82-522: Jeremiah Rotherham & Co. was a department store in Shoreditch , located on Shoreditch High Street in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch , described during the early years as "Wholesale and Retail Drapers and General Warehousemen". The business evolved from a small drapery shop in the 1840s and grew to employ over 500 people. In what appears to have been an altruistic gesture, the founder of
164-464: A haberdasher with his older brother, William Rotherham, who ran a linen drapers, haberdashers, silk mercers and furriers business at 39-41 Shoreditch High Street with John Hill Grinsell. In 1832 the partnership between William Rotherham and Grinsell ceased In 1835 William was declared bankrupt and on 1 February 1836 he was placed on trial at the Old Bailey for "Deception: bankruptcy: having been declared
246-578: A bankrupt, feloniously did conceal part of his personal estate". He was found not guilty. The transcript of the trail provides insights into the size of his business operation and to the fact that another brother, Joseph (1810–1849), was working with him. By 1834 Jeremiah Rotherham had moved to a linen draper shop run by James Burrough (1764–1844), at 84 Shoreditch High Street. Burrough had two sons working for him, James (1795–c1844) and Joseph (1797–1826) who in 1824 had married Sophia Shingles (1794–1849) from Norfolk. They had one child before he died 1826. In 1834
328-455: A new station named Shoreditch High Street closer to central Shoreditch. This is now served by London Overground services on part of the site of the old Bishopsgate Goods Yard , which was demolished in 2004. The station was built on a viaduct and is fully enclosed in a concrete box structure. This is so future building works on the remainder of the Bishopsgate site can be undertaken keeping
410-414: A partial barrier with Willerby. To the east are suburbs of Hull, including Anlaby Park, separated by limited green space, mainly playing fields. Hessle is over 1.25 miles (2 km) to the south, separated by agricultural fields. The B1231 (Springfield Way) passes through the village. The village and surrounding area is situated on level land at approximately 33 feet (10 m) above sea level. The area
492-447: A partnership with Snowden, Gotelee, Dummett and Ellis. The instruction in his will was for his share of this partnership to become the property of his niece and nephew. They were at liberty to continue with the business or sell their interest, but he instructed that any sale must first be offered to Frederick Snowden. Rotherham made several other bequests in his will to charities and employees. He also instructed his executors to provide for
574-660: A position that he retained until his death in 1954, serving 60 years with the business. His tenure covered the difficult trading periods of the economic depression in the 1930s and the Second World War . In 1933/34 the company purchased a theatre on an adjacent site located at 95–99 Shoreditch High Street. This was demolished to make way for a new warehouse. The theatre had various names during its history including: The Shoreditch Empire , Griffin Music Hall , The London Music Hall and London Theatre of Varieties . The frontage of
656-516: A row of a terraced houses along Wolfreton Road north towards the hamlet of Wolfreton was built. Springhead Halt railway station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway opened in 1929 (closed 1955) serving the village, as part of a high frequency urban service. Suburban housing developments began in the 1930s, and by the 1950s housing extended continuously along the roads to Willerby and Kirk Ella . Additionally, short lived housing estates were constructed on
738-704: A speech in November 2010. As a result, the name of Shoreditch has become synonymous with the concept of contemporary " hipsterfication " of regenerated urban areas. As a pioneer among similar transformations across the UK, various phrases have been coined, from "Shoreditchification" to "Very Shoreditch". In 2014, the Boundary Estate and the nearby area came under the East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Forum. Forum status ceased to have effect on 5 February 2019 but
820-779: A variety of venues to rival those of the West End. Art galleries, bars, restaurants, media businesses and the building of the Hackney Community College campus are features of this transformation. In the mid-1960s, the main streets of Shoreditch (Old Street, Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road, Great Eastern Street) were formed into a one-mile-long (1.5-kilometre) one-way system, which became associated with traffic congestion, poor conditions for walking and cycling, high speeds, high collision rates, and delays for bus services. The gyratory system came to be seen as "the main factor holding back
902-663: Is a village forming part of the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull , in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England. It forms part of the civil parish of Anlaby with Anlaby Common . Anlaby is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Umlouebi" or "Unlouebi", a habitation within the manor of North Ferriby which was of 19 persons including a priest. The name is thought to derive from the Old Norse personal name Óláfr (or Unlaf , Anlaf ) and by meaning 'farmstead': "Anlaf's village". By
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#1732844429753984-584: Is disagreement as to the identity of the "shore" in question. A suggestion made by Eilert Ekwall in 1936 that the "ditch" might have been one leading to the "shore" of the Thames continues to enjoy widespread currency. Other scholars, however, have challenged this interpretation on the grounds that the City of London lies between Shoreditch and the Thames. A variant spelling used by John Stow in 1598, Sewers Ditche , raises
