HODDESDON HIGH ST 1890s: Changes over time - Activities and Worksheets

No

/ Place / Before 1891 / 1891 CENSUS / After 1891 / Present

GOING SOUTH TO NORTH ON THE WEST SIDE

Spitalbrook
Gothic Lodge & group of cottages / Built 1830 as entrance & lodge to Woodlands / Joseph & Louise Bayford, gardener
Mary Pullen, sick nurse
Row of 3 cottages / See list at end

Woodlands

/ Built 1830 by John Warner
1881 Elizabeth Warner, widow
1890 Directory: Compton Warner / Unoccupied / 1895-1922 Mrs Snow
1929 James Hillyer
1967 Demolished
9 / Miss Warner’s House / Built c1750-60
1881 John Warner’s daughters Harriett, Mary & Celia / Harriett, Mary & Celia Warner and servants / 1929 ‘Loewood’
Miss Warner
1936 Public Library
Behind Miss Warner’s House? / 1 x 4 rooms
1 x 3 rooms / Will. & Mary A. Stagg coachman & John & Louisa Ford, gardener
11 /

Borham House

(possibly under Elm Place in 1891 Census) / Site of double murder 1807 / See below / 1902 George Armatage
1914-29 Alfred B. Coventry
1965 Demolished
13
15 /

Elm Place

(2 private residences)
(1891 could include Borham House) / Group of small 17th century tenements; The Dolphin
1886 Solomon Baskerville
1886 Tregelles
1890 Campbell, curate / John & Mary Tregelles & family, architect
Sarah Baskerville & servant
Miss Caroline Pinn, housekeeper with lodger & servant / 1892 Alterations
1895 Campbell
Baskerville (till 1899)
1898 –1906 Pinn
1898-1914 Mrs Hannah Hoskins
1929 Miss Goodwin (13)
1929 Brig. Gen. Robert Prentice ‘Elm Place’
1956 Demolished
Council Offices built 1935-1986
Gardens / Grounds of The Knowle

COCK LANE

The Grange

/ Built before 1500
Rev. Clarke Chittenden
Prep. School for boys / Prep. School for boys
6 servants & 1 teacher / 1906-14 Douglas Jones
1929 Henry A. Trotter
Grange Cottage Arthur Colgate
17 / Thurgoods / Original house built c1500
19 /

Hoddesdon Villa

/ Birdbolt Inn / John & Martha Ashford & family, Rural Post Messenger; Martha Ashford Ladies School / 1908 Hoddesdon Villa
Middle Class Academy
1922 Brian Hutt
21 / Sherborne House / Built c1760 / Ernest & Annie Beck, family, governess & 4 servants
Wine Merchant / 1908 Mr Beck’s
1914 Capt. EJ Christie
1929 Jonathon Braithwaite, J.P.
Converted to flats then demolished 1965. Part of site occupied by Hoddesdon Motor Co.
23 / Golden Lion / Built 1535 / Henry & Jane Griffin, Publican, and family / 1929 Frank Turner, Golden Lion P.H.
25 /

