Cannerby Lane
2's Company
Opened in 1985 as a purpose built salon. It was a plot of land before permission was granted for the building.
Opened in 1985 as a purpose built salon. It was a plot of land before permission was granted for the building.
Co-Op & Butchers
There was to be a Co-Op store and in 1988 Tonys Discount Food shop before it moved later to Roundtree Way and butchers next to Studio 25 hairdressers. Used to be in the new flats next to 25 Company hairdressers. There was another butchers which is still there called Beehive Butchery.
There was to be a Co-Op store and in 1988 Tonys Discount Food shop before it moved later to Roundtree Way and butchers next to Studio 25 hairdressers. Used to be in the new flats next to 25 Company hairdressers. There was another butchers which is still there called Beehive Butchery.
Photo: Bunji Rogers. Mr Rogers at the Co-Op Butchers.
Advert from 1973
Dawns New Horizon
Used to be Global Travel Lounge and before that Bernice Lawless tells us "I used to own the kitchen garden fruit and veg shop 1988 to 1992.
It became Dawn's New Horizon in 2012 which is a Norwich based support group and shop that provides support & advice to victims of domestic abuse. Dawns New Horizon started out in 2006 by Lorraine Saunders from Norwich. It was also once a stall in Looses's.
Used to be Global Travel Lounge and before that Bernice Lawless tells us "I used to own the kitchen garden fruit and veg shop 1988 to 1992.
It became Dawn's New Horizon in 2012 which is a Norwich based support group and shop that provides support & advice to victims of domestic abuse. Dawns New Horizon started out in 2006 by Lorraine Saunders from Norwich. It was also once a stall in Looses's.
Ian Moncur Newsagents
Ian closed the shop in 2014. His original shop was on Linacre were the Premier shop is now. Ian ran a Newsagents for 25 years. His Father and Grandfather were also shop keepers.
The family’s trading dates back to the end of the Second World War when Ian Moncur’s grandfather started a tobacconist at Devonshire Street in Norwich selling ration books to post-war shoppers.
His son Derek Moncur, 77, from Norwich, took over the reins and bought his first shop for £150, running a successful business on Magdalen Street in Norwich and Linacre Avenue in Sprowston for 35 years.
After a childhood of delivering papers and a career in the Royal Marines, Ian Moncur decided to follow in the family footsteps and bought the business from his father in 1988.
A staple in the newsagents’ calendar was taking paperboys and girls to Great Yarmouth for a day out as a thank you for their hard work.
From here - https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/read-all-about-it-new-era-for-sprowston-family-newsagent-1-3675910
Ian closed the shop in 2014. His original shop was on Linacre were the Premier shop is now. Ian ran a Newsagents for 25 years. His Father and Grandfather were also shop keepers.
The family’s trading dates back to the end of the Second World War when Ian Moncur’s grandfather started a tobacconist at Devonshire Street in Norwich selling ration books to post-war shoppers.
His son Derek Moncur, 77, from Norwich, took over the reins and bought his first shop for £150, running a successful business on Magdalen Street in Norwich and Linacre Avenue in Sprowston for 35 years.
After a childhood of delivering papers and a career in the Royal Marines, Ian Moncur decided to follow in the family footsteps and bought the business from his father in 1988.
A staple in the newsagents’ calendar was taking paperboys and girls to Great Yarmouth for a day out as a thank you for their hard work.
From here - https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/read-all-about-it-new-era-for-sprowston-family-newsagent-1-3675910
Pond
There used to be a pond where the green is now in front of the shops and Old Beehive pub.
There used to be a pond where the green is now in front of the shops and Old Beehive pub.
Rosies
Used to be Marbella's
Used to be Marbella's
The Salon
Used to be Hair By Kellys
Used to be Hair By Kellys
Sprowston High School
Opened on Monday 8th July 1963 as the schools on Recreation Ground Road were getting overcrowded. It used to have an outdoor swimming pool! Originally built to cater for 400 pupils.
List of headteachers
David, Skidmore, Best
Opened on Monday 8th July 1963 as the schools on Recreation Ground Road were getting overcrowded. It used to have an outdoor swimming pool! Originally built to cater for 400 pupils.
List of headteachers
David, Skidmore, Best
Gerry Best has sent this email in today after seeing this picture in my article
Hi Ross
I was very interested to see in the latest edition of Just Sprowston
a photo of my class at the Secondary Modern School from 1957-8.
In the past I have sent Bev lots of old pics but have never seen this one before
and I must say it is one of the best I have seen. I went to school with John Grand,
in fact I am standing next to him in the pic. I can name most of the boys
fairly confidently but the girls I recognise very few, so here goes:
BOYS left to right:
Jeremy Smith, William Girling, Peter Foster?, Peter Steward, Dennis Howard, Michael Watson,
Richard Ames, Kenneth London, Michael Pratt, me Gerald Best, John Grand, Robin Burrows,
Colin? Ross, Raymond Hammond, David Brown and David Wade??
GIRLS
immediately to the right of Mr Howman is Susan Lamas, 2nd from left back row is Jill Brighton,
5th left back row is Pauline Reeve.
Mr Howman was our form teacher but was also the school's Religious Knowledge teacher
and he was still there when my two daughters went to the High School in the 80s.
Thanks for the lovely memory.
Regards Gerry Best
Hi Ross
I was very interested to see in the latest edition of Just Sprowston
a photo of my class at the Secondary Modern School from 1957-8.
In the past I have sent Bev lots of old pics but have never seen this one before
and I must say it is one of the best I have seen. I went to school with John Grand,
in fact I am standing next to him in the pic. I can name most of the boys
fairly confidently but the girls I recognise very few, so here goes:
BOYS left to right:
Jeremy Smith, William Girling, Peter Foster?, Peter Steward, Dennis Howard, Michael Watson,
Richard Ames, Kenneth London, Michael Pratt, me Gerald Best, John Grand, Robin Burrows,
Colin? Ross, Raymond Hammond, David Brown and David Wade??
GIRLS
immediately to the right of Mr Howman is Susan Lamas, 2nd from left back row is Jill Brighton,
5th left back row is Pauline Reeve.
Mr Howman was our form teacher but was also the school's Religious Knowledge teacher
and he was still there when my two daughters went to the High School in the 80s.
Thanks for the lovely memory.
Regards Gerry Best
The Beehive
The pub is on the site of an old farmhouse and a hoss pit. Hilda & Stanley Brown opened the pub on Tuesday October 27th 1959. They left the pub in 1965. The Norwich Evening News reported on Friday 2nd March 2012 that this pub is now closed and the landlords have suddenly moved to The Crown in Costessey. The pub closed on January 16th 2014 and it is now a Co Op store.. Loads more history - http://the-beehive-pub.co.uk/index.htm and
here
The pub is on the site of an old farmhouse and a hoss pit. Hilda & Stanley Brown opened the pub on Tuesday October 27th 1959. They left the pub in 1965. The Norwich Evening News reported on Friday 2nd March 2012 that this pub is now closed and the landlords have suddenly moved to The Crown in Costessey. The pub closed on January 16th 2014 and it is now a Co Op store.. Loads more history - http://the-beehive-pub.co.uk/index.htm and
here
Picture: John Claxton / Evening News
Evening News press cutting about the opening of The Beehive on Cannerby Lane on Tuesday October 27th 1959.
