1857 
 
1858
 
 
1861
 
1865 
 
1869 
 
1895 
 
 

SALE: James Crisp, occupant. Consisting of Drawing, Dining & Breakfast Rooms, 7 Bedrooms, Coach
House, Stable
Mr Mount, Photographic Portraits, Smallgate. Will positively leave Beccles in a week. [In fact he stayed
for at least 40 years, until his death in 1902?] Portraits on paper, which can be sent by post 1shilling and
all extra copies 6d. Nine till Dusk.

SALE: Household Furniture of William Hadingham in Smallgate: Dairy vessls, Pony, Luggage Cart,
Harness etc.

TO BE LET: Stables within Gateway in Smallgate. Apply Alfred Kent, solicitor. [The Stables were
behind No 3 The Walk and were approached through gateway between Nos 12 & 14 Smallgate.]
TO BE LET: Large & excellent Family Residence in Smallgate, lately in the occupation of Rev CT
Scott. Estate Agent: George Fenn
SALE: Suite of Three well-appointed lofty ROOMS in SMALLGATE, known as the “Girls’  
Institute.” The principal room approached by a Lobby is 30ft x 20ft, with skylight roof. Water and
gas laid on. Apply Alfred Woods, Esq.

1882 
1886 
1887 
1893 
1895 
1896 
1902 
1904 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1908 
1909 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 

Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 
Planning 

11 Jul 
2 Nov 
8 Feb 
3 Oct 
5 Mar 
3 Mar 
5 May 
16 Feb 
22 Mar 
22 Aug 
6 Feb 
19 Jun 
19 Jun 
7 Jul 
23 Nov 
21 Dec 
7 Jun 
6 Jun 
18 Jun 

Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 
Smallgate 

New building 6 ins nearer street than old building by Mr Gibbs
1 Registered Lodging House in Smallgate; walls lime washed.
to remove a boarded Fish Curing House. Contrary to Bye Laws
New Sunday School for Primitive Methodist Church [Arthur Pells]
New Shop & Premises in Smallgate for Co-Op [Arthur Pells?]
Lodging House in Smallgate inspected
Alterations to premises in Smallgate for WW Youngman
Alterations to Room below Council Chamber to office [Smallgate?]
Additions to Co-Op Stores in Smallgate
Alterations to premises in Smallgate for Gas Co.
Alterations to WC & Urinal at White Lion
Alteration to Urinal at White Lion
Swinging name board on Aldis Wright's premises in Smallgate
Outbuilding at back of new shops in Smallgate of Cornelius Elliott
Co-Op to place 3 new lamps at front of shops in Smallgate
Slaughterhouse on premises in Smallgate occ by Mr Martin
Addition to House & Shop in Smallgate for C Elliott
Addition to No 14 Smallgate for Mark Mills
New Shop premises in Smallgate fo the Co-Op

protest 
approved 
approved 

approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 
approved 

approved 
approved 
approved 

PROBABLY NOT SMALLGATE
1664 
DIVISION OF PROPERTY
1677c 

1693 
1700 
1707 
 
1736 
1751 
1767 
 
1809 

Jeoffrey Purvis, tent in Sheepgate west 
Jeoffrey Purvis, tent in Sheepgate, now A Artis, jum
Arthur Artis, junior, grocer & tallow chandler. Smallgate, late Jeoffrey Purvis, sometime
Bretton, afterwards Welton. 
Arthur Artis, tent in Sheepgate, late Jeoffrey Purvis
Arthur Artis, tent late Purvis in Sheepgate, west 
Robert Chinery, tent in Sheepgate, late of Mary Purvis, before of Bartholomew Purvis
& formerly Barker (later Charles Chinery) 
Charles Chinery, late Robert Chinery, deceased, formerly Purvis, before Baker, tent

Rent 6d
Rent 6d

Task 4d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d

 
1812 

in Sheepgate 
George Grigson, collar maker, tent in Sheepgate, late Charles Chinery [later G Grigson] 

Rent 6d
Rent 6d

1849 
 
 
1899 
 
 
1910 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ADVERTISEMENT 22 March: John Thompson, Plumber & Glazier & Painter, Smallgate: In  
consequence of Mr Hall leaving Beccles for Norwich, he intends keeping a regular assortment of Gas
Fittings, Glasses etc.

