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1880s (circa) Jermyns prior to 1884 fire
1887 24th Sept Jermyn & Scott
1887 3rd December Jermyn & Scott
1887 December 17th Jermyn & Scott @ Nos 12 to 16
1887 December 17th Jermyn & Scott @ Nos 12 to 16
1887 Nov 5th Jermyn & Scott @ No 16
1888 June 9th
1888 October 20th Jermyn & Scott Nos 15 & 16
1888 October 20th Jermyn & Scott Nos 15 & 16
1888 October 27th Jermyn & Scott @ 15 & 16
1888 October 27th Jermyn & Scott @ 15 & 16
1890 Dec 13th Jermyn & Scott
1890 Jan 25th Jermyn & Scott
1890 July 5th Jermyn & Scott 2
1890 Mar 8th
1890 Nov 22nd
1890 Sept 13th Jermyn & Perry
1890 Sept 13th Jermyn & Perry 01
1890 Sept 6th Jermyn & Perry
1890 September 27th Jermyn & Scott
1891 August 8th Jermyn & Scott Whincop
1891 November 14th Jermyn & Scott @ Nos 15 & 16
1892 16th August at 89
1892 Aug 6th Dissolution notice
1892 Aug 6th Jermyn & Sons
1892 Aug 6th Jermyn & Sons (01)
1892 Aug 6th Jermyn & Sons (02)
1892 August 6th Jermyn & Sons @ Nos 15 & 16
1892 July 30th Scott & Jermyn dissolution @ Nos 15 & 16
1892 July 30th Scott & Sons first ad @ Church Street
1892 Sept 24th Jermyn & Sons
1892 Sept 24th Jermyn & Sons (01)
1893 Lynn News 28 Jan Alfred Jermyn
1893 May 6th Jermyn & Sons
1893 Sept 23rd Jermyn & Sons
1894 May 26th Jermyn & Sons Mr Rackstraw
1894 May 26th Jermyn & Sons Mr Rackstraw (01)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (10)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (11)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (12)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (13)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (14)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (15)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (16)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (17)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (18)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (19)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (2)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (20)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (21)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (22)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (23)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (24)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (3)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (4)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (5)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (6)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (7)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (8)
1896 April 4th Jermyn & Perry (9)
1897 Fire
1897 fire damage
1900 Feb 10th Jermyn & Perry LN&CP
1901 Apr 5th Jermyn & Sons
1904 Mar 18th Jermyns tender Borough Guardians
1909 Jan 1st Jermyn & Sons
1909 July 9th Jermyns expand
1910 (circa) Jermyn & Perrys
1910 July 1st Jermyns
1910 May 13th Jermyn & Perry
1910 Nov 11th C W Perry
1912 Nov 2nd Jermyn & Perry
1912 Nov 2nd Jermyn & Sons
1912 Nov 30th Jermyn & Sons
1912 Nov 9th Jermyn & Perry 2
1912 Nov 9th Jermyn & Perry fur hats
1912 Oct 26th Jermyn & Perry
1914 Dec 4th Jermyn & Perry
1914 Dec 4th Jermyn & Sons
1914 June 5th Jermyn & Perry
1914 May 22nd Jermyn & Perry
1914 May 8th Jermyn & Perry
