972
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Wright, Thos
Howard, Richard
Knights, Jas died 1860 waterman @ 56
Birkett, Mary
Barber, Kiirturah
Howard, Richard
Knights, Susan
Birkett, Mary
Barber, Kiirturah died 1866 @ 81 spinster
Howard, Richard
Knights, Susan
Birkett, Mary
Nunn, Eliza
King, AE
Garrod, JK & WH
King, Arthur E
King, AE
Toll, Charles
Toll, Chas
Toll, Charles
Money, James
Bolingbroke, Charles
Bolingbroke, Charles
Bolingbroke, Charles
Bolingbroke, Charles
Pulford, Victor
Pulford, Victor
Pulford, Victor
Pulford, Victor
Knights, Jas
Mather, Eliz
Barber, Kiirturah
£3 ]
£5 5s
£4 5s
£2 5s
£5 5s & £3]
£6
£5
£3 10s
£4 5s
£2 5s
£5 5s
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Birkett, MA
Garrod
Garrod }
Garrod ]
Garrod
Godfrey
Godfrey, John
Bolingbroke, Charles
£6
£5
£3 10s
£7 & £4]
£14
£6
£5 & £3 10s
£14
£15 & garden 10p
390
390
19p
1593
DIVISION OF PROPERTY A
1671
1672
1674
1677
1691
1693
1693
DIVISION OF PROPERTY B
1700
1715
1732
1736
1740
1748
1762
John Bayspole, for a tenement over the way [?] late Burke
Task 8d
Thomas Rookens, Poor Rate:
Thomas Rookens, Hearth Tax:- 1 Hearth
Thomas Rookings, [yeoman d 1689], tenement. in Northgate sometime Bayspole
Anne Rookens, wid,[died 1692] for the same
Francis Rookens, for part of a tent late his Father’s
Benjamin Chapman [he married Sarah Rookins in 1690] late Rookens
Value £2
Task 4d
Rent 4d
Rent 4d
Benjamin Chapman, [d 1727] tenement in Northgate late Thomas Rookens before Bayspole
Benjamin & Sarah Chapman’s daughter, Sarah baptised 1693 [married John Allington-no record]
John Allington, tenement in Northgate late Benjamin Chapman before Rookens
John Allington, jnr. tenemen late Chapman before Rookens
John Allington, [d 1748] Northgate, formerly Rookings & late Benj Chapman (by death of last freehold
tenant)
Sarah Allington, widow, tenement. [d 1784 aged 91, late Chapman] in Northgate late John
Allington
Sarah Allington, Rent 8d for several tenements formerly Benjamin Chapman, Horndale
& Rookings;
Division: Sarah Allington 6d; Robert Brown 2d
Rent 2d 1/2d
1762
1765
1829
1829
1837
1853
of the tenement formerly of Benjamin Chapman & before Rookings
Robert John Brown, after Ewis Chandler part, late Sarah Allington,
Ben Chapman
William Oswald, cottage on east side of Northgate
property of Robert Brown
William Oswald, late John Brown (later Garrod)
John Garrod, cottage on east side of Northgate, formerly Robert Brown, formerly
William Oswald
JK & WH Garrod, cottage on east side of Northgate, formerly Robert Brown
adjoining premises late Birkett, late
Rent 2d
Rent 2d
1756
1756
1760
1760
1769
1765
1765
1765
1770
1770
1775
1775
No 18 on list: Thomas Brown
No 4 on list: William Lillistone, the Wherry
No 13 on list: Thomas Brown
Robert Brown, now John Housego
No 3 on list: Sheldreck the Wherry; Allington the Staithe
No 7 on list: Brown
No 13 on list Thomas Brown
No 4 on list: Thomas Brown, late Ye Wherry; Allington ye Staithe
No 14 on list: William Hatton, late Brown
No 3 on list: Widow Brown for House; Allington the Staithe
No 15 on list: William Hatton
Value £4-10
Value £4
Value £4-10
Value £2
Value £4
Value £1
Value £4-10
Value £4
Value £4-10
Value £4
Value £4-10
1765
1765
1787
1795
1797
1829
1837
1837
1846
1852
1853
1898
1898
1900
Sarah Allington, part tenement Northgate, late Allington, Chapman, Rooking
Sarah Allington, tenement late John Allington, Chapman, Stockdale
Rent 1/2d
Rent 5d 1/2d
Allington (spinster) [b 1738], several tenements or parts of tenements formerly Benjamin Chapman’s,
Indenture of Lease and Release between Sarah Manning & Mary Allington of ONE PART
William Oswald of the OTHER PART [abstract of title of Trustees of WH Garrod 1900]
William Oswald, tanner, several tenements or parts of tenements in Northgate formerly
Stockdale & Rookings, since Sarah Allington, lately of Sarah Manning, widow
& Mary Allington, spinster (later John Garrod)