ADVERTISEMENT: James Mann, Painter, House Decorator, Paperhanger, Sanitary Plumber Etc.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WC, on First Floor;
 
 
 
heater stove, Copper, Iron Oven and Sink, with soft water pump and Water laid on from the  
Waterworks; also Painter’s Shop (well adapted for a Laundry) with large Cellarage under.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Exchange Square, Beccles; Solicits your esteemed orders. Special attention to Out-Door Painting &
House Decoration.
SALE: 12 April 1910, late Mrs Harriet Pert
LOT 1: Family Residence, containing Cellar in Basement; Front and Back Halls, Surgery with side
entrance and fitted wiith Register Stove and Closet, Dining and Drawing Rooms with Register Stoves
and closets, and Larder, on Ground Floor;
2 large Front Bedrooms with Stoves and 1 closet, 2 Back Bedrooms with 1 Stove and 2 closets, and

and 3 Bedrooms, one with Stove on Second Floor;
with brick and tiled Range of Offices abutting upon the House in Rear, comprising good Kitchen, fitted
with Cooking Range with Oven & Boiler, and 2 recess Closets; large StoreRoom; and Scullery with

Adjoining the last, in Rear, is a Range of Boarded and Tiled Workshops, 42ft in length, with WC and
brick and Tiled Two-Stall Stable with Loft over.
Brick and Tiled Coachhouse with Loft over, abutting upon part of Lot 2.
With spacios Yard, having a front Entrance on Smallgate adjoining the House, and Back Entrance on a
Carriageway leading into Newgate.
This Lot is now in the occupation of Ernest Horne, Esq, Surgeon Dentist, under a Lease expiring 6
April. 1911 at the Annual Rent of £5  

DIVIDED IN TWO
PART A
Thompson, Jn 
Thompson, Jn 
Thompson, Jn 
PART B
Thompson, Jn 
Thompson, Jn 
Thompson, Jn 
REUNITED AS ONE
Thompson, Jn 
Pert, Thos
CENSUS 1881

1841 
1851 
1861 

£15.00 
£13.05 
£17.10 

V 
V 
V 

Thompson, Jn 
Thompson, Jn 
Thompson, Jn 

Plumber/Glazier 
Plumber/Glazier 
Plumber/Glazier 

Sma DA
Sma DA
Sma DA

1841 
1851 
1861 

£15.00 
£13.05 
£17.10 

V 
V 
V 

Sloper, Mary 
Sloper, Mary 
Gilbert, late 

Annuitant
Annuitant
 

Sma DA
Sma DA
Sma DA

1871 
1881 

£34 
£34 

V 
V 

Thompson, Jn 
Pert, Thos

Resident 
Plumber/Painter 

Sma DA
Sma DA

Thomas PERT 
Harriett PERT 
Alice M. PERT 
Minnie S. PERT 
Thomas R. PERT 

M 
M 
 
 
 

46 
38 
15 
10 
6 

M 
F 
F 
F 
M 

Aylsham, Norfolk, England 
Norwich, Norfolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 

Head 
Wife 
Daur 
Daur 
Son 

Scholar
Scholar
Scholar

SMALLGATE 1
 
Pert, Thos
Pert, T? 

