Lower Brook Street
The shop at the corner of Tacket Street and Lower Brook
Street is aquite
a distinguished landmark. 'PRICE', the boot and shoe seller occupied
this
attractive building for many years and the lettering integrated into an
upper balustrade on both faces commemorates this. The building has
since
been a restaurant or bar.
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Incidentally, the decorative moulding, replete with
scantily clad nymph
close to the Lower Brook Street sign (above). More recently painted
white/cream
than shown in this shot, presumably when it became Ollie's Bar, it's
certainly
more noticeable:
It's just down the road from The Unicorn
in Orwell Place and not far from the Symonds
sign in Upper Brook Street.
Then a little further down Lower Brook Street on the same side there's
the
little-noticed, but quite impressive, entrance to 'THE SUFFOLK VICTORIA
NURSING INSTITUTE'. The awning leading from the front pillars to the
door
bears the incised name and, very prominently, the date 'AD1903' in a
terra
cotta tablet above it.
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It is only a short walk from here down Lower Brook
Street, right into Kilo
Drive, accross Turret Lane into Rose Lane. Here is a piece of
industrial
architecture (photographed in 2001) which had a facelift in 2003 as a
companion
building to the rebuilt Brights furniture shop on St Nicholas Street
(close
to a very pristine-looking Victorian, multi-sided pillar box).
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The recessed circular plaque set so very high up in
this very narrow lane
reads: 'D.B 1862' (no second full stop after the 'B'). The photograph
of
the cleaned up version above shows the extended new building behind.
The
convex traffic mirrors have been reaffixed at right of the fascia,
however
they appear to be cross-eyed ...
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