1066-479: Is primarily residential, with industrial and commercial premises on Springfield Way. A new shopping development 'Anlaby Retail Park' opened in 2010, replacing late 20th century light industrial development; the new retail park is directly east of a large Morrison's supermarket (1993, rebuilt and expanded 2003 ). Anlaby Retail Park is home to a Marks and Spencer supermarket, Pets at Home , Costa Coffee , Next , Argos and Asda Living . Anlaby Primary School
1148-618: The Bethnal Green and Spitalfields areas of Tower Hamlets to include the name Shoreditch in their company's name and marketing material. This is also seen to a lesser extent in the St Luke's area of the London Borough of Islington . Shoreditch was an administrative unit with consistent boundaries from the Middle Ages until its merger into the London Borough of Hackney in 1965. Shoreditch
1230-705: The Bishopsgate Within area of the City. His early plays were first performed in Shoreditch, at The Theatre and at the nearby Curtain Theatre , built the following year and 200 yards (183 m) to the south (marked by a commemorative plaque in Hewett Street off Curtain Road). Romeo and Juliet was first performed here, gaining "Curtain plaudits", Henry V was performed within "this wooden O" and an early version of Hamlet
1312-688: The Jubilee line ) but was not carried forward, it would have had a new tube station near Shoreditch Church if it was built. Formerly a predominantly working-class area, since the 1990s Shoreditch has become a popular and fashionable part of London, particularly associated with the creative industries. Often conflated with its neighbouring sub-district of Hoxton, the area has been subject to considerable gentrification , with accompanying rises in land and property prices. Former industrial buildings have been converted to offices and flats, while Curtain Road and Old Street are notable for their clubs and pubs which offer
1394-736: The Rotherham store for 71 years. Robert Dummett died in 1907 aged 64 having been with Jeremiah Rotherham for 46 years. In his obituary it was said that he had left Devon at the age of 18 and travelled to London, without capital, without friends and without influence. He started at Rotherham's as an assistant in the despatch department and worked his way up to become head of the department. He died on 21 November 1907, and his probate indicates that he left £71,480, roughly equivalent to £8million today. His children included barrister, Sir Robert Ernest Dummett (1873–1941), who became chief magistrate, and George Herbert Dummett (1880–1969), silk/rayon merchant, whose son
1476-553: The Victoria and Albert Museum . In the First World War , the Mayor and Borough of Shoreditch raised a pals battalion of volunteers from around the borough who would serve together as the 20th (Shoreditch) Battalion , Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) . The Middlesex Regiment the battalion belonged to was nicknamed the "Die-hards". For most of its time in the line, the unit
1558-458: The 17th century, wealthy traders and French Huguenot silkweavers moved to the area, establishing a textile industry centred to the south around Spitalfields. By the 19th century, Shoreditch was also the locus of the furniture industry, now commemorated in the Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road. These industries declined in the late 19th century. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Shoreditch
1640-405: The 1960s urban sprawl had extended between Anlaby, Willerby and Kirk Ella, and towards the western fringes of housing developments on the former Anlaby Common which had become contiguous with Kingston upon Hull. During the 1960s light industrial development began on the north side of Springfield Way. Urban housing expansion of Anlaby was practically complete by the 1970s, including development on
1722-647: The AGMs up until his death, only missing the last meeting due to doctor's orders. He had just one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Harriet Ellis (1872–1923), who married City broker Frank Ernest Doré (1867–1926). His family were the tailors, Doré and Sons, who had several shops in the City of London. When Jeremiah Rotherham died in 1878 he left his share of the business in equal measures to his niece, Marian (Boardman) Stammers, and nephew Rev. Edward Hubbard Boardman. They were at liberty to either continue as partners or to sell their interest to Frederick Snowden, and it appears they took
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#17328444297531804-495: The City at Bishopsgate . The east–west course of Old Street–Hackney Road was also probably originally a Roman Road, connecting Silchester with Colchester , bypassing the City of London to the south. Shoreditch Church (officially known as St Leonard's, Shoreditch ) is of ancient origin. It is featured in the famous line "when I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch", from the English nursery rhyme " Oranges and Lemons ". Shoreditch
1886-454: The City of London and along the A10 Road, with the rest mostly residential. Early spellings of the name include Soredich ( c. 1148 ), Soresdic (1183–4), Sordig (1204), Schoresdich (1220–21), and other variants. Toponymists are generally agreed that the name derives from Old English " scoradīc ", i.e. "shore-ditch", the shore being a riverbank or prominent slope; but there
