Seven freehold houses in Hand Alley purchased in May 1796 from Thomas Nesham for £1,000 to enable the Company to close the Alley and open a new street into Petticoat Lane.
Three estates in Houndsditch and Woolpack Alley purchased in order to widen the passages from Houndsditch through Cutler Street, Woolpack Alley etc into Gravel Lane, forming a new cartway to the Company warehouses. (a) An estate consisting of three timber tenements with a cart house and stable on the north side of Houndsditch to the west of Woolpack Alley, the freehold of which was purchased about Christmas 1793 from Mr Knowles for £900. The assignment of a lease on the...