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Havering atte Bower 1914 Kelly's Directory
History of Havering atte Bower
Havering Atte Bower Liberty
[comprising Havering,
Romford & Hornchurch]
Havering atte Bower is a pleasant
village and parish, 3 miles north from Romford station, and 15 from London, in
the Southern division of the county, petty sessional division, union and county
court district of Romford, rural deanery of Chafford, archdeaconry of Essex,
and Chelmsford diocese; this place gave
name to the liberty and peculiar of Havering atte Bower, which included the
parishes of Romford, Havering and Hornchurch, but this liberty was abolished by
Order in Council, dated 9th May, 1892. The church of St John the
Evangelist, rebuilt by subscription, is an edifice of flint with stone
dressings, in the Decorated style; consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and
an embattled tower on the south side containing six bells; the lower stage forms
a porch: the church was re-consecrated 13th April 1878; and contains
an ancient font and a memorial by Wyatt to Sir John Smith Burges, bart, who died
in 1803 and was buried in this church: an organ was provided in 1902 at a cost
of £500; there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1670. The
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £240, with residence, in the gift of W H
Pemberton-Barnes esq, and held since 1909 by the Rev William Bertram Russell
Caley MA, of
Pembroke
College,
Cambridge.
A Parish Room was presented to the village in 1903 by Mrs Pemberton-Barnes. This
is one of the few villages in
England
in which the ancient stocks may still be seen, and here they stand on the green
facing the church. Havering is believed to have been once the seat of Saxon
royalty, for, according to traditionary accounts, Edward the Confessor built a
palace here, or improved one more ancient: the portions extant are not
sufficient to determine the limits of the original building, whatever it may
have been; it is certain, however, that this monarch frequently lived here in
retirement.. Havering Park is the seat of Mrs McIntosh, lady of the manor of the
liberty and principal landowner, the mansion, occupying part of the site of the
old palace of the Confessor, is an elegant modern building with a tower and is
pleasantly situated on an eminence, surrounded by extensive pleasure grounds and
a finely wooded park of 250 acres. Pyrgo Park is the residence of Lord O’Hagan;
the mansion, a modern edifice of brick, in the Classic style, with a tower and
portico, stands in an extensive park, commanding very fine views of the
surrounding country and occupies the site of a house formerly belonging to the
Queens of England, in which Joan, daughter of Charles II, King of Navarre and
Queen of Henry IV, died 9 July 1437.
Bower House, a mansion of brick, standing in a park of about 120 acres, is now
the residence of John Taylor esq, M Inst CE. Bedfords, originally called “Bellfonts”,
from its ample supply of water, is now occupied by Sir Montagu Cornish Turner,
Kt, and is a stone mansion, standing in a park of nearly 100 acres, commanding
one of the finest views in the country and embracing the river Thames, the
Knockholt hills in Kent, the Crystal Palace, St
Paul’s and the towers of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster.
The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay. The
chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and roots. The area is 2,093 acres; rateable
value, £4,341; and the population in 1911 was 399.
Post, M O & T Office – Miss Ellen Hance,
sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Romford at 5.10 & 8.55 am
& 7.30 pm;
delivered at 6 & 9.10 am
& (to callers) 7.45 pm;
dispatched at 2.35 & 7.15 pm; Sundays
7.15 pm
Pillar Letter Box, Chase Cross, cleared
at 7 am,
2.50 & 7.30 pm; Sunday
7.30 pm
Public Elementary School (mixed), built
in 1837, since enlarged, for 112 children; average attendance
88; Arthur
Montague Derrick, master; Miss Derrick, mistress
Caley Rev William Bertram
Russell MA, Vicarage
Hope Geo Palmer JP, Havering Grange
McIntosh Mrs, Havering Park
Mallett Isaac, Lawn Cottage
Norris Arthur Lindsay, Chase Cross
O’Hagan Lord JP, Pyrgo park
Pemberton Rev Joseph Hardwick (curate of
Collier Row, Romford), Round house
Pemberton-Barnes Misses, The Hall
Smith Benjamin, Fernside
Stone Henry Jessop JP,
Lower Bedfords
Taylor John , M Inst CE, Bower House
Turner Sir Montagu Cornish,
Bedfords
Woodforde-Finden Lt-Col
W, Lower Bedfords
Commercial
Beckett Thomas, farm bailiff to Mrs
McIntosh, Bower Farm
Cole Edwin A, farmer,
Upper Bedfords
Fern Henry, head gardener to J Taylor
esq
Fuller Alfred,
Orange Tree PH
Goodwin Henry, baker
Halsey Rosina (Mrs), beer retailer
Knightsbridge Harold, butcher
Popplewell Robert James, tailor
Sammons William, farmer, Lower park
Stuart George, land steward to Lord
O’Hagan, North Lodge, Pyrgo
Park
Suckling Arthur, shopkeeper
Wright Reginald, bailiff to Misses
Pemberton-Barnes, Bower Farm
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