Stratford 1882 Trade Directory
History of Stratford in 1882
Private Residents -
Commercial
Stratford (or
Stratford Langthorne), the ford of the street or Roman way from London to
Colchester, a polling place for the Southern division of the county, is a suburb
of London, and lies on the east side of the navigable river Lee and on the Great
Eastern railway, whence the Colchester and the Cambridge, and the Blackwall and
the North Woolwich, and the Woodford and the Tilbury and the Southend branch
lines diverge: there are three stations, viz., Stratford Central station,
Stratford Bridge, Maryland Point. It is 3¾ miles from Shoreditch, is a ward of
the parish of West Ham, in the union of that name, and within the jurisdiction
of the Central Criminal Court and Metropolitan Police, in the Bow County court
district, rural deanery of Barking, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St
Albans, and Eastern Metropolitan postal district. It is united to Stratford le
Bow, in Middlesex, by a bridge over the river Lee. Tramways are laid down from
the Broadway to Aldgate.
Stratford is
included in the Local Board District of West Ham.
St Johns is an
ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1844 from the mother parish of West Ham; the
church situated in the centre of town, where the main road from the east of
London diverges towards Romford and Leytonstone: is an edifice in the Early
English style, and was built in 1834 as a chapel of ease to the parish of West
Ham, becoming a parich church about 1859; it was erected at a cost of £23,000;
of which £18,000 was raised by subscription, and the remainder advanced on
security of the rates; the church consists of chancel, nave, aisles and tower.
The land was given by the late Lord Mornington, then Tylney Long Wellesley Pole,
esq. of Wanstead, and T Humphreys esq. , lords of the manor. The register dates
from the year 1859. The living is a vicarage so constituted in 1868, yearly
value £310 and is in the gift of the vicar of West Ham, and held by Rev Raymond
Percy Pelly, M A of Trinity College, Cambridge. The area is 301 acres; the
population in 1871 was 10,834.
Christchurch
is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1852 from the mother parish of West Ham;
the church, in High Street, erected in 1851, is a stone building in the
Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, with tower and spire.
The register dates from the year 1852. The living is a vicarage, yearly value
£300, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held by the Rev Charles
William Servante. The area is 405 acres; the population in 1871 was 4,000.
Stratford New
Town, formerly called Hudson’s Town, is a part of Stratford, adjoining the Angel
lane railway station.
St Paul,
Stratford New Town, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish from the mother
parish of West Ham, in 1865. The church, situated in the Maryland Road, is a
plain brick building, consisting of aspidal chancel, nave, aisles, apse, and a
turret with 1 bell. There are sittings for 1,250 persons, half of which are
free. The register dates from December 10th, 1864. The living is a
vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of five trustees, and held by the Rev
William Spencer. The area is 236 acres; the population in 1871 was 8,730.
There is a
Presbyterian church in Leytonstone Road.
The Catholic
church of St Francis of Assisi opened May 12, 1868: is a rectangular building in
the Italian style, with a small tower over the porch containing 1 bell and was
erected at a cost of £6,000; it will seat 400.
The
Congregationalist, Baptists, Primitive Methodists, United Free Methodists and
Wesleyans have chapels here.
The Town hall,
a building in the Italian style, opened July 7th, 1869 by Sir Thomas
Western, lord lieutenant of the county and is situated at the corner of West Ham
lane and the Broadway, Stratford, with a frontage of 102 feet in the Broadway
and 112 feet in West ham lane. The façade towards the Broadway has two principal
storeys, from which in front of the entrance is projected a colonnade of
rusticated work, rising into a spacious balcony supported on columns and
terminating in a balustraded parapet, with groups of statuary; above this is a
supplementary storey similarly treated : to the right of the main building is a
well proportioned tower 100 feet in height, crowned by a coved domical roof,
supporting a small turret and vane: the principal front is of stone, the portico
and other portions being adorned with polished columns of red granite: this
building is occupied by the officers of the local board, engineer and surveyor,
nuisance inspector, school board, vestry clerk and of various local collectors
and has on the ground floor a large hall 79 feet long, 30 feet wide and as many
high; a fire brigade station is on the west side. Messrs Lewis Angell and John
Giles were the architects.
On the river
Lee are flour mills, chemical and print works, artificial manure factories, soap
and candle works, vesta and match manufactories and distilleries. A market for
vegetables, fruit, roots and straw, has been established, adjoining the
Stratford Bridge Station, by the Great eastern railway company, who have
constructed warehouses and sidings for the development of trade.
The abbey of
Stratford Langthorne for Cistercian monks was founded here in 1134, the abbot of
which was a lord of Parliament, and of which the income at the Dissolution was
£573 15s 6d. : there are now no remains of the building, except perhaps the
Abbey Mills. George Edwards, the naturalist, was born here in 1692 and was also
buried here.
