John Basham has researched this street … “George Street has had a variety of names…
Before the enclosure of Brandon in 1809 it had houses along the north side and was warren to the south. It may have been called Low Street or Lower Street before this.
At enclosure it was allotted as a private road, Harriet and Caroline Currey received some of the warren on the corner where the George was situated.
By 1838 it was called the White Lion Inn, owned by Thomas Bulger and occupied by Thomas Appleyard and Thomas Jacob.
In the 1841 census there is a street called White Lion Street and Thomas Jacobs is an innkeeper aged 45 living with Elizabeth 40, Elizabeth aged 25, Eliza a dressmaker aged 20, Henry 18, a shoemaker, and Maria aged 16.
George Street is still called White Lion Street in a deed of 1871.
Thetford Road
According to 1883 Kelly’s Directory:
Sarah Ann COOK – baker
Thomas CULLINGFORD – beer
William LINGWOOD – tailor
Julia MOUNT – lime whiting manufacturer
Alfred SNARE – nurseryman
Rev. Thomas Henry LOVE – Wesleyan
John SNARE
Allen & Burton – drapers & grocers
Charles Walter CALVER – man at gas works
Henry William EDWARDS – butcher
James FIELD – Fox & Hounds – whiting manufacturer
Samuel & Palmer LINGWOOD – furriers & skin merchants
Betsy PALMER – shopkeeper
John VALE – shoemaker
Robert John SNARE – wholesale & export manufacturer of gun flints & ornamental flint for building purposes
Bury Road
According to 1883 Kelly’s Directory:
Miss BOUGHEN
Frederick RAE
William ROUGHT (furrier, skin merchant, dresser & dealer – wholesale)
