Official Guide to North Walsham 2023-2024
Everything you need to know about North Walsham and the local area for visitors and residents alike in a full colour, 160 page book. Up to date information on groups, services, businesses, events and stuff to see in the North Walsham area along with extensive history of the town in words and photos.
Everything you need to know about North Walsham and the local area for visitors and residents alike in a full colour, 160 page book. Up to date information on groups, services, businesses, events and stuff to see in the North Walsham area along with extensive history of the town in words and photos.
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148 North Walsham Town Guide
Cromer Road in the 1880s. Photographed by J. MacLean.
1786 New North Walsham Workhouse built
on Mundesley Road (Swafield Road).
1787 Clock added to Market Cross (moved
from Worstead Hall).
1797 Norwich-North Walsham Turnpike
opened.
1800 s
1820 Methodist Chapel opens on Church
Street.
Randell’s established.
1826 North Walsham & Dilham Canal opened.
1828 Fisher Theatre, Vicarage Street opened.
1834 North Walsham Workhouse closed
(relocated to Erpingham).
1835 Church Tower further collapse.
Cubitt’s Stores, 21 Market Place opened.
1836 Church Tower final collapse.
1838 Celebrations as North Walsham is lit by
gas for the first time.
1840 Celebratory tea parties and dinners as
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1845 Fisher Theatre in Vicarage Street sold.
National School opens in old Fisher
Theatre, Vicarage Street.
1846 Vicarage Street Police Station &
Firehouse built.
1849 Tudor House built on Grammar School
Road.
1853 The Maid’s Head in Mitre Tavern Yard
closed.
1856 Congregational Church, Cromer Road
built.
1863 The Turnpike Gate pub on Norwich
Road closed.
1864 The White Lion pub in the Market Place
closed (and became Barclays Bank).
1865 St Nicholas’ Works (foundry) opened on
Mundesley Road.
1874 Manor Road School.
North Walsham Main Station opened.
1881 Town Railway Station opened.
1883 North Walsham Fire Crew formed.
1890 Methodist Church on Grammar School
Road opened.
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