& lemon trees. At White Lion:-
SALE of new-built HOUSE, 6 Sleeping Rooms, Dairy, Stabling for 3 Horses, Workshop, Saw-Pit for
Carpenter or a Wheelwright. James Hardy, proprietor.
SALE: Auction by Sam Crowe, under deed of assignment for benefit of creditors at King’s Head
Very excellent NEW-BUILT brick and tiled Messuage, with sash front: containing parlour, kitchen,
dairy and other convenient offices & six sleeping rooms; also stabling for three horses, workshop,
saw pit, spacious yard, and newly planted garden, containing more than a quarter of an acre of land,
now in the occupation of Mr James Hardy, millwright.
The above estate situate in Beccles, and in every respect calculated for carrying on the trade of
carpenter or wheelwright. Possession at Lady Day next.
1870
4 & 5 Rosemary Lane
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32 Ravensmere
1879
a
approval
less, in the occupation of Daniel Dennant, as a yearly tenant, under the terms of an expired
agreement at the Rent of £5. The tenant is under notice to quit at Old Michaelmas next. Freehold;
Land Tax 5s 7d 1/2d; Apportioned Tithe commutation Rent Charge 6s.
purposes, having an extensive frontage next Ravensmere Street, and containing 0a 2r 7p more or
thoroughfare of 53ft 6ins & an entire depth on Rosemary Lane.
SALE: late Sarah Thornton; Sale of Household Furniture.
& D Honeywood, with Yard & brick, Boarded & Tiled Outbuildings, consisting of Cartshed, Stable,
Harness House & COW HOUSES in occupation of Mr W Robinson. Total rent £34 5s 4d.
houses are built intending builders shall submit plans of proposed buildings.
good many unsightly buildings if the plans were submitted to the proper authorities for their
empower the Council to refuse a building being erected on private building land.
have undone or remade.
with them afterwards. He did not know that there was any special Act of Parliament which would
Mayhew: It would not do to interfere with the appearance of buildings, would it?
Town Clerk: Not altogether; but the safety and healthiness of the buildings.
Deputy Mayor: Building lines are adopted in other towns: Lowestoft for instance.
Mayor: In many towns plans have to be submitted before any buildings are allowed to be erected.
Darby: Would this apply to those new buildings I am now making? That is on private property.
Crowfoot: I think it would be a very good thing, particularly as regards drainage arrangements. It is
very possible builders in ignorance might make arrangements which the Council would afterwards
would take some steps. I want to see about the drainage there.
builders should lay their plans before the Council for approval.
a line, and I should think such a matter would not apply to a private road. I wish the Corporation
was to keep an eye on new buildings. I am under the impression that the power to make a bye-law on
the subject exists under the Sanitary Act.
Crowfoot moved that the Sanitary Committee frame a bye-law that this should be done. Agreed.
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New houses: specifications required from EC Darby in Ravensmere
House on land near Ravensmere for Mr Gowen
Addition of 2 WCs by John Moore in Ravensmere
Addition to house in Ravensmere for Mr Huson; Cow shed, Stable
Additions to House in Ravensmere for Thomas Bent
2 New Cottages for Mr JC Read in Ravensmere
Gas Co (with plan) erect transporter over road near Puddingmoor
2 New Houses for Mrs Bent in Ravensmere
2 New Houses for JC Read in Ravensmere
Addition to JC Read's House in Ravensmere
3 New Houses for Mr HA King in Ravensmere.
3 New Houses for WL Clarke in Ravensmere
4 New Houses for WL Clarke in Ravensmere
Addition to the National School
Building Estate in Ravensmere by George Elsy - referred back
Mr Elsey's new building estate in Ravensmere. Bye laws ignored.
Mr Elsey's plans for estate in Ravensmere
Regret Mr Elsey withdrew offer to widen road by land near Railway
Slaughterhouse in Ravensmere 20 yds of Children'sHome lose licence
Mr Bent's Slaughter House run by J Turner can continue. Plans awaited
Reconstruction of Slaughter House in Ravensmere
2 new Houses in Ravensmere for John Ellwood
Slaughterhouse in Ravensmere occupied by Turner be recognised
Elsey offerred to widen Ravensmere & Rav East for £60. considering
Surveyor inspected Titshall Alley: everything satisfactory
Council not to accept Mr Elsey's offer ref Ravensmere widening
Elsey comply with Bye Laws: Party Walls between WCs Ravensmere
15 Houses for Messrs Hindes in Ravensmere
Alterations to cartshedin Ravensmere for Mr Bent occ Wm Hall
Wm Le Grice owner of Slaughter House near North Ho; keep no pigs
4 Houses in Ravensmere for Messrs Hindes
4 Houses in Ravensmere for Messrs Hindes
Slaughter House near North House occ CJ Sampson registered
4 Houses in Ravensmere by Messrs Hindes
1 Cottage in Ravensmere at entry to Pound Rd for Irah Read
2 New Houses in Ravensmere East for George Elsey
Elliott, WJ & Keable give land between houses if path laid
Nuisance of van dwellers on S side of Ravensmere East of Mr Elsey
1 House in Ravensmere Road east for Mr Herbert Hindes
4 Houses in Ravensmere East for Mr Hindes
5 Houses in Ravensmere East for HG Jackson
Wash Houses for 16,18,20,22 Ravensmere East for Messrs Hindes
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House
Newgate Street opposite the National Schools, at present unoccupied.
