Garages of Ludham recalled by Mike Fuller
The
first memories of garages in Ludham for me is the
garage on the forecourt of the Kings Arms Public House
attached to the Flower shop of now. Before that in
1922, the United bus service kept there bus there
every night ready to return to Gt.Yarmouth next
morning on service. The garage is on the postcards of
1910-22.
This garage was
owned by H.D.Brooks and Son,for repairs to motor cars
and motor cycles and had petrol pumps outside also, Mr
Brooks also had a small shop and cycle repairs at the
front of Folly House with two petrol pumps outside the
front on the road side. He also lived in Folly House
at that time.
Both these places
carried on until the 1950s when,Russell Brooks his Son
had the garage built in the Street where it is now,I
don't know when he sold it to Mr.Littleworth who lived
in Aubruy House, or when the the shop and pumps were
taken down from the front of Folly House,
The
other garage was started just after the war, was on
the Norwich Road at the corner of Lovers Lane,this was
either a small stable or cattle sheds before being
used by Mr.Jack Roll as a cycle and motor car repair
shop,and later petrol pumps and went on to enlarge to
a garage and selling cars for over fifty years before
it was closed and is now to have three houses built on
it. For more about Rolls Garage, click here.
The forecourt of
Ludham Garage had two petrol pumps at the front at
first and then the wooden house next door was bought
and taken down for the forcourt as it is today.
The site of the
present Ludham Garage was the site of W.England's
Millwrights and wheel wrights business for many years
before the garage was built.
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