Row 117, Gallon Can Row, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
This photograph of Row 117 probably dates from the 1860s. It gives an impression of what the rows must have been like. This is the entrance to the row taken from South Quay. It was known as Gallon Can Row because there was a pub on the corner called The Gallon Can. The Rows were lined with houses. Some were originally large houses owned by merchants while others were smaller. Eventually the large houses were split into tenements. Conditions became very cramped and the houses were condemned as slums in the 1930s.
