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Jeremiah James Colman 1830-1898 John Jeremiah's nephew was a man of energy and imagination, expressed in many ways. He was active in local and national politics; elected to Norwich City Council in 1859, he continued a Council member till 1871, when he became the city's MP. He represented Norwich for 24 years; and he also served as Sheriff and Mayor of Norwich, as a Magistrate and JP, and as Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk. His funeral in 1898 brought the city to a standstill, as 1200 of his 3000 workers followed the coffin and the rest lined the streets. Shops throughout the city were closed, as Norwich mourned the man who had helped turn a depressed city with a declining woollen industry into a thriving manufacturing centre.
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The Deal Ground The rather mysterious, inaccessible and deserted corner of the Trowse Triangle known as the Deal Ground was once a busy part of the Colman enterprise. Colmans had a policy of making whatever they needed for packaging their products. They had works on the Deal Ground where crates were built from 'deal' or softwood imported from the Baltic to Yarmouth and brought up the Yare by wherry to a wharf opposite Whitlingham. There was a print works too for printing labels, and a kiln that might have been a bottle oven. Some of the buildings are still standing, and there is a disused tunnel under the railway line that linked the Deal Ground to the main works.
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