MARKET ROW

Dickens in "Household Words", makes mention of the Market and Broad Rows, and an old advertising card issued by the Row Traders gives advice that is worth repeating‑ "When in Egypt, see the Pyramids, when in Yarmouth see the Market and Broad Rows."! This row is half as wide as the Broad Row and was open for cart traffic up until 1784. It is a busy thoroughfare crowded with up-to-date shops. There was a disastrous midnight fire here in 1868, when three lives were lost. A splendid piece of carved work taken from the building at the North‑West corner is now in the Toll‑House Museum, wrote H.B. Johnson, in about 1923.

Diagram of the fire in Market Row, see printed version, the “New Perlustration”

Courts 1987, later destroyed by fire.

West End

The Occupants, Market Row, 1938

(from 30 Market Place to 1.Howard Street South)

north side

20. Hepworth and Co. Ltd., tailors

19. Catlings Ltd., drapers

17. Pradium Amusements Ltd., fancy goods dealers

16. Barratt, W. and Co. Ltd., boot makers

15. Pike, Henry and son, tobacconists

14. Worms, Harry, draper

13. Norma, gowns

13a., Baldwin & Turner, ladies hairdressers

12. Lummis, Charles, confectioners

11. Brants, Ltd., drapers

9. Kingston, C., Ltd., butchers

8. Sears, J., and Co., (true form Boot Co.) Ltd., boot stores

3 to 7 & 11 & 39. Brants Ltd., drapers

1 & 2. Peacocks Stores Ltd., domestic Stores

south side

43. Brett, F. & son Ltd., house furnishers

42. Knowles, L., provision merchant

41. Cammell and Co. jewellers

40. Pearkes' Dairies Ltd., grocers

39. & 7 to 3 & 11. Brants Ltd., drapers

38. Wain W. and sons, pork butchers

37. Easiephit Shoe Co.

35. Fieldings Limited, cycle dealers

34. Stead and Simpson Ltd., boot makers

33. Star tea Co., Ltd.

32. Harvey, Mrs.Olive, draper

31. Dagnall, G., drug store

30. Matthes Ltd., bakers

29a. Read, Edward T. Ltd., wool stores

29. Singer sewing machine Co., Limited

27. and 28. Martins, R.. and T., outfitters

26. Chatton, Miss Edith H., music seller

25. Tabraham, Albert Ward, ironmonger

24. International Tea Co.'s Stores Limited

24. General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Ltd. (Percy James Thrower, resident inspector)

24. Hanlon, William