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Deputy
Parish clerk, Joseph Mumford,
Official
Establishments, Local Institutions etc
Post,
Money Order & Telegraph Office, Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance
Office, South Street – Henry Betts, postmaster. Arrivals: - from
Letter
box closes at 10 pm. Town Pillar Boxes cleared at 8.25 & 11.15 am & 4.5, 4.25,
8.5 & 8.20 pm. Letters delivered in Romford at 7.30 & 9.30 am & 2.30 & 6 pm.
Insurance
Agents:-
British Empire
Mutual, W B Lake, High Street; L P Tait, 15 FACTORY TERRACE, Squirrels Heath & W
J Bray, South street
Clerical &
Medical, A H Hunt,
Commercial
Imperial Live
Stock Association Limited, George Gray, Corn exchange
Northern
Assurance, J R A Hulse,
Phoenix Fire,
H W Smith, 2 Crichton villas & Mrs Pertwee,
Provident
Life, J Spencer jun, Market place
Queen, T Davey,
Royal
Exchange, I G Collier, High Street
Royal Farmers,
A Harvey, High Street
Standard Life,
T F Barrow, London & County Bank
Sun Fire, A H
Hunt,
Romford Union
Board day,
Tuesday, weekly
Romford union
comprises the parishes of Barking, Cranham, Dagenham, Great Warley, Havering,
Hornchurch, Rainham, Romford, Upminster, and Wennington. The population of the
union in 1881 was 37,050; rateable value, £248,075
Clerk to the
Guardians, William Smith,
Treasurers,
London & County Bank, Romford
Collector to
the Guardians, Thomas Wm Capron, Romford
Collector of
Poor Rates, Charles William Harvey, High Street
Relieving
Officers, No 1 district, Dickenson Grice,
Vaccination
Officers, Dickenson Grice,
Medical
Officers & Public Vaccinators, No 1 district, A L Mackenzie, Romford; No 2
district, A Wright, Romford; No 3 district, H H Mason, Barking; No 4 district, J
Shimeld, Great Ilford; No 5 district, W Bruorton, Hornchurch; No 6 district, E
Callaway, Barking; No 7 district, A W Wallis, Brentwood
Superintendent
Registrar, William Smith,
Registrars of
Marriages, R D Wilding, Barking; deputy, John Bissell, Barking;
Thomas William Capron, Romford; deputy,
Arthur Cornell, Market place, Romford
Registrars of
Births & Deaths, Ilford sub-district, Alfred Sherman, Great Ilford; Barking Town
sub-district, R D Wilding, Barking; Hornchurch sub-district, F Stratford,
Hornchurch; Romford sub-district, Thomas William Capron, Romford
The Workhouse,
situated close to the town, was built in 1838 & will hold 371 inmates; it cost
£9,500; Rev James Goodday, MA, chaplain; medical officer, James Alexander
Fraser; Henry Seymour-Clarke, master; Mrs Mary Seymour-Clarke, matron
Rural Sanitary
Authority
Clerk, William
Smith,
Treasurers,
London & County Bank, Romford
Medical
Officer of Health, A Wright,
Inspector of
Nuisances, G
School
Attendance Committee
Clerk, William
Smith,
Public
Establishments:-
Almshouses,
Cemetery
(Old), High Road
Cemetery
(New), Rush Green, Alfred Henry Hunt, clerk to the burial board
Corn Exchange,
High Street, Thomas Champness, manager
County Court,
His Honor John Thomas Abdy, LL D, judge; Henry Skehell Haynes, registrar;
Charles Godfrey, high bailiff; office, South Street; bailiffs appointed under
the Agricultural Holdings Act, Thomas Champness, High Street; Theo Davey, Crown
chambers & Western Road. The County court is held in the court house, near the
railway station, once a month; the following parishes are within the
jurisdiction of this court: - Abridge, Aldborough Hatch, Aveley, Barking Creek,
Barking Side, Beacontree Heath, Buckhurst Hill, Chadwell, Chadwell Heath,
Chigwell, Chigwell Row, Collier Row, Corbets Tey, Cranham, Dagenham, Great
Ilford, Hare Street, Harold Wood, Havering ate Bower, Hornchurch, Lambourne,
Lambourne End, Little Heath, Noak Hill, Ockendon North, Ockendon South, Rainham,
Rainham Creek, Rainham Ferry, Rippleside, Romford, Romford Common, Rush Green,
Squirrels Heath, Stapleford Abbot, Stapleford Tawney, Stifford, Upminster,
Wennington & Whalebone Gate.
