Edwardian postcards of the Woodgrange estate

The Edwardian era (1901 - 1910) witnessed a boom in the use of picture postcards as 'social media', in the days before the introduction of domestic telephones.

There would have been four or five postal deliveries a day, and people could conduct a correspondence about travel and meeting up arrangements, when visiting each other, for example, with the greatest of ease, over a few hours.

Among the most popular of the postcards were photos of prominent local streets, churches and parks. So, West Ham Park and Wanstead Flats are well represented, as are almost all local churches of the time. There are literally dozens of different surviving views of Woodgrange Road and small numbers of some local streets - usually the more prosperous (Earlham Grove, Capel Road, Chestnut Road being good examples).

People used the postcards, employing the relatively recently developed use of mass reproduced photography, as a combination of a calling card and an illustration of their locality, or residence.

The streets of the Woodgrange estate are all well represented, and this article features a number of the postcards, which collectively inform our understanding of the development of the estate, as well as present a nostalgic glance back to a car-less era of wide, uncluttered roads.

Many of the postcards of the era survive, and there is a busy, and increasingly expensive, market for them on E.Bay. There are at least two local collectors of Forest Gate life, Tony Morrison, a friend of this site, and another equally valued contact, who wishes to remain anonymous.  We are grateful to both for sharing relevant sections of their collection with us, so that we can display them in this article.

One rather splendid set survives of all four of the main roads on the estate. The photos are all hand-tinted and indented on high quality photographic paper/card, to give the appearance of a framed photograph. We reproduce the four- as a set - in minature, including their frames, here. We produce larger versions, without frames, so that the details can be examined more closely, in the separate road sections, below.

Top: Windsor and Osborne, Bottom: Hampton and Claremont

We are covering the main roads on the estate from south to north. In very broad terms, that was sequence of grander to less grand houses in the estate, according to the surviving 1878 sales leaflet for the houses - see below. 

As the leaflet shows, the earliest houses on Windsor had the widest frontages (47 feet) and were most expensive (£590). Then came those on Claremont (44 feet, £530), followed by Osborne and Hampton (both 39 feet and £490).

It is those largest and most expensive houses on Windsor and Claremont that were bombed during WW2 and replaced by the 1950's estate.

Below is a rare postcard of one of the largest of the original houses on the estate. It is of 4 Windsor - with its 47 feet frontage. It is unusual in a number of regards. Firstly, as the sign on the far left indicates, it doubled up as a house and a Music and Dance Academy. Kelly's Directory of 1902 shows that it was occupied by "Madame Marian Finer, Professor of Music" and Thomas Owen Finer.

The 1911 census shows the same couple, with a 25-year old daughter, Edith. It also suggests that Marion married Owen when she was just 16, and he 40, for in 1911 they were 45 and 70 respectively.

The house has a conservatory at the front. We have seen no evidence, photographically, or in writing of any other house on the estate having such a feature.  Many houses on the estate had verandahs - some of which survive - but none other, as far as we are aware, a fully enclosed glass frontage of the kind shown below.

The photo suggests that the house was quadruple fronted, with an arch under the left hand extension leading either to the garden or perhaps to a coach house, at the rear. 

4 Windsor Road, in 1908. 
Destroyed by WW2 bomb.

The sales leaflet, above, mentions the estate office.  The manager was Mr Donald. This was located at 2 Hampton Road, and can be seen protruding from the fabric of the house in the postcard below.

The estate office was important, for many years after the houses on the estate were constructed and sold.  Most were sold on a leasehold basis - for 99 years, in the 1880's. Others, as the leaflet suggests, were rented;. Those sold had a significant ground rent to pay each year. 

Corbett, the estate's developer, was fastidious about maintaining high standards on the Woodgrange estate. The original sales contract for the houses, for example, insisted that the purchaser kept the house in good repair, "and particularly will paint the external wood and ironwork in every Fourth year of the said term and the inside wood and ironwork in every Seventh year of the said term." 

Corbett reserved the right to inspect all houses that he had "sold" twice a year, to ensure that this was adhered to, and required any concerns to be addressed within three months.