The population
of the Stratford Ward in the West Ham Local Board District in 1871 was 23,286.
Official
Establishments, Local Institutions etc
Post & Money
Order & Telegraph Office, Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office,
branch of Eatern district, Martin Street.
Post & Money
Order Offices & Savings Banks, 288 Romford Road – William Stock, receiver; 137
Romford Road - Alfred Tooks harding, receiver; Market Place, Leytonstone Road,
New Town – Robert Canham, receiver; 64 High Street – John Osborne, receiver; 271
High Street – John Lines, receiver; Leyton Road, New Town – John Butler,
receiver; 170 Maryland Road – Sidney Thomas Fisk & Co, receivers.
Pillar Letter
Boxes, Broadway; Maryland Point; & at Stratford & Stratford Bridge railway
stations
West Ham Local
Board.
Offices, Town
hall, Broadway
Clerk, Frederic
Edward Hilleary MA, ML
Medical
Officer, Thomas Drake
Engineer &
Surveyor, Lewis Angell C E
Assistant
Surveyor, I G Killey
Building
Inspector, T H Raiman
Chief Sanitary
Inspector, William Horn
Inspector of
Nuisances, William Evans & William Allen
Collectors,
Thomas Watton, Charles W Ashdown & J J Richardson
Insurance Agents:
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County Fire, G
Gwinn, 7 The Grove; J Hendon; P T Little, 372 High Street; H Ough, 62 Romford
Road
Guardian, R
Frewer, Heath Lodge, Avenue Road, Forest Gate
Hand in Hand, F
C Blackburn, Rokeby House
Phoenix Fire, G
More, 267 Romford Road; A E Smith, 153 Romford Road; & T Willis, 158 The Grove
Provident Life,
P T Little, 372 High Street; &
H Ough, 62 Romford Road
Queen, G W
Miller, Elm saide, Deanery Road
Sun fire, J
Rivett, high Street
Public
Establishments
Essex (1st)
Artillery Volunteers (comprising 10 batteries), head quarters of the brigade &
No’s 3 to 7 & 9 & 10 batteries, Romford Road, Samuel L Howard, lt-col; cap
Augustus J Hill BMA adjutant; Edwin J scott, quarter master; John B Kennedy &
Rae Corbet, surgeons; Sl Evans, acting surgeon; Rev Wm Spencer MA acting
chaplain.
Inland
revenue Office, The Grove, W C Lock, surveyor of taxes; James Bayford,
supervisor of inland revenue
Magistrates Court Room, Great
Eastern Road, open every day except Saturdays & Sundays; Magistrates meet every
Wednesday; Clifton & Haynes, clerks
Metropolitan
Police Station, West Ham lane
Town Hall,
Broadway, Charles Iyan, keeper
West Ham Burial
Board, Town Hall, Jeremiah Self, clerk;
West Ham Fire
Brigade, Station, Broadway, Wm Jones, superintendent
Public Officers
Clerk to the
Burial Board, Jeremiah Self, The Grove
Clerk to the
West Ham Board of Governors & the Assessment Committee, Frederic Edward Hilleary
MA ML, Town hall, Broadway
Collector of
water Rate, Charles P Hurann, Disraeli Road
Inland Revenue
Officer, Frederick Abbott, 12 Romford Road
Collector of
Poor Rates, William Hopkins
Vestry clerk,
George Alfred Sedgwick, Town Hall
Regristrar of
Births & Deaths, Thomas James Vallance MD. Romford Road
Registrar of
Marriages, Charles William Ashdown, 241 Romford Road
Relieving
Officer, No 1 District, West ham union, J Carter, High Street
Superintentandant registrar, Frederic Hilleary Ma ML Town hall; deputy, John
James Mulley, Florence Villa, water lane
Supervisor of
Inland Revenue, Jas bayford, 154 The Grove
Surveyor of
Taxes, Thomas Wallace Foyer
Places of Worship
St Johns Church, Broadway,
Rev Raymond Percy Pelley MA vicar:
11 am &
6.30 pm; weekdays 8
am & 7.15 pm
Christ Church,
High Street, Rev Charles William Servante, incumbent; 11 am & £ & 6.30 pm; thur
8 pm
St Pauls
Church, Maryland Road, New Town, Rev William Spencer MA, vicar; 11 am & 3.30 &
6.30 pm; daily 8 pm; saints day 9 am
St Johns
Mission chapel, Chant Square; 11 am & 8.30 pm; wed 7 pm
Catholic Church
of St Francis of Assisi, Grove, Crescent Road, Rev Francis Verhagen; Rev Germain