Court House,
Police Office,
Market place, Thomas John Cooper, inspector; the local force consists of 1
inspector, 1 sergeant & 13 constables
Masonic Lodge
(No 1437, Liberty of Havering), ‘Rising Sun’, 4th thurs, February to
October,
Volunteers:-
Essex Regiment
and Volunteer Battalion ( A & B companies), Drill hall, Market place; Captain J
W Hammond, B Co & Captain F H Thirlwall, A Co
Public
Officers:-
Certifying
Factory Surgeon, Alfred Wright, The Lodge,
Clerks to the
Commissioners of Taxes for Beacontree
& Havering divisions, Clerk of the Peace & Keeper of the Records of
Liberty, Clerks to the Commissioners of Sewers & Havering, Dagenham & other
Levels, H S Haynes, South Street
Coroner for
the Liberty of Havering atte Bower,
H S Haynes,
Clerk to the
magistrates for the Liberty of Havering atte Bower, H S,
Clerks to the
Petty Sessions for the District of the Half Hundred of Beacontree, Haynes &
Clifton,
Clerk to the
magistrates of the Orsett Division,
Clerk to the
Burial Board, Alfred Henry Hunt,
Collector to
New
Inland Revenue
Officer & Inspector of Corn Returns, Geo Fred Revill, Tindall villas,
Inspector of
Weights & measures, Thomas John Cooper, Market place
Registrar of
Probate Duties & Supervisor of Inland Revenue, Richard Tozer, Swinburn villa,
Surveyors of
Highways: Collier Row ward, Samuel H Loake, Collier Row: Harold Wood ward,
William Roach, Noak Hill: Noak Hill ward, Mark taylor, Noak Hill
Vestry Clerk,
Alfred Henry Hunt,
Places of
Worship with times of service:-
St Edward’s
church, Rev Canon Wm Maunder Hitchcock, MA; Rev William George Howard, BA; Rev
John Bourton, MA; & Rev Joseph Hardwick Pemberton, curates; 11 am, 2.30 & 6.30
pm; Wednesday 11 am & 7 pm & Friday 11 am
St Andrew’s
District church, St Andrew’s Road, Rev F A Alban Wylde, rector; 11 am & 6.30 pm;
Thursday 11 am
Catholic, St
Edward’s Square, Rev Henry James Tilley, priest;
Baptist (
Catholic
Apostolic Church,
Congregational,
Primitive
Methodist,
Wesleyan, High
Street, Rev Charles Hillard;
St Edwards
Mission Room,
Schools:-
A School Board
of 7 members was formed in 1872; William Smith,
Albion Street
Board school (mixed), was built in 1848 & transferred to School Board in 1873;
it will hold 180 children; average attendance 140;
Mrs Clark, mistress
Albert Road
Board School, opened 16 June, 1884, at a cost of over £4,000, for 254 boys &
girls & 100 infants; average attendance, 172 boys & girls & 100 infants; Geo
Barnes, master; Miss Marie Simkins, infants mistress
National, for
308 boys, 156 girls, 76 infants; average
attendance 250 boys, 154 girls & at full attendance of infants; it was erected
in 1710 on the foundation of Joseph Bosworth & rebuilt in 1727, the present boys
school was added in 1835 & by a new scheme of the Court of Chancery in 1833, and
is now open to the children of three parishes of the liberty; 45 boys & 20 girls
being on the foundation: the property of the school consists of two cottages in
Hornchurch Lane, a plot of ground upon which stands Bosworths buildings & £450
in the funds. For apprenticing out of this school two poor boys of Hornchurch &
one of Romford, Mary Shide left in 1714, a sum of £200, which was invested in a
rent charge of £10; Henry Robert Heasman, master; Miss Mary Ann Woodland,
mistress; Mrs Susannah Long, infants mistress
Church,
Collier Row (mixed), for 112 children; average attendance 112; Richard Bates,
master
National, Noak
Hill (mixed), for 72 children; average attendance 60; Miss Maria Ashby, mistress
St Andrew’s,
St Andrew’s Road (mixed), erected in 1843 for 260 children, with an average
attendance, 200; Walter Martin, master
Catholic St
Edward’s Square (mixed),, erected in 1856, for 60 children; average attendance
45; Miss Julia Casey, mistress
Romford
Factory, Squirrels Heath (mixed), built in 1841 by the Great Eastern Railway Co
for the education of the children of their workpeople; it will hold 100
children; average attendance, 80; Miss Charlotte Milne, mistress
Newspapers:-
Essex
Independent & Farmers Gazette, South Street & High Street (Taylor & Robbins,
publishers); published mon, wed &
fri
Essex Times,
High Street (Wilson & whitworth, publishers); published Wednesday, Friday &
Saturday
Conveyance :-
Railway
Station,
Mail cart to
Horndon on the Hill
Omnibus to
Rainham, twice on Wednesday, from the ‘White Hart’
Poel’s mail
cart, from
Carriers to
G Hoppe, High
Street, daily at
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