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Dear Readers
We are sourcing what we can from the Library’s holdings and have added 1940-1941, 1943-1950 in the last 24 hours.
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¶By 1960 the almost wholesale demolition of buildings in Goose Street, Lower Street, Holborn, and the surrounding area had obliterated any traces, if such survived, of the early development of the town on the low-lying ground between the castle site and the High Street. Among houses still standing or partly demolished in this area, one or two are of the early 18th century.
They include the Pomona Inn, which retains a brick façade of c. 1700 and a semicircular door-hood on carved brackets. It was also in this area, in Lower Street, that a house of Dominican friars, established by 1277,stood. At the dissolution (1538) the domestic buildings included a hall called Kingsley Hall and 'the New Chamber'.
With some lands nearby they were granted in 1540 to John Smith, yeoman of the guard, with remainder to his son Richard for life. In 1578 John Somer held them, and in 1705 Ralph Beech of Newcastle. At the second date they were decayed and had 'lately' been partly used for a kiln and malthouse. The foundations were discovered in 1870–1 when the cattle market was being constructed. Further excavations in 1881 revealed some skeletons and a large sepulchral slab which was removed to St. Giles's churchyard.
The only medieval domestic structure which has been found within the area of the ancient borough is the Star Inn on the south side of Ironmarket. This is a timber-framed building consisting of a two-bay hall parallel with the street, the bays being divided by an open truss with chamfered timbers and an arch-braced tie beam. West of the hall is a two-storied cross wing, its ground floor now occupied by a shop. The upper story probably contained the solar of the medieval house. Subsequent alterations to the building include an inserted ceiling to provide bedrooms in the upper part of the hall and a yard entry driven through its eastern bay. These may well have been made early in the 17th century. There are later brick additions at the back of the house
Don't know if anyone will remember me. I lived in Hawk Green between 1968 and 1978. I attended Doodfield County Primary School and spent a couple of terms at Marple Ridge High when at the age of 11 I was whisked off to Cornwall.
Visiting this site has certainly brought back a lot of happy childhood memories. I will be a regular visitor.