Anticipating the Conservation Area requirements, imposed a century after the construction of the estate, the house deeds stated: 

The Lessee ... will not make any alterations in the plan or elevation or in the architectural decorations of the said dwelling-house or any additions thereto or erect of build any new or additional building on any part of the said premises without the previous licensee in writing of the Lessor.

The upshot of the conditions imposed on the initial purchasers of houses on the estate was that conformity of high standards was enforced - through the estate office.  So, in many of the photos below, it will be clearly seen that the trees in gardens were  pollarded and pruned together - to ensure a consistency and uniformity of appearance.

Corbett began to sell the freehold of houses in the estate twenty five years after they were first erected - possibly to finance some of his ambitious housing schemes in south east London (see here, for details). It was only at that point that the owners were able to "individualise" their houses and make significant changes to their interiors, or exteriors.

The postcards reproduced below, therefore, probably display the houses on the estate at their most uniform and mature - reflecting the kind of vision Corbett and his heirs had for the estate - neat, tidy, well-ordered and maintained to a consistently high standard.

The estate office, protruding from 2 Hampton
 Road, above, in the postcard.
Below, the same building, boarded up, today

Almost all of the postcards reproduced below are of the Edwardian era - as testified by the stamps and frank marks on the correspondence side of the card. Some are later, though difficult to date, if they have not been posted.

It is noticeable that all gardens hosted three or four trees, which were maintained by the freeholder. There were no trees on the pavements at this time - which taken together with the lack of traffic on the raods give the impression of wide, distinctive boulevards.

The approach in this article is to display general views of each street, as chronologically as possible, followed by rather more specific (sometimes single house) postcards.  With these later cards we have, wherever possible, tried to produce a "now" version of the view today. In some cases the destruction of some of the original features of the houses makes for uncomfortable viewing.

Windsor Road

Tinted postcard of Windsor c 1908, from the series, 
mentioned above. Note consistent pollarding 
of the trees, suggesting considerable 
on-going involvement of the leaseholder
 (Corbett) in the appearance of the estate. 

Undated postcard of the entrance to
Windsor Road, from Woodgrange Road

Second house on right hand side is number 4
(see above) - a slight impression of the
conservatory at the front, which does not
seem to be present  on any other house

Above and below: noticeable that one front
wall stands out from all the others in being of 
a paler brick. Given the attention to symetery
 and detail elsewhere in the houses, perhaps this
was the first to exercise the "right to buy" the
freehold, and so express individuality - like 
"right to buy"  council properties in the 1980's?

Above: undated postcard of roundabout on
 Windsor  and Richmond Roads. Below: the 
location today. The railings around the 
roundabout were doubtless taken down 
and used to help the war effort in WW2.

West end of Windsor Road, post WW2 bombing,
 prior to construction of modern estate of flats

Above: unusual postcard of the east end of
Windsor Road, at its junction with
Hampton. Judging by the height of trees, 
likely to be Edwardian.
Below: the view, today.

Above: Edwardian postcard of 54 Windsor Road.
Below: a treeless and hedgeless 54 Windsor Road,
 today, complete with a first floor extension to the annexe

Claremont Road

The Claremont card from the 1908 had-tinted set.
 To the left is the Woodgrange Methodist church,
 bombed during WW2. The white stone capped
 pillars on the right were an entrance to the church.
 The buildings on the far right were the side and
 back of Woodgrange Road shops, also bombed
 during WW2, and replaced by the surviving
 1950's estate.

On the corner of Woodgrange, with the 
pre-bombed  Methodist church on the left.
 The composition  is very similar to the second
 postcard of Windsor Road, above -
-suggesting they were possibly part of a set

Above, uniformly post pollarded trees, in the
 winter. Below trees in full leaf, in the summer.
As with all these postcards it is noticeable
not at just how little traffic there is on the road,
but how few pedestrians there are, too.
Almost all of them seem to be children
 or young people.

 

Judging by the maturity of the trees, a slightly
later postcard.  The white capped posts on
the bottom left mark the entrance to the Methodist
church - see above, for further evidence.

