HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY NOV 181920 WILLIAM ENDICOTT, JR. BRADBURY, AGNEW & Co., LD., PRINTERS LONDON AND TONBRIDGE. PREFACE. It would be impossible for the author, within the brief limits of a preface, to make an acknowledgment of all the persons and books he has consulted in the course of writing the present small volume. The names of both will be found, as the references occur, in the body of the book, but amongst them should be mentioned here those of Mr. Thomas Mathews, formerly of East Ham, who gave the author much information concerning the neighbourhood; Dr. G. Pagenstecher, who wrote the "Story of West Ham Park" and compiled Miss Fry's "History of East and West Ham "; and Mr. J. S. Curwen, author of "Old Plaistow." Special acknowledgment is due to Mr. C. R. Wylie, who kindly supplied the greater number of the photographs. ✓ Parsloes, near Barking ✓ Eastbury House, near Barking Richmond Street, Plaistow The "Spotted Dog," Upton ✓ Cable Steamship Silvertown . About to let go Buoy, on board ss. Silvertown ✓ Lowering Steam Launch from ss. Silvertown . ✓ Landing Shore End at Bacton, Norfolk Frontispiece to face page 10 པ 1 33 1 CONTENTS. Roman Reclamation of the Marshes--East Ham Church-Green- street House-Queen Anne Boleyn's Tower-St. Nicolas' PAGE Parsloes-The Fanshawes-Sir Richard Fanshawe, the celebrated Royalist - Lady Fanshawe's Memoirs-Eastbury House-- Eastern Counties Railway- North Woolwich Railway -- North Growth of Messrs. Silver & Co.'s Works-Submarine Cables- Mr. W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works — Northern Outfall |