From King Street to Howard Street,
and is now absorbed by Regent Street. Early
in the seventeenth century there stood an old house at the north‑west
corner belonging to Giles Call, who was Bailiff in 1632. He sold to Thomas
Lucas, merchant, who filled that office in 1658, and hence this row was called
Mr.Thomas Lucas' Row.
Regent Street replaced the Row
Lucas has been a name of very
longstanding in Yarmouth. Warren Lucas was named as one of twenty seven jurats in articles confirmed by Henry III, and
filled the office of Bailiff in
1369. John Lucas was Bailiff in 1636,
and his pedigree was recorded in the Heralds visitation for 1664. His son,
Thomas Lucas, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cooper, followed in the
Political footsteps of his father, and on
the death of Oliver Cromwell,
being then one of the
Bailiffs, he signed
the address to
Richard Cromwell, congratulating him on his accession to the
Protectorate. He seems to have been a
man of hot temperament, and to have
been the enemy
of those who favoured a restoration.
During the latter part of the 18th
century and the beginning of the 19th century the house was occupied by
Mr.Samuel Bream, and the row
latterly known as
Bream's Row. He
let what were
then considered to be
the best lodgings in the town, consequently
they were often let by the port
Admiral, or by
the Admiral in
command of the North sea fleet.
Sir Richard Onslow
lodged there, as did Admiral
Lord Duncan.
(Sir Richard Onslow was speaker
in the
house of commons when Sir Robert
Walpole was first Prime Minister ‑1721 to 1742. It was also the age of
Robinson Crusoe, and the accession of George II in 1727)
The next House, which was also absorbed by Regent Street, was in 1773
in the occupation of Anthony Cooper Gray
Esq., and after of Thomas
Utting, who sold in 1774 to Robert
Cory, Mayor in 1803. Between this row and the next
there was formerly
a row running from the Quay
to Blind Middle
Street, which was stopped up in
1761, and added to the adjoining house to
the north. When Regent Street was
made in 1813 the site of this old row was added to
the adjoining house to the south, and then the north front of the London and
Provincial Bank is built upon it, which is now the office of the Norwich Union
Assurance Company, and previously those of Eagle Star Insurance.
No residents listed in this row
1886 onwards.