1914 Oct 9th Jermyn & Perry
1914 Sept 18th Jermyn & Perry
1915 Feb 4th Jermyn & Sons
1916 Apr 14th Jermyn & Perry
1916 Apr 14th Jermyn & Perry 2
1916 Apr 14th Jermyn & Perry crop
1916 Apr 28th Jermyn & Perry
1916 Apr 28th Jermyn & Perry 3
1916 Apr 28th Jermyn & Perry 4
1916 Apr 28th Jermyn & Perry crop
1916 June 23rd Jermyn & Perry 2
1916 June 23rd Jermyn & Perry 3
1916 Mar 3rd Jermyn & Perry
1916 Mar 3rd Jermyn & Perry 2
1916 Mar 3rd Jermyn & Perry 3
1916 May 5th Jermyn & Perry
1916 May 5th Jermyn & Perry 2
1916 May 5th Jermyn & Perry 3
1916 May 5th Jermyn & Perry 4
1916 Oct Jermyn & Perry
1916 Sept 15th Jermyn & Perry
1916 Sept 15th Jermyn & Perry 2
1917 Aug 24th Jermyn & Sons
1917 Feb 6th Jermyn & Perry
1917 Feb 9th Jermyn & Perry
1917 June 1st Jermyn & Perry 2
1917 June 1st Jermyn & Perry 3
1917 June 1st Jermyn & Perry 4 gscale
1917 Mar 30th Jermyn & Perry
1917 Mar 30th Jermyn & Perry 2
1917 Mar 30th Jermyn & Perry 3
1917 Mar 30th Jermyn & Perry 4
1917 Mar 30th Jermyn & Perry 5
1917 Mar 30th Jermyn & Perry 6
1919 April 11th Jermyn & Perry
1919 April 25th Jermyn & Perry
1919 Mar 14th Jermyn & Perry
1919 Mar 21st Jermyn & Perry
1919 Mar 7th Jermyn & Perry
1919 Mar 7th Jermyn & Perry 2
1919 Mar 7th Jermyn & Perry 3
1919 Mar 7th Jermyn & Sons
1919 May 2nd Jermyn & Perry
1919 May 30th Jermyn & Perry gloves
1920 (circa) Jermyn & Sons van
1921 April 15th Jermyn & Sons
1921 Jan 7th Jermyn & Sons
1921 Mar 11th Jermyn & Sons
1921 May 13th Jermyn & Sons
1923 Feb 23rd Jermyn & Sons
1924 Jan 11th Jermyn & Perry funerals
1924 Jermyns @ 12 to 16 (Holcombe Ingleby Treasures of Lynn)
1924 Mar 21st J & P take over Buntings @ Hunston
1924 Mar 21st J & P take over Buntings @ Hunston 2
1924 May 16th Jermyn & Sons
1924 Sept 5th Jermyn & Perry
1924 Sept 5th Jermyn & Sons
1925 Apr 10th Jermyn & Perry gscale
1925 May 15th Jermyn & Perry
1925 May 15th Jermyn & Perry coats
1925 May 1st Jermyn & Perry
1925 May 22nd Jermyn & Perry frocks
1925 Sept 11th Jermyn & Perry
1926 Apr 16th Jermyn & Perry
1926 Apr 23rd Jermyn & Perry
1926 Apr 30th Jermyn & Perry
1926 Apr 30th Jermyn & Sons
1926 Apr 9th Jermyn & Sons
1926 Jan 8th Jermyn & Perrys departments
1926 Mar 12th Jermyn & Sons
1926 Mar 19th Jermyn & Sons
1926 Mar 5th Jermyn & Perry
1926 May 14th Jermyn & Perry
1926 May 14th Jermyn & Perry wool jumper
1926 May 21st Jermyn & Perry
1926 May 28th Jermyn & Perry
1926 Oct 1st Jermyn & Perry
1926 Oct 8th Jermyn & Perry
1926 Sept 17th Jermyn & Sons
1927 Aug 26th Jermyn & Sons
1927 Aug 26th Jermyn & Sons furnishing guide
1927 Dec 2nd Jermyn & Sons Ltd first ad
1927 Dec 2nd Jermyn & Sons Ltd first ad
1927 Dec 2nd Jermyn & Sons Ltd formed
1927 Dec 2nd Jermyn & Sons Ltd formed
1927 Dec 2nd Jermyn & Sons Ltd notice
1927 Dec 2nd Jermyn & Sons Ltd notice
1927 Dec 9th Jermyn & Sons
1927 July 8th 1
1927 July 8th 2
1927 June 17th Jermyn & Perry Civic Week
1927 June 17th Jermyn & Perry Civic Week adg
1927 June 17th Jermyn & Perry pic
1927 June 3rd Jermyn & Perry
1927 June 3rd Jermyn & Sons
1927 Mar 18th Jermyn & Perry
1927 May 13th Herbert Freeman (Jermyns buyer)
1927 Nov 11th Jermyn & Perry new depts
1927 Nov 11th Jermyn & Perry selling 103b
1927 Nov 11th Jermyn & Perry selling 103b 1
1927 Nov 18th Jermyn & Sons
1927 Nov 4th Jermyn & Sons