1902 
1904 
1906 

 
£40 
dwelling 

 
V 
 

Horne, Ernest  
Horne, Ernest 
Horne, E 

dentist
 
dwelling 

 
7 beds 

Sma DA
3 sitting 

 
 
 
 
 
International Tea Co 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1907 
1907 
1914 
1922 
1927 
1933+ 
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 } 
1965 } 
1974 

 
 
 
 
 
£120  Shop Flat Prem 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Benns, Percy
Horne, Ernest  
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
International Tea Co Stores
Snell, James
/

1865 
 
 

Partnership between John Thompson & John  Mapes Brundell as plumbers and glaziers dissolved. John
Thompson retiring. Business will be carried on in premises lately occupied by TK Sayer (opposite
Gurney’s Bank, [13 Ballygate] ) 

1767 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1902 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1920 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Indenture  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Rev Pretyman of Cotton, Suffolk of the one part and Jeremiah Taylor,
Smallgate to the WEST; Newgate to the EAST;
the tenement late Elizabeth Laws and since of Elizabeth Stone [No 11] to the NORTH;
and late Philip Prime and now of George Britton, gent, to the SOUTH; [either No 7, 5, 3 or 1]
The messuage, yards, gardens etc and all that stable adjoining formerly in the occupation of Thomas
Godbold, (tailor) late in the occupation of Isaac Sallows and Sarah Aldridge and since of Isaac Sallows
and Isaac Boyce; now in the occupation of Jeremiah Taylor and Prudence Bohun, widow or  
undertenants for one year.
SALE: Tuesday 29 July 1902
for the executors of Mr George Woolnough
Valuable block of property with important frontages thereto comprising well accustomed beer house, the
Prince of Wales, with cottage at back, now and for upwards of thirty years in occupation of Mrs
Harrison [No 5]: the shop and dwelling house in the occupation of Mr Leeds, hairdresser, [No 7]; the
shop and dwelling house in the occupation of Mr C Petersen [No 3];  and the dwelling house in the
 
Kingsbury, Argos Hill, Rotherfield

SALE: Youngs Crawshay & Youngs:
 
(now vacant)
 
 
 
 
 

No 5 SMALLGATE: PRINCE OF WALES INN (licence surrendered) : HOUSE & Premises with  
COTTAGE in rear,
No 7 SMALLGATE: SHOP & DWELLING HOUSE in occupation of Mr H Leeder
No 9 SMALLGATE: DWELLING HOUSE in Occupation of Mrs Bardwell
[purchased Messrs Robinson & Stannard, Motor Works £900]

Copeman, JS 
Copeman, JS 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
CENSUS 1881

1841 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1881 

£8 
£5.05 
£6 
£7 
£7 

V 
V 
V 
V 
V 

Ingram, Geo 
Drewell, Eliz 
Drewell, Eliz 
Drewell, Eliz 
Drewell, Eliz 

Rope Maker 
 
 
Schoolmistress 
Schoolmistress 

Sma DB
Sma DB
Sma DB
Sma DB
Sma DB

Elizabeth DREWELL
Rachel DREWELL 
Fred HANN 
James BULTITUDE 

U 
U 
 
U 

60 
58 
U 
20 

F 
F 
21 
M 

Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
M 
Colchester, Essex, England 

Schoolmistress
Schoolmistress

Sister 
Milford, Wiltshire, England 

Lodger ((Boarder)) 
Lodger ((Boarder)) 

Schoolmaster
Ironmonger Assistant

SMALLGATE 3
 
Crawshay & Young 
Youngs Crawshaw Youngs 1906 

1902 
1904 

 
£12 
dwelling & shop 

 
V 

Petersen, Carl 
Peterson, Carl 
Petersen, C

tailor
Tailor 
2 beds 

 
4 sitting & shop 

1907 
1914 
1922 
1927 
Post Office
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 
1974 

Petersen, Carl  
Petersen, Henry 
/
/

tailor
tailor

Craik, John James 
Gates, Norman 
Gates, Norman 
Jackson, Maurice 
Post Office

postmaster
postmaster
postmaster
postmaster

1872 
 

Death: Suicide by hanging of Mrs Peck, aged 64, wife of Samuel Peck of Saltgate [Smallgate]. Unsettled
since the suicide of Talbot Johnson. Had religious mania. Thought she had taken the Sacrament

 
1917

unworthily. Hanged herself in the cellar.
LICENCES: PRINCE OF WALES BEERHOUSE, Smallgate: Mr E Reeve (Mills & Reeve)  stated that the
owners Young, Crawshay & Youngs, agreed that the licence should be referred. The Bench referred the
licence for compensation.