Above: Edwardian 30 Claremont Road. Below:
 the house today. "Modernised" before the estate 
became a Conservation Area. The trees and 
hedges have gone. "Modernisation" has resulted 
in newer, out of character, windows, a porch 
and pebbledashing.

 

Osborne Road

Fewer postcards seem to have survived of Osborne Road. The first two, below, have been taken from very similar positions. The red-tinted building on the far left is the side of what is now the Woodgrange Medical Practice, on Woodgrange Road. Immediately behind it is the end of a row of what were coach houses, or mews and are now an unsightly alley of garages.

The white-capped pillars and taller iron fences on the left hand side are where Kay Rowe Nursery is today, and mirror those of the Methodist church entrance in Claremont Road, above. 

One more in the 1908 hand-tinted series of
local postcards - see Windsor and Claremont,
above, for others in the set.

Slightly later postcard,
shot from a similar location

An even later postcard, with taller,
but still uniformly well-pollarded trees

 Hampton Road

The Hampton postcard from the 1908 hand-tinted
 set. Lower roofed buildings on near left and
right would have been coach houses. First house
on right was the estate office - see text above.

A later shot, from a similar angle, but this
time with more mature trees and - for the
first time, telegraph poles.

The mews, coach houses, at the side
of number 2, today, in a run down state

A later shot, with more mature trees,
and the suggestion of a verandah on the
first house on the left.

 

A more unusual shot - looking west, towards
 Woodgrange Road. The shop at the far end is
 the studio of William E Wright, the photographer
 featured on this website.

Above: 85 Hampton - then, and below, now.
  The house is today obscured by over-grown trees
 - hence the partial view.

Above - 88 Hampton, then. Below - now: garden
 fence, trees and hedge removed, with a first
floor annexe built and part of garden turned into
hard standing for a car. In a sign of changing
times, chimney stacks replaced by satellite dish.

 

Who lived in Claremont Road in 1891? the census returns

We've written, here, before about the inhabitants of Claremont Road in 1881 - the first census taken after the start of construction of the Woodgrange estate. This post takes a look at the census a decade later, in an effort to see how the composition of the road had changed over the first full decade of its existence.

In 1881 there were just 66 houses on the road (nos. 1-67 and 2-64). Ten percent of those were unoccupied. The road - only partially constructed - had a large proportion of youngish residents and householders, so 60% of households had children under the age of 10.

Original deed to number 44,
dated 1879. Purchased for £530,
 with annual ground rent of £8.80p

The road was, of course, predominantly middle class and 83% of households had live-in servants, others may have employed daily labour.  Thirteen of the houses (22%) had two live-in servants - usually a general "maid of all works" and a child care worker (nursemaid, nanny etc).

Only four of the heads of household were women - three of them were widows and described as "living on means" (pensions, rents share dividends etc.). T he only economically active female head was  Elizabeth Lollard of number 48. She was the owner/head of a "ladies' college" - run from the house (see advert).

Number 48 today - a girls academy in 1891

A decade later

The Woodgrange estate was still under construction - and not to be completed for at least three years. But house building progress had been slow in the intervening decade.  There were only 98 houses registered in the census - a 50% increase. 

The relatively small rise in completed houses (32) over a decade can largely be explained by a slump in the construction industry in the middle of the decade, that halted building for some while.

All of the 98 houses were occupied - in contrast to the 10% vacancy rate 10 years earlier. Presumably the road was beginning to look a bit less like a building site than it had done a decade previously, and doubts about the viability or desirability of the street and estate as a residency had been dispelled.

Sixty per cent of households had children of school age, or lower - a slightly lower percentage than a decade previously.

Archibald Cameron Corbett - the Woodgrange estate's
developer, and the drinking fountain bearing his
name, outside Forest Gate station at the turn
of the twentieth century

Eighty per cent of households had servants, and 11 houses had two servants; these figures - particularly the second are down on the 1881 figures.

Half of the houses without servants, interestingly were among the even houses 2 - 22 on the road. In 1881 these same houses had a high level of unoccupancy and a relatively low level of servant employment.

The end of Claremont Road c 1908.The
apparently "less desirable" houses on the left
hand side behind the tall trees and a little further down

They were bombed during WW2, and so no longer survive.  It can only be concluded that these were perhaps of inferior construction or desirability and so were more difficult to sell - or at least to attract the more prosperous householders.

