ROW ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN –
ROSE AND CROWN ROW CART AND HORSE ROW (Palmer)
Rose and Crown Row
Cart and Horse Row
Grief's Row, 1856 (Johnson)
From
South Quay to Middlegate Street:
“This
was an interesting row. At the south‑west corner the fine cut flint front
has been cased with white brick, as many of the houses on the Quay were some
125 years since. This house contained some excellent panelling and a pendant
ceiling, now removed. Traces of it's former beauty could be seen in the ten
light mullioned window in the row. In the north side were some 17th. century
houses with iron figures ‑ 169 ‑ the last numeral was missing.
Robert Grief had fish curing houses here”.[1]
“Called
Rose and Crown Row, also Cart and Horse Row, from two public house signs.
The
house at the north‑west corner, number 52, was long the property and
residence of George Danby Palmer, who died here in 1865, aged 78. This and the
adjoining house, no.51 were erected in 1819, upon the site of some warehouses,
and a painter's shop, then in the occupation of Lonsdale and Garwood, which
property had in the 17th.C, belonged to the Bartram family. It passed in due
course to William Shuldham, who had been under a covenant not to sell or
alienate it, however he sold the site nevertheless to William Danby Palmer, who
removed all the old buildings and erected the houses nos. 51 and 52. Number 51
was for some years occupied by Dr.Whincopp, and number 52 was first occupied by
Richard Fielding Moyse, who married Miss Belward. The three houses between no
137 and row 138 were in the 17th.century, in the possession of Thomas Pierson,
merchant, and were devised by him in 1699 to his only daughter and heiress,
Mary, who married Benjamin Lane, and their son married Ann, daughter of the
Rev.Robert Clayton, who was presented to the rectory of Caister in 1724. In 1770 the property was sold to Samuel
Costerton. The house no.53 was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. The north front room on the ground floor is lined throughout with
wainscot, very richly carved and in excellent preservation, never having been
painted. It has a fine pendant moulded ceiling divided into compartments. The
room now used as a kitchen is also lined with wainscot in panels. This house
after the death of Mr.Samuel Costerton, was purchased by W.D.Palmer, who cased
the original cut‑flint front with white brick. It was for many years the
residence of Thomas Burton Esq., who died here in 1841 aged 68. In this house Mr.Gourlay when filling the
office of Mayor in 1849, entertained
Dr.Hinds, then recently appointed to the Bishopric of Norwich”.[2]
The
1936 Row Survey says ‑ "On the south side near the Quay is a very
fine flint (squared) wall of a premises (not a dwelling) in good
condition".
At
number 4 in this row lived the Dugdale family in 1913, but their house was
shown as no. 6 on the 1927 and 1936 lists. Florence May Dugdale was born in
1900 in this row, and married her husband from here on Christmas day in 1920,
her eldest boy was born here, (14th Oct 1921) before moving to Delf's Row,
(135) on the other side of Middlegate. Altogether she had 7 children. Her
husband was a cooper from Runham, where they lived in Runham from 1925 to 1936,
but her parents continued to live at no 6.
The
children in row 137 would go onto the quay to collect coal that had fallen off
the railway trucks. They would also go down to the barracks and take a bag with
them to ask the soldiers for corned beef and bread. William Dugdale, Florence's
father, was a fisherman, and when he went off to fish around Iceland, the boat
would be away for three months at a time. During that time Mrs.Dugdale was
allowed a pound a week to keep her and her children. If she got into debt she would only have to pay it back next trip, so anything
that the children could beg or scrounge was most welcome. Matthes' cake shop in
the Market Place was another port of call. They went there at 6.30 in the
morning for two penny's worth of whatever leftovers they could get from the day
before. They also tried Clowes' shop, several of the poor families children,
mainly fishermen's families, they would stand around in the cold outside the
shop in the hope of two pennyworth of bacon scraps. Some of the children had no
proper boots to wear. Usually the shop would have something to give them.
As a
teenager, Florence went into Sutton's fish‑house, where she worked from
September to April, working with herring, bloaters, and kippers. In the summer
she would waitress for Joe Powell at the Garibaldi
Hotel. He took about a thousand boys in, in the summer. Every Thursday he would
give the boys a pail, and they would go onto Marine Parade to collect for the
Hospital. The "Garibaldi Lambs"
were an institution. Powell provided cheap lodgings[3] for young men from London. They had four
meals and a bed for the sum of 3/6
per day in 1890. As many as 6,000 men used the Garibaldi during a season, and
were described as being lively, harmless, a little too exuberant, and a trifle
caddish, but very good at collecting for charities. Nowadays the Garibaldi does
not have accommodation, but many young people from London and elsewhere are
accommodated in former holiday accommodation all year round, reducing further
the numbers of visitors, often being rowdy, and contributing little to the
community.
Florence
Dugdale's grandmother, (Mary Ann Dugdale) lived in Carrolls Court, off
Middlegate Street, a court between St.Peter's paved row and the next row. She
made herbal wines, and sold them to the locals. She was called the "Little
Band Box", dressed in a white bonnet, and apron, and with her basket and
black shawl she would go off to collect her pension from the General Post
Office. The bottles were returned for
Florence to wash. The wine was a sell‑out. William Dugdale lived to the age of 94, and was never ill in his
life, but moved out of the row to Besseys Buildings, which were bombed in the
war. His wife's legs were injured, and she was moved to the workhouse, as was
William for a while. They both died in
the Northgate work‑house.
