ROW EIGHTY FIVE

SIR SIDNEY SMITH'S ROW *1

Old Library Row, 1802*2

Sir Sidney Smith's Row *2

Crown and Hart Row*2

Baptists Meeting South Row *2

Marsh's Row *2

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From Middlegate to King Street:

In this row on the North side, existed two Elizabethan leaded lights in oak. There also could, in 1927, still be seen an overhanging house. Towards the East entrance on the North side, the Baptists had their meeting house, with burial ground attached. This has now been built over. The public library commenced in a house at the North‑east corner in 1802, when Thomas Sutton was librarian. He later superintended the erection of Nelson's Column on the South Denes, and suddenly died on the top of the column in 1817.*2

Formerly called Sir Sidney Smith's Row, from a neighbouring public house, whose sign was the head of that dashing seaman. At the house at the north‑east corner the public library commenced in 1802. On the North side of this row was a small graveyard at the back of Bethabara Chapel, which was closed by order of the general board of health. *1

The Occupants, Row Eighty Five, 1886

( from King Street to Howard Street )

BAPTIST CHAPEL

Collins, L., cab driver

Fuller, S., smacksman

Linaker, E.

Haylett, S., lodging house keeper

Staines, Mrs.

James, Mrs.

James, Mrs.A.

Lawrence, Mrs.

Muskett, W., bootmaker

Nobbs, E., bootmaker

Marsh, F., pawnbroker

The Occupants, Row Eighty Five, 1913

(from 164 King Street to 34 Howard Street South )

North side

Collins, Henry

Key, Isaac

Smith, Joseph Samuel

Walker, Charles William

Thrower, Harry Charles

Thrower, M.H., builder

Child, John

Child, Arthur

South side

Leggett, Frederick

Wells, Henry

The Occupants, Row Eighty Five, 1927

(from 164 King Street to 34 Howard Street South )

North side

2. Collins, Henry

4. Fleetwood, John Harold

5. Cubitt, George

6. Thrower, Harry Charles

Thrower, M.H., builder

7. Keevil, Oswald

8. Mollett, Walter

The Occupants, Row Eighty Five, 1936

( from 164 King Street to 34 Howard Street South )

North side

Taylor R.M. and son (1934) Ltd., wholesale confectioners*

2. Palmer, Walter A.

3. Banham, Mrs.

4. Cubitt, George

5. Newson, Horace

6. Thrower, Harry Charles, builder

7. Keevil, Oswald

8. Mollett, Walter

9. Codling, Mrs.B.

10. Thrower, Miss F.