In King's Court, Willow Lane, Borrow lived at intervals until his marriage in 1840, and his mother continued to live in the house until, in 1849, she agreed to join her son and daughter-in-law at Oulton.

Yet the house comes little into the story of Borrow's life, as do the early houses of many great men of letters, nor do subsequent houses come into his story; the house at Oulton and the house at Hereford Square are equally barren of association; the broad highway and the windy heath were Borrow's natural home.

He was never a 'civilised' being; he never shone in drawing-rooms.

Let us, however, return to Borrow's schooldays, of which the records are all too scanty, and not in the least invigorating.

The Norwich Grammar School has an interesting tradition.