Oswald, William, late Mary Allingham, 5d 1/2d & 1/2d
By Indenture of Lease & Release BETWEEN William Oswald, Gent, FIRST PART
John Garrod the younger, currier of the SECOND PART
Robert Welham Clarke, Gent of the THIRD PART
ALL THAT Garden of 60 rods [??? perches??] (whereon three messuages or tenements then formerly
stood, but which were then sometime pulled down by William Oswald) adjoining the first described
hereditaments and premises; formerly in the tenure or occupation of Sarah Allington, John Calver,
William Allington, Robert Brown &the Widow Boast
after that of Sarah Manning, Mary Allington, Hinton & Philip Ely
then late of William Oswald and of Robert Oswald & then in the tenure or occupation of John Garrod
William Oswald acknowledging receipt of £275 [This sum probably included other properties]
John Garrod, several tenements or parts of tenements in Northgate, formerly Sarah
Manning & Mary Allington, spinster, formerly William Oswald
ORIENTATION: Indenture of 64 Northgate: between EC Sharpin: First part;
Elizabeth Mather, of Beccles, widow, John Raby, of Norwich, weaver, widower of Louisa, before Louisa
Birkett, spinster , his wife lately deceased, and five surviving children: Elizabeth Mather, Louisa Raby [b
1803] (then since deceased), Martha Raby (the second wife of John Raby), Mary Ann Birkett &
Elizabeth Birkett [b 1800], now married to Martha , his second wife, lately Martha Birkett of the second
part & Mary Ann Birkett, of Hoveton, spinster in the third part.
Jeremiah Taylor died 5 May 1846, leaving EC Sharpin sole executor.
Mary Ann Birkett to be purchaser at £300, the others to receive their share. £60 to each of them
All those freehold messuages etc, formerly in the occupation of John Chenery, then of Catherine Barber,
[in Ravensmere see Rates] widow, Thomas Wright,[in Ravensmere] George Hayward, Richard Hayward
& Elizabeth Mather between messuage formerly of Henry Alexander & then of Edward P Montagu Esqs
to the south;
tenement of Sarah Allington, since of Wm Oswald then J Garrod to the north;
Northgate to the west; Ravensmere to the east
Mary Ann Birkett to be purchaser at the price of £300; £60 to each of them. £240 shared. 10% to EC
Sharpin
John Blackmur Garrod, by his will left specific bequests to his 2 daughters, the rest to his two sons: John
King Garrod & William Henry Garrod: Executors: Thomas Norton, farmer, Rickinghall & his two sons.
JK & WH Garrod, several tenements or parts of tenements in Northgate formerly Sarah
Manning & Mary Allington
DEATH of JK Garrod
By his will appointed his son in law John Edward Tanner & his three daughters, Marianne Shickle, Ellen
Mary Tanner & Harriet Sophia Dickson; to sell all and convert to cash.
DEATH of William Henry Garrod [bachelor]
Shickle of 5 Cavendish Crescent, Bath, clerk in Holy Orders; Ellen Mary Tanner, the wife of John
Tanner; Harriet Sophia Dickson of 91 warwick Road, widow of the FIRST PART;
1919
1933
1949
1951
1963
1964
1987
1988
2001
for the sum of £185
ALL THAT piece of Garden Ground abutting on Northgate WEST with frontage of 70ft
Upon Ravensmere upon the EAST with frontage of 65ft
Upon ground contracted to be sold by parties to the First Part to William Delf in part AND land of Mr
Beales in the remaining part on the NORTH
By Land of Abraham Brooksbank towards the SOUTH
The land hereby conveyed is in the occupation of Edward Charles Darby
INDENTURE BETWEEN:
Laurence Clarkson of 25 Ballygate, gent of ONE PART
and John Fingall Tracy of Tower House, Beccles of the OTHER PART
for the sum of £325
ALL THAT piece of Garden Ground abutting on Northgate WEST with frontage of 70ft
Upon Ravensmere upon the EAST with frontage of 65ft
Upon ground belonging to William Delf in part AND land now or late of Mrs Beales in the remaining
part on the NORTH
By Land late of Abraham Brooksbank, now of Alexander Elliott towards the SOUTH
The land conveyed is now in the ocupation of the Purchaser.