1968-521: The City of London area. Consequently, theatres were built in the suburbs, beyond its jurisdiction. The first of these came in 1576, when James Burbage built the first playhouse in England, known as " The Theatre ", on the site of the Priory (commemorated today by a plaque on Curtain Road, and excavated in 2008, by MoLAS ). William Shakespeare lived nearby in a property overlooking St Helen's churchyard in
2050-688: The Ecclesiastical Parishes sub-divided to better serve the needs of a growing population, while the Civil Parishes continued to be based on the same Ancient Parish areas. For civil purposes, the Metropolis Management Act 1855 turned the parish area into a new Shoreditch District of the Metropolis , with the same boundaries as the parish. The London Government Act 1899 converted these areas into Metropolitan Boroughs , again based on
2132-663: The Khazam family firm of Anglo-African Finance owned 49.5% of Jeremiah Rotherham, and they agreed to a takeover by rival company Spencer, Turner and Boldero. In some respects this was more of a merger because Anglo-African Finance also had considerable interest in Spencer, Turner and Boldero. Further rationalisation took place within the group of businesses run by the Khazam-Yentob family over the following years and evolved into Dewhurst Dent Limited. The company still has members of both families on
2214-468: The Neighbourhood Area designation is unaffected by the expiry. The Stag's Head public house was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England . South Shoreditch has undergone an enormous transformation. Several five- or six-storey buildings have been knocked down in the area of Shoreditch that borders the City of London. In their place will be erected a variety of very tall buildings, mirroring
2296-465: The ancient Moat Hill. Industrial development along Springfield Way was completed, including that on part of the embankment of the former Hull and Barnsley Line that had closed in the 1960s. In the early 1970s the Haltemprice sport centre was constructed north-west of the original village centre; subsequently the pattern of development remained fundamentally unchanged to the present day (2010). Anlaby
2378-567: The architectural styles in the City. The developments will result in more residential units being available for sale in Shoreditch than were produced by the Olympics athletes' village . One landmark development is the Principal Tower in Worship Street, designed by the architects Foster and Partners , and next to it is Principal Place , also designed by Foster and Partners. In July 2014, it
2460-527: The area due to historic ecclesiastical links. Shoreditch lies just north-east of the border with the City of London and is considered to be a part of London's East End . In the 16th century, Shoreditch was an important centre of the Elizabethan Theatre , and it has been an important entertainment centre since that time. Today, it hosts many pubs, bars and nightclubs. The most commercial areas lie closest to
2542-493: The area was considered a very desirable dwelling place. The Anglican church of St Peter was built in 1865 to a design by William Kerby at a cost of £1,558. It was enlarged in 1885, and is mostly of brick in the decorated style , In 1885 the Hull and Barnsley Railway was constructed, running east–west one-third of a mile (500 m) to the north of the village. Between the 1890s and the 1930s little development took place, although
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2624-505: The area was known as Shoreditch long before Jane Shore lived: the Survey of London , for example, lists some 26 deeds dating from between c. 1148 and 1260 which use some version of the name. In another theory, also now discredited, antiquarian John Weever claimed that the name was derived from Sir John de Soerdich, who was lord of the manor during the reign of Edward III (1327–77). Though now part of Inner London , Shoreditch
2706-479: The beginning of the 13th century the village was known by the spelling "Anlauebi". Shortly after the establishment of Kingston upon Hull by Edward I , a road from Hull to Anlaby was constructed in 1302. In 1392 some inhabitants of Anlaby, Cottingham and 'Woolferton' rioted over the construction of canals supplying water from sources near their villages to Kingston upon Hull; approximately 1,000 are said to have laid siege unsuccessfully to Hull, and some of
2788-534: The board of directors. The Khazam-Yentob families had dealings in other sectors apart from textiles. In South Africa they were associated with companies that included automotive and mineral exploration. Flora (Khazam) Yentob was the mother of creative director Alan Yentob . Shoreditch Shoreditch is an area in London , England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets , which are also perceived as part of
2870-475: The business interests when he died in 1878. From about 1854 Jeremiah Rotherham took on business partners to help him run the store. The first was London-born fellow draper, George John Frederick Goodrich (1818–1885). He retired in 1875 for reasons of ill-health, by which time the store had expanded and included 81–87 Shoreditch High Street plus a new warehouse in Boundary Street. The other partner at this time
2952-601: The business, Jeremiah Rotherham (1806–1878), created a partnership with four of his long term employees. After his death they became the owners and sold the company via a stock market flotation in 1898. At this time the store was located at 81–91 Shoreditch High Street and 17–35 Boundary Street. Further expansion included the acquisition in 1935 of the London Theatre (formerly the Shoreditch Empire), 95–99 Shoreditch High Street, for use as warehouse space. During World War II
