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A History of the County of Middlesex
… as skilled and unskilled artisans, compared with Booth's 51 per cent. At the ends of the social scale, only 2 per … over 7 a., displacing 1,875 people and replacing the 310 old houses (393 tenements) with accommodation there for … in Lark Row and Lyte Street, giving it 5¾ a. north of Bishop's Way (Road). In 1936 R. J. Rowley began building the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 3 Several cottages had been built, probably by Thomas King, glazier and plumber of Hackney, on waste 20 p. by 24 p. … by 1821 Hope and Minerva streets ran from Hackney Road to Old Bethnal Green Road, while other streets (Bellona or … side of Cambridge Road, the 5-a. field belonging to Bishop's Hall was leased in 1811 to the London Society for …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of early Stepney charities, 31 including Prisca Coburn's (1701) and Dame Sarah Pritchard's (1718), and shared in … 1925, left money for a house to accommodate one or two old people resident in St. Matthew's parish. No. 61 Hereford … of Bloomsbury, by will proved 1794 left dividends for six old weavers and six weavers' widows of Christ Church, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… A pre-Roman road following a route from Oxford Street and Old Street to Old Ford and Essex crossed Bethnal Green, … 22 An Iron-Age coin was found in Victoria Park. 23 The king's way from Bethnal Green to Old Ford, identifiable from … 1549 24 and was probably from the Middle Ages the route to Bishop's Hall. Its eastern section was straightened in 1844 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 52 a. and John Preston had 83 a. 39 The largest estate was Bishop's Hall, in 1652 c. 93 a. divided into 15 fields and … by 1778, at least part of neighbouring estates south of Old Ford Road. 46 The tenant in 1778 was Joseph Wilkinson, 47 … employed 10 men 79 and there was a shoe manufacturer in King's Row, Cambridge Road, 80 but most manufacture was on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Parmiter in his will proved 1682 79 hoped that St. George's chapel could be obtained as a schoolhouse for the poor of … apparently used only for the dissenting academy at Bishop's Hall 81 and the first public school was Parmiter's, … Subsequently Sun. sch. only. 42 Albion, No. 7 George St., Old Bethnal Green Rd. Day and Sun. sch. opened by Lond. City …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… William Robinson, conveyed in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the Hackney border and Old Ford Lane, 38 to Mary, widow of Gen. or Adm. Richard … wife of Sir Wadham Wyndham (d. 1668), justice of the King's Bench. 59 There seem to have been field boundary …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to rival the Great Synagogue. 45 The western portion of Old Ford Lane was named Jews' Walk by 1779 46 and a statement … to the north, on the east side of Cambridge Road in Queen's Row, 52 a Jews' asylum existed from 1820 53 and possibly … Hist. Soc Trans. xxx. 78-9. M.L.R. 1728/5/241. Vale, Old Bethnal Green, 95; A. M. Hyamson, Sephardim of Eng. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of site between Cambridge Rd. and Russia Lane, part of Bishop's Hall farm, 1811, 95 where bldgs. erected and chapel … he had been in Stepney, Jay secured site in Orange Ct., Old Nichol St. 1888, where complex of bldgs. opened 1889: … Low. Ch., with 'mean, uncovered altar table'1831. Bryan King, perpetual curate 1837-42, nephew of R. Joshua King but …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… The Act of 1743 25 named the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of London, the principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, … was in almost continuous conflict with the rector Joshua King until the latter's withdrawal from residence after 1823. … inmates in November 1841, with some pauper children and old people accommodated in Norwood (Surr.) and Bromley …