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 The
stories behind our street names
CALTHORPE ROAD (Taylor Road)
The village of Calthorpe lies three miles north of Aylsham.
The origin of the name goes back to the Domesday Book,
stemming from Kali’s Thorp. Kali was the surname
of a person who probably lived in a Danish settlement.
Sir Philip Calthorpe lived in the Erpingham mansion
in Norwich during the reign of King Henry VIII and was
the owner of Rome Hall, in the region of World’s
End Lane, so called “for when you are at the End,
you must turn Back, there being no passage forward.”
The Calthorpe house was in the midst of Ketts’
Rebellion of 1549.
CAMP GROVE (Thorpe Hamlet)
THAT old rebel Robert Kett is remembered in a street
name and Camp Grove is said to be the district where
he and his followers set up camp. And if he had stayed
put, then the outcome of the struggle may have been
very different.
In the area, the Mayor of Norwich was held in 1549 and
it was here that Dr Matthew Parker — remembered
today as Nosy Parker — went and spoke to Kett and
his band of men. They weren’t too impressed with
Parker, the Norwich man who went on to become the Archbishop
of Canterbury.
For his pains “the people began to threaten the
preacher with arrows and javelins, and some were shot
at him which put him in great fear.”
Kett’s chaplain set the Te Deum, and the multitude
“taken with the sweetness of the musick began to
be appeased.”
Dr Parker did the sensible thing — he pushed off
to sing his part at home and praise God for his great
deliverance. He was lucky to escape with his nose! Parker
was a survivor.
CALVERT STREET (Colegate —
Over the Water)
MYSTERY surrounds “Count” Calvert — the
chap this ancient street, that could tell a story or
two, was named after. It was said to run from St Austin’s
Street, past the gate of Doughty’s Hospital and
along the west side of the late Blackfriars great garden,
into Colegate.It was successively called Snaylegate,
Snailgate, Snackegate and Snackgate Way in 1620. Then
it became Snackstrete and Doughty’s Hospital Street.
One of these streets ran into Brent Lane which since
around 1626 has been called Golden Dog Lane after a
nearby alehouse.
The modern street names emanates from a rather mysterious
“Count” Calvert who was said to have lived
thereabouts in the 17th century.
Cadge Road (Dereham Road)
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THE MAN HIMSELF: Dr William
Cadge.
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IT HAS been called a “street of shame”
where families are living in terror of gangs of yobs
running riot.
It’s Cadge Road in the West Earlham district of
Norwich and let’s hope that conditions improve
soon so residents can live their lives in peaceful harmony.
It’s what the good doctor would have wanted.
I’m talking about the chap the road was named after
— Dr William Cadge, a clever man of great eminence
and importance — highly-skilled as a surgeon at
the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and known across the
world.
And after his death surgeons from 22 different countries
came to Norwich to pay their last respects.
Born into a Norfolk family of farmers at Hoveton in
1822 he was a distinguished student at University College
Hospital, London. He was appointed assistant surgeon
in 1850 but had to resign because of ill health and
he returned to his beloved Norfolk.
William went to work at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
and he was elected Assistant Surgeon at the hospital
in 1854 and then full surgeon in 1857 before retiring
from his post as surgeon in 1890.
During his career he acquired an international reputation
as a pioneering surgeon and was the only one from the
hospital to have served on the Council of the Royal
College of Surgeons.
He was a driving force behind the programme to rebuild
the old hospital to meet the growing demands of the
people of Norwich and Norfolk. During his lifetime he
contributed a staggering £20,000 himself towards
re-building of the hospital in 1879-83 and left a further
£5,000 to the hospital in his will.
He also threw his weight behind the campaign to support
the new Cromer Convalescent Home.
Dr Cadge was also a great public figure who spoke a
lot of common sense. He was Sheriff of Norwich in 1876;
a magistrate and a Trustee of the Great (St Helen’s)
Hospital.
Away from work William loved messing about on the water.
He sailed on the Norfolk Broads and was a skilled yachtsman.
Because of his good work he also received the Freedom
of the City in 1890.
He died in 1903 aged 80.
But his memory lives on — a stained-glass window
to his memory was placed in the North Transept of Norwich
Cathedral and surgeons from 22 different countries attended
the unveiling ceremony in 1904.
Cadge was a man worth remembering and let’s give
the road named after him the tender loving care it deserves.
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