Here she had lived in earlier years with her husband and her two ambitious boys, and in Norwich, doubtless, she had made her own friendships, although of these no record remains.

The cottage still stands in its modest court, but is at the moment untenanted.

There is a letter extant from Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, who wrote _The Life of Mrs.Opie_, to Mary Borrow at Oulton, when Mrs.Borrow the elder had gone to live there, which records the fact that in 1851, two years after Mrs.Borrow had left the cottage in Willow Lane, it had already changed its appearance.
Mrs.Brightwell writes: Give my kind love to dear mother.

Tell her I went past her house to-day and looked up the court.

It is quite changed: all the trees and the ivy taken away.
The house was the property of Thomas King, a carpenter.