Who lived in road in 1891

The short and obvious description is that they were overwhelmingly middle class. Fifteen of the heads of household were described as employers and twelve as "living on means".

Shipping and related activities accounted for six of the heads - Claremont Road providing easy access to the docks for ships' officers and those involved in the then-thriving shipbuilding trade in the southern part of West Ham.

 

There were also three heads with occupational designations such as "colonial traveller" - indicating the importance of the colonies at the time. There were at least four other heads who were described as "commercial traveller" - or similar.

With so many people associated with travel, or shipping, it is perhaps not surprising that in five of the households the head was not present on the day of the census - presumably they, too, would have been in similar occupations, but away from home on the day of the count.

Forest Gate Weekly News, February 1899, offering
 free adverts for female domestic servants looking
 for work in streets, like Claremont Road.  Interesting
that wages sought are from £14 - £22 - per year, that is!

Number 18 is interesting, in this respect. There were only servants living in the house at the time of the 1891 census - as there were in 1881. Conceivably the house was owned by people who lived abroad (in the empire, or army?) and kept a servant at home, to look after it until their return.

Nine (10%) of households were headed by a woman - all but one was a widow - and described as "living on means". The exceptional woman - once again - was Elizabeth Lollard, of number 48, whose daughter, this time, was described as owning the Ladies' College, run from the address - see advert from 1899.

Woodgrange Academy for Girls,
number 48 Claremont - sold 1899

The cases of numbers 18 and 48 point to some continuity of ownership in the road.  Seventeen  of the 66 heads of household (25%) in 1881 were still running the house a decade later.

All 84 of the live-in servants were described as "single" - two of that number being older and designated as "widows".

West Ham - and perhaps Forest Gate in particular - has always been a home to migrants and the 1891 census shows this quite dramatically.

Only one of the 98 heads of households - Henry Bennett of number 94 - was born in West Ham. This is largely a consequence of the rapid population growth of the area. The population of Forest Gate, at the time most of the heads were born, was around 500 - it was fifty times that number by this census. So - in comers overwhelmingly populated this rapidly growing suburb.

Claremont Road, dated 1912

Twenty six heads of household gave their place of birth as being London, ten Middlesex (most of which then, is what would now be described as London), seven came from Essex, four from Surrey and three Kent.

Interestingly, quite a few came from much further afield - five from Scotland, four Germany and two from each of Ireland and Holland and one from France.

The "servants" were, perhaps unsurprisingly more likely to be local.  Thus seven gave West Ham as their place of birth and 28 either London or Middlesex.  Two thirds came from what we now call the London and the home counties.  Only two were from very far afield - one from each of Ireland and Scotland.

Notably, 21 came from Essex and five from Suffolk - bearing continued testimony of the pull of London to the displaced rural poor.  It is almost as if the householders moved east to Forest Gate (country retreat?) and the servants moved west (secure employment?).

'A maid of all works' - illustration taken
from Mrs Beeton's Book of Household
Management, 1879

The Forest Gate News five years later offered free advertisements for "female domestic servants requiring situations". The opportunity was taken up largely by young women from Essex, who sought positions as "domestic servants" or "maids of all works", for an average of £16 per year. They would have received full board and lodging, in addition, for their six day, twelve hours labour.

Household composition in 1891

We have tried, as far as possible to summarise the census data for each household and present it in a similar way for each house in the list below. So, for each house we have identified the person described as "Head of household". These are invariably are men - see above for details and explanations of variations.

This is followed by the age given in the census for that person, followed by the description of occupation listed in the census. An "E" after an occupancy designation indicates that, according to the census, that the person was an employer.

The birthplace of the head is then given, in an abbreviated fashion. The total number of people in the household (excluding servants) is then given and the number of children of school age or below is then cited.

Details of servants are listed, by name, age and place of birth.  Some conclusions to some of these features is presented in the analysis, above.

NB. - and genealogists will be very familiar with this - the census details are hand written and in this case by enumerators with very hard-to-decipher handwriting.  So, there may be some misreading of the handwriting, particular with the exact spelling of some of the people's names.

