ROW
EIGHTY EIGHT (Palmer gives no name)
Ames the Antiquaries Row, 1730*2
Crede's Row, 1750*2
Woodward's Row*2
Towler the Grocer's Row, 1867*2
From Middlegate Street to
Howard Street:
"No work in Yarmouth
could be complete, however
small, if no reference was made to the author of "typographical Antiquities,
1749". Joseph Ames, F.S.A., lived at a residence near to the north‑west corner. Cut and
rough flints predominate in the buildings here. The fine Georgian doorway in
the north side must be noticed, and the house, no. 5a, on the north side, has a
splendid floor to ceiling carved
mantlepiece, beautifully pilastered, bearing the date
1647. The room is panelled
throughout. There was a cellar here with a passage, leading probably to
the cloisters."*2
Early in the eighteenth
century all the property between this
row and the "ship"
tavern was in the possession of
Joseph Ames, a family of long continuance in Yarmouth. Joseph Ames
was in 1648 appointed ensign to a company of Train Bands, commanded by
Arthur Bacon, and in 1660 he had the
liberty to erect a porch and pale before his house in the Middle Street. Joseph Ames, the son, entered the Navy at an
early age, and during the civil war
attracted the attention of Cromwell when Lord Protector, who in 1643 made him
Captain of the "Samuel", in which ship, under Blake, he took part in the engagement of the Dutch fleet in
which Van Tromp was slain. *1
At the back of house no. 8
Howard Street was a lofty moulded arch, which evidently at one time belonged
to a building of some importance, but all knowledge of it was lost. In the
spandrels formed by a
square moulded dripstone there was on
one side a shield bearing the cross of St. George, and in the other, a shield
with a merchant's mark, which has not been
identified, but which is shown in Palmer's Perlustration vol.II,
P.120.
The Occupants, Row Eighty Eight, 1886
(from Howard Street
to Middlegate Street)
Beckett, H., labourer
Croswell, A., sailmaker
Brookes, W., labourer
Crome, J., Mariner
Oldman, Mrs.
Lone, R., mariner
Carr, Mrs.J.
Sherring, Mrs.
The Occupants, Row Eighty Eight, 1913
(from 45 Howard
Street South to 9 Middlegate Street)
2. Hunter, Richard Robinson
3. Harris, Henry James
5. Redgrave, Samuel
5a. Haynes, Thomas
5b. Ives, George
6. Breeze, William
7. Seago, Sidney George
The Occupants, Row Eighty Eight, 1927
(from 45 Howard
Street South to 9 Middlegate Street)
2. Gower, James
3. Olley, Benjamin
4. Turrell, Charles James
5. Redgrave, Samuel
5a. Haynes, Thomas
5b. Pigden, Edgar
6. Harrod, Frederick Joseph
7. Turrell, George Daniel
The Occupants, Row Eighty Eight, 1936
( from 45 Howard
Street South to 9 Middlegate Street)
2. Gowen, James
(prob.wrong spelling
prev.)
3. Olley, Benjamin
4. Turrell, Charles James
5. Fisk Mrs.E.
5a. Haynes, Thomas
5b. Pigden, Edgar
6. Harrod, Frederick Joseph
7. Turrell, George Daniel