Tracy, John
CONVEYANCE BETWEEN
John Fingall Tracy, of Tower House, Beccles, Gent of the FIRST PART;
and Elizabeth Ethel Harkness of Waveney Lodge, Beccles, wife of Archibald Ferguson Harkness
of the OTHER PART.
for the sum of £300
ALL THAT piece of Garden Ground abutting on Northgate WEST with frontage of 70ft
Upon Ravensmere upon the EAST with frontage of 65ft
Together with the walls on the North East & West sides of the property.
Gerrards Cross, Bucks on behalf of Mrs EE Harkness, Waveney Lodge, Northgate, Beccles.
To let the Garden Ground at rent of £8 per annum.
Permission given, subject to plans being submitted. The position of the site should be altered to comply
with a building line of not less than 40ft from the existing highway boundary of Ravensmere.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN: Elizabeth Harkness of 38 Ravensmere & Victor Pulford of 64 Northgate.
CONVEYANCE BETWEEN
Elizabeth Ethel Harkness of 38 Ravensmere, Beccles, widow of ONE PART
John Francis Delf, of Waveney Works, Northgate, Company Director and John Austin King of 111
Caister Road, Great Yarmouth, Company Director of the OTHER PART
for the sum of £1,400
and it has been vested in them as joint tenants.
ALL THAT piece of Garden Ground abutting on Northgate WEST with frontage of 73ft (in the
conveyance wrongly stated to have a frontage of 70 ft)
Upon Ravensmere upon the EAST with frontage of 65ft
Together with the walls on the North East & West sides of the property.
signed in the presence of Charles Montagu, 25 Ballygate
DEATH of John Francis Delf on 10 July, St Mary’s Hospital, Newport. Born 9 Jan 1923 in Beccles.
CONVEYANCE of land adjoining the northern boundary of land BETWEEN
Reginald Sidney Youngman & Isabel Ann Delf VENDORS
and Victor John Rout, PURCHASER
PROPRIETORSHIP REGISTER; Graham Andrew Newman of Newman’s Garage, Northgate
for £125,000 [This includes the buildings of offices and workshops which were originally part of the
neighbouring property to the north, and were not part of the Garden]
1756
1756
1760
1760
1765
1765
1770
1770
1775
1775
1781
1781
1781
No 20 on list: William Allington [d 1777]
No 14 on list: John Coleby
No 15 on list: William Allington
No 14 on list: Mrs Allington, widow [d 1794 aged 63]
No 15 on list: William Allington
No 15 on list: Mrs Allington
No 16 on list: William Allington
No 16 on list :Mrs Allington
No 17 on list: William Allington
No 15 on list: Wid Allington for Ho & Yds
No 16 on list: William Allington
No 17 on list: more a Barn & Stable
Value £3
Value £1
Value £3
Value £1
Value £3
Value £1
Value £3
Value £1
Value £1-10
Value £1-5
Value £1-15
fronting Back Street [Ravensmere] occupied by Mrs Cross.
ALSO House with Garden in front in Rosemary Lane occupied by William Wright.
1857
1879
1888
1894
1920
1920
1922
1937
SALE: Lot 1: Comfortable Residence in Rosemary Lane occupied by Alfred Darby
SALE: Lot 3: Rosemary Lane: Brick & Tiled Cottage & Garden in occupation of Mrs Vertigen -
quarterly tenant. Rent £8 p.a.
Remblants, a quarterly tenant. Rent £6 10s pa
FISH CURING HOUSE, cart Lodge, in occupation of Mr RW Balls. Rent £10.
No 78 in occupation of Charles Grimmer, rent £10.
Brick & Tile Stable with 2 Loose Boxes, with Shed at end, Coach House with Loft over, brick & tile
SALE: Arthur Hindes: NEAR ROSEMARY LANE: 4 COTTAGES with large & productive Gardens,
abutting on properties of Messrs WH Delf & JF Tracy. In occupation of S Hall, A Hunting, C Aldred &
CE Groom. Rents £28 2s Freehold.