Claremont Road, dated 1913

Households - odd numbers

1. Head: John Gray (50), occ: Examiner, Board of Trade,  b: Scot.  # in household: 1,  # of child: 0 . Servant:  Margaret McEwan (29), b: Ire.

3. Head: Heskens Baker (31), occ: Collector , b: Warks . #in household: 3, # of child:0 . Servant: Florence Till (31), b:Worcs.

5. Head: Sidney Tarrant (32), occ: Glove merchant (E) , b: Lond. #in household:4 , # of child:1 . Servant: Jane Woodward (19), b:Kent.

7. Head: Sarah Calman (widow) (72), occ: Living on means , b:Ches . #in household: 2, # of child:0 . Servant: Minnie Kelty (22), b: Essex.

9. Head: John Forecourt (44), occ: Clerk at Bank of England , b: Worcs. #in household: 4, # of child:1 . Servant: Hepzibah Bougham  (23), b: M'sex.

11. Head: Thomas Etherington (50), occ: Inspector, GPO , b: Herts . #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant: Florence Matthews (16), b: W Ham.

13. Head: Thomas Todd (36), occ: Marine engineer, b: Durham . #in household:4 , # of child:2 . Servant: Mary Langdale (16), b: Kent.

15. Head: Jeffery Stewart (26), occ Manager, sugar refinery: , b: Scot . #in household: 2, # of child: 0 . Servant: Rosetta Beaumont (widow) (38), b: Lond.

17. Head Marion Moss (widow): (66), occ: Living on means  , b: Kent . #in household: 3, # of child: 2. Servant: Mary Harris (27), b: Lond.

19. Head: Henry Bishop (49), occ: Furrier (E), b:M'sex . #in household: 4, # of child:1 . Servant: Sarah Binden (28), b: W Ham.

21. Head: William Ferres (70), occ: Brewer's traveller , b: Berks . #in household:3 , # of child: 0. Servant: Mary Thomas (32), b: Lond.

23. Head: Henry Pearce (46), occ: Commercial traveller, b: Lond. #in household:9 , # of child: 5 . Servant Ellen Squires:  (22), b: Norfolk.

25. Head: William Browning (48), occ: Commercial clerk , b:M'sex . #in household:9 , # of child: 7. Two servants: Sarah Raven and Grace Raven (21 and 12), b: Essex.

27. Head: John Radcliffe (43), occ: Colonial broker clerk, b: Surrey. #in household: 4, # of child: 2 . Servant: Mary Song  (20), b: Suffolk.

29. Head: Jules Barly (44), occ: Civil engineer , b: France . #in household: 2, # of child: 2 . No servants.

31. Head: Charles Randall (46), occ: Railway superintendent , b: Suffolk. #in household:12 , # of child: 4. Servant: Harriet Jewerson (20), b: Suffolk.

33. Head: Mary Greenhill (widow) (71), occ: No details, b: Lond . #in household: 4, # of child:0 . Servant: Emily Burbege (20), b: M'sex.

35. Head: David Thomas (46), occ: Draper's commercial traveller, b: Wales. #in household: 6, # of child: 4. Servant: Sarah Moore (35), b: Suffolk.

37. Head: George Thorogood (64), occ: Living on means , b: Essex . #in household: 5, # of child: 0. Servant Millicent Roost (16), b: Essex.

39. Head: George Booth (48), occ: Insurance clerk , b Lond: . #in household: 3, # of child: 0. Servant: Emily Clarke (35), b: Essex.

41. Head: John Atkins (51), occ: Surveyor of customs , b: Yorks. #in household: 4, # of child: 0 . Servant: Sarah Humphries (46), b: M'sex.

43. Head: Hamilton Guernsey (43), occ: Insurance clerk , b: Surrey. #in household: 4, # of child:2 . Servant: Ella Hart (21), b: M'sex.

45. Head: James Everett (42), occ: Commercial traveller, b: Essex . #in household:4 , # of child: 2 . Two servants:  Kate Layer (21), b: Surrey and Harriet Lucking (15), b: W Ham.

