Horseferry Road
Horseferry Road industrial area[1]
A light industrial site near Victoria that was the base for a number of historically significant companies. The site is bounded by Horseferry Road on the north, Earl Street on the east and Page Street to the south. On the other side of Horseferry Road was the gasworks belonging to the Gas Light and Coke Co. On the far side of Earl Street was the New Westminster Brewery. Earl Street is today called Marsham Street.
12 August 1856 John Broadwood and Sons’s piano factory in Horseferry Road was destroyed by fire. The losses caused by the fire were estimated to total £150,000.[2]
1858 The piano factory has been rebuilt and is once again making pianos.[3]
1869 Large scale Ordnance Survey map shows that the western half of the site is occupied by a “pianoforte manufactory” and the eastern half on Earl Street is occupied by the Westminster Marble Works.[4]
1882 Thomas Hartley marble merchants is listed at 1 Earl Street J Broadwood and Sons, piano manufacturers are at 45 Horseferry Road.[5]
1895 Her Majesty’s Stationery Office is listed at 1 Earl Street John Broadwood piano manufacturers at 45 Horseferry Road. The Shrewsbury and Talbot Cab and Noiseless Tyre Co is at 24 Page Street.[6] The Ordnance Survey map shows the division of the site.[7]
1899 Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (waste branch) is in Earl Street George Hollis, civil engineer, at 27 Horseferry Road (corner of Earl Street) John Broadwood & Sons, pianoforte manufacturers, 45 Horseferry Road. The Shrewsbury and Talbot ST Cab and Noiseless Tyre Co, 24 Page Street.[8]
1901 Goad’s fire insurance map shows the site divided between John Broadwood and Sons, the waste branch of His Majesty’s Stationery Office and the ST Cab and Noiseless Tyre Co.[9]
1904-05 Provincial Carriers is based at 45 Horseferry Road.[10]
June 1906 Reliance Motor Transit moves to 45 Horseferry Road.
September 1906 The Motor Car Emporium leases 45 Horseferry Road to the London Electrobus Co.
31 March 1907 Reliance Motor Transit and the Motor Car Emporium are paying the rates on 45 Horseferry Road.[11]
September 1908 The London Electrobus Co pays the rates on both 45 Horseferry Road and 1 Earl Street.[12]
1910 Germain Motor Garage is at 22 Earl (just before junction with Page Street) The London Electrobus Co, J Rothschild et fils, motor car body builders, Westminster Motor Works, World’s Manufacturing Co., Christopher Dodson, coach builders and Jean Fauconnier, coach builder are all listed at 45 Horseferry Road.
In Page Street Joseph Dry and Sons, wheelwrights, are at number 24, Edward Whitten Rudd and Co, motor engineers, at 26 and the Shrewsbury and Challiner Tyre Co, at 28 to 30 Page Street.[13]
30 September 1910 The Electric Vehicle Co and the Reorganisation and Control Syndicate pay the rates on 8 Earl Street (formerly 1 Earl Street). The Reorganisation and Control Syndicate pays the rates on 45 Horseferry Road.[14]
1914 Père et fils Ltd (J Rothschild), coach builders, Robert Bell, motor garage, C Germain, motor car agents, Mossay and Co, consulting engineers, Sinclair and Co, motor body builders and Capital Screen and Hood Co are all at 45 Horseferry Road.
The Shrewsbury and Challinor Tyre Co is at 24 Page Street[15] and Jarrott and Letts Ltd, at 40 Page Street. The Ordnance Survey map shows the main occupants.[16]
mid 1930s. The site is demolished in association with the redevelopment of the Westminster Hospital, which open in 1939.
1993 The site was redeveloped again. Great Minister House, now numbered 33 Horseferry Road is currently the headquarters of the Department for Transport.[17]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Compiled by M. Hamer (Feb 2018)
- ↑ The Standard, 14 August 1856, p. 1.
- ↑ Illustrated London News, 4 December 1858, pp. 527-28.
- ↑ National Library of Scotland: http://maps.nls.uk/view/103313042#.
- ↑ Kelly’s Post Office London directory 1882.
- ↑ Kelly’s Post Office London directory 1895
- ↑ http://maps.nls.uk/view/101201676#zoom=5&lat=7185&lon=2574&layers=BT.
- ↑ Kelly’s Post Office London directory 1899
- ↑ http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/england/london/atoc/largeimage151747.html.
- ↑ Westminster City Council rate books for March 1906 and Provincial Carriers, the National Archives, BT 31/10299/77389
- ↑ Westminster City Council rate books for March 1907
- ↑ Westminster City Council rates books for September 1908.
- ↑ Kelly’s Post Office London directory 1910.
- ↑ Westminster City Council rate books for September 1910.
- ↑ Kelly’s Post Office London directory 1914, Ordnance Survey map http://maps.nls.uk//view/103313330#zoom=5&lat=1543&lon=14300&layers=BT.
- ↑ http://maps.nls.uk//view/103313330#zoom=5&lat=1543&lon=14300&layers=BT.
- ↑ Mick Hamer, A Most Deliberate Swindle, RedDoor, 2017, p. 241.