[purchased Mr Wilson £270]
SALE: late Nathaniel Pells: Pair of Cottages in Rosemary Lane
[purchased Mr W Wollnough, £100]
Sale of property of Mrs Aes Green on 8 March, “ARNOLD COTTAGE,” 3, ROSEMARY LANE,
LOT 2.
aspect, Small Walled-in Garden and containing —Kitchen with Copper and Oven, Pantry, Two Sitting
Rooms each with a Stove, and Two good Bedrooms one having a Stove. Outside small Paved Yard in
which is a Tap of Company’s Water, Coal-house, W.C., and large Brick, Flint and Tiled Store Shed or
Workshop. This is let on a monthly tenancy to Mr. H. G. Holland, a tenant of long standing, at the
aggregate Rental of £14 19s. Od. per annum, the Landlord paying Rates.
OUTGOINGS paid by the Landlord
Parochial Rates, amount paid for the half.year ending 31st March, 1937, £1 I8s. 7d, . Water Rate 2s. 11
d. per quarter.
Any Fixtures and Fittings which are the property of the Tenant are excluded from the Sale.
1906
1906
1922
1933c
Delf, William exors
£8
Grimson, Mrs
Grimson, Charlotte
1906
1922
1933c
Delf, William exors
£8
Milton, George
Rump, Charlotte
1906
1922
1933c
Delf, William exors
£8
Barber, William
Barber, William
purposes from the middle of the 19th century. The building on the south west corner of Rosemary Lane was the first Primitive
Methodist Chapel. JORDAN’S ALMANAC 1890:“ The first place of worship was in Northgate, now occupied by Mr Delf, whitesmith.” [also
see Cowles Map] It had been converted into a Smithy by 1884
The dwelling house, (which seems to have been part of the same property, was on the north side of Rosemary Lane.)
1829
1840
late of Thomas Hawke upon which a barn has lately been erected
Rent 8d
SALE: LOT 2: A RANGE OF FOUR Substantial Brick Built & Tiled COTTAGES in the several
occupations of the Widow Goddeson, James Sterry, John Fisher, and James Fosdyke. Also a substantial
BRICK BUILDING Now used as a Chapel ; abutting on Northgate-street, Beccles, with a garden at the
front of the whole, containing about 20 perches, admirably calculated for BUILDING GROUND Having a
frontage of 57 feet towards the Street.
This Lot is Freehold, and now Let, at Rentals amounting together to £28-5s per annum
[This is partly Rosemary Lane properties, with the Methodist Chapel at the corner]
1842
1864
1868
formerly Thomas Hawke, lately William Oswald upon which a barn was
formerly erected
DEATH: Mr Richard BURWOOD, senior, whitesmith, aged 75 years.
William Delf, general smith & machinist, Northgate, taken old established business of
Messrs Burwood
1851
Burwood, Rich
£3.10
V
Burwood, Rich
1851 Census
1851 Census
1851 Census
Rebecca Burwood
Richard Burwood
Elizabeth Burwood
57
26
25
born Beccles
born Beccles
born Dennington
1871
1881
Garrod, JK WH
Delf, Wm
£12
V
V
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Blacksmith
Mech Engineer
1881 Census
1881 Census
Elizabeth Delf
William H Delf
49
18
born Wakefield, Yorks
born Beccles
1904
1907
1914
1922
[1922 private residence
1927
1933+
1936
1948
1954
1965
1974
Delf, Wm
£39
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Engineer
£18
Delf, William
Bean, Edward
Bean, Edw
Bean, Edward
Bean, Mrs
Bean, Mrs
Bean, Mrs CE
-
17 Station Road]
Insurance Agent
Insurance Agent
Insurance Agent
Delf, Francis
1851
1861
1865
[1865
Burwood, Rich
£5.10
V
Burwood, Rich
Burwood, Rich
Delf, William, agricultural implement maker & iron founder, Blyburgate]
Shop
Blacksmith
1888
1900
1907
1927
1933c
1936
1948
1954
1965
POOR RATE
1765
1770
1775
1781
Delf, William exors £46
Delf, William
Delf, William
Delf, William & son
Delf, William & son
Delf, William exors
Delf, William & son,
Delf, William & son
Delf, William & son
Delf, William & son
Engineer & Smith
Engineer & Smith
engineer
engineer
engineer’s workshop
motor engineers
motor engineer
motor engineer
motor engineer
No 12 on list: Thomas Hawke, junior
No 11 on list: Thomas Hawke, junior [1726-1777]
No 13 on list: Widow Hawke
Value £3
Value £3
Value £3-10
1600.1
1664
1693
1700.1
1749
1749
1762
1762
1805
1805
1842
1805
1805
Mrs Ward, a tenement late Theobald
Ward, Gent, a tenement in Northgate next to [ ] late Theobald (later Yallop, wid)
Elizabeth Yallop, widow
Rev James Carter, clerk, tenement in Northgate late Yallop, Ward & Theobald
Edward Blowers, tenement in Northgate near the Staithe late Rev James Carter before
Elizabeth Yallop, Ward, Theobald
ALSO tenement next to it late Elizabeth Yallop, formerly Ward, Theobald
Thomas Hawke, the younger, near the Staithe, formerly Ward, since Yallop late James
Carter since Edward Blowers
Rent 8d
`
Rent 8d
Blowers, which Thomas Hawke, the younger, lately deceased, held [later William Wright]
DIVIDED PROPERTY A
William Oswald, gent, yearly rent of 6d; part of two tenements, formerly Yallop, afterwards Edward
William Wright, boatbuilder, part of 2 tenements, formerly Yallop, after Edward Blowers,
since Hawke, late Oswald
DIVIDED PROPERTY B
John Norman, The residue of the tenements last mentioned (later Last)
1570
1576
1593
1638
1668
1700
1700.1
1743
1749
1761
1772
1801
1837
1846
1853
1866?