47. Head: Thomas Spencer (78), occ: Retired master mariner, b: Yorks. #in household: 2 , # of child: 0. No servants.

49. Head: William Later (46), occ: Elementary school master (it would appear that he and his wife owned/ran an elementary school), b: Lond. #in household: 7, # of child: 3. Servant: Emma Banes (19), b: Lond.

51. Head: Edward Finkensstadt (58), occ: Living on means, b: Germany (naturalised British. #in household: 7(inc 2 journalist sons), # of child: 1. Servant: Mary Crompton (16), b: Derbys.

53. Head: Andrew Scheerbohm (29), occ: Fur salesman, b: Holland. #in household:3 , # of child: 1. Servant:  Kate Standen (28), b: Lond.

55. Head: William Turner (50), occ: Living on means, b: M'sex. #in household: 5, # of child: 0. No servants.

57. Head: Charles Palmer (51), occ: Agent, woollen manufacturer, b: Lond. #in household: 5, # of child: 0. No servants.

59. Head: Julian Jacobi (48), occ Mercantile clerk: , b: Prussia . #in household: 5 , # of child: 3. Servant: Sarah Bishop (28), b: Lond.

61. Head: Mary Scobie (head not present) (41), occ: None given, b: Scot. #in household: 4, # of child: 3 . Servant: Alice Prudence (20), b: Essex.

63. Head: Robert Wyatt (39), occ: Brokers' clerk , b: M'sex . #in household: 7, # of child: 4. Two servants: Annie Northcott (18), b:Cornwall and Emily Witham (18), b: Essex.

65. Head: William Bewers (39), occ: Clerk, b: Essex. #in household: 4, # of child: 2. Servant:  Jessie Smith (17), b: Essex.

67. Head: Henry Hollingsworth (32), occ: Architect, b: Lond. #in household: 7, # of child: 4. Servant: Margaret Lake (22), b: Lond.

69. Head: HJ Hogg (widow) (55), occ: None given, b: Lond. #in household: 6, # of child:0 . Servant:  A Parks(14), b: Essex.

71. Head: Mark Townsly (27), occ: None given , b: Ire . #in household: 2 , # of child: 0 . Servant:  Martha Williams (25), b: Hants.

73. Head: Martha Ingold (head not present) (34), occ:  Schoolmistress, b: Surrey. #in household:  5, # of child: 0. Servant:  Emma White (21), b: Unknown.

75. Head: Charles Hill (35), occ: Clerk, b: M'sex . #in household: 6 , # of child: 1. Two servants: Annie Tallock  (26), b: Cornwall and Clara Davies (16), b: M'sex.

77. Head: John Templeton (49), occ: Master mariner, b: Scot. #in household: 6, # of child: 2 . Servant:   Rose Stokes (22), b: Essex.

79. Head: George Koster (60), occ: Colonial traveller , b: Ger. #in household:9 , # of child: 7. Two servants: Clara Edgar (Mother's helper) (19), b: Lond and Isabella Annandale (17), b: Scot.

81. Head: Frederick Wells (45), occ: Commercial traveller, b: Northants. #in household: 5, # of child: 2. Servant:  Kate Hills (20), b: Lond.

83. Head: Joseph Townsend (49), occ: Cashier , b: Warks . #in household:6 , # of child: 1. Servants: Sarah Dean (21), b: Essex.

85. Head: Wentworth Scott (54), occ: Journalist, b: Lond. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant: Annie Turner (22), b: Lond.

87. Head: John Graham (48), occ: Agent for patentees, b: Scot. #in household: 10, # of child: 4. No servants.

89. Head: Francis Parker (34), occ: Factory manager, b: Somerset. #in household: 5, # of child: 2. No servants.

91. Head: James Pollock (56), occ: Consulting engineer, b: Lond. #in household: 10, # of child: 4. Servant:  Annie Freedman (20), b: W Ham.

93. Head: W Tipson (46), occ: Rope maker (E), b: Warks. #in household: 6, # of child: 2. Servant:  Kate Mitchell (21), b: M'sex.

