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Wall Plaques of Bury St Edmunds and surrounds   Picture Page 1, Up to 1800

Grammar School 1550-1665	Recording the extent of the Great Fire of Bury of 1608	Sir Robert Gardener 1614 Lord of Elmswell and Woolpit
Ancient House Eastgate Street, BSE	Burger King on the Cornhill	Almshouses at Elmswell For six poor women widows To continue forever
W S 1630 The Old Stag, St Johns Street	Plaque over door of old Grammar School in Northgate Street, dated 1664. The school moved to the Vinefields in 1883.	The Calthorpe Almshouses in Ampton 1705
No 33 St Johns Street The Old Stag public house	Door to old Grammar School Now St Andrews Close flats	The Calthorpe Almshouses in Ampton
Founded by Alderman Jacob Johnson 1708 If original, this plaque would have stood in Looms Lane until 1839. The date 1708 was the founding of the original Charity in Johnson's will.	Rainwater drain downpipe dated 1711	Plaque on Clopton's Asylum or Almshouse Now the Dean's House Commemorating Dr Poley Clopton, who died 1730 This plaque was carved by Thomas Singleton and erected c1750
Johnson's Buildings Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds These were actually built in 1839 by Francis Clarke to replace four decayed charity properties in Looms Lane.	Unitarian Chapel of 1711 in Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds	Now the Dean's House in the Great Churchyard Clopton's Hospital or Asylum was built c 1735, but residents moved in during 1744
Arms of Dr Poley Clopton Carved by Thomas Singleton in 1750 The motto has been translated as It must not be forgotten henceforth	Commemorating the new Butchers Shambles Built in 1761	Wool owners plaque 1792 St Andrews Street South B possibly refers to William Buck (1747-1819), yarn maker with James Oakes
The front entrance to Clopton's Hospital Now the Dean's House Churchyard, Bury	The Shambles was incorporated into the Corn Exchange Today it is an optician's shop	The old WoolHall St Andrews Street South, Bury.
	Commemorating the new building of the brewery of Mathias Wright in 1789.
	The oldest part of the Westgate Brewery, seen here from Bridewell Lane

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