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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,

Brooks garage
pumps
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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