Confectioner’s Shop

Thomas White occupied these premises from between 1841/45 to around the time of his death in 1853. A master baker, although he was in his 80s, he ran a bakery with his wife until that time.

When the shop became available – probably around 1853 – it was taken over by Walter Naunton and traded as a confectioners until his death in 1873 when it became the home and business of James Calver, a saddler and harness maker.

In the later 19th century it became a butcher’s shop under the knife of Samuel Seaman. After her husband died in 1896 she carried on the business but supplemented it as a greengrocers. By 1921 her family still lived on the Marketplace but no longer had the business.

• Workhouse contracts 1891
• Meat: Mr A. Seaman:beef and mutton 6d per lb
• Pork 5½d per lb; suet 4lb
• Bread and flour: T.R. Colman: indoor 1s 3d per stone
• Ale and porter: F. Morse, Swaffham
• Wine and spirits: H.E.Hawker, port wine 1s 3d a bottle
• Brandy 2s 9d a bottle
• Grocery and drapery: G. Bunting
• Milk: G. Jacobs for 1½d a pint
• Trusses and oil: F. Christopherson
• Coals: G Jeffery: 20s a ton
• Coffins: Mr Sadler: 3s 6d to 11s