95. Head: Edward Shallis (42), occ: Warehouseman buyer, b: M'sex. #in household: 6, # of child: 4. Servant: Alice Hall (19), b: Essex.

97. Head: Martha Mosely (widow) (67), occ: Living on means, b: Lond. #in household: 3, # of child: 1. Servant: Elizabeth Flynn (31), b: Lond.

Households - even numbers

2. Head: Frank Edenborough (47), occ: Traveller , b: Lond. #in household: 4, # of child:0 . No servants.

4. Head: Peter Sharp (61), occ: Marine insurance accountant, b: Lond . #in household:4 , # of child:0 . No servants.

6. Head: Herbert Pate (33), occ: Merchant (E) , b: Cams . #in household: 5, # of child:3 . No servants.

8. Head: Matthew Summer (53), occ: Director, b: Lancs . #in household: 8, # of child: 3. No servants.

10. Head: Elizabeth Grealey (widow) (40), occ: Living on means, b: Hants . #in household: 2, # of child: 0. No servants.

12. Head: William Culaye (44), occ: Colonial merchant, b: Ire. #in household: 6, # of child: 3. No servants.

14. Head: Thomas Marriott (70), occ: Retired Inland Revenue , b: Warks . #in household: 6, # of child: 3. No servants.

16. Head: Henry Cooper (55), occ: None given, b: ??. #in household: 4, # of child: 1. Servant: Louisa Randall (19), b: Essex.

18. Head: Head not present , occ: ??, b: ??. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant:  Louise Wilton (25), b: W Ham.

20. Head: William Dyer (33), occ: Silk warehouseman, b: Lond. #in household: 7, # of child: 3. No servants.

22. Head: Elizabeth Fardell (43), occ: , b: Living on means. #in household: 5, # of child: 4. No servants.

24. Head: Frances Lucas (widow) (57), occ: Living on means,  b: Oxon. #in household: 3, # of child: 0. Servant: Jane Quelch (38), b: Essex.

26. Head: Edward Blower (49), occ: Architect, b: M'sex . #in household: 5, # of child: 0. Servant: Susanna Colby (17), b: Essex.

28. Head: Albert Jones (widower) (47), occ: Advertising contractor (E), b: Surrey. #in household: 3, # of child: 1. Servant:  Sarah Harman - housekeeper - (widow) (65), b: M'sex.

30. Head: John King (34), occ: , Civil engineer b: Lancs. #in household: 4, # of child: 2. Two servants:  Ellen Hadden (25), M'sex; Frances Conistake (16) (nursemaid), b: M'sex.

32. Head: Elizabeth Harris (head not present) (37), occ: No details, b: Devon. #in household: 6, # of child: 2. Servant: Mary Crabb (19), b: Essex.

34. Head: Frederick Machon (29), occ: Living on means, b: Lond. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant:  Kate Fuller (21), b: Suffolk.

36. Head: Michael Brady (46), occ: Warehouseman, b:  Ire. #in household: 6, # of child: 0. No servants.

38. Head: John Lussinger (46), occ: Secretary, public company, b: Lond. #in household: 6, # of child: 3. No servants.

40. Head: William Cowell (28), occ: Oil Manufacturer (E), b: Essex. #in household: 5, # of child: 3. Two servants: Fanny Allen (19), Bucks and Emily Allen (17), b: Bucks.

42. Head: William Burrough (42), occ: Manager, brass works, b: Lond. #in household: 3, # of child: 0. Servant:  Frances Hawke (22), b: Yorks.

44. Head: Henry Kitchen (60), occ: Clerk, b: Lond. #in household: 7, # of child: 1. Servant: Florence Hart (14), b: Lond.

46. Head: Frederick Clarke (28), occ: Boot and shoe manufacturer, b: Lond. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant: Martha Groves (19), b: Berks.

48. Head: (54), Elizabeth Lollard occ: None given, but her daughter, living with her, was principal of Ladies' College, b: Essex . #in household: 4, # of child: 1. Servant:  Gertrude Corby (17), b: Lond.