1920 
 
 

SALE: Youngs Crawshay & Youngs:
No 5 SMALLGATE: PRINCE OF WALES INN (licence surrendered) : HOUSE & Premises with  
COTTAGE in rear,

Copeman, JS 
Copeman, JS 
Copeman exors 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
DIRECTORY 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
CENSUS 1881

1841 
1851 
1860 
1861 
1865 
1865 
1870 
1871 
1875 
1881 

£15.05 
£13.05 
£13 
£13 
£14.10 
 
£14.10 
£14.10 
£14.10 
£14.10 

V 
V 
 
V 
 
 
 
V 
 
V 

Copeman, JS 
Copeman, Eliz 
Copeman, Chas late
Norman, Ann 
Peck, Sam
Peck, Samuel 
Peck, Sam
Peck, Sam
Harrison, Mrs 
Harrison, Jn 

 
Annuitant

Sma DB 
Sma DB 

Beer Retailer ? 
 
Beer retailer 
 
 
Publican 
Publican 

Sma DB 
 
 
 
Sma DB 

 
Prince of Wales
 
Prince of Wales

John HARRISON 
Susan HARRISON 
John HARRISON 
George WEST 
George BARBER 
William DELF 

M 
M 
U 
U 
U 
U 

62 
50 
21 
72 
22 
62 

M 
F 
M 
M 
M 
M 

Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 
Ovington, Norfolk, England 
Bungay, Suffolk, England 
Barsham, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 

Head 
Wife 
Son 
Boarder ((Lodger)) 
Boarder ((Lodger)) 
Boarder ((Lodger)) 

Gardener Labourer
Printer Book Binder
Gardener General

SMALLGATE 5
 
Crawshay & Young 
 
Youngs Crawshay Youngs  1906 

1902 
1904 
1904

 
£22 

 
V 

Harrison, Mrs 
Halfpenny, Jn 

beer retailer
Insurance Agent 

dwelling & pub house
 

Halfpenny, John 
Halfpenny, John 

5 beds 
beer retailer

 
 
NO LONGER A PUBLIC HOUSE
 
 

1907 
1914 

1922 
1927 

Neal, George 
part of Post Office

Copeman, JS 
Copeman, JS 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
CENSUS 1881

1841 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1881 

£6 
£5.05 
£7.10 
£7 
£7 

V 
V 
V 
V 
V 

Wheeler, Eliz 
Garwood, F
Thirtle, Jas
Mills, Wm Ed 
Hook, MA

 
 
 
Furniture Dealer 
Shopkeeper ret 

Sma DB
Sma DB
Sma DB
Sma DB
Sma DB

SMALLGATE 7
 
Leeder, Herb 
Youngs Crawshay Youngs  1906 

1902 
1904 

 
£11 
dwelling & shop 

 
V 

Leeder, Herbert 
Leeder, Herb 
Leeder, HH

hair dresser
Hairdresser
2 beds 

 
1 sitting & shop 

 
 
 
 
HM Postmaster 
 
 

1907 
1914 
1922 
1927 
1933+ 
1936 
1948 

 
 
Leeder, Herbert 
 
£16   Ho Shop 
 
 

Leeder, Herbert 
Leeder, Herbert 
hair dresser
Leeder, Herbert 
Leeder, Herbert  [says No 9]
Leeder, Herbert 

hair dresser
hair dresser

Copeman, JS 
Copeman, JS 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
Woolnough, Geo 
CENSUS 1881

1841 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1881 

£6 
£5.05 
£7.10 
£7 
£7 

V 
V 
V 
V 
V 

Workman, Ed 
Bailey, Geo
Flegg, Jas
Brooks, Jn
Bardwell, Han 

 
 
