Timberhill
Timberhill
Certain gaps on the east side of the street remained unfilled after the war, when the air raid of 27th June 1942, caused widespread damage. No 20 Timberhill was one such casualty. Once the Star and Crown public house, it had ceased to be licensed by the 1930s and was then privately occupied, but the name was perpetuated in the yard at the side. Its front wall was constructed of split or “knapped” flints such as at the Green Man in King Street and the Royal Oak in Oak Street. Here the ground floor had been spoiled by the insertion of a shop front; when the shop front was later removed the ground floor had been unsympathetically repaired with brick. Gutted by fire in the raid, the building was demolished soon after. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2004 |
Timberhill became so called because in
the time of Edward III land hereabouts was used for a
market for timber. In 1507 it was “Tymbermarket
Hill,” and “14 Henry VIII Robt. Spall paid 4d.
for the Easement or convenience of laying his Timber upon
the common ground at Tymber Hill...At that time Timber
was very plentifull, now the carpenters are glad to go
into the country to search it out & buy it
there”.