Magpie Road, Norwich
Shut in 2006. The pub has an outbuilding which was formerly a stable, constructed in the 19th century. The ground floor used to have a bar area with 3 partly open plan rooms. The pub had been known as the Weighing Machine and the Weighing Chains because of a weighing machine which hung from the building.
It was used to weigh wagons and their merchandise before they headed into the city via Magdalen Gates.
It was used to weigh wagons and their merchandise before they headed into the city via Magdalen Gates.
The Thomas Tawell House For The Blind opened in 1970. It cost £27.000 to build.