Carrier 
 
Dressmaker

Sma DE
Sma DE
Sma DE
Sma DE
Sma DE

Hannah BARDWELL
Amy KILLICH 
Alice J. KILLICH 
Charles W. KILLICH 

W 
U 
 
 

47 
37 
12 
10 

F 
F 
F 
M 

Bedingfield, Suffolk, England 
Uggeshall, Suffolk, England 
Rotherham, York, England 
London, Middlesex, England 

Head 
Sister 
Niece 
Nephew 

Housekeeper
Dressmaker
Scholar
Scholar

SMALLGATE 9
 
Crawshay & Young 
Youngs Crawshay Youngs  1906 

1902 
1904 

 
£11 
dwelling 

 
V 
 

Bardwell, Mrs
Bardwell, Han 
Bardwell, Hannah 

Resident 
2 beds 

 
2 sitting 

Sma DE
4 occupants

1907 
1914 
1922 
1927 
1936 
1948 

Bardwell, Mrs
Bardwell, Mrs
Bardwell, Mrs
Bardwell, Mrs
[says No 9  Leeder, Herbert above]

Listed Building Report:
Early 17th century with alterations. 2 storeys and attic. Timber framed with overhanging first floor, now stucco, painted. Pantiles. 2
gabled casement dormers. 2 casement windows, at 1st floor, with flush frames.Ground floor, brick, painted, with 19th century shop
window. Massive central chimney, shortened.

1576 
1593  
 

The heirs of Matthew Browne
Widow Edmunds or heirs of Matthew Browne for the head house late Legends
and a garden  

 
1600.1

Joshua Artis
Robert Girling
William Welton
Roger Lone, Deacon for tenement sometime Legion’s, Welton’s after Joshua Artis,
late Robert Girling’s; vid William Welton  (folio 241)
Ellen Lone, tenement formerly Robt Girling’s, late Roger Lone, her husband; vid
Roger Lone Task 4d (folio 267)  
Joseph Lambert tenement called Legions late Roger Lone, formerly Girlings  
Widow Laws, late Lambert  
Widow Laws, late Lambert  
Thomas Morse, formerly Eliz Laws since Meadows
Thomas Morse, freehold messuage in Smallgate late his Father decsd before
Meadows 
WILL: Thomas Morse of Metfield, farmer; proved 1789
25 April 1769: Thomas Morse of Beccles, yroman, conveys to Francis Harmer of Beccles,
rocer, messe in Smallgate, formerly occupied by Matthew Trott, afterwards of Suckling
Leman, gent, Isaac Sallows, then Jeremiah Taylor, butcher.
CONVEYANCE: Conveyance from Elizabeth Morse & William Catling as Trustees of
will of these premises to Richard Wilby [Samuel Morse of Great Yarmouth described as oldest brother
& heir-at-law to Testator]
Richard Wilby 
Richard Wilby 
William Lockwood 

1600.2
1600.3
1669c 
 
1678c 
 
1701 
1729 
1761 
1770 
1771 
 
1789 
 
 
 
1790 
 
 
1799 
1808 
1820 
1833 
 
1849  
 
 
 
 
 
1854 

Task 4d
Task 4d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d
Rent 6d

Himself
 

Value 19s
Rent 6d
Rent 6d

Wm Alecock, Blacksmith; Will of Wm Lockwood, bricklayer. Mess in Smallgate
 
 
 
Lockwood, widow (aged 64) of and in a messuage in two tenements and one third part of the pump and  
well: with the yard, wash-house and outhouses in Smallgate, adjoining Lot I [No 13] in occupation of  
Robert Hayward and William Barker at rent of£13 pa except the wash-house which is occupied by Mr  
James Hall as undertenant to Robert Hayward

formerly Richard Wilby
Sale Friday 16 March 1849: Lot 2.
The reversion or remainder in fee simple expectant upon the marriage again or decease of Elizabeth

1891 
 
 
 
