ROW ONE HUNDRED – FULLER'S SOUTH ROW
From South Quay to Middlegate Street, called Fuller's South Row.
At the north‑west corner was a house which as has been stated, was
conveyed to the Rev.Wymberley
Salmon who died here in
1728. It was
afterwards purchased by John
Fisher Costerton, who was water bailiff from 1814 to 1835, when the office was abolished. It was
subsequently occupied by John Bessey Hylton,
a member of the town council who while attending a public meeting at the
town hall on the subject of the fish wharves bill in 1866, suddenly fell from
his chair speechless, and died in a few hours.[1]
Crown Buildings, housing the DSS[2]
At the south‑west corner was a
public house formerly belonging to Mallett's Brewery[3]. It
was successively called "The Rampant Horse", the
"Custom House", and
the "Sons of Commerce". On
the south side of this row
and extending to
the next, was a large
substantially built red brick
house, which was erected in the seventeenth
century by William Spooner, who
in 1692, married Jane, daughter of Thomas Scarlett, merchant, when he put it in settlement. He served in the
office of Bailiff in 1699, and
Mayor in 1713, and died in 1722 aged 67, leaving considerable estates at Billockby, Hemsby,
and Winterton. When this house was
erected, it was open to the Quay. It was converted into a sailmaker's warehouse,
but vestiges of its former
importance still remained in the 19th. century. *1
At the north‑east corner was
an old house, no.169, which in 1687 was in the possession of Thomas Browne, son of Thomas Browne of
Southtown, and afterwards of Lound, who, in 1704 conveyed it to John
Morris,"Chirurgien" (Palmer does not realise I think,
that this is just another name for a surgeon). The
latter, dying in 1729, aged 58,
left it with
other property to his son Thomas
Morris, who dying in 1735, aged 34, devised it to his brother John Morris. Ultimately, at the beginning of the 19th.
century, it became the property of the Nightingale family.
The Row Survey 1936 ‑
"Here on the north side is an old house with a gabled dormer and
Tudor chimney. It is a two storey building with attics, and there may be a cellar.
A warehouse on the south side has stone quoins, and a thick wall in flint and
brick. A fine moulded brick string
course divides the ground and first
floors. The building has been carried
up one storey high in brickwork of recent date. Presumably this
building was at an early stage a large house".
The row was bombed out on Wednesday July 9th. in a sustained raid in the
early morning, in common with rows 92 and 96, the Unitarian Chapel, and the park
church. A bomb fell near to the crane on the Quay. A bomb in Caister Road
opened the water main. Southtown railway was damaged. There were hits on
Jewson's yard, St. Mary's Lane, Sefton arms, Sefton lane, St. Mary's Lane, The
gasometer on Southtown Road was reduced to a shrivelled mass. One hundred and
eighty seven bombs were dropped in the borough, with 3 persons killed and 27
injured. (ref. William Harry Codd's Diary, Vol. IV, p. 4)
The Occupants, Row One Hundred,
1886
( from King Street to Middlegate
Street )
Camp, P.
Dowsing, J., mariner