Balderson, Widow for a tent late Robert Bradley
Manthorpe, Thomas, his tent late Balderson before Robert Bradley
Haslet, Christopher, tent sometime Manthorpe in Bridge Street [Northgate]
Haslet, Christopher, for a tent in Northgate late Balderson since Manthorp (now
Widow Allington)
Feaver, Thomas, tent late Christoher Haslet before Manthorpe; now 2 tents
Lefabeur, Thomas, tent in Northgate late Haslett
Schuldham, John
Smith, James, in right of his wife
Allington, Sarah [Sarah Allington (1731-1801, aged 68) married Sam Manning 1754] Late Chapman,
tent Northgate, formerly Balderstone & Christopher Haslett on east side
Allington, Sarah, a tent on east side of Northgate formerly Balderstone
Oswald, William piece of land lately converted into a garden on the North-East side of Northgate late
Allington & Manning
Garrod, John jun A piece of Land lately converted into a Garden on North-East sise of Northgate,
formerly Allington’s & Manning’s & late of William Oswald (later JK & WH Garrod)
ORIENTATION of 64 Northgate:
BETWEEN the messuage formerly of Henry Alexander, Esq, afterwards of Edward P Montagu & then
of JK & WH Garrod towards the south
the site whereon formerly stood a tenement of Sarah Allington, afterwards of William Oswald & then
since of John Garrod, which site then belonged to JK & WH Garrod towards the north
upon Northgate towards the west; & upon Ravensmere towards the east.
Garrod, JK & WH
exiting from Manor
Task 4d
Task 4d
Task 4d
Task 4d
Task 4d
Rent 3d
Lot 3 Double Residence in Northgate, with offices and piece of Garden Ground, Occupied by William
Woodthorpe and Thomas Holmes
(Bought by Edward Masters for £210)
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
1922
1933
NORTHGATE 70
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
1908
1922
1933
1937
Hochkin, Wm
Hochkin, Wm
Hochkin, Wm
Delf, Wm
Crisp, Jn
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm exors
£5.50
£9.10
£9
£6.10
£8
V
V
V
V
V
Jordan, Hen
Holmes, Thos
Holmes, Maria
Holmes, Thos
Holmes, Thos
Howlet, Fred
Smith, Henry
Barber, John
Barber, Jn
Butcher
Tanner's Carter
Farmer's Carter
Hochkin, Wm
Hochkin, Wm
Hochkin, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Delf, Wm
Roe, Fred
£3
£4.05
£4.10
£12
£20
V
V
V
V
V
£11
Martin, Jn
Martin, Jn
Davey, Hannah
Woodthorpe, Wm
Woodthorpe, Wm
Jordan, Albt
Osborne, Fred
Roulton, Walter
Miller, Robt
Rivett, Arth
Rivett, Arth
Butcher Pork
Butcher Pork
Butcher, Pork
Butcher Pork
Butcher Pork
Fruiterer
Fruiterer
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1922
1933
NORTHGATE 74
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
1922
1933
Horth, Sam
Horth, Sam
Horth, Sam
Bent, FW
Freestone, Wm
Bent, FW
Bent, Arth
£2.15
£5.05
£6
£6
£11
V
V
V
V
V
Hindes late
Butler, Jn
Butler, Jn
Keable, Jn
Gilding, Jacob
Mills, Sarah
Mills, Miss
Mills, Miss
Mills, Albt
Labourer
Horth, Sam
Horth, Sam
Horth, Sam
Freestone, Hen
Ling, Fred
Bent, FW
Bent, Arth
£4.10
£6
£6
£8
£11
V
V
V
V
V
Gray, Wm
Hindes, Dan
Newson, Wm
Calver, Hen
Fiske, Abraham
Ling, Fred
Ling, Fred
Ling, Fred
Ling, Fred
Bricklayer
Wood Sawyer
Confectioner
Probably early 18th century. Two storeys and attic rendered. [no longer]. Two sashes to right, two wood mullion and transom
casement to left, originally leaded. Four plain doors. Ground floor windows boarded up [no longer]. Pantile roof with two old gabled
dormers to left (one each to 76 and 78, that to 76 still with leaded panes. Pantile roof.