Laurel House

/ White Hinde; home of Frogley family built c1760
1881 William Frogley, farmer / Sarah Frogley, widow, dairyfarmer & son William & 3 daughters / The Laurels
1929 William Frogley seed merchant
1950s Woolworths
27 / Shop / Shops built 1860 / Walter & Mary Tyler, wines & spirit merchant / 1906 Tyler
1929 E&G Rowland, fruiterers
29
31 / Shops / Shops built 1860
W. Hampton, builder, carpenter, manufacturer of rustic work & horticultural buildings, undertaker / William & Jane Hampton, Builder & upholstress / 1902 John Hampton
1929 London Central Meat Co. Ltd (29)
1905, 1929 International Tea Co’s Stores Ltd, grocers (31)
1898-1908 J. Barker Marsh, draper
1914 Allen cycle dealer
33 / Shop / Sharnbrooks / Sherbornes by 1586
Shops built 1860 / Edward & Sarah Lock, draper & family / Mr E. Lock 1908
1929 Wm Norris, draper
1948 WS Norris Ltd
35 / Shop & house / Originally 2 houses; 1 was Red Lion Inn until 1860.
Shop built 1860 / William & Tressy Green, chemist & druggist
& 6 daughters / 1908 Hayllar, chemist
1929 Hayllar & Son
1971 Clarbours
37 / Shop & house / Shop built 1860 / Charles & Helen Dawson, watchmaker
& 7 children / 1908-14 Dawson
1929 Helen Emily Dawson, jeweller
1971 Anika’s
39 / Shop & house / Shop built 1860 / Freeman Turner & 4 boarders: all grocers assistants / 1908 Turner, grocer
1929 Archer & Turner
1971 Lockey
41 / Shop & house / Double-fronted shop / William & Kate Dellow, baker / 1908-14 Dellow, baker
1929 William Roberts, baker
43 / Thomas & Florence Collings, stationer & bookseller / 1910 Robert Cave Mitchell, Hoddesdon Bazaar
1922-9 Mrs Florence Mary Mitchell, newsagt.
45 / 1860 3 storey brick building, bow in centre
1881: Joseph Blackeby, master bootmaker / Joseph & Fanny Blackeby, bootmaker / 1918 Blackeby
1929 Blackeby, boot dealer
47 / 1886 Goodwin China & Glass Warehouse & dairy / Alfred & Mary Ann Goodwin, dairy famer & family (there 1902) / 1914 Traylen Bros, dairy 1929 F.W. Bayles dairy
White Heather Dairy
49 / South corner of Brockett Rd / 1902-14 Ashford’s Estate Agents; 1929 Lewis Hill estate agent & auctioneer

BROCKETT RD

51 / Bank and Manager’s Residence
Corner building / Sharples, Tuke & Seebohm – town’s first bank - 1847 2 storey square building on south end which partly blocked Brockett Rd / Sharples Bank / Demolished in 1893 to improve Brockett Rd entrance; remaining corner building first Sharples Bank then Barclay’s Bank 1896
1906-29 Clement Warner, ‘The Bank House’ & Barclay’s Bank
1971Demolished for new building
53 / Shop / George & Ellen Bryant, tobacconists with son William 12, daughter Winifred 2, servant & boarder / 1914 G.B. Thornton, tobacconist
1918 Ellen Bryant tobacconist;
1929 William Bryant tobacconist
55 / Shops and residences
Not certain from 1891 census exactly where these families are located / George & Marion Cousins, carpenter & son / 1914-18 Florence Collings art needlework shop
1929 Church, drapers
Samuel & Elizabeth Griffin, registration agent
1886 Braimbridge / George & Georgina Braimbridge, tailor & family / 1906 Braimbridge
1886 Francis / Edwin & Mary Francis, boot manufactuer & 5 children / 1898 Francis
57
59 / 3 rooms / ?Helen Tenun, widow & 2 daughters / 1929 Miss Leila Ison hairdresser (57)
?Jane Hampton, widow, upholstress, son & daughter / 1899 Mrs Jane Hampton (gone by 1902)
Hampshire House / 1886 Barnett / Ebeneza & Helen Barnett, retired civil servant, India Office, daughter & servants / 1906 Barnett
4 roomed shop & house / 1886 Creak / Fredk & Catherine Creak, boot & shoemaker (in Amwell St by 1906)
61
63 / Shop / George Inn, British School & Post Office on part of George Inn property James Ashford, dairyman and family / James & Mary Ashford, dairyman and grandchildren / 1929 William Ernest Ashford grocer and confectioner
65 / Shop / 1906-1951
Ironmongers Shop:
Charles E Brooks
Congregational Chapel / George Inn until 1846; chapel built 1846-7 / Congregational Chapel / Demolished 1967
1971 Fawkon Walk
Old Post Office / Post Office - Henry Ashford, postmaster and family / Post Office - Henry & Ellen Ashford, postmaster, 1 son & 5 daughters / Post Office until 1893
67 / House & Shop / 1881: Charlotte Hare, grocer / Charlotte Hare, widow, grocer & 2 daughters / 1908 C. Hare
1914-18 Hare & Co
1929 Neave & son, grocers (67)
69 / 1914-29 Ernest Gocher butcher (69)
71 / Shop / Falcon or Fawkon on the Hoop inn
71-77 High St
1881: James Tuck, butcher / Walter & Lucy Turner, butcher and family / 1908 G. Turner
1914-29 Ernest Belton, hairdresser & Beltona Ltd, patent medicine manufacturers
1960s Peacock’s hairdressers
73 / House / ?John Ashford, shoemaker & rural post messenger and family;
?1881: Susan Culver / ?William & Isabella Hodgson, brewery clerk, son & daughter / 1914-29 Joseph Seaton, confectioner
75 / 4 rooms / ?James & Mary Ward, joiner / 1914-22 Long & Blundell harness makers
1929 –60s Frank Andrews, saddler & harness maker
Demolished early 1960s

