MR. T. SOUTHNVEI.L ON THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 211 
There formerly stood just outside the Conisford Gate, at the 
•outhem entrance to the city by King Street, an old Inn called 
the “ Ship,” in front of which was a Whale’s jaw-bone with 
other portions on each side the entrance door as shown in 
the accompanying illustration, reduced from a sketch by 
John Ninham (dated 1793) in Fitche’s ‘ Gates of Norwich.’ 
THE “SHIP” INN, FORMERLY STANDING NEAR THE CONISFORD GATE, 
NORWICH 
From Fitche’s ‘ Gates of Norwich.’ 
I have not been able to discover precisely when this house 
was demolished, but Messrs. J. & J. Colman kindly inform 
me that their paper mill which now occupies its site was 
completed in 1883, and that probably it was cleared away 
in 1881. 
An Inn called the “Whalebone” existed in King Street 
on the spot now occupied by a building used by Messrs. 
J. & J. Colman as a Seed Warehouse next, on the city side, 
to Cooper’s Biscuit Factory; the premises occupying the site 
are described in a deed of conveyance dated 1852, as “ all 
that messuage or tenement formerly used as a public-house 