1593
1600.1
1600.2
1600.3
1635c
1664
1671
1693
1705
1728
1729
1734
1763
1772
1804
1816
1820
1842
1846
1920
RATES NORTHGATE 76
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
Thomas Wells for a tent late Mr Rede (post Robert Underwood)
Robert Underwood
Frank Isaacs
Catherine Finyard
Edward Chittleburgh, tent in Northgate, Frank Isaacs, Catherine Finyard, before
Robert Underwood - folio 143
John Beddingfield, in the right of Margaret, his wife, late Chittleburgh,
Northgate East
John Beddingfield, Survey:- his tent in Northgate in the tenure of Francis
Sinkford & Nicholas Morris
Widow Shug, tent. in Northgate late Widow Beddingfield
James Meek, tent late Peterson, formerly Isaacs, Fanyard & Underwood
William Meeke, tent late Peterson, formerly Isaacs, Fanyards, & Underwood,
late James Meeke, his Father
James Meek, now Mr Sherman
Margaret Meeke, house in Northgate
Robert Sherman, House and lands on east side of Northgate late Margaret
Meeke
Robert Sherman, late Margaret Meeke, house on east side of Northgate of
the northern end
Edward Holl, messe on east side of Northgate, late Robert Sherman
William Oswald & Abraham Clarke, Trustees of will of Edward Holl, tent on
east side of Northgate late Robert Sherman
Robert Neech, [jobber], messuage. on east side of Northgate, late Edward Holl,
(later Robert Barmby)
SALE: 12 March 1842, Lot 2: Robert Neech, the Elder, bankrupt:
Includes an excellent Dwelling House with neat cottage adjoining. On the east side of Northgate,
opposite Lot 1, with a capital brick-built 4 stable & 2 loose boxes, with a small garden & spacious back
yard, & pump with excellent spring water. Also a brick tiled cottage, situate on the east side of the yard
& fronting the back street leading from the Bridge to the Red Lion Inn; now in several occupations of
Edward Hindes, veterinary surgeon, Charles Allen & Samuel Neech. aggregate rental £22-10s, Land Tax
13s 6d
Robert Barmby
Task 4d
Rent 9d
Task 4d
Rent 7d
Rent 7d
Rent 7d
FISH CURING HOUSE, cart Lodge, in occupation of Mr RW Balls. Rent £10.
No 78 in occupation of Charles Grimmer, rent £10.
Brick & Tile Stable with 2 Loose Boxes, with Shed at end, Coach House with Loft over, brick & tile
Barnby, Robt
Barnby, Robt
Barnby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
£2.15
£4.05
£5.10
£6
V
V
V
V
V
Goodison, Wm
George, Wm
Waterman
Pooley, Maria
Pooley, Jacob
1908
1922
1933
NORTHGATE 78
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
1922
1933
Barmby, Jn
£10
Pooley, Jacob
Keable, James
Keable, Jas
Barnby, Robt
Barnby, Robt
Barnby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
Barmby, Jn
£8.15
£11.05
£12.10
£10.10
£15
V
V
V
V
V
Hindes, Edw
Hook, Chas
Appleby, Hannah
Wisker, Hannah
Aldous, Fred
Grimmer, Chas
Grimmer, Charles
Grimmer, Charles
Alden, Robt
Farrier
Veg/Fish Dealer
Probably mid 18th century. Two storeys and attic. Brick plastered and painted. [no longer] Ogee bracket cornice. Two sash windows
with glazing bars. Small shop windows on ground floor. Pantile roof with two gable dormers.
