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A History of the County of Essex
… Charities CHARITIES. 1 Charitable bequests entrusted to the vicar and churchwardens of West Ham, for the use of the … 1512 there was an almshouse in Church Street maintained by John Scott of Stratford, who gave instructions relating to it … bread and coal at Christmas for the poor of the parish of St. Mary, Plaistow. In 1966 the income of 4 15 s. 8 d. was …
A History of the County of Essex
… West Ham Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages the parish of All Saints included the whole … a separate parish of about 24 a., with its own church of St. Mary and All Saints. 1 After the Dissolution St. Mary and … were held in 1853 by Edward Humphreys 11 and in 1897 by John C. Humphreys. 12 A substantial part of the great tithes …
A History of the County of Essex
… or earlier. At that date Plaistow had about 29 per cent of the houses in the parish. 3 The other wards, for which there … in the mid 18th century by Thomas Willyams, and later by John Willyams, who left in 1768. 22 The existence of several … The North West Ham Labour club (no. 62), Forest Lane and St. John's House (no. 2), Romford Road are substantial …
A History of the County of Essex
… West Ham's first parish school was opened in 1723. During the following years public elementary education was provided … known at first as the Pelly Memorial, in tribute to Sir John Pelly, Bt. (d. 1852), but it was also known at that … only by former pupils of the Bridge Road board school. 39 St. Francis's Roman Catholic primary school, Park Avenue, …
A History of the County of Essex
… village long before it became a great manufacturing town. The marshes by the River Lea provided ample room for … is said to have ceased about 1570. 3 From the 13th century St. Thomas's and Spilemans mills, north of Stratford High … that these were all permanent immigrants. In the 1740s John Lefevre (or Lefebure) of West Ham was acting as the …
A History of the County of Essex
… p. 144. Charities, p. 157. West Ham, about 5 miles east of the City of London, is part of the London borough of Newham. … The roads of Plaistow ward also appear, without names, on John James's map (1742), which is part of a detailed survey … Stratford green was also used for the site now occupied by St. John's church, Stratford, 54 and it seems likely that …
A History of the County of Essex
… and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO 1836. In the mid 13th century Richard de Montfitchet (d. 1267) was … (168290) usually attended and sometimes signed first. John Smith (16901708) usually attended and always signed … Cunningham, seized a vacant plot of municipal land near St. Mary's Road, Plaistow, and established there his own farm …
A History of the County of Essex
… Ham Manors and estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1066 the manor of Ham, which comprised 8 hides and 30 a. and lay … with most of the manorial rights in Stratford ward, to Sir John Blount, Bt., a director of the South Sea Company, for 69 … Sophia, who in 1814 married Francis Platamone, Count St. Antonio, later duke of Cannizzaro, a British subject of …
A History of the County of Essex
… and fairs, marshes and forest MARKETS AND FAIRS. In 1253 the king granted Richard de Montfitchet a Tuesday market at … in 1827 76 and presumably survived until 1834, when St. John's church was built on that site. The erection of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… have been many philanthropic institutions in West Ham. In the town's early years voluntary efforts were directed mainly … 1946. The building was sold and demolished. The Guild of St. Alban the Martyr, Balaam Street, was an Anglo-Catholic … College mission originated in 1887, when the Vicar of St. John's, Stratford, erected an iron church in Tenby (later …