 
1916 
 
1933

SALE 1/6/1891 Read’s Catalogue
Instructed by the executors of the late James Mullett to sell by auction
Lot 1: Freehold property: House and green grocer’s shop in Smallgate Street, Beccles, now occupied by
Mr H Edwards, whose tenancy expires at Michaclmas next, at the annual rent of £13.
[Sold to Mr J Clements £230]
FIRST WORLD WAR

Albert J Barber enlisted. Corporal in the Royal Engineers
ADVERTISEMENT: Ladies & Gentlemen you must Visit AJ Barber, the leading Haidresser at 11 Smallgate,
Beccles; Near Post Office; Phone 192

Lockwood, Mrs 
Lockwood, E 
Lockwood, Mary 
Lockwood, E 
Lockwood, exors 
Lockwood, W 
CENSUS 1881

1841 
1851 
1854 
1861 
1871 
1881 

£6.10 
£5.15 
0.06 
£6.00 
£12.00 
£12 

V 
V 
R 
V 
V 
V 

Hayward, Robt 
Hayward, Robt 
 
Gill, Wm 
Gill, Wm jun 
Borrett, Anna 

Cooper 
Cooper 
 
Nurseryman 
Fruiterer 
Fruiterer 

Sma X
Sma X
Sma X
Sma X
Sma X
Sma X

Anna BORRETT 
Eleanor BORRETT 

U 
W 

38 
78 

F 
F 

Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 

Head 
Mother 

Fruiterer
Market Gardeners Widow

SMALLGATE 11
 
Copeman, MA 
Copeman, Miss (Blyburgate)  1906

1902 
1904 

 
£12 
dwelling & shop 

 
V 

Edwards, Mrs Anna 
Edwards, Anna 
Edwards, Anna 

greengrocer
Fruiterer/Confec 
4 beds 

Sma X
1 sitting & shop 

 
 
 
 
Barber, Albert 
 
 
 
 
 

1907 
1914 
1922 
1927 
1933+ 
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 
1974 

 
 
 
 
£40 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Ho Shop 
 
 
 
 
 

Edwards, Mrs Anna 
Edwards, Mrs Anna 
Barber, Albert J 
Barber, Albert J & Son
Barber, Albert
Barber, Albert J & Son
Barber, AJ & Son 
Barber, AJ & Son 
Barber, AJ & Son 
Barber, AJ & Son 

greengrocer
greengrocer
tobacconist
tobacconist

tobacconist
 
 
 
 

ladies’ hairdresser
ladies’ hairdresser
ladies’ hairdresser
ladies’ & gents hairdresse

 
Listed Buildings
Early 17th century. 2 storeys and attic. 2 casement dormers with glazing bars. Timber-framed with overhanging 1st floor. 3 windows,
sash with glazing bars and flush frames. Wide eaves soffit with trpled brackets.
Ground floor, brick, painted, with small modem shop front, left and sash window, right, with glazing bars.

This property was not owned by  the Manor of  Ilketshall, Ellis & Strathens
1660 
1660 

Heirs of Arthur Bryant 
Thomas Utber 

} 
} 

Rent 3d
Rent 3d

1700.1
1770 
1776 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1776 
1799 
1808 
 
I 820c
1849 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1863
1863
 
1887
 
 
 
1909 

John Clarke 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Clarke his under-tenants or assigns [13 Smallgate]  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Robert Pope
Indenture 12 November 1776 between Robert Reeve of Halesworth, Brewer, sole executor of Robert
Pope’s (Innholder) decsd of first part and Richard Wilby, of Beccles, plumber & glazier, (estate sold by
auction in two lots at the White Horse on 12 September last) sold for £136; all that Messuage or
tenement with bakehouse, stable, gatehouse, edifices, buildings, yard, garden, orchard together with a
third part of a pump late in occcupation of Elizabeth Kidhall, since of John Gibson, gent and Simon

