Fire1645

The fire began in a fish-house which was located below the site of the former No. 1 High Street, which is now a vacant plot of land (the 19th century house which stood there having been long demolished). It spread southwards and destroyed all the fish-houses along Whaplond Way (Whapload Road) as far as Rant Score – seventeen or eighteen in all – and twelve houses on the east side of the High Street (Nos. 47-63, using today’s postal addresses for the sites). The blaze also jumped across the High Street and destroyed or seriously damaged another five houses between Blue Anchor Lane(Duke’s Head Street) and Bell Lane (Crown Street East) – Nos. 143-149 today