ROW TWENTY FIVE ‑ FIGHTING COCK ROW*1
Fighting Cock
Row*2
Coach and Horses Row*2
Golden Lion Row*2
Doughty the Leather Cutters Row, 1829.*2
Row twenty five led
from the south‑east corner of the Conge to Charlotte Street, and was
formerly called Fighting Cock Row, from the sign of a Public House facing the
Conge. Afterwards called the Coach and Horses and then the Golden Lion; in Palmer's
time it had also been called Doughty's Row. A William Doughty of Yarmouth voted
for Astley & Grey in the Norfolk election of 1714.
A Public House called the "Dolphin
Tavern", and a granary in the Conge belonged to the Church.There is a photograph of the Lacon's Public House
fronting North Quay on the south‑west corner of the Conge, now the site
of modern offices. Row Twenty Five was also filled with small tenement
dwellings by 1906. There is a
photo of Row Twenty Three looking east, with its cobbled street, and a
photo from the north‑east showing a building in the same row, when the
row had become an open space as a result
of demolition, before the Second World War. The walls of this old
building were constructed of brick and pebbles.
This row was not
mentioned in the 1936 survey.
On 5th and 6th
February 1939, PhilipPhilip Ernest Rumbelow was out and about with his brownie
box camera. He took 4 photographs of a trench that had been dug as an air-raid
shelter. The photo