1927 Oct 28th Jermyn & Perry
1927 Sept 16th Jermyn & Sons
1927 Sept 2nd Jermyn & Sons
1927 Sept 2nd Obit Hubert Jermyn
1928 Aug 17th Historic envelope
1928 Aug 17th Historic envelope 2
1928 June 15th Jermyn & Sons Ltd new logo
1928 June 15th Jermyn & Sons Ltd new logo
1928 June 22nd C W Perry moves to Aylesbury
1928 May 25th Jermyn & Sons Ltd
1928 Oct 26th Jermyns
1929 Dec Jermyn & Sons KL Mus 01
1929 Mar 22nd Jermyn & Sons staff party
1930 (circa)
1930 Aug 8th Jermyns @ Hunstanton
1930 Feb 14th Jermyns new arcade 1
1930 Feb 14th Jermyns new arcade 2
1930 Feb 14th Jermyns new arcade 3
1930 Feb 14th Jermyns silk stockings 2
1930 ish P1120041 gscale
1930 Jermyns @ Nos 10 & 11 before arcade built
1930 Jermyns No 10 & 11 before arcade built
1930 June 13th Jermyns
1930 June 13th Jermyns arcade
1930 June 20th Jermyns shop 1872 & 1930 gscale
1930 June 20th Jermyns shop 1872 a
1930 Mar 21st Jermyns van
1930 Mar 28th Jermyns arcade ad
1930 May 16th Jermyns
1931 Feb 27th Jermyns
1931 Mar 13th Jermyns 1
1931 Mar 13th Jermyns 2
1931 Oct 23rd Jermyns
1932 Aug 19th Jermyns
1932 Dec 2nd Jermyns 2
1932 Dec 30th obit Mrs Alice Yates formerly @ Jermyns
1932 Oct 7th Jermyns 1872 to 1932 a
1932 Oct 7th Jermyns 1872 to 1932 b
1932 Oct 7th Jermyns 1872 to 1932 c
1932 Oct 7th Jermyns 1872 to 1932 d
1932 Oct 7th Sir Alfred Jermyn
1932 Sept 23rd Jermyns 1
1933 Dec 15th Jermyns
1933 Dec 22nd Jermyns
1933 Dec 8th Jermyns
1933 Feb 3rd Oliver Jermyn
1933 June 2nd Jermyns
1933 June 2nd Jermyns 3
1933 May 26th Jermyns
1933 May 26th Jermyns 2
1934 Apr 13th obit RH Kerrison @ Jermyns
1934 July 27th Sir A Jermyn + Gen Booth
1934 Mar 16th Jermyns
1934 Mar 16th Jermyns 2
1934 Oct 12th Jermyns 62nd Bday full page
1935 Dec13th Jermyns
1935 Jermyns (Goodchild)
1935 Mar 22nd Jermyns staff social inc directors
1935 May 10th Jermyns
1935 May 24th Jermyns
1935 May 3rd Jermyns
1935 Oct 25th Jermyns
1935 Oct 4th Herbert Freeman 50yrs @ Jermyns 1
1935 Oct 4th Herbert Freeman 50yrs @ Jermyns 4
1935 Oct 4th Jermyns Gt opening
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 1
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 2 gscale
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 3
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 4
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 5
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 6
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 7
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 7fancy linen counter
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement 7fancy linens
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement hosiery & gloves
1935 Oct Jermyns Special Supplement jewellery & perfume counter7
1936 June 5th Jermyns swimwear
1939 Sept 1st Jermyns blackout material
1940 Dec 20th Jermyns
1942 Apr 17th Delivery Van Pool Scotts & Jermyns
1944 Nov 10th Jermyns make do & mend
1944 Oct 13th O R Jermyn Mayor elect
1945 Mar 30th Jermyns
1945 Nov 2nd Jermyns utility furniture
1945 Sept 21st Jermyns
1946 Dec 20th Jermyns Gen Mgr HWB Akester 1
1947 JUne 6th obit James Jermyn
1947 Nov 4th Jermyns
1947 Nov 7th Jermyns present for Princess on display 2
1947 Nov 7th Jermyns present for Princess on display 2 crop
1950 Feb 3rd obit Oliver Jermyn
