Rear of the terrace, looking from the churchyard in 1969
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Rear of the terrace, looking from the churchyard in 1969 |
Church Row was dubbed Rotten Row by the then Lord Robert Walpole, however many of the locals knew it as Barrel Yard on accouint of the large rainwater barrel outside the back of each cottage.
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[Church Row cottages] they were poor places, I know because when my mother lived in this one, no. 13, when it rained at night she had to have an umbrella up in bed... I went with her when we had to pay the rent once. She used to pay £4.50, that was £4 10s then, a year. That was a lot of money then... you ony got about 24 bob a week. Lord Walpole sat with the agent to take the rent and when the agent asked if we had any complaints, my mother said, "Yes I want a new roof." So Lord Walpole said, "What's wrong with your roof?" She said, "Well I got in a rare puckaterry the other night!" He said, "Why's that?" She said "The rain came in and I had to put up a bloomin' umbrella." Ruth Harrison |
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Drawn from memory by Ruth Harrison |
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Probably taken in the '50s - the council houses have not yet been built |
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Closeup from the picture above showing the vegetable gardens. Note the well shown in the drawing above. |
There was a well... we used to collect frogs and moles, what we used to call rannies used to drown themselves in it... they used to tumble in the well...we didn't die over it... Ruth Harrison |
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Rear of the terrace, looking from the forge in 1969 |
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Rear of the terrace, looking from the forge in 1969 |
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Church row behind the cycle speedway track |
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Church procession on the 19th May 1963 with the cottages in the background |
I found your website very interesting. During the war, I was an evacuee in Iteringham, living in the first cottage of Church Row next to Church Road. The family was Mrs Broughton, with two boys close to my own age, Freddy & Denis. I was puzzled by your correspondents recollection of living in number 13 Church Row. To the best of my recollection there were only four cottages in the row, and certainly only four thunderbucket toilets at the end of the row to serve the tenants. The two room school had a lady teacher who taught the older pupils in one room, while one of the older girls was delegated to look after the younger pupils in the lower room. Even older pupils were taken by bus to Sherringham each day. I visited the village a couple of years ago when I was in the UK, but found it much changed. everything seemed much smaller than I recalled as a child. Tony Rock, Hudson, MA, USA - 10th April 2010 |
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