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Buy in this former workhouse where a flat has come up for sale. - Credit: Auction House A second floor flat in a converted Norfolk workhouse is for sale at auction. A flat in a former workhouse has come up for sale. - Credit: Auction House The flat, 8, Hillcrest Court, Ipswich Road, Pulham Market, near Diss is coming under the hammer online for a guide of £95,000-£105,000. The building was formerly the Depwade Union workhouse built at the cost of £8,240 to accommodate 400 people. Inside the ...

Granthams whalebone arch collapsed after many years of children taking samples as souvenirs  | Updated: 09:30, 29 December 2020 Then & Now with Ruth Crook, of Grantham Civic Society Little Ponton Hall was built in about 1725 by William Thorold. After several owners and tenants, the Turnor family of Stoke Rochford purchased it in 1863. The whalebone arch, in what is now Whalebone Lane, became the target of souvenir-hunters and eventually collapsed. (43739062) It was previously thought that Ch...