Catalogue description PRINCES RESTAURANT, CASTLE STREET, NORWICH, WITH PAPERS OF THE SCOTT, PILLOW AND BARWELL FAMILIES.

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Details of BR124
Reference: BR124
Title: PRINCES RESTAURANT, CASTLE STREET, NORWICH, WITH PAPERS OF THE SCOTT, PILLOW AND BARWELL FAMILIES.
Description:

Business records; educational papers of Margaret Scott-Pillow and family papers of the Scott, Pillow and Barwell families.
Date: 1908-1932
Held by: Norfolk Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Princes Restaurant, Norwich, Norfolk
Physical description: 91 files.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Received by Norfolk Record Office on 15 November 1983 (MS 21837), numbered BR124/1-84, and on 12 December 1983, numbered BR124/85-91.
Subjects:
  • Barwell family of Norwich, Norfolk
  • Pillow family of Norwich, Norfolk
  • Scott family of Norwich, Norfolk
Administrative / biographical background:

Margaret Scott was born in Norwich. Her interest was always in domestic education and at various times she was chairman of the Association of Teachers of Domestic Science, a member of Norwich School Board, and an examiner in cookery and domestic science. She married Edward Pillow in 1891. On his death in 1910 she took up the running of Princes Restaurant, Castle Street, Norwich. She died in 1929.

 

Edward Pillow was born in Cambridge in 1852. An engineer by profession he was chief engineer of the Mechanical Testing Department, Crewe, Engineering Works of the London and North West Railway Co. In 1891 he moved to Norwich, married and became Organising Secretary for Technical Education, Norfolk County Council. He died in 1910.

 

Edward and Margaret had two sons. The elder son, also named Edward, married Sabine Barwell the daughter of J. E. H. Barwell and Mrs. Barwell, better known as the singer Madame Ruth Lamb. After his mother's death Edward took over the running of the restaurant. Their second son Henry Montgomery Scott Pillow was born on 31st March 1895 and died on active service in a flying accident on 8th August 1917.
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