St Katherine Dock Company contracted with the East India Company to buy the warehouses and houses in Cutler Street, New Street and Devonshire Square for £164,000 at an auction 11 March 1836. The completion of the purchase was postponed by agreement until Michaelmas 1838.
Property purchased in August 1787 by James Hunter of Seething Lane, hop merchant, from Mary Hanbury of Stoke Newington Middlesex, widow of Capel Hanbury, and Hannah Plumstead of Upper Clapton Middlesex, granddaughters of John Lunn. Two freehold houses, 10 and 11 Seething Lane, were pulled down an...
Estate purchased by the Company in May 1803 from William Gosling for £10,500 comprising a house and some warehouses let to Charles Cooper; a large house and newly built warehouses, a counting house, vaults and yards let to Samuel Cortissos and Aaron Brandon; a new house with offices and yard occu...