378 Unthank Road - The Children's Centre no more

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 10 Feb 2020

Eaton Grange as seen from Upton Road. Although the signs are still in place, the centre closed in 2017, having been identified as surplus NHS land under the Naylor review, suggesting that the sale of the building could generate £2m for the NHS. Despite protests, its services were moved to the Norwich Community Hospital on Bowthorpe Road. The building had housed several community paediatric teams, including the children's key worker service, the ADHD psychology service, and a short break home nursing service. In the late 1800s, this was the family home of Margaret Fountaine, known to some as the Norwich butterfly lady, who was an accomplished natural history illustrator, diarist and adventurer. The family moved to Eaton Grange in 1877, before she began travels around the world, which eventually resulted in a collection of 22,000 butterfly specimens (now housed at the Norwich Castle Museum). After the family left, the building was a girls boarding school, before it became a centre for women with learning difficulties opened by the local authority in 1930.

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