Category: Great Yarmouth

Row 84 in Great Yarmouth, named after John Ireland who was Mayor of the town in 1716 and practised as an apothecary.

At the entrance to the row, in the building on the right hand side in the above photo, was the Ship Inn and this is where John Ireland lived. A once impressive pub, although reduced in size in recent years, which is unfortunately now no longer a pub and was turned into offices used by the NHS and is now a commercial premises for a cigar company. It was built in the early seventeenth century as a residential property and was converted into a pub later on during the seventeenth century. Apparently some of the seventeenth cellars are intact and although I doubt I’ll ever see them, I like that this sort of hidden history is still there.

Of all of the rows, this isn’t perhaps the most interesting as there hasn’t been residential occupation along here in recent centuries.

Another salubrious row, although there’s a nice lamppost. Robert Cubitt operated his whitesmith’s premises from here in the 1840s, but I don’t know where the Harrison reference comes from.

There’s going to be a few posts about the Rows of Great Yarmouth (row as in a row of cottages, not as in an argument leading to a violent fight) since I’m leading a heritage walk there this weekend. I like the effort that the town has put in to placing signs up with the name of each row, with the old painted numbering system also still visible.

Very delightful I’m sure everyone would agree. Anyway, this is Fisher’s Row, number 86, which has also been named Fielding’s Row after the surgeon Benjamin Fielding who lived here. The current name is from John Fisher, an eighteenth century merchant from the town and I think it’s the same person who was Mayor of Great Yarmouth in 1767.