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A History of the County of Essex
… marshes ECONOMIC HISTORY. Until the 19th century East Ham's main occupation was agriculture. In 1086 the manor of Ham … and swine had increased from 8 and 20 respectively. Gernon's manor had been enlarged since the Conquest by the … since Crosse & Blackwell had onion-sheds in Jews Farm Lane (now East Avenue) in 1880. 23 Watercress was still being …
A History of the County of Essex
… During the Second World War several of the borough's schools were seriously damaged by bombing. By the end of … the vicar; 5 in the same year the vestry agreed to pay 3 s. 6 d. a week to a pauper from the workhouse whom the vicar … reopened in a temporary building. Plashet school (Plashet Lane, later Grangewood Street). Plashet Lane board school was …
A History of the County of Essex
… The decline after 1755 may initially have been due to Sims's attitude towards free drinks. Only one woman is recorded as … attended only two meetings, in 1778 and 1818. In the vicar's absence one of the churchwardens usually took the chair, or … East Ham until 1904. It held its meetings at Plashet Lane board school until 1901, and then in the school board …
A History of the County of Essex
… of East and West Ham. The subsequent descent of Athelstan's estate is not known. In 1086 there were three manors called … Burnells and, in West Ham, the manors of West Ham, Covelee's, Woodgrange, Plaiz, West Ham Burnells, and East West Ham, … called Burnels Downs, lying on the north side of Vicarage Lane. 120 The field was by then part of the manor of East Ham …
A History of the County of Essex
… public worship in 1901. 9 This was attached to St. Edward's industrial school, opened in 1870. In 1906, when St. … at Manor Park, and the London City Mission in Plashet Lane (Grangewood Street), all of which were founded about … Road, with E. T. Egg as temporary pastor. In 1897 H. G. Brown became the first settled minister, and in 1901 a brick …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… East Hanningfield 24. EAST HANNINGFIELD. (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. lxi. N.W.) East Hanningfield is a parish and small village 5 m. S.E. of Chelmsford. The ruined church is interesting. … remains (Plate, p. 104) of figure-subjects in red or brown lines on white plaster; on E., Adam and Eve and the …
Survey of London
… through this Conant land) passed by Elizabeth Stainsby's will to a Nathaniel Conant, described in 1809 as of … estate, together with Gough, the maiden name of P. P. S. Conant's wife. 77 In 1801 Elizabeth Stainsby had obtained … perhaps the designer of the constables' houses in Harrow Lane (see page 88), was the first occupant of No. 59 in 1810, …
Survey of London
… a site at the east corner of East India Dock Road and Quag Lane (Brunswick Road), offered to him by the East India Dock Company on condition that he gave the company's officers and employees and the officers of the Customs and … service at the dock priority of access to the tavern's best accommodation. 362 Grover's architect was George …
Survey of London
… Bank This is unusual among East India Dock Road's Victorian buildings in being the third structure on the … manor of Stepney) of Joel Langley, shipowner, of Salmon Lane, Limehouse, 456 being part of the land (of which a small … are all to the same design. They are built of a mottled brown, red, and black brick, while the pitched roofs are …
Survey of London
… at the west end lay within the old civil parish of St Anne's, Limehouse, and about 1,130 yards at the east end within the old civil parish of St Leonard's, Bromley: much of the latter frontage on the south side was … 119 on the south, where the frontage east of Robin Hood Lane was largely occupied by the East India Dock wall. This …