The warehouse was erected in 1795 and 1796. The freehold section of the building stood upon part of the ground purchased by the East India Company from William Bedford and others, Love Stuart Tulk, and Millicent Towse. The leasehold section stood upon the ground purchased from the Ironmongers' Co...
The warehouse was built in two stages: in 1787 on the site of the freehold portion of the old Navy Office, and in 1796 on the sites of the leasehold portion of the Navy Office and of an adjoining house purchased from Reverend Dr William Dobbin. The Navy Office was purchased...
Highlord's (or Hylord's) Court was situated in Crutched Friars, adjacent to the Fenchurch Street warehouse. The East India Company first considered the purchase of the property in 1793 in order to protect the warehouse from the risk of fire, but the terms offered to the Company were unsuitable. F...
In 1795 the East India Company purchased from Stephen Ludlow, William Sharp, John Hutchins and Jonathan Hutchins a piece of freehold ground on the north-east side of Northumberland Alley on which eleven old tenements stood. The price of £2,000 included payment for the unexpired term of a lease he...
Warehouses Sold To The East and West India Dock Companies
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The correspondence and legal transactions between the East India Company and the East and West India Dock Company continued for some years after the sale of the Private Trade, Fenchurch Street, French Ordinary Court, Jewry Street, Crutched Friars, and Blackwall warehouses.
(a) Warehouse on the north side of Haydon Square [L/L/2/661-696]. The was erected by the East India Company between 1768 and 1770 on the site of properties in Parkers Gardens and Harrow Alley purchased from William Franks, John Holloway, James and Elizabeth Davis, and John ...
A complex of warehouses between Petticoat Lane, Houndsditch, and Bishopsgate was built by the East India Company in the late eighteenth century. These buildings survived until the twentieth century. The site was redeveloped in 1978-82 but four out of seven of the Company's warehouses were preserv...