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Note: Is this the same Thomas Golding?, and was the plumber John Peyton?
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A favoured builder on the estate, Thomas Golding of Gough Street, Poplar, had liens on five house-sites here (Nos 24-32) in about 1859, of which one (No. 24) was leased (with Golding a party) to a Limehouse pilot in 1860, and another (No. 28) to a plumber in Poplar Terrace in 1859. (ref. 92) Another building lessee, in 1855, was Joseph Harris of Ilford (the architect's father), at No. 34. (ref. 93) The lessee of Nos 14 and 18, Francis Viney Davis of Limehouse, in 1852 and 1856 was described as 'tailor', but had evidently become a 'builder' by 1860 when he took a lease of Nos 20 and 22 (unless this was father and son). (ref. 94) Other lessees between 1850 and 1855 were a caulker, a spinster of Stepney, a (second) pilot of Limehouse, a lighterman of Limehouse, a ropemaker (in Drill Place), and the same schoolmaster who had taken Nos 47-49 on the north side. (ref. 95) Probably 10 of the 20 acquired house-sites for occupation: they included, apart from the builder-victualler Dunk, two of the building tradesmen - Joseph Harris at No. 34 and Charles Hack at No. 33. (ref. 96) Three prices paid for long leases of new houses here in the 1850s were ?450, ?500 and ?600. (ref. 97) In 1887 the freehold values of Nos 43 and 45 were ?550 and ?500. (ref. 98)
From: 'East India Dock Road, North side: Nos 1-301 (and Nos 2-50)', Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. 127-147. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46479 Date accessed: 22 January 2010.
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