Ground leased from Coopers' Company at £150 per annum: site of dwelling known as the Black Swan at Ratcliff (or Wildey's) Wharf with an adjoining house and yard.
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...
[1] Jonathan Loveday [2] Robert Reeves of Ratcliff, victualler Endorsement: Assignment 13 Aug 1773 to East India Company from Susannah Reeves of Ratcliff, widow, and Thomas Jackson of Bartholomew Close London, button maker, (exe...