162 High Street

In 1865 No162 was the premises of Gowing and Rounce, Shipping and Commission Agents, Insurance Brokers and General Merchants. Around the 1880's the shop became a grocer's, run by Mr C. E. Nobbs but by the 1950's Gaskin's the high-class fruiters and greengrocers had opened up a second location as well as No35-No36 in No162. You can see in the 2nd picture that the East Anglian Water Company had moved into No163 and you can clearly see their extension into No162. Today the building is flats along with the old East Anglian Water Company building, who's plaque you can see. No163 in 1865 Mr James Gowing ran his Fishmonger's from the address and also had a shop in Whapload Road. By 1900, the shop had passed to Mr William C Carpenter who ran it as a Tobacconist before it became East Anglian Water. No164 which is behind the no-parking sign was recorded as Mr Alfred Taylor's, Confectioners and Tobacconist in the 1932 edition on the Kelly's Directory.

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