Herring Fishery Score
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HerringFisheryScore
High Street
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
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This seems to be the score with most names attributed to it over the years - Jack Rose’s Lowestoft, p. 28, mentioning Christchurch, Porter’s, Nelson, Spendlove’s and Penloo’s (Penlow’s ?). Whether or not this list is in time-sequence is not known. Christchurch is easily accounted for, in terms of naming, as it is the church which stands at the bottom of the score and which was built in 1868 (to the design of W.O. Chambers) to largely serve the Beach Village community. Porter, Spendlove and Penloo/Penlow can all be accounted for as people’s surnames - which leaves Nelson. Again this might be an individual person’s surname, but there is also the possibility of it being connected with Old Nelson Street, which it opened onto at the top end. And a few doors down, on the same (east) side was Thomas Huke’s Nelson Printing Works - he who published and produced an annual directory of the town during the late 19th century.
The name Herring Fishery derives from that of a public house which once stood at the top of the score, immediately to the north, and is recorded as such in White’s Directory of Suffolk (1874), p. 735. By 1892, Huke’s Lowestoft Directory of that year, p. 76, has the premises named as Fisheries Hotel. A licensed premises still occupies the site at No. 108 High Street, but had changed its name to The Spreadeagle by 1937 (Kelly’s Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, p. 654). At some point, during the later decades of the 20th century, it had become The Wheatsheaf and has most recently (2023) changed its name to The Carousel. During the later 16th century, the score itself was known as Barringforth’s Score, after Ralph Barringforth (mariner) and this continued under his son William - though, for how long, is not known. They lived in a house at the top of the score, on its southern side. The Revd. John Tanner’s 1720-25 Listing simply refers to it as a common score. And that is as much as can be said regarding this particular footway.
History
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This seems to be the score with most names attributed to it over the years - Jack Rose’s Lowestoft, p. 28, mentioning Christchurch, Porter’s, Nelson, Spendlove’s and Penloo’s (Penlow’s ?). Whether or not this list is in time-sequence is not known. Christchurch is easily accounted for, in terms of naming, as it is the church which stands at the bottom of the score and which was built in 1868 (to the design of W.O. Chambers) to largely serve the Beach Village community. Porter, Spendlove and Penloo/Penlow can all be accounted for as people’s surnames - which leaves Nelson. Again this might be an individual person’s surname, but there is also the possibility of it being connected with Old Nelson Street, which it opened onto at the top end. And a few doors down, on the same (east) side was Thomas Huke’s Nelson Printing Works - he who published and produced an annual directory of the town during the late 19th century.
The name Herring Fishery derives from that of a public house which once stood at the top of the score, immediately to the north, and is recorded as such in White’s Directory of Suffolk (1874), p. 735. By 1892, Huke’s Lowestoft Directory of that year, p. 76, has the premises named as Fisheries Hotel. A licensed premises still occupies the site at No. 108 High Street, but had changed its name to The Spreadeagle by 1937 (Kelly’s Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, p. 654). At some point, during the later decades of the 20th century, it had become The Wheatsheaf and has most recently (2023) changed its name to The Carousel. During the later 16th century, the score itself was known as Barringforth’s Score, after Ralph Barringforth (mariner) and this continued under his son William - though, for how long, is not known. They lived in a house at the top of the score, on its southern side. The Revd. John Tanner’s 1720-25 Listing simply refers to it as a common score. And that is as much as can be said regarding this particular footway.
Architecture
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This seems to be the score with most names attributed to it over the years - Jack Rose’s Lowestoft, p. 28, mentioning Christchurch, Porter’s, Nelson, Spendlove’s and Penloo’s (Penlow’s ?). Whether or not this list is in time-sequence is not known. Christchurch is easily accounted for, in terms of naming, as it is the church which stands at the bottom of the score and which was built in 1868 (to the design of W.O. Chambers) to largely serve the Beach Village community. Porter, Spendlove and Penloo/Penlow can all be accounted for as people’s surnames - which leaves Nelson. Again this might be an individual person’s surname, but there is also the possibility of it being connected with Old Nelson Street, which it opened onto at the top end. And a few doors down, on the same (east) side was Thomas Huke’s Nelson Printing Works - he who published and produced an annual directory of the town during the late 19th century.
The name Herring Fishery derives from that of a public house which once stood at the top of the score, immediately to the north, and is recorded as such in White’s Directory of Suffolk (1874), p. 735. By 1892, Huke’s Lowestoft Directory of that year, p. 76, has the premises named as Fisheries Hotel. A licensed premises still occupies the site at No. 108 High Street, but had changed its name to The Spreadeagle by 1937 (Kelly’s Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, p. 654). At some point, during the later decades of the 20th century, it had become The Wheatsheaf and has most recently (2023) changed its name to The Carousel. During the later 16th century, the score itself was known as Barringforth’s Score, after Ralph Barringforth (mariner) and this continued under his son William - though, for how long, is not known. They lived in a house at the top of the score, on its southern side. The Revd. John Tanner’s 1720-25 Listing simply refers to it as a common score. And that is as much as can be said regarding this particular footway. ©2024 CREDIT:David Butcher
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