Grove Road
Grove Road Grove Road is the site of
another wartime casualty, the Surrey inn at No 74,
a Steward and Patteson house. On A. W. Morant’s map
of Norwich (1873) the major part of All Saints’
Green, to which Grove Road forms an extension, was marked
as Upper Surrey Street, and it was from this, no doubt,
that the public house took its name.A newspaper report recording the destruction of the inn in April 1942, referred to its longstanding link with Norwich Hill. It was here in the extensive yards at the rear of the house that large numbers of cattle destined for the market were sheltered overnight before railway and motor transport took the herds off the roads. My photograph, taken in May 1939, shows something else which has vanished in recent years - the horse-drawn milk float with its large churn and smaller container from which the milk would be ladled in pint and half-pint measures directly into the customer’s jug. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2001 |