Chris_Baker Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 "Norwich District Institution House Fernhill". Mean anything to anyone? Definitely in operation in 1916. Fernhill just might be Sernhill, Lernhill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Chris - no help with the hospital, but there is a street in Norwich called Fernhill Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjustice Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Sounds like it would be worth a search of Ancestry's address records for the 1901 Census. Kind Regards, SMJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Chris I wonder if this may have been the place? The demolition of "Fernhill", a large Victorian house off Cotman Road in 1961 made available an area of land for residential development and further building in this part of Thorpe Hamlet is scheduled. Source: http://www.thorpehamlet.free-online.co.uk/sub_goreham_2.htm Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 5 August , 2008 Author Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Oo-er. That sounds likely, doesn't it. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMixMonkey Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Looking on google map the Fern Hill mentioned by MagicRat is also just off Cotman road, and appears to be a housing estate now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkalotloudly Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 i will have to go and have a look, just trying to place Cotman road regards John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMixMonkey Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 i will have to go and have a look, just trying to place Cotman road regards John It's off Thorpe road, on the right just past where Carrow Road splits off (heading into the city from the east side). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Chris Another snippet: Coaks lived at Fernhill until his death in 1909 and is buried in the Rosary Cemetery. An auction of his assets took place in 1910, but the house was left empty until its use as a war hospital in WWI. Following the war it was again left empty except for its use as a hotel between 1927 and 1931. In 1930 the land attached to Fernhill was disposed of. The area immediately around the house encircled by Cotman Road was bought by a builder called Southgate who built the unusual flat roof semi-detached properties in Fernhill and his own house to the east, since demolished. Source: http://www.norwich.gov.uk/intranet_docs/A-...horpe_Ridge.pdf Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 5 August , 2008 Share Posted 5 August , 2008 Old maps of the area (and elsewhere) can be found at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/indexmappage2.aspx NB enter co-ordinates 624600 308300 ;The most useful map is probably 1908 as it allows pan & zoom to get a reasonable detail (try 3rd from highest zoom as a starting point) ; this should show the cemetery mentioned by Heritage plus, I suspect that Fernhill would have been the building surrounded by annexes (?) at the centre - at least that corresponds to where Fernhill is shown on the modern maps NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris basey Posted 6 August , 2008 Share Posted 6 August , 2008 You will probably find that Cotman Road was then referred to as 'Thorpe Grove Road'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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