History of Silvertown in 1886 Kelly's
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History of Silvertown in 1886
Silvertown (near North Woolwich) within the southern division of the new
parliamentary borough of West Ham, in the ecclesiastical parish of St Mark,
Victoria Docks, and formed out of the civil parish of West Ham; is so named from
the Messrs Silver, who established here the large works of the India Rubber,
Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company Limited: here are also large chemical
works, sugar refineries, and the works of the Gas Light and Coke Company. This
place, part of which lies in the county of Kent, is in the Eastern Metropolitan
postal district, and Bow county court district, Barking rural deanery, Essex
archdeaconry and St Albans diocese, and has a station on the Great Eastern
Railway (North Woolwich line).. The ecclesiastical parish of St Mark was formed
in 1864, and comprised and included North Woolwich and portions of the parishes
of East and West Ham, with a population in 1871 of 12,954, and of the reduced
district in 1881, 4,481. St Mark’s church, near the Victoria Docks, built in
1861-2, at a cost of about £8,000, after designs of S S Teulon esq, is an
edifice of brick in the Decorated style and consists of chancel, nave, aisles
and tower with spire containing 2 bells: there are 400 sittings, all free and
unappropriated: the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, in August
1862. The register dates from the year 1862. The living is a vicarage, yearly
value £410, in the gift of the Corporation of the City of London, and held since
1875 by the Rev Henry James Bodily, of St Bees. A small mission school church
was erected in 1882. Primrose Hall, situated in Knights Road, West Silvertown,
is a handsome building, containing a fine hall for lectures and public
entertainments, capable of sitting 500 persons, an extensive library and
reading, billiards, bagatelle, coffee and smoking rooms; attached are hot and
cold baths. It was erected for the Primrose Library Society, composed
principally of the employees of Messrs John Knight & Sons, of the Silvertown
Soap Works and Oil Mills, at the expense of their president, Ambrose Knight esq,
and was opened by him on Wednesday, December 2nd, 1885. There is a mission
chapel in connection with the Congregationalists, erected at the expense of W
Duncan Knight esq.
Verger, Charles King
Post & Money Order Office & savings Bank & Telegraph Office, Market Place
Schools:-
Board (infants), under the West Ham School Board, for 320 children, average
attendance, 300; Miss Emily Wright, mistress
St Mark’s National School (the infants school was added in 1882 & the girls
school in 1883), for 470 children; average attendance, 390; William Henry,
master; Miss Clara Pucker, girls mistress; Miss Jane Murray, infants mistress
Railway Station, Alexander Shambrook, station master
Essex Regiment 4th Volunteer Battalion, head quarters & orderly room, 22 Cooks
Terrace; Hugh A Silver, lieut col; C Ford, major; Major D A Blest, adjutant;
John Vance MD, surgeon; Rev Prebendary Richard Whittington MA, hon chaplain; Nos
1 & 4, % & ^ companies at Hackney; No 2, Stratford, J Edwards, captain; No 3,
Silvertown, J Cheffings, captain
[For names in Royal Albert & Victoria Docks, see Canning Town]
Bailey John, Factory House (India Rubber works)
Barwick James, 4 Winchester Street
Beamont Joseph, 3 Knights Road, Victoria Docks
Benjamin John, Knights Road, Victoria Docks
Bodily Rev Henry James, St Mark’s parsonage
Bullen James, 8 Knights Road, Victoria Docks
Fraser Frederick, 2 Winchester Street
McKinlay James, Factory House (India Rubber works)
Morse Geo, 7 Knights Road, Victoria Docks
Wilton John, The Gas Works
Commercial
Atkins Geo Wm, oilman, 8 Constance Street
Ball William,
Royal Arms PH, Winchester Street
Bartzoonski Barnett, glazier, 19 Lower Andrew Street
Barwick Charles Frederick,
Royal Albert PH, North Woolwich Road
Benton John, carman, Oriental Road
Berry Henry, 19 Constance Street
Birchall Joseph, grocer, 11 Tate Road
Blanksby Wm, dining rooms, 2 Constance Street
Brevetor Thos, builder, 15 Constance Street
Browne Samuel, linen draper, 9 Market Place
