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...
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...
This document concerning Drapers' Hall appears to have strayed into the East India Company archives by virtue of Edward Lawford's rôle as solicitor to both the East India Company and the Drapers' Company.
In 1868, the East India Railway Company purchased leases on 29 and 30 Nicholas Lane in the City of London. The Secretary of State for India sold the premises to the Standard Bank of South Africa for £24,000 in 1922.
House at the south end and east side of Manchester Buildings, next to the Thames, leased by the East India Company in 1807 from Elizabeth Hearne for use as the Office of the Commissioners for liquidating the debts of the late Nabobs of the Carnatic. After the expiry of the lease granted in 1830, ...