Verleyer; Rev Aidan McCarthey (guardian); Rev W James Egan; Rev Bede Wrigley &
Rev Columban Ellison, priests; 8,9,10 & 11 am & 6.30 pm; daily 6.30, 7 & 8 am;
tues, wed, thur & fri 8 pm
Presbyterian
Church, Leytonstone Road, Maryland, Rev George Wilson, minister; 11 am & 6.30
pm; wed 7.30 pm
Baptist Chapel,
Carpenters Road, Rev Geo head Towner; 11 am; 6.30 pm; wed 7.30 pm
Baptist Chapel,
Romford Road (no appointment as yet)
Baptist Chapel,
the Grove, Rev J H Banfield, minister; 11 am & 6.30 pm; mon & wed 7.30 pm
Congregational
Church, Grove Crescent Road, Rev James Knaggs, minister; 11 am & 6.30 pm; thur 7
pm
Primitive
Methodist Chapel, Chapel Street; 11 am & 6.30 pm; thur 7.30 pm
Primitive
Methodist (Ebenezer) Chapel, Henniker Road, New Town; 11 am & 6.30 pm; wed 7.30
pm
Primitive
Methodist Chapel, Major Road, New Town; 11 am & 6.30 pm; wed 7.30 pm
United
Methodist Free Church, Bridge Road; ; 11
am & 6.30 pm; mon 7.30 pm
Wesleyan
Chapel, The Grove ; 11 am & 6.30 pm; wed 7 pm & sat 8 pm
National
Christian Church, Broadway, Rev Thomas Crow, minister; 11 am & 6.30 pm
Schools:-
West Ham School
Board, offices, Town hall; clerk, Jeremiah Self: architect, J T Newman, senior
assistant clerk, C W Carrell; superintendent of visitors, Henry Madden
Board Schools,
Channelsea Road, D Webbe, master; Miss E Stevenson, mistress; Miss Alice Hovell,
infants mistress – High Street, John William Smith, master; Miss Annie Ware,
mistress; Miss Emily Silversides, infant mistress : Maryland Point, William
Crouch, head master, George Baldock, henry Herbert, John S Ashplant, assistant
masters: North Street, New Town; Miss Caroline parker, mistress
Abbey School, John
E Dam, master; Miss Ellen Simonds, girls mistress; Miss Sophia Stevens, infants
mistress
British
(Stratford & West Ham), Bridge Road, J J Morrell, master; Mr Sidlery, Mr
Edwicker, assistant masters
Grey Girls,
Miss Mary Tebbs, mistress
Christ Church
(National), High Street, Mrs Emily Moorman, mistress
National),
Chart Square, Henry John Millard, master; George Housden, assistant master; Miss
Gabrilla Stilly, mistress; Mrs Marian L Brasuer, infants mistress
St Pauls
national, Maryland Road ( boys & girls) A J Clarkson, master; J Coates, J Cross
& T Potter, assistant masters; Mrs Eliza ?ay, mistress; Mrs Mary Goodwin,
assistant mistress, Miss Emma Rayson, infants mistress
Catholic
(mixed), Grove Crescent Road, James Gillis Cockburn, master
Free Ragged,
Chapel Street, Alfred Jennings, mistress; Miss Edith Baker, infants mistress
Great Eastern
Railway (boys), Maryland Street, Charles Buckingham, master;
Newspapers
Essex Times &
Romford Telegraph, 20 Broadway, Wilson & Whitworth, proprietors (published
Wednesday & Saturday)
Stratford
Express, 20 Broadway, Wilson & Whitworth, proprietors & publishers (published on
Saturdays)
Stratford &
South Essex Advertiser, 272 High Street, O T Little, proprietor, published
friday
Stratford
Times, 20 Broadway, Wilson & Whitworth, proprietors (published on Wednesdays)
Railway
Stations:-
Central,
Station street, Angel Lane, Henry Clark Francis, station master
Maryland, Samuel
Woods, station master
Stratford Bridge, Bridge
Road, Isaac John Pryke, station master
Conveyance to
London:-
Omnibuses from
the Swan Hotel, Broadway, to the ‘Dolphin’, Oxford Street every half an hour,
from 8 am to 10 pm
Tramway cars
from Broadway to Aldgate every five minutes from 7.30 am to 11 pm; from Broadway
to Leytonstone every fifteen minutes from 8 am to 10 pm; tramway omnibuses from
‘Princess Alice’, Romford Road, every half hour from 8.15 am to 10 pm
Carriers to
London : - William Bushman & R Sholl pass through West Ham, daily. Carriers from
Ilford, Romford, Barking, Plaistow, Woodford & Leytonstone pass through daily.