Norwich Street Furniture

Street furniture 00 [ Wooden Pump Websdale’s Court Bedford Street, St Michael at Pleas churchyard wall recess (supposedly marks the site of the Red Well from which Redwell Street took its name), Common Pump St John Maddermarket “Shalders’ Patent Fountain Pump” c.1836, Gibson’s Pump Westwick Street (a public spring rose near this spot in the time of Edward I, and in 1576 it was granted to Robert Gibson on condition that he piped the water to the street and there erected a pump at his own expense - photographed 1956 in the wall of Bullard’s brewery and 1998 facing north towards Anchor Quay) ]

St John Maddermarket: the Pump

Westwick Street: Gibson’s Pump

Street furniture 01 [ Old Cannon opposite 64 The Close (used as a corner post - Francis & Blyth Norwich - early 19c.), St Giles’ Terrace Bethel Street Gas lamp (most were converted to electricity 1911-13), Mile Stone opposite Woodlands Park Dereham Road, Pillar Letter Box Gentleman’s Walk (Victorian - the oldest in Norwich) ]

Bethel Street: the Gas Lamp

Street furniture 02 [ Shop signs: Golden Teapot Strangers Hall museum (a grocer’s sign once displayed by Robt.Fox and later John Dodson at his shop at the corner of Magdalen Street and St Saviour’s Lane), Golden Eagle and Pearl shop sign 10 Davey Place (carved by John Culyer in 1869 a century after the original business was founded - originally Isaac March silversmith - later Etheridge & Ellis - then Bonsers tea dealers), Highlander shop sign Millers the Tobacconists 37 London Street (probably as old as the business which was founded in 1812) ]

Davey Place: the Eagle and Pearl

London Street: the Highlander

Street furniture 03 [ Parish boundary plates: 1 Earlham Road (boundary of Heigham St Bartholomew in 1811 - affixed to the former Grapes Hotel - unique in being the only one outside the city wall), Coach & Horses Inn 51 Bethel Street (four lead plates and inscribed stone at boundary of St Giles’ and St Peter Mancroft’s parishes - dates between 1710 and 1829), 16 Princes Street (three lead plates at boundary of St Peter Hungate’s and St George Tombland’s parishes - dates 1777 1828 and 1834) ]

196 such boundary marks were recorded as still existing about the city in the 1930’s.

Princes Street: the Parish Boundary Plates

Street furniture 04 [ Cattle Trough Bell Avenue (now converted to flower display - inscribed “Erected to the Memory of/ Harrington Wyndham Darrell/ Doctor of Medicine/ Norwich/ Died 9th January 1920” - Dr Darrell was a great animal lover - the trough was originally placed next to his house at 12 All Saints Green), Drinking Fountain at the corner of St George Colegate churchyard (given to the church in the 19c. by J.C.Barnham - inscribed “Wayfaring Man for thee this Fount was giv’n/ A Channel to impart the boon of Heav’n/ Drink and thank God and in this water trace/ An earnest of His love, an emblem of His Grace”), Cattle Trough outside entrance to Sewell Park St Clement’s Hill (now converted to flower display - inscribed “1917/ This Fountain was placed here by/ Ada Sewell in memory of her Aunt/ Anna Sewell authoress of Black Beauty and of/ her Sister Edith Sewell/ Two lovers of animals”) ]

Street furniture 05 [ Obelisk Drinking Fountain Tombland (erected 1860 by John Henry Gurney to mark the site used by machinery to raise and store water for the higher parts of the city from c1700 to c1850), Disused Men’s Public Toilet St Crispin’s Road (built c1919 - believed to be the oldest one of concrete in the world), Drinking Fountain at east end of Guildhall (presented in 1859 by Charles P.Melly), The “Hairpin” gate (leading to The Close from Horse Fair St Faith’s Lane) ]

Street furniture 06 [ Drinking Fountain Norwich Cemetery Earlham Road (“Presented/ by the/ Chairman/ of the/ Burial Board Committee/ Alderman/ Ambrose Winter/ 16th August/ 1892”), Millennium Mile Post Agricultural Hall Plain (erected 1998 - one of many marking the route of the National Cycle Network launched in 1995 - it shows the distance to the next post) ]

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