ENTRY TO GRIFFINS YARD

77 / Frank Challis, fly prop. / 1929 -1960s A.G. Cousins & Son
Demolished early 1960s
79 / Shop & house / William & Elizabeth Carter, bootmaker (there 1906) / 1914-29 Charles Carter boot & shoemaker
81 / Griffin Inn / Fredk & Emily Chapman, publican & fly prop.
Hoddesdon Bazaar -George & Ellen Bryant, tobacconists; / 1894 Hoddesdon Bazaar 1914 Ellen Bryant, tobacconist
1929 Ellen Bryant
83 / Shop & house / Originally 1 house with no.85
1886 ‘London House’ / Richard Eason, draper, & daughter & apprentices / 1908 Richard Eason
1929 Eason, draper
85 / Business & house / 1881: J.W. Nicholls, builder / John W. & Ann Nicholls, builder / 1929 J.W. Nicholls & Co. builders & undertakers
87 / Shop / Inn – Checkers
1881: George Little, baker / John & Esther Roberts, confectioner and family / 1929 Jas. Roberts, baker (87)
Demolished 1964
89 / The Bull / The Bell 1575
1881 The Bull- William Miles, publican / William & Barbara Miles, publican, 6 children / 1906 Barbara Miles
1929 Thomas Morris (89) &
Sams & Son, motor car props. (89) Demolished 1964 for Wallis’ supermarket, later Gateway

91

/ Corner building / Hoddesdon & Broxbourne Mutual Improvement Society library and meeting rooms / Hoddesdon & Broxbourne Mutual Improvement Society library and meeting rooms / 1914-29 Church & Son, outfitters

LORD ST

93 / Corner building / Grace’s Farmhouse
3 shops 1880s / Hoddesdon Coffee Tavern: Stephen Norfolk, manager, 2 waiters / 1929 Hoddesdon Temperance Hotel Ltd
later 2 shops
Swan Inn / Inn 16th century
1881: Fanny Collins, innkeeper / Fanny Collins & daughter, innkeeper / 1929 Old Swan
Geo. Fermer, publican
97 / Shop / 1881 Jonn W. Stallabrass, butcher / William & Flora Nicholls, butcher & family, 1 servant & 2 boarders, butchers / 1914-29 William Nicholls, butcher
99 / Smithy & entrance way to Old Swan Yard
Shop / 1881 Henry Giblin, farrier & smith / Henry & Emma Giblin, farrier & smith & 8 children / 1914 WH Woolmer’s Smithy
1911 W. Saward & Co, smiths
1929 George Henry Porter, blacksmith
1895-1905 E.W. Stagg – bootmaking business
1911 To Let & Bakery
1929 Toc H & solicitor’s office
1971 Toc H
101 / 1881 Used as store / 1971 Photographer
103 / Shop / Fredk & Susannah Scott, baker-confectioner / 1914 Mrs Sarah Scott
1929 Mrs Susannah Scott, confectioner
105 / Salisbury Arms / Black Lion 1578 until 1828
1881: William Salmon, licensed victualler / William & Martha Salmon, lic. victualler / 1929 Mrs Gertrude Emma Neal, Salisbury Arms
107
109
111 / 3 Cottages / 1881: Wright
Ingram
Hutchinson / Thomas & Anne Roblett, agricultural labourer & family
William Clarke, printer
Walter & Ellen Kempton, greengrocer & bootmender & son / 1914 A.G. Cousins?
1914 Mrs Sarah Clark printer & JB Franklin, music teacher
1929 Walter Cavill hairdresser (107)
1929 Hod Gas & Coke Co. Ltd (109)
113
115
117 / Myddelton House / Built c1600 as private house then became the Queens Head Inn. 1852 again a private house
1890: Josiah Rogerson / Rogerson / 1898 Charles A. Christie
1902 Norman P. Christie
1906 Dr Love’s residence
1929 Leonard West M.B. J.P.