50. Head: Alfred Bays (55), occ: Commissioning agent, b: Cambs. #in household: 4, # of child: 0. No servants.

52. Head: Frederick Bliss (36), occ: Clerk, b: Lond. #in household: 5, # of child: 3. Two servants:  Annie Cameron - mother's help - (18) W Ham; Fanny Barron (20), b: Surrey.

54. Head: Adriannus Stuart (42), occ: Commissioning agent (E), b: Holland. #in household: 7, # of child: 4. Servant:  Annie Madam (15), b: Lond.

56. Head: Henry Cunningham (32), occ: Clerk - GPO, b: Lond. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant:   Mary Street (20), b: Yorks.

58. Head: Michael Huth (38), occ: Tailor (E), b: Bavaria. #in household: 7, # of child: 5. Servant: Emma Harris (16), b: Lond.

60. Head: Thomas Dowby (widower) (75),occ: Civil servant (retired), b: Kent. #in household: 4, # of child: 0. Servant:  Emma Clarke (17), b: Essex.

62. Head: Richard Beal (36), occ: Merchant (E), b: Kent. #in household: 8, # of child: 5. Servant: Emily Potter (18), b: Essex.

64. Head: Isaac Collino (49), occ: Managing Director, Lamp manufacturer (E) , b: Lond. #in household:  7, # of child: 5. Servant:  Sarah Plews (nursemaid) (15), b: Lancs.

66. Head: Stewart Russell (32), occ: Civil engineer, b: Lond. #in household: 3, # of child: 1. Two servants: Mary Searle - widow(40), Lond;  Sophia Golding (19), b: Lond.

68. Head: Joseph Preistley (46), occ: Accountant , b: Lincoln. #in household:7 , # of child: 5. No servants.

70. Head: Charles Gray (35), occ: Inspector of agents, b: Sussex. #in household: 3, # of child: 0. Servant: Ada Castor (31), b: Lond.

72. Head: William Stewart (62), occ: Engineer's agent, b: Yorks. #in household: 3, # of child: 0. No servants.

74. Head: William Beal (50), occ: Optician (E), b: Essex. #in household: 7, # of child: 1. Servant: Elizabeth Pamplin (35), b: Essex.

76. Head: William la Rivrene (44), occ: , Surveyor b: M'sex. #in household: 6, # of child: 4. Two servants:  Elizabeth Root (22) W Ham; Beatrice Tuffield(17), b: Surrey.

78. Head: William Knight (49), occ: Linoleum manufacturer (E)3 of his employees seem to have been living with him, b: Berks. #in household: 10, # of child: 2. No servants.

80. Head: James Fife (60), occ: Accountant, b: Lond. #in household: 11, # of child: 6. No servants.

82. Head: Ellen Nade - head not present (39), occ: None given, b: Yorks. #in household: 4, # of child: 3. Servant:  Jeanette Johnson (22), b: W Ham.

84. Head: Henry Rice (64), occ: Schoolmaster (E), b: Cumberland. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. No servants.

86. Head: Harry Jowett (39), occ: Income tax assessor, b: M'sex. #in household: 10, # of child: 6. Servant:  Emily Farley (18), b: Hants.

88. Head: Mary Stapleton - widow and head (36), occ: Living on means, b: LOnd. #in household: 4, # of child: 2. No servants.

90. Head: John Page (36), occ: Clothing manufacturer (E), b: Norfolk. #in household: 6, # of child: 4. Servant:  Eliza Constable (25), b: Essex.

92. Head: Eliza Burnett - widow and head (58), occ: No occupation: two sons, both button dealers , b: M'sex. #in household: 6, # of child: 0. Servant:  Annie Ratcliffe (17), b: Kent.

94. Head: Henry Bennett (29), occ: Living on means, b: W Ham. #in household: 2, # of child: 0. Servant:  Alice Maycock (30), b: M'sex.

96. Head: Joseph Owen (36), occ: Steamship agent (E), b: Lond. #in household: 5, # of child: 3. Two servants: Elizabeth Vigis (22), Essex; Phoebe Felton (20), b: Warks.

98. Head: Sarah Thompson - head not present (44), occ: ??, b: Lond. #in household: 5, # of child: 3. Servants:  Edith Persuits (15), b: Suffolk.