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A History of the County of Essex
… West Ham Education EDUCATION. West Ham's first parish school was opened in 1723. During the … of a further 3,500 after the death of her brother James Bonnell. James contested the will, and in 1769, after a Chancery suit, …
A History of the County of Essex
… have ceased about 1570. 3 From the 13th century St. Thomas's and Spilemans mills, north of Stratford High Street, were … of Duncan, Bell & Scott built Clyde Wharf refinery. 75 James Duncan (18341905), the senior partner, took charge of … was in business from 1839 or earlier until about 1890. 82 James Keiller & Sons, maker of marmalade and other …
A History of the County of Essex
… with the forest immediately to the north. 20 Robert Gernon's section of it was possibly centred on West Ham village, … roads of Plaistow ward also appear, without names, on John James's map (1742), which is part of a detailed survey … south from New Barn Street, are shown by both Rocque and James. Freemasons Road was then called Green Lane. 63 During …
A History of the County of Essex
… manor was bought from the Crown by George Johnstone and James Humphreys, the full jurisdiction of its courts, both … because the court was claiming, as copyhold, Newman's alms-houses, which the vestry held to be freehold. 11 In … assistant surveyor for the whole parish, but in 1826 James Clarke, who then held the post, was dismissed for …
A History of the County of Essex
… by Robert Gernon and Ranulph Peverel. 1 In 1135 Gernon's successor, William de Montfitchet, founded the abbey of … from Sir Anthony Hungerford, lord of East Ham Burnells. 12 James I granted the manor of West Ham in 161011 to his elder … whole manor of West Ham were sold by the Crown in 1805 to James Humphreys and George Johnstone. 36 Johnstone's …
A History of the County of Essex
… by its use as one of the main sources of east London's water supply. The West Ham Waterworks Co., founded about … The second Bow Bridge, completed in 1839 to the design of James Walker and Alfred Burges, was a single-span structure … by the Commercial Road turnpike trust, to the design of James Walker. 60 When that trust expired in 1871 the bridge …
A History of the County of Essex
… for non-attendance at church, and harboured a priest, James Young, during her residence at Upton from c. 1585 to … compared badly with those of other Essex congregations. 18 James McQuoin (d. 1870), who was appointed rector in 1856, … at Upton, where in 1862 he helped to establish St. Angela's Ursuline convent. 19 At last, in 1868, he was able to open …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… bridge, 12 probably between 1242 when the Lydford chaplain's servant on horseback was drowned in the Brue 13 and 1327 … thirds of the manor, with reversion of the rest, went to James Audley, grandson and coheir with his aunt Eleanor, of the elder William, under a partition. 21 In 1337 James and his wife Joan granted the manor to Philip de …
Survey of London
… and (together with some acres adjoining in the Gray's Inn Road area of Holborn) was a single landholding until … 1818 the Fever Institution let it on lease to a builder, James Pitcher of Upper Thames Street, who erected … In 1813 the one-time smallpox hospital was acquired by James Oldham Oldham, a trustee of the Countess of …
Survey of London
… cut between them. Here, until the urban density of King's Cross looms close, architectural value is primarily … all been set out in the 'plan for building' produced by James Carr in 1781, though minor modifications are likely to … Hurst, the designer of Pentonville Chapel. 19 In 1864 James O'Brien (Bronterre O'Brien), the Chartist and political …