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The Environs of London
… before suffered some diminutions, was again abridged in the year 1743, by the separation of the hamlet of … the court wall as the places where he deposited his gains. Kirby Castle. The old mansion above-mentioned, called in the … was built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by John Kirby, citizen of London. Fleetwood, the recorder of London, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1876 TO 1914. 60 The population reached its peak, 129,727, in 1901. 61 Mobility was such that a school inspector in the 1880s calculated that, of 1,204 families on his books, … (once North and later Sceptre Road), formerly part of Kirby's Castle estate. Having cleared 'one of the worst …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… both because the birth rate fell to 22.1 per 1,000 in 1925 and 13.3 in 1937-8 and because emigration was much … estate, was in the heart of the borough on the site of Kirby's Castle. Privacy had been threatened at Bethnal House asylum (Kirby's Castle) by the construction of Sutton Dwellings and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Farmers were almost all lessees, who usually leased land in adjacent blocks from more than one owner. In 1703, of the … Soda's and Crisp's houses 66 and, above all, with Kirby's Castle. In 1592 Kirby's Castle had at least 100 fruit trees and a garden with …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ESTATES. Bethnal Green lay wholly within Stepney manor. 36 In 1652 a parliamentary survey was made of the demesne lands, … late 1950s and early 1960s. 87 The copyhold estate called KIRBY'S CASTLE was built up by John Kirby or Kirkby (d. 1578). Its core was a house and 3½ a. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… on springs or wells. There was a conduit and lead pipes in Conduit close, part of Pyotts on the east side of … waste on the east side of the green, in front of the later Kirby's Castle. Enclosed with a brick wall, it was apparently … ditches or common sewers were recorded by 1660 near Kirby's Castle, 5 by the 1670s next to Shoreditch cemetery, 6 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from Brick Lane may have been associated with a settlement in Whitechapel. 19 The place-name Blithehale or Blythenhale, … the east side of the green: the Corner House (Pyott's) and Kirby's Castle. 32 Among other inhabitants were Edward Grey, … of a fine house within a stone wall (presumably Kirby's Castle) with the beggar's dwelling, 54 and the figure …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES There were four alehouses in 1552, 14 74 in 1716, 15 99 in 1730, 16 84 in 1785, 17 and 105 in 1825. 18 … Green was reaffirmed. 61 There was a bowling alley at Kirby's Castle in the 1590s 62 and a bowling green in Wilmot …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and so-called judge, 61 lived there, as did Sir Hugh Platt in 1594. 62 Some people described as 'of Bishop's Hall' from … as an accurate representation of Bishop's Hall. 67 In 1655 the mansion house was taken down and the materials … House of Art and Nature, 52 and frontispiece; above, Kirby's Castle; below, econ. hist. (agric.). Marriage Regs. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of settlement was probably around the green, particularly in the north-east near St. Winifred's well and St. George's … 30 By c. 1550 Sir John Gresham's house, rebuilt as Kirby's Castle in the 1570s, adjoined the green just south of … principal estates 1 Dickens, 2 Pyott, 3 Poor's Lands, 4 Kirby's Castle, 5 Penn, 6 St. Paul's. The boundary is that of …