1950 May 19th Jermyn & Sons Ltd
1951 Dec 21st Jermyns
1951 Dec 28th Jermyns removals
1951 June 1st Jermyns
1951 Nov 23rd Jermyns
1954 July 9th Jermyns staff outing
1954 July 9th Jermyns staff outing crop
1955 (circa) Jermyns carpet display (PM Goodchild)
1955 (circa) Jermyns central atrium (PM Goodchild)
1955 (circa) Jermyns Suregrip Gloves stand (PM Goodchild)
1958 Nos 12 – 24 (left) Nos 100 – 103 (right) (Lynn Forums)
1960 (circa) Jermyn & sons van
1960 (circa) Jermyns
1960 KL Festval Prog
1960s Jermyns (Vera Witt)
1964 Apr 10th Jermyns
1964 Apr 14th Jermyns
1966 KLF Jermyns003
1968 Sept 20th Jermyns refacing scheme
1968 Sept 20th Jermyns refacing scheme crop
1968 Sept 20th Jermyns refacing scheme crop 2
1970s Jermyns (Trues Yd)
2007 Nos 10 to 16 Debenhams
2015 Debenhams
2015 Debenhams corner (formerly No 16)
2015 Nos 10 to 16 Debenhams (01)
2015 Nos 10 to 16 Debenhams (02)
Jermyn & Perry
Jermyn memorial Fairland church Wymondham
Sign from over back door (Keith Jermyn)
Sir Alfred Jermyn (Keith Jermyn)
Sir Alfred Jermyn memorial
<< Back 16, High Street. (The ‘George & Dragon’)
The ‘George & Dragon’ stood on the corner of High Street and Union Lane and was part of the chain of public houses owned by the Lynn brewers W & T Bagge.
William Rowe, the licensee in 1822, was here for some 15 years, but this term was greatly exceeded by William Blanchflower who was licensee for about 30 years.
Alfred Jermyn bought the premises from Mr. Bagge in 1884 and, with No.15, it became the furniture department of his big store. Nos. 15 and 16 were demolished in 1887 and a new furniture department was built.
c1822-c1839 (William Rowe) (Mary Rowe)
The ‘George & Dragon’ is listed here in White’s Directory for 1836, when William Rowe was in his final year as licensee, having been here since at least 1822 when listed in Pigot’s Directory. Apparently he died some time between 1836 and 1837 and it would seem that his widow Mary Rowe took over the running of the pub for a year or two.
c1839-c1846 (Timothy Wright)
By 1839, the licensee was Timothy Wright and he was here up until about 1846, when he was listed in Kelly’s Post Office Nine Counties Directory. In 1841, he was living on the premises with his wife, Mary, 50, and their children James, 20, and Eliza, 15. He may have died in 1849, aged 60.
c1850-c1881 (William Blanchflower)
William Blanchflower, born in East Dereham in about 1810 was the next licensee, taking over in about 1850, when he was listed here in Slater’s Directory. He stayed for some 30 years. In 1851, he was living here with his wife, Charlotte and their children, aged between 13 and 9 months. They had eight children:-
1) William (b. c1838). 2) Charlotte (b. c1839 – m. Robert Orviss in 1866 – d. 1921, aged 82). 3) Eliza Elizabeth (b. c1840/1). 4) Thomas (b. c1842). 5) Dennis – a steam engine fitter (b. 1843/4 – m. Harriet E. Leggett in 1866). 6) Edward – an army QMS (b. c1846). 7) Frederic (b.1847 – died in infancy). 8) Frederick – an engine fitter (b. 1850 – m. Elizabeth Frost in 1873).
William’s wife Charlotte died in September 1863, aged 51, and he married again the following year. His bride was Elizabeth Ehret and they married in London. They had a son, Leonard, born in 1866, who became a railway accounting clerk.
