A photographic ramble around 51 North Quay

After a while the concrete tiles on the back of this roof were damaged, and a number missing. When I went to Jewsons they could not match them. A man standing next to me said “I can help you” He was working on Long’s house in the middle of Fritton wood, where the had stripped the identical tiles, all laid on the ground. I purchased £80 worth and repaired the roof as the water had been gushing in and this was threatening the building.

The roof South of the front door (seen through the open doorway)

Looking into the kitchen it was stacked high with old rubbish. A Mrs Barber had been living here many years. The rent was paid to a solicitor at xxx. He disappeared, and the deeds and owner could not be traced. Eventually the house was bought by the council and sold to a housing society and developed into flats. I secured it for a while against vagrants and vandals who kept breaking in.

The South bedroom, first floor

Staircase at the NW corner.

hole in the roof on the second floor

stairway from the first floor South bedroom to the ground floor.

Buckets on the bed to catch water, 1^st floor, NE bedroom.

Water coming in above NW dormer.

Looking toward the front door from the NW ground floor room.

The “Yarmouth2 or “Angel” cupboard, which was as I surmised inserted in the former back doorway of a much older house.

All water damage.

More rubbish in the kitchen.

I repaired this roof later with pantiles I acquired fro the Bricklayers Arms, Victoria Road.