ROW TEN - NORTH ROW *1
Horn Row *2
A methodism study circle
was held at a house in this row. Women rebuilding the silk factory after the
fire in 1822 championed the cause. (Grouts/Bayliss factory)*2
Row Ten, leading from
George Street to Church Plain, was called North Row on Armstrong's map, and
Horn Row at a very early period, probably from a tavern, the horn being used
for the drinking of mead. Several very old houses still remained in it in
Palmer's time. At the north-east corner he said, was a house having it's gable
end towards Church Plain. A once common
arrangement, of which there are
very few examples remaining. *1
On the south side were
houses belonging to the Hospital of the Blessed Virgin, and on the same side
extending into the next row, there was in the eighteenth century a chandlery
established in 1760 by John Brown, tallow chandler, who died in 1800, aged 68.
He devised his property to his nephew John Brown, who placed a Tablet to his
Uncle's memory upon a pillar in the nave of St. Nicholas's Church, with the
words,"Death Extinguishes All", showing a candle covered by an
extinguisher.
The south side of Row
Ten became the Crate Store, part of the Falcon Brewery, as in 1970; however in
the 1906 map it was still very much a row, as were rows twelve and fourteen.
The houses did not seem to have changed very much at all from the earlier date.
I do however have a photo of Row Ten which shows a curvature in the row, which
is scarcely apparent on the map, so if this is indeed Row Ten, it is somewhere
in the middle of the row and looking from east towards the west. The walls of
the houses here are clearly made of flint in the majority, and the extremely
old house with the small jettied first floor projection might perhaps have been
no. 5. The lady in the doorway would then have been standing in No. 4. The low
sheds seen further on - the positions of nos. 6 and 7.