READ (jointly concerned) are favoured with instructions to Sell by Auction, at the
Afternoon, by direction of the Trustee of Mr. WILLIAM MOORE’S Estate,
The following five Lots are a range of newly-erected Brick and Slated Residences and Public
in Ravensmere, described as Douglas Place.
Lot 12. A free Public House called THE CAXTON ARMS, occupied by Robert Norman.
Lot 13. A Double Residence occupied by Robert Cock and William Goffin
1875
1889
Gained
corner of the new Public House. He to pay half the cost.
Lot 15. A Double Residence occupied by William Lee and Charles Barnard
Lot 16. A Double Residence occupied by Alfred Cattermole and Henry Woolner
The above property is all Freehold and Land Tax redeemed.
COUNCIL: The path in front of Mr Moore’s new Cottages be made & continued to the
experience of fixing electric bells & telephones. Crank bells converted to electric bells.
1881
1881
1885 East Suff Gaz 28 Apr LICENCES: Caxton Arms temporarily to Benjamin Revell.
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POLICE COURT: The Caxton Arms from Thomas Wright to Robert Collett
LICENCES: Caxton Arms: temporary licence to Robert S Norman;
PRESENTATION at the Caxton Arms, to MF BUCK ,of a marble clock, by members of the Caxton
Athletic Club “as a slight recognition of his valued and faithful service as honorary secretary since its
formation - December 15, 1893.” He had been connected to the Club for 27 years.
A PAIR of Young HORSES belonging to Mr RJ Read run away through the town. The driver William
George, pluckily sticks to the animals, but they fall after rounding the Caxton Arms corner. George
receives a fractured leg and a scalp wound, and the horses are much cut about.
ENTERTAINMENT: A Smoking Concert in connection with the Ancient Order of Shepherds takes
place at the Caxton Arms.
WORKS PARTY: The employees of the Ingate Iron Works hold their annual meeting at the Caxton
Arms; Mr. W. Edmunds in the chair.
DEATH OF SAMUEL LARKE of Lowestoft, aged 75. Eldest son of Mr Robert Larke, builder of
Beccles, whom he assisted with his business until 1874, when he went as foreman to James Nelson,
TRANSFER OF LICENCES: The Caxton Arms from Robert Rowe, deceased, to his widow May Rowe.
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2842
1
52
A 111
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Norman, Robt
Norman, Robt S
Bolingbroke, Chas
Bolingbroke, Chas
Hall, EM
S Patterson
S-Patterson
M
Steward Paterson
30
35
Printer, compos
3 bedrooms 3 sitting rooms & bar
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2852
2
A 110
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Upcraft, Wm
Upcraft, Wm
Cousins, Jn
Cousins, John
Gt Yarmth Inv
Gt Yarmth Inv
M
10
10
carrier
5 DOUGLAS PLACE
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1906 survey
2858
54
A 109
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Goffin, Wm J
Goffin, Wm J
Goffin, Wm J
Goffin, Wm
Riseborough, Wm
Gt Yarmth Inv
Gt Yarmth Inv
M
Lovewell Blake
printer reader
3
6
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2865
55
4
A 108
Borrett, C
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Rye, Joseph
Rye, Josp R
Rye, Joseph
Rye, Joseph
Gt Yarmth Inv
Gt Yarmth Inv
10
10
printer, machine
3
Lovewell Blake
3
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2870
56
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Buck, Mark
Buck, Harrt
Dunn, Wm
empty
Dunn, Wm
Gt Yarmth Inv
Lovewell Blake
Gt Yarmth Inv
3
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6
57
A 107
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Lee, Wm
Lee, Wm
Lee, Wm
Lee, Wm
Douglas Pl
Gt Yarmth Inv
Gt Yarmth Inv
M
10
53
Balls, John
Lovewell Blake
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not built
not built
not built
not built
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58
A 106
Chaston, Chas
Barber, Wm
Barker, Wm
Barber, Wm
Gt Yarmth Inv
Gt Yarmth Inv
M
Lovewell Blake
10
10
horse dealer
3
5
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59
A 105
15
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Catchpole, Alf
Burton, Jas
Burton, Jas
Barker, Jas
White, Charles Lovewell Blake
M
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
52
printer, cutter
3
6
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2891
9
60
not built
not built
not built
not built
not built
Woolner, Hy
Woolner, Hy
Woolner, Hy
Woolner, Henry
Kearns, F
Masters, Edw
Masters, Edw
58
Lovewell Blake
10
printer, overseer
2 sitting
4d
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RAVENSMERE 19
Post Edmund Clarke
Christopher Hassett his tenement late Welton
Christopher Hassett, Survey: his tenement late Welton
Value £2-
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
Rent 8d
John Youngman for a messe. late Christopher Hassett before thta Wrythock
John Schouldham a tent late Youngman before Haslet, formerly Welton
Rent 8d
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 of Property of HS Farr:
Two Cottages in Ravensmere in the occupation of Jas Borrett & Daniel Dennant.
