Lobster Lane
Lobster Lane Linking Pottergate with
Bedford Street is Lobster Lane. Both this and Bedford
Street were regarded as part of Pottergate in the early
eighteenth century. Here on its north side stood the
Lobster inn, referred to in its later years as the Old
Lobster, since a New Lobster opened its doors in Sir
Benjamin Wrench’s Court on a site later occupied by
the Corn Hall and now by Jarrolds’ store. An etching
by Henry Ninham shows a fine timbered building of three
storeys with twin bays rising from first-floor level.
Once the home of Sir Benjamin Wrench, the eminent
eighteenth-century Norwich physician, the house is shown
by Ninham with the name of the inn above one of its
doors.In Lobster Lane the old house with the roughcast front, which was occupied by Frosts, the tool merchants, was gutted by fire on 2nd August 1942, during a raid that also destroyed the premises of house furnishers Trevor Page. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2004 |