William was listed as a publican and tobacconist in 1871. He was still at the George & Dragon in 1881, aged 65 but was listed in the 1883 directory as a tobacconist at 7, St. James Street. In 1891, William, now aged 75 and still at St. James Street, was recorded as a retired farmer.
Elizabeth was a tobacconist in 1891 but she died in 1896, aged 67. William died in 1908 at the age of 95.
William’s eldest daughter Charlotte married Robert W. Orviss, a dentist in 1866 and they were living in Purfleet Street in 1871. By 1881 they had moved to All Saints Street. They had five children, all born in Lynn.
Eliza Elizabeth Blanchflower married William George (born West Winch c1837) and moved to St. Pancras in London, where their first son William Henry was born in 1859/60. William was working as a wood carver at that date but in the following ten years the family moved to Liverpool and then to Lambeth, where William worked as a messenger. He then took a job as a blind maker’s assistant and had his own business in Fulham by 1891.
Eliza George died in 1913, aged 72, and William died in 1921, aged 85.
Thomas Blanchflower married Elizabeth Newman from Sunderland in 1863/4, where he worked as a shipwright. Thomas and Elizabeth were still in Sunderland in 1881, when he was working as a joiner. Thomas died in 1892 aged 50, and Elizabeth died in 1906 aged 72.
Dennis Blanchflower married Harriet Elizabeth Leggett (b. 1842 in Lynn) in 1866. For most of his working life he was a steam engine fitter for the Great Northern Railway Company in Doncaster.
Edward Blanchflower joined the army and served in the Royal Engineers. His first wife, Sarah, was born in Ireland and they had five children born in Kent and Bermuda: Emily Elizabeth (1876 Kent), Florence (c1879 Bermuda), Edward Charles (1880/1 Kent), Percy Clement (c1886 Kent) and Eva May (1887 Kent). Sarah died in 1890, aged 37, and Edward married Laura Elizabeth Lewis (born 1869 in Kent) the following year. They had four children: Cecil (1893 Kent), Gladys (1894 Kent), Ernest (c1896 Jamaica) and Jack (1903/4 Brixton). Edward retired as a quartermaster with the R.E. in November 1902 with the rank of Honorary Captain.
Frederick, a train driver in 1871, married Elizabeth Frost from Watton in 1873 and they had one daughter, Elizabeth Harriet, born in 1874 in Lynn. Frederick was still in Lynn in 1881, employed as a steam engine driver at a saw mill, but had moved to Stratford, West Ham by 1891 and was working as a locomotive fitter for the Great Eastern Railway Company in 1911.
Leonard Blanchflower became a railway accounts clerk and was boarding at 16 Valingers Road in 1911, aged 44 and single.
c1882-1884 (Frederick Scott)
The last licensee of the ‘George & Dragon’ was Frederick Scott who took over in about 1882 and is listed here in Kelly’s Directory for 1883. He advertised in the local newspaper ‘Select musical entertainment every evening’.
Frederick was born c1852 in London and married Robina Emily Hammond in Lynn in 1874. Robina, born 1852/3 in Burnham Westgate, was the daughter of bricklayer Alfred Hammond and his wife Emily Booer, whom he had married in 1847.
In 1881, Frederick, working as a publican, and Robina were living at 114, Marshland Road, Walsoken in Norfolk. He must have taken over at the ‘George & Dragon’ in about 1882 but had to leave soon after the High Street fire of 1884 when the premises were bought by Alfred Jermyn from Mr. Bagge. Frederick became licensee of the ‘Duke of Fife’ in St. James Street. He and Robina had three children, all born in Lynn:-
1) Alice Robina (b. 1875/6). 2) George Frederick (b. 1885). 3) Frederica Violet (b.1888).
Frederick died in 1892, aged 41, and Robina remarried two years later.
It would appear that the premises survived the fire of 1884 (see Appendix 1), although the next door shop of Tom Andrews the butcher, at No.15, was badly damaged. In 1887, Alfred Jermyn demolished Nos. 15 & 16 and built a new furniture department. The architect was William Adams, who had designed the new drapery store at Nos. 12 to 14 (see Nos. 12 to 16, High Street).