PAULS LANE – JORDANS LANE

75
77
79 /

Amwell Street

Old Harrow Inn & 2 shops / Henry Edward Curtis, publican / CJ Ross Corn, Coal & Forage Merchants
St Catherine’s Church / St Catherine’s Church / St Catherine’s Church / St Catherine’s Church

NORTH END OF HIGH ST

Maidenhead Inn / Mentioned as an inn in 1576, building next door demolished 1875 / 1929 Maiden Head Public House - James J. Morris
Clocktower / Clockhouse built 1836/7
Town Hall; storage for horse-drawn fire engine & accommodation for town constable until 1883 with prison cells. Meeting room above / Town Hall; storage for horse-drawn fire engine. Meeting room above / 1929 Clock House Hoddesdon Volunteer Fire Brigade
Town Hall demolished

GOING NORTH TO SOUTH ON THE EAST SIDE

BELL LANE

1 / Burford St / Bell Inn / Bell Inn / 1908 Bell Inn, 1929 PH
136 / 2 shops
Brewery / Four Feathers Inn 1663 / Part of Brewery / 1908 part of brewery
134

ENTRANCE INTO BREWERY RD

128
126
124
122 / Site of Thatched House
Brewery House / 1881: Offices and store
Izaac Walton connection; 17th century timber frame, painted relief showing 2 boys holding a bunch of grapes, until 1877 the main home of the Christie family; ornamental iron fence & 2 lime trees on each side of central doorway / Brewery Offices / 1908 Brewery offices
1945 3 shops (?, butchers, Clements)
Charles A. & Susan Christie ‘Brewery House’ (there 1895)
120 / Jutting block of buildings - house / 1881: Henry Draper, brewery building surveyor
Part of Market Place, 5 almshouses behind sold 1841 / Henry & Emily Draper, brewery building surveyor & 6 children (1895-1898) / 1902-14 Thomas Merchant, brewery surveyor
1929 Edwin Dixon Cannon Stores (Edwin Dixon manager) Wine & Spirit Merchants
118 / Shop with residence / 1881: Frances King, toy shop / Frances King, toy shop / 1898-1906 Mrs Jane King toy dealer
1914 Miss Annie Singleton, shopkeeper
1929 E. W. Stagg boot dealer
116 / Shop with residence / 1881: Richard Tricker, shoemaker, son & grandson Arthur Sams / Richard Tricker, shoemaker / 1898 Mrs Emma Tricker, boot & shoemaker
1918 Ernest Wiliam Stagg boot dealer
1929 E. W. Stagg boot dealer
114 / House & shop
Last in Amwell parish / White Hart Inn
15th century Market Cross stood opposite.
1881: Thomas & Carrie Dymock, house decorator, plumber & glazier and family
Archway with room above led to Common Marshes / Thomas & Carrie Dymock, decorator, plumber & glazier & 4 sons / 1895 -1929 Arthur Dymock, piano tuner
1898-1914 Thomas Dymock plumber
112 / First in Broxbourne parish / White Hart Inn
15th century Market Cross stood opposite.
Archway with room above led to Common Marshes;
2 storey shop dating from c1590?
1860-81 Brewster family / George & Eliza Brewster and family, fishmonger & poulterer / 1898 Mrs Eliza Brewster
1906-14 Brewster Bros
1929 Charles Brewster fishmongers
Demolished 1955 for Co-operative Store (1971)
110 / 1914-29 Arthur George Cousins Bazaar
A.G. Cousins & Son Toy Shop
108106 / Building set back
Refronted / 1881: House used to store furniture / House used to store furniture / 1914 London County & Westminster Bank
1929 Westminster Bank
104
102
100 / 2 storey shop dating c1590
House / White Horse Inn
Private house
1881: Blunden / Edmund & Charlotte Blunden, grocer & furniture dealer & family / 1902-1929 C.S. Cousins, China & Glass Dealer (104)
1914-29 Arthur Gowers, outfitter (102)
1881 William Stallabrass, carpenter
1886 Elizabeth Stallabrass, corn dealer, widow / Elizabeth Stallabrass, widow, son Stockbridge & daughter / 1899-1906 Stockbridge Stallabrass, corn factor
1929 James Mortemore, shopkeeper
Shop and residence
Entrance to yard / 1881 Charles Curtis, tailor
1886 William Curtis, tailor / Will & Mary Carter, boot & shoe manufacturer / 1895-1902 Batstone, tailor & outfitter? ‘Market House’
Shop and residence
Entrance to yard / 1881 Jonathon Stallabrass, butcher and family / Jonathon & Sarah Stallabrass, butcher / 1902-06 Stallabrass
98 / Shop & residence / Thomas & Helen Gardiner, ironmonger / 1929 Thomas Gardiner Ltd. Ironmongers & North Metro. Electric Power Supply Co.
96 / Harriet & Mary Whitley, sisters
94 / Shop / William & Priscilla Whitley, tailor & family / 1902-14 Whitley
1929 Christie & Lucas wine, spirit & beer merchants
92 / Shop / Walter & Mary Griffin, watch & clock repairer and 5 children / 1914 Griffin
1922 Madame Skingle milliner
1929 William Stone, electrical engineer
90 / Charles & Jane Coomes, pork butcher / 1902 Charles Ellis, plumber
1914 Charles Ashford & WJ Haward, builder
1919 Thomas Knight printers
1929 Knight stationers
88 / The Fox / 1881Mullett, publican / Charles & Jane Dymock, publican & 2 daughters / 1914 Mrs Jane Dymock
1929 Jn Clyde Newman, caterer
1935 Tudor Café
86 / Shop opposite pump / 1881 Frederick Cherry, draper and family / Fredk & Annie Cherry, draper and 2 sons / 1902 Gurney, draper
1910 Stubbins, draper
1929 Bristow, draper

