ROW SIXTY FIVE ‑ (Palmer
gives no name)
Cups
row*2
Mariners Row*2
Dakin the Brazier's Row*2
Row no.65 is from King Street to
Theatre Plain. The Mariner's tavern
fronted the Theatre, Mr. Dakin occupied
the house at the south‑west corner 100 years ago.*2
At the south‑west corner
there is a large house, now
divided into two
occupations, nos.7 and 8, formerly occupied by Dakin the Brazier.
Further south is a row un‑numbered
and impassable by carts, leading from King Street to Theatre Plain. At
the north‑west corner is a tavern called "The Rose", and
still further south, at the north‑west corner of the opening
leading to Regent road, there was an old liquor shop which, in the latter part of the last century (18th.), was
in the occupation of Mr.Hallmarke, who might be
seen at his door attired in a long white apron, as was the habit with
wine and liquor
merchants in those days. He was
succeeded by Mr.Diver, and the latter
by his son, Mr.W.H.Diver, who died in 1871
aged 86, by whom the house next
(to) King Street was rebuilt. *1
Divers Shop, Regent St to right, Row 65 on left.
The open space to the
east of this row acquired the
name of Theatre Plain, in 1778,
when a Theatre was first
erected. Previously when the
Norwich theatre company visited the town, they had at first used a
warehouse (1710) on
part of the site now occupied by the Middlegate Church, but which had been
formerly rebuilt as a meeting house. The company then used the town chamber,
previously used as a Dutch Chapel, to be fitted up as a theatre "for
the use of the comedians".
In 1856 the theatre
was so poorly supported that a comedian called Thomas Russell collapsed and died on stage, and this
was thought to have largely due to lack of food and the cold.
The Occupants, Row Sixty Five, 1886
( from Deneside to King Street )
Cocks, J.A.