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History of Silvertown in 1874 Kellys directory
History of Silvertown
Silvertown (near North
Woolwich) in the ecclesiastical parish of St Mark, Victoria Docks, formed out of
the civil parish of West Ham; it is so named from the Messrs Silver, who founded
the large works of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company
Limited: there is an increasing population about their factories, who are
engaged upon very varied and important manufactures: here are also large iron
works belonging to Messrs Campbell, Johnstone & Co, and the gas works of the Gas
and Coke Company. The place is in the Eastern Metropolitan postal district, and
Bow county court district. There is a station here on the Great Eastern Railway
(North Woolwich line). St Marks church, near Victoria Docks, built after designs
of S S Teulon esq, is in the decorated style, with walls of coloured brick: it
cost about £8,000, raised on subscription: there is accommodation for 850
persons, and all the sittings are free and unappropriated: the church was
consecrated by the Bishop of London, in August 1862. The incumbent is the Rev
Henry Boyd MA, of Exeter College, Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish of St Marks
was formed in 1864, and comprises portions of the parishes of East and West Ham
and North Woolwich, with a population in 1871 of 12,954.
St Marks National
School (mixed), George Freeman, master; Mrs Elizabeth Freeman, mistress
Railway Station,
Alexander Shambrook, station master
Bailey John, Factory
House
Boyd Rev Henry MA
[vicar of St Marks], vicarage
Commercial
Andrews Joseph, grocer
Barnett David,
Royal
Arms
Blake Joseph,
blacksmith
Bosher John,
shopkeeper
Brevetor Thomas, house
& estate agent
Campbell, Johnstone &
Co, engineers, Albert works
Gas Light & Coke Co
(Chartered), (John Wilson, superintendent)
Crowther George,
shopkeeper
Culledge William, boot
& shoe maker
Gordon Ellen (Mrs),
coffee rooms
Geller Frederick,
butcher
Goodridge George,
shopkeeper
Hughes Edward,
Royal
Albert
India Rubber, Gutta
Percha & Telegraph Works Company Limited (John Bailey, resident manager);
warehouses, 100 Cannon Street, London EC
Kay William, dining
rooms
Lovelock Ed, paraffin
oil & lamp warehouse
Ninth Essex (Silvertown)
Volunteers (Capt J K Creagh, adjutant)
Owston William,
Railway Hotel
Pace James, fishmonger
Parker Henry, dairyman
Reed Robert, corn
dealer
Theobald Henry,
shopkeeper