British Alzarine Co lim (The) (Edgar T James, sec); agencies in Glasgow,
Manchester, Paris, Rouen etc, Gold Medal, International Inventions Exhibition,
London, 1883
Bradfield Henry, carman, North Woolwich Road, Victoria Docks
Burt, Boulton & Haywood, tar & creosote works, Prince Regents Wharf
Campbell John, boot & shoe maker, 6 Arthur Terrace
Chapman, Messel & Co, chemical manufacturers
Chapman (Spencer) & Co, chemical manufacturer
Clayden Alfred, baker, 12 Constance Street
Cox George, confectioner, 16 Upper Gray Street
Deglow Julius, hair dresser, 3 Mickleberg Terrace
Duff Daniel, confectioner, 2 Emma Place
Eastwood Squire, shopkeeper, 2 Graving Dock Terrace
Ellis William, blacksmith, Gray Street
Fairs Samuel, fishmonger, 5 Arthur Terrace
Feast Thomas, carman, 1 Drew Road
Finch (Mark) & Co, manure manufacturers, Silvertown Chemical works
Fisher Thomas, hair dresser, 3 Emma Place
Flack Thomas, coffee rooms, 18 Lower Andrew Street
Flett Robert, fancy repository, North Woolwich Road
Gas Light & Coke Co’s Works (John Wilton, engineer), Silvertown station
Geller John, butcher, 16 Upper Andrew Street
Girdwood Margaret (Mrs), oil & color warehouse, North Woolwich Road
Glover Henry & Co, chemical manufacturers, Towe Chemical Works
Goodridge Wm, baker, 35 Lower Andrew Street
Goodwin Brothers, coal merchants, Railway Station
Gordon Chas, greengrocer, 17 Constance Street
Harnwell George, beer retailer & smith, 36 Oriental Road
Hine John, house agent, 3 Parker Street
Howe James, greengrocer, 17 Upper St Andrew Street
India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co Limited ; office, 106 Cannon
Street, London EC; branches, 52 Castle Street & 70 Regent Road, Bootle,
Liverpool; 20 Dixon Street, Glasgow; 35 Kirkgate, Bradford, Yorkshire; 64a High
Street, Market Place, Sheffield; 6 Neville Street, Newcastle on Tyne; Pierhead
chambers, Bute Docks, Cardiff; Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham
Ivey William John Thomas, coffee rooms, 6 Constance Street
Keiller James & Son, wholesale & export confectioners, Tay Wharf
King Albert Edward, station master, Connaught Road & Central stations
Kirby Henry, oilman, 7 Market Place
Knight John & Sons, hard & soft soap makers, candle makers, tallow chandlers &
melters, seed crushers & oil refiners, soap works & oil mills, Silvertown,
Victoria Docks E; depots for receiving butchers fat SE gate Metropolitan Cattle
Market N; 11 West Smithfield EC & 52 King Street, Deptford SE
Laing, Howett & Co, shipwrights, Campbell Street
Lichenstein & Co, brewers chemists
Macey Elizabeth Hill (Mrs), coffee rooms, 10 Constance Street
McGinnis Wm, tobacconist, 4 Constance Street
McKenna Charlotte (Mrs), coffee rooms, 3 Graving Dock Terrace, North Woolwich
Road
Marsh Sarah Eliza (Mrs),linen draper & post office, 1 Mickleberg Terrace
Morgan Henry John,
Connaught Tavern, Royal Albert Docks
Pearce Edward, baker, 21 Constance Street
Peirson Francis James,
Railway Hotel
Petty & Co, Cairn oil mills
Rickett Fredk Aug, baker, 4 Market Place
Robertson Rt, shopkeeper, 1 Lower Andrew Street
Robins John, carpenter, 9 Constance Street
Robinson Andrew Augustus, estate agent, 47 Emma Street
Sailer August, butcher, 6 Market Place
Salmon Frederick James,
Graving Dock Tavern, North Woolwich Road
Shambrook Alexander, station master, 32 Winchester Street
Silvertown, Canning Town & Victoria Dock Freehold Land & Building Co Lim , 1
Mickleberg Terrace
Silvertown Chemical manure Works, manure merchants & manufacturers (Spencer
Chapman, proprietor)
Silvertown Coal Co (J Forrest, secretary), Railway station
Smith George, grocer, 5 Market Place
Solder Casper, boot & shoe maker, 19 Constance Street
Tate Henry & Sons, Thames sugar refinery
Tauer Saml, coffee rooms, 2 Mickleberg Terrace
Urlwin Jas Stephen, grocer, 3 Constance Street
Vance Wm J, surgeon, 2 Constance Street
Watts John, shopkeeper, 8 Market Place
Welsh Thos, shopkeeper, 11 Winchester Street
Wenninger Geo, butcher, 44 Oriental Road
Williams Joseph, shopkeeper, 14 Emma Street
Williams Thomas, carman & coffee room, North Woolwich Road
Wolf Henry, butcher, 20 Constance Street
Woodlands Samuel, tobacconist, Tate Road
Woolgar Alfred, greengrocer, 43 Oriental Road
