ROW FIFTY EIGHT ‑ (un‑named by palmer)
Elephant and Castle Row (1829)*2
Last the Baker's Row (1898)*2
North Lobster Row (1756) (deeds of no.10)
Yarmouth, in common with most
towns can refer to times when the taverns and ale‑houses were more
numerous than today, and many a well known sign has passed, only to be remembered by name, such as the
"Elephant and Castle", had occupied the site between this Row and no
56 Row.*2
"Row no. 58, from Howard
Street to the Market Place". Palmer has nothing further to say here!
In the Row Survey‑
"A clearance here exposes a Tudor window in the back wall of house in next
Row 60."
At no.7 in this
row lived Robert
Wilson, whose wife was Gertrude (Pitchers) from Beccles.
They had a four children: Frances
(born 1910), Robert (1911),
Alice (1913), and Dorothy (1915). The
two older children had been born in row 11. The younger two were born here at
no.7. Robert Wilson was a maltster,
(see Row 134 about work in the malthouse) and joined the army in the Great
War. He was killed in France. Having been
used to heavy lifting he helped with
supply, but volunteered for the front. Gertrude Wilson was then left a widow
with four young children at the age of about 26. Later she remarried,
and moved to row 56, the next
row north.
The deeds of nos.10 and 11 have a site plan. The dwellings were
conveyed together by Rhoda Jane Rainer
of 46 Howard Street North, widow, for £145 to Percival Hurry Palmer of 37
Market Place on 18th March,
1829. There was also a conveyance from Mrs Rainer to the Corporation in
1942, on 25th.June. It appears to have
been forgotten that it had already was sold to Palmers! Nos. 10 and 11 were formerly no 9, becoming
nos 10, 11 and 12.
On 28th.Feb.1884, there was a conveyance from Benjamin
Charles Child, lithographer, to William Rouse, and Sarah his wife. At
that time it was three tenements, formerly known as no.9. There is a small,
rather poor sketch map. William Rouse was described as a bricklayer, and had a mortgage with the Great
Yarmouth Temperance Building
Society for 100 pounds, the property
having been purchased for 170 pounds, and was let to Hannah Gotts Rivett,
and John Mullon, at the rentals of 2/6,
3/‑, and 2/6 per week
respectively.
It is very interesting now that a bricklayer in those
days would have invested in property in this manner The earliest deed however is the probate of the will of Thomas
Riches, 13th. August 1800, and the probate of the will of Mary Riches, 8th Nov.1807. Thomas Riches was
"town ship-maker", and the only son of Able Riches of the same town, a butcher, and Rebecca,
his wife, who died intestate. His daughters were Rebecca Welch, Phoebe Davis, and the dwellings were in his own
occupation. The dwelling was then passed to Robert Cory by sale.
There was towards the east, the
ground of Mrs.Krem, widow,
and then belonging to John Todd,
schoolmaster. This was described as lying between a common lane
or row called the NORTH LOBSTER
ROW of the north part, and another common lane or row, formerly called
MR.FULLER'S NORTH ROW, and now the SOUTH LOBSTER ROW, on the south part. This is mentioned in an indenture dated 23 and
24th days of March 1756. I have not
seen these Row names mentioned elsewhere.
No's 12 and 12a of this row were sold on 17th April 1961, by John Leslie
Smith of 85, College Road, Margate, to
Palmers Gt.Yarmouth. Mary Ann Smith of College Road Margate, the previous
owner, had died on 16th. Sept 1960, and the property was sold for
100 pounds. It comprised two dwelling houses with out buildings grounds
and yards. The earlier deeds had been lost.
The deeds of no.15 in this row,
had a site plan, and on Sept 16th 1864, from Thomas Maddeys, builder, out of
business, and who died on May 22nd.1865. The property also seems to have been owned by Joseph Waldron Wright, builder, then out of business, who passed
it to Sam Rogers of Gorleston, another landlord, who passed it to
William Pearson of Herringfleet, railway signalman.
The Property Market
It is certainly remarkable how
ordinary working men could own investments in property. Property may now be
more substantial, but it can only be purchased
in most cases by proportionately large mortgages,
i.e. 95 or 100%, which latterly have been crippling to most people with
interest rates becoming as high as 16%, and then causing a crash in values, the
like of which has never been seen before.
Thence the property passed to
his brother, Thomas Waldron
Wright. In Nov.1920 there was a deed between William Pearson, of 3 Wrights
Passage, Albion Road, and
retired signalman, William
Charles Benjafield, of 33 Northmarket Road. This was then sold for 70 pounds.
The whole plot was 25 feet and 8 inches long, and rather less wide, a total of
46 square yards. Now this site is car parking for some two vehicles. On
26th.Nov.1940, the property was conveyed by William Charles Benjafield to the
Corporation. The mortgage was redeemed
with Midland Bank for the
princely sum of 5 pounds. Disgracefully little, under compulsory
purchase, even if the site were empty, which it wasn't, as it
was "including the dwelling
house erected thereon."
Number 22 in this row has a poster
advertising the sale of no.9 Quay Austin Row (ROW 61), 4 and 5 Dene Austin Row
(60), and a dwelling house, no.17 in
the Elephant and Castle Row, no.58, which had the Ormesby water laid on. The
rows 60 and 61 were referred to as
being wide rows, having been recently
greatly improved, being paved with
clinkers, and underdrained, and are becoming leading thoroughfares.
There was a keeping room, two sleeping rooms, a yard, and so on.
This dwelling was conveyed to
Palmers at a relatively early date, being the 13th March 1919. From Albert English Kerridge, of 183 King Street, a draper, to Percival Hurry Palmer of 37
Market Place. This was then known as no. 22, but formerly no.17. Sold for the sum of 400 pounds. Quite a
substantial sum then, considering that some surrounding properties were
acquired for a mere 5 pounds at a later date. On 19th.April 1883 Thomas Archer,
then of 92 King Street, Gentleman,
bequeathed this property to his wife Anna, and she in turn
bequeathed it to her daughter Charlotte Mary Field. In due course it then went
to Albert English Kerridge.
(7th.June 1916).
It may be said that neither war
seems to have interrupted sales of these properties.