between a messuage late of Elizabeth Lawes, widow [11 Smallgate]
and the messuage or tenement and yards of Abraham Schuidham, gent in part on the part of the south
[Newgate A]
and the garden or orchard late Daniel Denants since Philip Sewell’s and others in part and the messuage
and yard late Thomas Warner since of-- Warner, widow in part towards the north [15 Smallgate]
abutteth on street there called Smallgate to the west and another street called Newgate Street in part and
the yard of the said --Warner in part towards the east. The premises conveyed to Robert Pope by John
Clarke 11/12 January 1770
Richard Wilby, plumber and glazier
Richard Wilby [died 1819 aged 78] owner & occupant  
Richard Wilby, late John Clarke; House in Newgate [error!] opposite the back gates of the King’s Head,
now Hall’s, plumber 
James Hall
SALE:
Excellent and comfortable DWELLING HOUSE with extensive Plumber and Glazier’s Shop.
Situate in Smallgate, comprising 2 Parlours, Kitchen, Store Room, 2 Sleeping Rooms and 2 Attics, an
extensive range of shops adapted to any business, and in which the trade of a Plumber and Glazier has
been carried on for many years; a 2 stall stable, Gighouse and warehouse communicating with Newgate.
Also one third part of a Pump and Well in common with Lot 2 and other adjacent property.
In the occupation of Mr James Hall, the proprietor who is moving to Norwich.
Well situated near the town centre.
Land Tax 16s 6d
Free Rent to the Manor of Beccles 2d
SALE: Furniture of PC Benns
TO BE LET: Convenient Dwelling House with good premises & small vinery late in the occupation of
PC Benns
SALE: Lot 2: Smallgate & Newgate: Executors of PC Benns
Smallgate:-  House & Fruiterer’s Shop occupied by William Knights
Newgate:-  Baker’s Shop, shed & Yard occupied by C Reynolds [Newgate 21 & 23]
[6 September: Purchased G Harrison £300]
SALE: Smallgate: Dwelling & Shop. Vinery at rear. Large Garden, lately William Knight’s

1914-1918 
1914 
 
1914 
 
1933

 
 
was discharged in May 1919
 
 

FIRST WORLD WAR
Norman Halls enlisted 1914. He was a Private in the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry. He was Gassed. He

dischaged in February 1919
ADVERTISEMENT:  Hobbs  &  Sons,  Modern  Footwear  Repairers,  13  Smallgate,  Beccles;  Footwear
Repaired equal to New by the Latest Machinery.

 
 
 
Hall, Jas 
Hall, Mrs 
Benns, Philip C 
Benns, PhilipC 
Benns, JC exors 
Benns, P 
CENSUS 1881

1756 
1760 
1775 
1841 
1841 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1881 

 
 
 
 
£22.10 
£19.15 
£21 
£22 
£22 

 
 
 
V 
V 
V 
V 
V 
V 

Kidball, Eliz
Gibson, John
Clarke, John
 
Hall, Jas 
Benns, PC
Benns, PC
Knights, Wm 
Knights, Wm 

 
Painter/Plumber 
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Gardener market 
Gardener Market 

Sma Y
Sma Y
Sma Y
Sma Y
Sma Y
Sma Y

William KNIGHT 
Emma KNIGHT 
William KNIGHT 
Florence KNIGHT 
Arthur KNIGHT 

M 
M 
U 
 
 

50 
41 
13 
8 
6 

M 
F 
M 
F 
M 

Worlingham, Suffolk, England 
Barsham, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 

Head 
Wife 
Son 
Daur 
Son 

Gardener Market
Gardener Market Wife
Gardener Market Son
Scholar
Scholar

Knights, Wm 
SMALLGATE 13
 
Knights, Wm 
Knights, Miss 

1902 
1904 
1906 

 
 
dwelling & butcher 

 
V 

Knights, William 
Knights, Wm 
Copeman, Fred 

greengrocer
Fruiterer 
4 beds 

 
3 sitting & shop 

5 occupants 
?

Tilney & Son 
 

no date 
1907 

dwelling