CONDUIT LANE

84 / Shop / 1881: Garett, hairdresser / 1902-29 Charles Elphee hairdresser
82
80 / Shop / Edmund & Annie Parker, fruiterer & green grocer / 1912-14 Batsford, fishmonger & poulterer; 1929 Thomas Brill, fruiterer
78 / 1929 Walter John Haward builder
76 /

Stanboroughs

/ Appears in records 1363, house built 1637
1881: Part used as a training home for servant girls: Mary Draper, matron
1881: Dr Horley – surgeon / Dr Alfred & Emma Bisdee, doctor and family and servants / 1929 Hoddesdon & Broxbourne Unionist Club
Dr William & Mina Horley, surgeon & family / 1929 Wright & Mills, opticians
74 / Shop / Edward & Catherine Roe, grocers manager / 1906 Roe
1914-29 Fred. Postlethwaite, chemist
72 / 2 Tenements – 1893 PO / 1886 Living quarters & shop next to it - shop kept by Tuck & Sinclair selling ribbons, cotton, wool etc / William & Olive Bradfield, carpenters labourer / 1893 new Post Office
Ashford
70 / House / Inn in 1704 known as Rose & Crown [Crown & Mitre inn]. Stables demolished 1842 when most southerly of the houses built.
1881: Misses Ottey / Miss Ottey (1890)
Henrietta Mouro, sister of Head, & 2 servants / 1906 Mrs & Miss Ottey
1918 Tim Blancheflower
1929 Bridgman & Son (T.A. Blancheflower) estate agents & auctioneers
68 / Montague House / McAdam lived here 1825-36 / Henry & Ellen Collett & family, brewers manager & 4 servants / 1906 Scott Moncrieff
1914 Mrs Wood
1929 Dr D. Irving Anderson
66 /

The Limes

(Entrance to Hunt’s Yard) / 1842 Inn stables demolished when house built
1886 Hodson & Cooper / Harry Hodson, widower & 7 adult children & 2 servants, East India Merchant / 1895 Hodson & Johnson
1902 Hodson & Benningfield
1908-14 Mr Hodson
1918 Miss Hodson
1929 Miss Hodson
64 /

