ROW SEVENTY EIGHT ‑

POT‑IN‑HAND ROW*1

Pot in hand north row, 1829*2 Cambridge row, 1856*2

Betts Row, 1867*2

Browne the grocer's row*2

Starling the hatter's row, 1871*2

“The first named tavern was in King Street, at the south‑east corner of the row. At the north‑east corner one misses the well‑known tradesman's sign over-hanging the street, of fifty years since, namely the large high hat of John Starling the hatter. A hundred years ago, (1828) James Darnell had fish curing premises in this row”. (Johnson)

From Middlegate Street to King Street, called "Pot‑in‑Hand", from a public house at the east end, fronting King Street, now the property of Messrs. Steward, Pattesson and Co., who in 1866 took down the old house and erected the present structure.*1

In the details for the auction at the Star Hotel, April 3rd.,1884: Lot 4, was a "Roomy freehold dwelling‑house, in row 78, King Street, containing front sitting-room, pantry, kitchen, yard leading into row 79, bedroom, garret and cellar- let to James Bezance, at 7 pounds and 3 shillings per annum". There was a lead pump for spring water and the company's water laid on. The owners and occupiers of the neighbouring cottage to the east had the right to take water (by a box through the wall) from the pump. (Property owned by Charles Burton, painter and plumber, of 25 Middlegate Street).

Down row 78 in 1992, from King Street, is "Bodies" ‑ aerobics, gymnasium and fitness centre, with sauna and solarium, all on the south side. The north side of the row is complete to Howard Street South, as the backs of the arcade shops that front into row 74 or the Royal Arcade. The south side of the row beyond Bodies premises however, is open into the corporation car-park that was partly created in a wartime air‑raid.

This is an area where the old town could be re‑created, with an underground carpark underneath some well designed new rows.

At the north‑east corner of the row is the Alliance and Leicester Building Society office, and at the south‑east corner is no.170 King Street, the Albion Newsagents.(1992)

The Occupants, Row Seventy Eight, 1886

(from King Street to Howard Street)

Brunning, T.

Ward, R.

Lawson, W., fisherman

Paul, P.

Stolworthy, T.

Hall, Mrs.

Jillings, J., porter

Jenkinson, Mrs.

Harrison, J., lightsman

Coleman, C.H., lumper

Fletcher, Mrs.

Griffiths, Mrs.

Howlett, Mrs.

Godfrey, F., lumper

The Occupants, Row Seventy Eight, 1913

(from King Street to 27 Howard Street South)

2. Jarrad, Thomas

3. Crane, Mrs.

5. Gangle, Mrs.

7. Barber, William

8. Field, Charles Edward

9. Blyth, Mrs.

11. Hunter, Henry

12. Laws, Mrs.

13. Green, Herbert Henry

14. French, Jacob Elliott

15. Meal, John

16. Hyde, Leonard

South side

17. Middleton, Robert

19. Swallow, Arthur Albert

20. Rump, Mrs.

21. Collins, Arthur

22. Allen, Mrs.

23. Lamb, Mrs.

The Occupants, Row Seventy Eight, 1927

(from King Street to 27 Howard Street South

North side

7,8,&9. Veale, W.H. Ltd., printers (warehouse)

South side

19. Cooper, W.

20. Rump, Mrs.

21. Leggett, Harry James

22. Stanton, Edward Albert

23. Veale W.H. Limited, printers

The Occupants, Row Seventy Eight, 1936

(from 171 King Street to 27 Howard Street South)

South side

19. Cooper, W.

20. Rump, Mrs.

21. Leggett, Harry James

22. Stanton, Edward Albert

23. Yare Printing Co, Ltd., printers