Sale of Fenchurch Street and French Ordinary Court warehouses
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The tea warehouses were sold together with 55 Crutched Friars by the East India Company in 1835 to the West India Dock Company for £86,000. [The West India Dock Company later joined with the East India Dock Company.]
The East India Company paid compensation to the executors of William Tooke Robinson for a counting house next to the Fenchurch Street warehouse which Tooke leased from the Company. The counting house was sold with the warehouse in 1835.