[Reached £145, Reserve £200. Not sold]
Task 1s 4d
Rent 8d
National School. [refused]
occupation of Mrs Thain & A Spalding
Lot 7:
RAVENSMERE: Pair of good brick & tile Cottages, by entrance to Mr Allen’s Yard in the
Sitting Room with Register Stove and Closet, Kitchen with Cooking Stove, Iron Pan and Stone Sink
with water laid on, Pantry, Coal House, Two Bedrooms one having Stove, and Attic.
Passageway on the North side of this Lot
Good brick & tiled Double Cottage, Nos 19 & 21 Ravensmere, each tenement containing Front
Simmonds, as quarterly tenants, at the aggregate annual Rental of £17-7s-4d
Outgoing: Land Tax as assessed; Freehold
The owners & occupiers of this Lot will have a Right of Way to and from Ravensmere over the
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D71
2
2
11
62
A 103
Dennant, Dan
Dennant, Dan
Dennant, Dan
Dennant, Dan
Martin
Harper, Robt
George, Wm
George, Wm
Spalding, Albert
Spalding, A;bert
Sam,pson, Jn
Farr, Thos
Farr, Thos
M
Farr, HS
Pells, Nath
Pells, Nath
M
Pells, Nath
Pells, N exors
M
Pells, N exors
cowkeeper
5.1
tailor, journeyman
5.1
engineer labourer
3 bedrooms 2 sitting7 occupants
4.1
4
6.1
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2
D72
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3
3
12
63
A102
Steward, Chas
Steward, Chas
Dennant, Jer
Dennant, Jer
Borrett, Jas
Thain
Thain, Emma
Thain, Emma
Thain, Emma
Thain, Emma
Thain, Emma
Farr, Thos
Farr, Thos
M
Farr, HS
Pells, Nath
Pells, Nath
W
Pells, Nath
Pells, N exors
W
Pells, N exors
cordwainer
5
charwoman
5.1
/
3 bedr
4
5.1
2 sitting
4 occupants
Listed Building in Northgate:
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 tent. 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.
Henry Winter, [seedmerchant] part, late Edmund Skipper
SALE of Edmund Skipper’s properties, but not including this property.
1797
1829+
1836
Ravensmeer A: apportioned rent 2d; Ravensmeer B: apportioned rent 3d.
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1852
Bexfield, Joseph & James, Cottage or tenement in three dwellings on EAST side of messuage now of
Henry Winter in Northgate being part of premises of Edmund Skipper & before Henry Skipper, his
Bexfield, Joseph & James part late Skipper
father
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1930s
Ravensmere
King, Robert A, late Bexfield, Joseph, Samuel Last
UNFIT HOUSING: 4 & 5 Winter’s Yard (called Mickleborough’s Yard)
No date given for notice. No details given of demolishing. Owner AJ Mickleborough, Lowestoft
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D 73
3
4
4
13
64
A 97
Carsey, Henry
Kent, Maria
Weavers, Geo
Dixey, John
Turner, Esther
Pitchers, Jas
Ellis, JaneU
Ellis, Jane
Chatten, Geo
Chatten, George
Green
Bexfield, J & J
Bexfield, J & J
M
Bexfield, Jas
Bexfield, Jas
Bexfield, Jas
39
Bexfield, Thos
Mickleburgh
W
Mickleburgh
1.15
1.15
maltster
4
4
housekeeper
4
4
cordwainer
2 bedr
1 occupant
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4
4
Halesworth, M
Kindred, Alf
Bexfield, J & J
Bexfield, J & J
1.15
1.15
5
5
14
65
A 98
Spalding, Sam
Mills, John
Lacey, Jas
Lacey, Jas
Balls, Harrt
Balls, Harrt
Fairweather, Edwin
Bexfield, Jas
Bexfield, Jas
Mickleburgh
W
Mickleburgh
4
M
Bexfield, Thos
4
labourer's wid
4 bedr
7 occupants
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5
5
Carsey, Jos
Pleasants, Chas
Bexfield, J & J
Bexfield, J & J
1.15
1.05
6
6
15
66
A 99
Farrow, Robt
Shiplee, Mary A
Pitchers, Wm
Whisker, Chas
empty
Drew, William
Butcher, Mrs
Bexfield, Jas
Bexfield, Jas
M
Bexfield, Thos
Mickleburgh
M
Mickleburgh
2.1
2.1
marsh drainage
3.05
3.5
labourer
1 bedr
1 sitting
1 occupant
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Calver, Chas
Last, Saml
D 74
7
7
7
16
67
100
Starland, John
Wigg, Susan
King, James sen
Maddis, Hannah
Pitchers, John
Pitchers, John
empty
Smith, George
Davey Herbert
M
Last, Saml
King, Robt A
King, Robt A
M
24
painter/glazier
4
4
labourer
4
A
butcher
2 bedr