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The Grade II Listed Whitefriars House/Arkills Court, an elaborate timber framed range behind a normal plane brick shop front, dating from 1450, off Lincoln High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

 

1800-1850s William Akrill, baker, was owner; 1857, Mary Akrill (widow), confectioner and baker; 1860 Thomas Simpson, ironmonger; 1867, George Gould, grocer; 1877 Grantham and Godson, grocers; 1881-1899, J W Ruddock, insurance agent and printer/publisher; 1913-1950s, Crossley, house furnishers; 1961 Lincoln Cooperative Society baby wear shop.

 

The front building was removed and the rest of the building was restored and given a brick and glass shop front in 1963; during the work a corbel was recovered, (possibly from the property to the south). Opened as Lincoln Cooperative Society jewellers 4 December 1964 trading until 1979; 1980-2005 Roseby fabric shop; 2005-Spring 2006 Oggie Oggie Cornish pasty restaurant and shop. November 2006-Uniform, school clothes shop.

 

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