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was married at church on sat 3-3-1962,spent first few years of marriage living on upper floor of tower at 98 blackfriars road.i remember well the awful job we had to get our furniture in as the stairs were too steep and winding, had to rope them up through thebedroom/lounge window we shared a kitchen on the lower floor and a shared bathroom and toilet.the tower was owned by olive,sorry i cannot remember her surname, she worked at a butcher shop ,
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Contributed by john cannell
Blackfriars
I too had an aunt who lived there. In its time, it has had a house on top of the tower and a house on the wall attached to the left. The house on top by then had disappeared.
Through the archway was a line of small cottages with large front gardens. This was known as Adam and Eve's Gardens. I used to go through here to get to Friars Lane where my grandmother lived. Further to my previous statement, this tower whilst located in Blackfriars Rd, is the south east tower, Blackfriars Tower is the next tower to the south and it is round in shape, this tower is shaped like a D. THIS WAS WHERE MY AUNT RESIDED.
Contributed by william nicholls
Mum's memories!
It seems that my great great grandparents lived in Blackfriars Tower, sometime in 1920/1930s. Though my mum had told my sister that she remembers visiitng her grandmother in the Tower, she felt that Mum had confused it with somewhere else. A couple of years later we asked my mum's brother and he too remembered his grandparents living there. Unfortunately both are now dead.
Does anyone know anything of the Tower?
We have current photos of the Tower and of course the Wall is uncovered and laid to grass at the front.
We found it difficult to believe that anyone could have lived there.
The photo was a great discovery. What I'd like now is a photo c1920 and a potted ...read more here
Contributed by maggie martin
Serving the past
I have recently discovered, from the 1881 Census, that my great-grandmother was, with her younger sister, in domestic service to the family of Henry Stone at no.35 Regent Road.He is described as 'organist and music teacher'. I would be thrilled to have any more information about the family or the house itself. Does it appear in this picture?
Is the boy with the goat-cart delivering something?
Contributed by Frances Golynia
Extracts From Great Yarmouth & Norfolk books
Here, holidaymakers take a relaxing walk. The
gardens embellish the entrance to Wellington
Pier, and had been bought at a knockdown
price from Torquay, where they had originally
been sited from 1878 to 1881.
An extract from from"East Anglia Pocket Album".
Yarmouth’s attractions include firm and extensive sands for bathers, a marine parade, three piers, the Theatre Royal, and an aquarium. Although it styles itself Great Yarmouth to distinguish it from that small Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight, its usual associations are less with greatness than with bigness, boisterousness, and a joviality unrestrained by any false pride.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Seaside".
Many seaside piers began life as landing stages for pleasure steamers. Thrusting out into the sea, they encapsulated the Victorian passion for innovative feats of engineering. Britannia Pier was constructed in the mid 19th century. Here we see how a new helter-skelter has been added. Hoardings advertise summer seasons by the Brothers Howard and Miss Ruth Vincent. Visitors could also attend a fashionable fancy dress ball.
An extract from from"East Anglia".
Here, holidaymakers take a relaxing walk. The
gardens embellish the entrance to Wellington
Pier, and had been bought at a knockdown
price from Torquay, where they had originally
been sited from 1878 to 1881.
An extract from from"East Anglia Pocket Album".
This celebrated east coast resort has been a flourishing fishing port since the Conqueror’s times. Farmers’ wives and country women have been up since dawn packing their baskets with jars of home-made jams and marmalades for this sizeable market. In the distance is St Nicholas’s Church, said to be one of the largest parish churches in England. Just at the far end of the Market Place is the old Fishermen’s Hospital, founded in 1702 for retired fishermen and their wives.
An extract from from"East Anglia".