Old, and Some New, Photographs of Woodbridge and Melton
In 1840 there were four public houses on New Street. The oldest of them was The Fox Inn which is first mentioned in 1617. It is now The Bell and Steelyard.
It is not known when the steelyard was erected but it had a long history of being used to weigh loaded wagons on their way from the market to the quays by the river.
The Bell and Steelyard is on the right of this photograph. On the left of the The Bell and Steelyard there is a butchers shop and a line of four cottages set back from the road.
Sometime between 1904 and 1926 the butchers shop and the line of four cottages had been demolished and was replaced by an imposing pair of semidetached houses set back from the road.
This photograph shows the full grandeur of the pair of semidetached houses.
This 1960's there was demonstration of how the steelyard was operated.
One of the key features of Bell and Steelyard is its hanging baskets.
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