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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Lord Wentworth, in 1621. By 1652 there were 39 houses or cottages 65 in what by 1649 was called Dog Row. 66 By 1671 … built opposite them by Flaw, a bricklayer, in Queen's (or Charlotte) Row, 95 which by 1783 formed a complete … John Jenkins of Whitechapel and Thomas Oliver of Thomas Street, from 1808 to 1813. Houses were built fronting west on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and also took leases from other estates along Green Street. Richard Corker occupied 23 a. of Bishop's Hall in the … farm by purchase and lease in 1711 and 1729 67 By 1744 he or a namesake was rated for 84 a. 68 George Leeds's widow … the Tyssen estate before 1724, 98 when he occupied Fryes (or Fryers) field south of Virginia Row (on Fitchs), 99 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the first public school was Parmiter's, built in St. John Street in 1722. In 1765, when Parmiter's was educating 30 … at the British school, a small infants' school, three or four private day schools, and five or six dame schools. 1 The British and Foreign Schools …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… conveyed in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the … border and Old Ford Lane, 38 to Mary, widow of Gen. or Adm. Richard Deane. 39 In 1654 she sold the estate to … 56 Some 16 a. between Mile End and what became Green Street (Roman Road) and 4½ a. next to Old Ford Lane and Back …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… encroached: with Christ Church, Spitalfields, over Wheeler Street in 1769 6 and with Hackney over Cambridge Heath in … from Bishopsgate station to the Hackney border at Grove Street lies Taplow Gravel; south-east lies Higher Flood Plain … MS. 25121/1710 (1388). B.L. Eg. Ch. 2081. Rush croft or land and Rush (Russia) Lane to E.: Guildhall MS. 25422 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Alvares in the 'Great House' before 1728 43 and the hazan or chief rabbi Moses Cohen d'Azevedo (d. 1784) in 1760. … freehold in 1795. The cemetery, called successively North Street and Brady Street, was closed in 1858 48 and maintained … a few of them merchants but most of them small tradesmen or hawkers. 57 Large-scale immigration came towards the end, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… aisle and side chapel built there 1895. 11 From 1880s 1 or 2 asst. curates. Rich social life with men's club of 500 … supporter of Charity Organisation Soc. 22 Usually 2 or 3 curates from 1880s, 6 in 1894. Ch. had 900 free sittings … inc. preaching from pulpit attached to exterior of ch., street svces., and attempted mission at 'Tiger's Corner'; 52 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… could elect the trustees from those possessing a freehold or copyhold estate of £8 a year or leasehold estate of £12, or who were rateable at 2 s. 6 d. … leased at the eastern end and on the south side of Hare Street, 55 where a new workhouse to hold 400 56 was completed …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… either that of an Independent meeting house from 1669 87 or one using the formerly Anglican St. George's chapel and … had been established on the north side of St. John Street by 1687 and probably by 1682. It was opened by English … 1808 to be the principal London station of the Kilhamites or New Methodist Connexion. 13 No registration for worship …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Until the 19th century Bethnal Green relied on springs or wells. There was a conduit and lead pipes in Conduit … laid into Bethnal Green', presumably in 1807. 83 Simcock's or Sincook's well in the Great Hyde, mentioned c. 1399, 84 … the 1570s. 86 It may have been a well found in Old Nichol Street during work on the Boundary Street estate in the …