1593
1605c
1639c
1649
1664
1671
1672
1693
1700.1
1736
1751
DIVISION OF PROPERTY ?
1769
1799
1801
1809
1816
1816
1832
1835
SALE: late John Cooper: 28 June 1915: Lot 1
junction of Northgate and Bridge Streets, with a frontage to Northgate Street of about 37ft and of about 111ft to the road leading to
Ravensmere, comprising a:
CAPITAL DWELLING HOUSE containing Entrance Hall, two Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Pantry, Larder, Three good Bedrooms and
two attics,
GENERAL SHOP, about 18ft x 17ft, well fitted with Counters, Drawers and Shelving, extensive GROCERY and other WAREHOUSES
with side entrances. At the rear is a productive Garden with fruit trees, and there is s Pump of excellent Spring Water.
The property is of brick and tile with plaster front to Northgate Street, and is in an excellent state of repair, and is now in the
occupation of Mr AE Jordan on a tenancy expiring on the 16th October, 1916, at the annual Rental of £20.
The Gas Fittings and Tiled and Glazed Lean-to Shelter by back door are the property of the Tenant, and are not included in the Sale.
Outgoings: Land Tax as assessed. Free Rental payable to Manor of Beccles 7d 1/2d; Free Rent to Manor of Rosehall 4d
Botswaine
HE DIED OF THE PLAGUE IN 1597
The same for a tent. late Dawes
Edward Botswaine, [died 1597, baker], for his house that he dwelleth in late
his Father , (post: John Smith)
& for a tent called Dawes
John Smith, [ tanner, died 1639] for a tent. in Bridge Street sometimes
Botswaine. [see Will 1639]
John Elmy, [tanner, died 1644] for a tent juv ux, sometime Botswaine in
Bridge Street
& for an enclosure called Daves
John Elmy for a tent late Botswaine
Thomas Buckingham, [hopmaker, died 1665] For a tent. in Northgate late Elmy
William Buckenham, Survey:- his tenement in Northgate
William Buckenham, Poor Rate
Thomas Buckenham, a tent in Northgate late Elmy
John Mason, tent. in Northgate late Buckenham (post John Carsey)
John Carsey, a tent late Buckenham in Northgate late John Mason
John Carsey, tent called the Greyhound late Mason before Buckingham
in Northgate
Task 2d
Task 2d
Rent 7d
Task 6d
Value £5
Rate £5
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
Rent 7d 1/2d
James Disney
Robert Disney, messe. & yard in Northgate late Berry, before Carsey
GWB Bohun, Trustee of will of James Disney late of Burgh St Peter, farmer,
tent in Northgate late Sam Berry, formerly Carsey
James Larkman, of Burgh St Peter, farmer, messe in Northgate late Disney before
Berry & formerly Carsey
James Larkman, of Burgh St Peter, farmer, messe in Northgate late Disney before
Berry & formerly Carsey
William Tuthill & Robert Larkman, executors of James Larkman, messe
formerly the Greyhound (later Robert Bird)
Robert Bird, draper, messe. in Northgate formerly the Greyhound, late James
Larkman, before Samuel Berry and formerly Carsey (later Thomas Delf)
1841
1849
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
1908
1922
1933
1937
Delf, Thos
Delf, Thos
Delf, Thos
Delf, Thos
Delf, T
Delf, T exors
Cooper, J
Cooper, J
Moye, Wm
15s
£15.15
£23
£24.10
£25
£29
R(B)
V
V
V
V
V
Aldred, Jn
Lockwood, Chas
Rush, Arth
Gobbit, Hen
Jordan, Albert
Jordan, Albert
Jordan, Albert
Jordan, Albert
Moye, Wm
Mortimer, Horace
Grocer/Draper
Grocer/Draper
Grocer
Grocer/Draper
Grocer/Wine
Grocer
Grocer/Wine
Shopkeeper
1600.2
1668
1729
1761
1722
Lockington
Ward, for a decayed tent in Northgate late Lockington
for a hempland in Northgate late Gillingwater, since Lockington
Widow Yallop, for a decayed tent.in Northgate late Lockington
for a hempland late Lockington
Edward Blowers, tent in Northgate
tent late Lockington
Thomas Hawke, tent. or house on east side of Northgate late Lockington
Rent 1s
Rent 3d
Rent 1s
Rent 3d
Rent 1s 3d
1806
1840
1866
NORTHGATE BLC, & BLA & BLB
1806
Richard Burwood, a piece of land, part of estate of Thomas Hawkes & late of
William Oswald
Rebecca Burwood
1814
1820
1835
NORTHGATE BLA (Ravensmere)
1814?
