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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/L Level [37] SubSeries

21. IOR/L/L/2/778-933

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/778-933
Title:
Seething Lane Private Trade Warehouse
Scope & Content:
The three stacks of warehouses, two freehold and one leasehold, were purchased by the East India Company in 1795 from James Hunter for £16,750. The ground on which the freehold stacks stood had been bought by Hunter partly from Charles James and partly from Mary Hanbury. The premises had been mor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1549-1858
Extent:
156 files

22. IOR/L/L/2/934-935

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/934-935
Title:
Warehouse and House In Seething Lane
Scope & Content:
The East India Company first leased the warehouse and adjoining dwelling in Seething Lane from Sir John Eyles in 1722. The Company was granted a further lease in 1745 by Sir Gregory Page but was no longer in possession of the premises by the time L/L/2/1 was compiled c.1813.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1722-1745
Extent:
2 files

23. IOR/L/L/2/936-968

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/936-968
Title:
Great St Helen's Warehouses
Scope & Content:
The East India Company property at Great St Helen's comprised:    (a) the site developed during the seventeenth century    (b) the estate purchased from William Gosling in 1803.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1683-1844
Extent:
33 files

24. IOR/L/L/2/969-1170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/969-1170
Title:
Ratcliff Saltpetre Warehouses
Scope & Content:
The East India Company saltpetre warehouses at Ratcliff stood on ground to the south of Cock Hill leased from the Coopers' Company in 1770. They were destroyed in July 1794 when a fire spread from a neighbouring barge builder's premises and set light to part of the saltpetre stock causing an expl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1540-1844
Extent:
202 files

25. IOR/L/L/2/1171-1180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1171-1180
Title:
Ratcliff Naval Store Warehouse
Scope & Content:
The Naval Store warehouse at Stone Stairs Ratcliff stood on copyhold ground owned by the Manor of Stepney. Before 1794 the warehouse was leased by the East India Company from Guillaume and Company, who in turn leased the premises from the Freeman family. The warehouse was destroyed in July 1794 b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1795-1811
Extent:
10 files

26. IOR/L/L/2/1181-1201

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1181-1201
Title:
East India Wharf: Lyons Quay and Somers Quay
Scope & Content:
Lyons Quay and Somers Quay were acquired by the East India Company in 1796.    The freehold of Lyons Quay [Botolph Wharf] was purchased from Curling and Johnson in 1796 for £12,500, and the lease of Somers Quay and its buildings was purchased for £13,000 from John Dawes who he...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1839
Extent:
21 files

27. IOR/L/L/2/1202-1208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1202-1208
Title:
Hammond's Quay and Warehouses
Scope & Content:
In 1796 the East India Company purchased the unexpired term of a lease on Hammond's Quay as part of the agreement with Curling and Johnson by which Lyons Quay was acquired. The East India Company paid £2,500 for the lease which had been granted to Curling and Johnson by the Vintners' Company, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1793-1805
Extent:
7 files

28. IOR/L/L/2/1209-1212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1209-1212
Title:
Cumberland Wharf and Warehouses Near Hanover Stairs Rotherhithe
Scope & Content:
The East India Company purchased the unexpired term of a lease of Cumberland Wharf in 1764 from Johnson and Company for £500, and in 1775 assigned the remainder of the term for £120 per annum to Christian Poppe, warehousekeeper at Lyons Quay [or Botolph Wharf]. The Company was granted another lea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1758-1796
Extent:
4 files

29. IOR/L/L/2/1213-1252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1213-1252
Title:
Poplar Almshouses and Poplar Chapel
Scope & Content:
The East India Company purchased a house with three acres of ground at Poplar in 1627 as an almshouse for needy Company marine servants. Part of the land was later used to build a chapel and burial yard for the local inhabitants. Poplar Chapel was completed in 1654 and underwent major repairs and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1709-1830
Extent:
40 files

30. IOR/L/L/2/1253-1270

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1253-1270
Title:
Coopers Row Warehouse
Scope & Content:
The warehouse at Coopers Row, Tower Hill, was formerly called Brown's Yard. It was built in 1766-67 on the site of six houses previously leased by Beeston Long from the Chapter of St Catherine's Hospital. The East India Company purchased an assignment of Long's lease in December 1764 for £2,200 a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1728-1816
Extent:
18 files

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