Mrs.Dugdale, living at no.6, used to let a room for the mission, and the
house was known as the "Mission House". Actually they had free use of
the room on a sunday night. The Dugdale's children were Rosie, Arthur, Tommy,
Billy, Freddie, and Florence.
There
was a small passage beside the house, and a scullery with a copper, which they
used for washing, and a small yard at the back. There was a tin bath, but they
used the copper to heat the water.
Mrs.Dugdale took in washing, and would be up until late at night ironing
it with her flat iron. William (Billy)
Dugdale, (the son), moved into Row 116, and lived there between the wars at
no.22. He was married there, and had six children. Billy was a prisoner of war
in Germany in the first war, but came home safely after. He was the oldest boy,
after Rosie the eldest. He was well treated, and came home fat! He also worked
in the fish house, later for a coal merchant.
At
23, Row 137 the Gallants lived almost opposite to the Dugdales, but slightly
further down. They were slightly nearer to Middlegate, and opposite was the
back of a large building of the next row.
Mrs.Bullent lived nearby, with two steps up into their house. Florence remembers the Butcher murder, and
says that Butcher had gold in on his person, and was murdered for it. George Waters worked for Jarvis the fish
merchant. There were two brothers, and Florence worked in all the fish‑houses
at different times. He was a cooper, but also ran Victor Cooper's fish‑House
on the South Denes near Suttons.
The Occupants, Row One Hundred and Thirty Seven, 1886
(from Middlegate Street to South Quay)
Sutton, T.
Westgate, R., ship carpenter
Harris, F.
Brown, J., cooper
Jackman, J, shrimper
Easter, H.
Angel, G., smacksman
Roberts, J., smacksman
Hicks, R., smacksman
Ashby, H., rigger
Fuller, J., sailmaker
Appleby, W., wherryman
Dibney, Mrs.
Jackman, Mrs.
Child, H.
Ward, J., smacksman
Lowther, W., sailmaker
Norton, E., fisherman
Shreeve, J., fisherman
Claxon, C., fisherman
Hemp, Mrs.
Wilton, R., fisherman
Burwood, T., fisherman
Mitchell, J., fisherman
Pate, J., fisherman
Henry, W.
Lowther, A.
Brown, Mrs.E.
Garrard, R., blacksmith
Rich, W., smacksman
Turrell, R., smack master
Henry, H., smacksman
Bellamy, Mrs.
Hickling, S., mariner
McKenzie, R., smacksman
Pile, J., mariner
Chaston, J.
Gray, J., bricklayer
The Occupants, Row One Hundred and Thirty Seven, 1913
(from Middlegate Street to South Quay)
1. Cutting, William
2. Plumstead, William
3. Gowen, George
4. Dugdale, William
5. Palmer, George
6. Meadows, William
7. King, Henry
8. Clements, Arthur, Edward
9. Mundy, Frederick
10. Brown, Henry
11. Woods, Albert
12. Ward, Luke
13. Dawson, Robert, William
14. Bullent, Henry Daniel
south side
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18. Rich, Mrs
19. Palmer, Frank, Benjamin
20. Smith, Mrs
21. Purdy, Charles
22. Johnson, Benjamin
22a. Bensley, Henry
23. Gallant, John
24. Henderson, John
26. Snelling, Herbert
27. Scales, William
The Occupants, Row One Hundred and Thirty Seven, 1927
(from Middlegate Street to South Quay)
north side
1a. Collins, James
2. Gibbs, Alfred
3. Turner, Mrs.
4. Snelling, Mrs.
5. Betts, Mrs.
6. Dugdale, William
7. Spink, Ernest William
7a. Frankling, Mrs
8. Arbon, Edward John
9. Smith, Frederick
10. Lacey, Arthur
11. Curtis, Walter Robert
12. Ward, Mrs
13. Dawson, Robert William
14. Bullent, Henry Daniel
south side
......Row 138 1/2 ........
18.Upton, Herbert
19. Bryant, James Robert
20. Bond, John
22. Johnson, Benjamin
23. Gallant, John
23a. Martins, Robert William
24. Annison, John
25. Boyce, Arthur
26. Boast, Robert
27. Scales, William
The Occupants, Row One Hundred and Thirty Seven, 1936
(from 123 Middlegate Street to 52 South Quay)
north side
1a. Collins, James
1. Kerrison, Samuel
2. Gladman, Leonard
3. Turner, Mrs.
4. Snelling, Mrs.
5. Betts, Mrs.
6. Dugdale, William
7. Spink, Ernest William
8. Arbon, Edward John
9. Smith, Frederick
10. Lacey, Arthur
11. Curtis, Walter Robert
12. Major, Mrs.E.
13. Dawson, Robert William
14. Bullent, Henry Daniel
south side
......Row 138 1/2 ........
18.Upton, Herbert
19. Bryant, James Robert
20. Bond, John
21. Hodds, Joseph Frederick
22. Johnson, Benjamin
22a. Smith, James Frederick
23. Gallant, John
24. Durrant, Miss
25. Boast, Robert
26. Hambling, Albert
27. Scales, Mrs.