Formerly the main road south and west out of the town leading to the A47 and A17, now superseded first by Saddlebow Road and now by the new Nar-Ouse Way leading to the southern bypass. This area was developed in the early 1900s with terraces of small houses, on and beyond the west side as on Saddlebow Road. On the east side between Wisbech Road and Saddlebow Road are some of the earliest council houses in King’s Lynn, from 1920s–30s.

On Wisbech Road the early houses are all on the west side but development here ran only for a moderate way south, with a complex of terraced streets behind to the west between road and river bank.

The triangle between Wisbech Road and Saddlebow Road was apparently not developed until the building of the council houses of the late 1920s and 1930s, including Bunnett and Metcalf Avenues and Burney and Hillen Roads, linking the two main roads.

It is clear development was fairly piecemeal.

The East side of Wisbech Road beyond the Baptist Church is, apart from a small number of pairs of semi-detached houses, taken up with the council house development in the triangle between Wisbech and Saddlebow Roads.

Only a couple of (presumably) the semi’s appear on this side in 1928 swelling to seven by 1938.

Metcalf and Bunnett Avenue appear by 1930 and the space along Wisbech Road before Cooper’s works was filled by 1934–5.