1832
1837
1854
NORTHGATE BLB
1814?
1828
1835
Edward Arnold, piece of Garden opposite his dwelling house, purchased
of James Last
William Delf, Garden ground on which a cottage is now erected, occupied
by Mr Whitehead. Late Edward Arnold & James Last
John Cross now residing in Ireland. piece of land near Northgate on which
a mese is now erected. late Jn Killett, before Norman
Mary Gibson, widow, piece of land near Northgate on which messe. is now
erected, late John Cross, before John Killet (later Thomas Garrod)
Thomas Garrod
Sam Wigg
WH Leavold & James Copeman (Trustees of Sam Wigg deceased) messe &
premises in occupation of Mrs Feltham in or near Northgate. Late Sam Wigg,
before Patrick
BD
BF
BK
BK
Brwry
Brwry
N/BN
Tanry
Tanry
Tanry
Tanry
YE
YG
1847
1853
1842
1851.1
1842
1846
1853
1853
1853
1853
1853
1853
1853
Birkett, Mary A
Garrod, JK & WH0.01
Burwood, Rich
Garrod, JK & WH
Atkinson, Sam
Thompson, Geo
Garrod, JK WH
Garrod, JK & WH0.01
Garrod, JK & WH0.03
Garrod, JK & WH0.055
Garrod, JK & WH0.075
Garrod, JK & WH0.02
Garrod, JK & WH0.04
0.06
R(B)
0.08
0.055
0.055
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
R(B)
Nor BF
Nor BK
Nor YH
Nor YJ
Nor L
Nor YF
Nor YE
Nor YG
Nor BD
Nor YA
Nor N/BN
1933
1908
1933
Wiles, Marion
£40
Whitmore, Jas
Wiles, Alfred
Tanner
1922
1933
Martin, Ethel
£45
Martin, Ethel
1922
1933
Wiles, Marion
£22
Wiles, Alf
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
1908
1933
George, Thompson £13
Read, Thos
Thornton & Co
Worthington
Roff, Sarah
Crisp, JE£10
Crisp, Jn & Sons
V
V
V
V
V
Roff, Mrs
Waters, WM
Thornton, Robt
Thornton & Co
Gosling, Mary
Becket, Walter
Inn/Coffin?
£16
£20
Roff, Miss
Roff, Isabella
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
Cheston, DE
Read, Thos
Thornton & Co
Worthington
Crisp, JE£11
£3.05
£4.15
£4.10
V
V
V
V
V
Smith, Josh
Bird late
Crane late
Thornton & Co
Bird, Benj
Steer, Wm
Watchmaker
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
Chaston, DE
Read, Thos
Thornton & Co
Worthington
£7
£10
£10
V
V
V
V
V
Smith, Jas
Smith, Jas
Neech, Sam
Secker, Wm
Edwards, Ernest
Baker
Baker/Confec
Baker
Labourer
Confectioner
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1907
Cheston, DE
Read, DE
Read, Thos
Worthington
£3.05
£4.05
£4.10
V
V
V
V
V
Sterry, Jas
Barkway, Geo
Cross, Jas
Masterton, Jas
Allen, Jn
Mariner Master
Labourer
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
Nixon, Chas
Nixon, Chas
Brundell, Jn
Wortington
£4
£9.10
£10
V
V
V
V
V
Rand, JnGrocer
Moore, Geo
White, Jn
Ward, Jas
Ward, Jas
Labourer
1907
Lockwood, Jonathan
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
Nixon, Chas
Nixon, Chas
Brundell, Jn
Worthington
Hockey
£2.15
£4.05
£4.10
£5.10
V
V
V
V
V
Mills, Robt
Mills, Edw
Mills, Mark
Mills, Mark
Mills, Mark
Mills, Sarah
Mills, Mrs
Shoemaker
Bailiff Court
Lamplighter
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1904
1907
Nixon, Chas
Nixon, Chas
Brundell, Jn
Worthington
£2.15
£4.05
£4.10
V
V
V
V
V
Payne,Corn
Johnson, Wm
Marshall, Wm
Labourer
Gilding, Fred
Gilding, Fred
1891
1904
1907
Howell, Jn
Howard, John
1904