Hogges Hall

/ 1860 private house with central door & porch supported by corinthian pillars
Residence of John Hunt / John A. & Margaret Hunt & 8 children & 3 servants, builder & contractor
Hunt’s workshops at rear / 1918 Hunt
1929 ‘Hoddeshall’- Eric Larkworthy
1935 & 1971 W.R. Stone – musical instruments; Stella dress shop; LE Porter; 1971 Coleman’s Shoes
62
60 / C17th century building as 1 house but later divided into 2. Offices of John Hunt built after 1860. Large gateway on the south side for vehicle entry / William & Sarah Walford, gardener, sister & lodger / 1929 Charles Whitley Registrar, Collector of Rates, Vaccination Officer, Employment Exchange (62)
1929 Hoddesdon Sand Pits Ltd, merchants (62)
58 /

The Keys

/ Cross Keys inn / William & Mary A. Woollard, retired clerk / 1929 Broxbourne Land Co Ltd & Hoddesdon Transport Ltd
56 / Rathmore House / Built 1746, known as the Doctor’s House – early Georgian of 3 storeys / Home & surgery of Dr Robert & Frances Stevens / Dr Robert Stevens (until 1898)
1929 Dr W.H. Sturge
St Augustine’s / 1800 James Esdaile
1860s several tenements – shop, house, 2 ramshackle cottages overhanging the street c1555, demolished 1869 & 1877.
1881: Esdale House Christie /

Esdale House

Charles P. & Isabel Christie and family, brewer & maltster, Harry Collett, visitor and 7 servants / 1902 Charles A. Christie
1906 Norman Peter Christie
Demolished 1961
St Augustine’s Catholic Church built
Corner of Esdaile Lane & High St / 1860 3 small houses: square built house 2 storeys; 3rd joined to 2nd by short stretch of wall containing an archway
1881: Daniel & Sarah Foster, coachman / Daniel & Sarah Foster, coachman
North Lodge / Built 1875-1892
1881: Thomas & Annie Laker, coachman and family / Thomas & Annie Laker, coachman and family / 1929 Priory Lodge Rev. James Reany
1971 Lodge
50 / House in grounds / Hannah Dungey & 4 children & servant / 1929 William Alfred Clark (50)

Rawdon House

/ Built 1622, private house until 1813, then various schools until 1865. 1875 Henry Ricardo became owner & added new wing to the north & lodges
1881: Ricardo family / Known as Hoddesdon House; Joseph & Mary Jones, gardener in charge of house (Ricardo not there at census but owner until 1892) / Bought by C.P. Christie, empty until 1898. Bought for the Order of St Augustine & became St Monica’s Priory until 1969.
South Lodge / Built 1875-1892
1881: Wilson, gardener / Unoccupied / 1929 Mrs Molesworth
48 / ?Cecil Cottage / Fred. & Charlotte Mansell, Commercial Traveller, & family / 1929 Capt. J. McKerrell
46
44 / The Elm/The Tree
Kimberley (1906)

Yew Arbour

2 houses and adjoining office / Built c1605 later divided into 2 houses:
A pair of ancient houses whose upper storey overhangs the footway – Coffin House
1881: Alexander McKenzie /
  1. Ernest & Tilly Collins, accountant & son
  2. Alexander & Elizabeth McKenzie, auctioneer
McKenzie’s offices / Coffin House
1902 Miss McKenzie
1906 JH Green
1914 E. Massey
1908 W. Nottage
1914-29 Mrs Nottage (44)
1908 offices occupied by the Urban District Council
Demolished 1959
42
40 / Tenement known as a malt mill in 1569
1886 2 small tenements
Thomas Brown, Inland Revenue Inspector / 1897 Victorian Villas built
1902 EF Beavis
1929 Axel Henriksen (42)
1929 Ralph Tyler (40)
38 / Newport Cottage or Lodge / Thomas Brown, Inland Revenue Inspector / 1895 Chas Fitch
1914 J Woollard, plumber
1929 Edgar James
36 /

Yew House