This row is the first of nine short
rows that link King Street with Deneside.
Prior to 1678 King Street was open ground from the houses on the west
side to the town's fortifications. *2
About 1860, the Row is first up on the left
Row no.64 from King Street to
theatre plain, being the first row south of the Market Place, to which we must
now return. In 1713 a Charity School was established for teaching poor children
to read, and instructing them in the
knowledge and practice of religion as taught in the church
of England. *1
This hole on the South
side of Row 64, 1952 (photo P.Rumbelow)
In 1723 the corporation granted a piece of ground at the south‑east
corner of the market place,
described as a piece of waste ground near the main guard,
between houses of John Dodgein the
butcher, north, and
a certain place called Bolt's corner, south, upon
which the schoolrooms now standing were
erected.
In 1785 the council granted an additional site to the north, on which the masters house was
erected. Two figures in niches on the
front of this building were removed from the old vestry of St.Nicholas Church when the vestry was demolished in
1848.
In 1678 the site of the houses now at the south end of the
Market Place, and lying between King Street and Theatre Plain, was open ground,
and was in that year
granted by the corporation
to Mitchell Mew, a man
of considerable property. He, in 1681
sold the ground
to Roger Tompson, oatmeal maker, who in
1683 conveyed it
to Robert Boult, miller, and Benjamin Boult, carpenter and millwright,
at which time it was described as "Waste ground lying on
the Dene side". Four houses
were erected upon this
ground, which were in 1750 conveyed to Thomas Woods, stationer, then to
Thomas Leach, surgeon, and then in 1781
to John Scales, Philip Pullyn, Samuel Mason, and John Sims, who made great alterations and fitted up the houses as
a bank, but soon afterwards the partnership was dissolved, and the banking
business was carried on by Messrs
Mason and Woods, who were also corn merchants, and in 1783 they became
bankrupt.
In 1797 the property was purchased
by Thomas Bateman Esq.M.D., and in 1821 it was
conveyed by him to his son, George Bateman,M.D. In 1859 the premises were conveyed to the Trustees of the Great
Yarmouth Savings Bank, and the property adapted with a new front.
The properties adjoining this on
the west, at the north end
of the market, were in
1729 in the possession of
Charles Gray, bookseller, and
John Boswell, butcher, the
latter having married the widow
of Benjamin Boult. In
1797 the house
fronting the market place
was in the occupation of
William Taylor, surgeon, who afterwards resided on the west side of
the market place, but eventually
returned to this house, where he
died.
The house fronting King Street (where Burton's store now is) was at
the commencement of the 19th.C. occupied by James Black, bookseller, and
printer. It was later occupied by
Mr.Keymer. The ground south of
Row 64, first enclosed in 1678, was also granted to Mitchel Mew. The house at the north‑west corner was erected by John Pritchard, surgeon, who died in 1850.
The house to the south
of this row was the
property of Mary Buell, widow,
who conveyed it to her mother,
Elizabeth Thompson, then to Robert Smith, then to George Thompson, merchant. In 1785 it was conveyed to
James Lucas Worship,
who died in 1790. In 1808
it was purchased by Press
Turner, pastry cook, and
immediately then to Pexall Forster, bookseller, who the next
year became bankrupt, but then was appointed
librarian at the public library,
which post he held for several years.
The house was then sold to Robert
Marston of Martham, farmer, and for
some years after, it was used
as a lodging house.
The Occupants, Row Sixty Four, 1886
( from Deneside to King Street )
Burton and
son, solicitor's office