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A History of the County of Essex
… p. 157. West Ham, about 5 miles east of the City of London, is part of the London borough of Newham. 1 It contains part of the royal … feature in 958, while Stratford, where the Roman road from London to Colchester crossed the river Lea, was first …
A History of the County of Essex
… mostly to weavers, silk-weavers, or peruke-makers in London and east Middlesex. The vestry seems on the whole to … the parish as one of the poorest within seven miles of London. It stated that out of c. 570 houses in West Ham more … malpractices. Others used their position as a stepping stone to an office of profit under the board, as in 1875, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Hamfrith farm, which comprised 128 a., lying north of the London-Ilford road, on both sides of the boundary between … was a depot belonging to the education department of the London borough of Newham. The manorial rights over the whole … industrial school (18681925) and subsequently of the London Co-operative Society's milk depot. 44 It is a large …
A History of the County of Essex
… halted simultaneously by the legal action of the City of London and by that of the government in setting up the Epping … 1634. 79 Stratford, where the Epping and Romford roads to London converged, was the obvious place to levy toll, and the … a toll-house. Cal. Chart. R. 122657, 433. Lysons, London, iv. 246; cf. Ogborne, Essex, 15. Proceedings against …
A History of the County of Essex
… while another was provided by the Carpenters' Company of London. At West Ham, as in other poor districts, the leaders … an Anglo-Catholic settlement which came to Plaistow from London in 1876, under the leadership of George Malim, a bank … of an organization which by 1937 had six branches in the London area and others elsewhere. Kennedy-Cox subsidized the …
A History of the County of Essex
… affected by its use as one of the main sources of east London's water supply. The West Ham Waterworks Co., founded … on Pudding Mill river, and by 1849 its successor, the East London Waterworks Co., had a chain of reservoirs along the … Queen Maud's Bow Bridge was one of the earliest medieval stone bridges in England and its name referred to its arched …
A History of the County of Essex
… Ham was higher than that for any other borough in outer London. 1 The percentage of Roman Catholic worshippers was … the area: 11.8 compared with 6.2 for the whole of outer London. 2 These high proportions were due mainly to Irish … with a school-hall below. It is a red brick building with stone dressings in a simple Renaissance style, with a small …
A History of the County of Essex
… brewer, who dug up the abbey foundations, used some of the stone for building and sold much of the rest. 3 In the 1840s … W.H.L., Jn. Noble, Map of W. Marsh, 1747; O.S. Map 25", London, XXIX. (1869 edn.). See also: E. Nat. xxiv. 1403; Fry, … sqq. Cal. Pat. 154951, 1712. E. Nat. xxiv. 143; Lysons, London, iv. 249. R.C.H.M. Essex, i and ii (Little Leighs, …
A History of the County of Essex
… by public transport. In 1839 omnibuses and coaches ran to London four times an hour during the day, and coaches to and … ran for varying periods on the road between Stratford and London, and on other local routes, but the experiment proved … was the Eastern Counties (later Great Eastern) line from London to Romford, opened in 1839, extended to Brentwood in …
A History of the County of Essex
… the Dissolution. 5 Sir Thomas Lodge (d. 1584), merchant of London and formerly lord mayor, was living at West Ham in … Plaistow, 8 and Sir Robert Smyth, Bt. (d. 1669), draper of London, who lived at Ham House, Upton, and was prominent in … the Interregnum. 9 Sir John Wittewrong, Bt. (d. 1693), a London brewer of Flemish descent, lived at West Ham in the …