3034-567: The company for a line of hosiery and for its 27–39 Boundary Street building, which has now been converted to a block of flats. In his book Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup: A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars , the author Norman Jacobs says that the use of the Anlaby name in the Rotherham business came about because they originally came from the Yorkshire town of that name . In 1898 the four partners put
3116-419: The company rapidly expanded and within a very short time forced the local council to upgrade the road and rail networks or risk losing what was already becoming one of the main employers in the area. The decision to improve the transportation links during this period in now accredited with turning this small town into the thriving metropolis it is now. Substantial development took place in the post war period. By
3198-518: The continuation of a trust fund for the family of his former partner, Robert Shapland. Rotherham was buried in the family vault at Kensal Green Cemetery. Jeremiah Rotherham had lived in Anlaby Houses, Upper Clapton for about 18 years. The house was one of a pair and leased by Rotherham. The other one of the pair was occupied by the Hubbard family who owned the freehold. The name Anlaby was later used by
3280-437: The corner of Redchurch Street, which developers had wished to knock down, were saved from demolition. They were deemed of special historic interest, giving the houses protection from destruction from 2019. Shoreditch covers a wide area, but its historic heart lies south of Old Street, around Shoreditch High Street and Shoreditch Church . The districts of Hoxton and Haggerston have been historically part of Shoreditch since
3362-447: The correspondence clerk and warehouse manager. Rotherham died on 30 August 1878 in his Anlaby Houses, Upper Clapton, Hackney. His personal estate was valued in probate as under £350,000 (rough value today would be £41 million). He died childless and left the biggest part of his estate to his niece Marian (Boardman) Stammers (1824–1903) and nephew Rev. Edward Hubbard Boardman (1826–1912) in equal parts. Before his death, Rotherham had set up
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3444-516: The cultural regeneration of South Shoreditch" and "a block to economic recovery". Following a lengthy campaign, the then newly formed Transport for London agreed to revert most of the streets to two-way working, a project which was completed in late 2002. In 2005, funding was announced for the East London Line Extension , to extend the existing tube line from Whitechapel tube station bypassing Shoreditch tube station , and to create
3526-466: The financial position of the business was such that there was a call for the company to go into liquidation. In previous years, the policy had been to always appoint directors who had been employees of Jeremiah Rotherham & Co. However, to save the business a compromise was agreed and Nadji Khazam (1910–1984), an outsider from the Anglo-African Finance group, was appointed as a director. Khazam
3608-412: The former Shoreditch tube station (closed 2006), 400 metres outside Shoreditch proper, in nearby Bethnal Green , Tower Hamlets , influenced this shift. Its replacement, Shoreditch High Street station , straddles the borough boundary. More significant has been the gentrification of the Shoreditch area since the millennium, leading to a marked increase in the area's prestige, which has led businesses in
3690-664: The fringes of the village during the Second World War: Lowfield Camp, and Tranby Crofts, an estate east of Tranby Croft . Lowfield Camp was used to house people from Hull displaced by the Hull Blitz , and later used as a transit camp for the British Army of the Rhine . The Tranby Crofts estate was still extant in the 1960s. During the 1940s a local man called Gary Cabb started a small warehousing and transportation company,
3772-929: The latter option. They were the children of Elizabeth Shingles (1788-1877) and George Boardman (1793-1876), who was a head teacher in Acle, Norfolk. After the death of Rotherham, the Rev Boardman, who was vicar of Grazeley, near Reading, resigned the living and moved to a large house called Glen Andred in Groombridge , East Sussex. He paid £7,200 for the house, which had formerly been the home of artist Edward William Cooke , and lived there with his wife in partial retirement until his death in 1912. In his will he left £147,122 (rough equivalent today £17 million), with many large bequests to hospitals and charities. Marian (Boardman) Stammers, left £118,734 when she died in Brighton on 1 June 1903. She
3854-688: The line runs almost underneath the station. However, this could not be seriously contemplated before the completion of the Crossrail project, owing to extreme crowding on the Central line during peak hours. London Overground began running 24-hour trains on Friday and Saturday nights between Dalston Junction and New Cross Gate which called at Shoreditch High Street from 15 December 2017. but bypasses Whitechapel and continues on to Shadwell due to ongoing Crossrail construction work for ( Elizabeth line ) until 2019. Two Huguenot workers' houses on Club Row on
3936-687: The main store in Shoreditch High Street, numbers 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91, plus the building to the rear in Boundary Street, numbers 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31, 33 and 35. There is no mention in the prospectus of Rotherham's niece and nephew being involved in the sale of the store, so it appears that their interest in the business had been sold to the partners. Similar stock market flotation of privately owned department stores at this time included Harrods in 1889, William Whiteley (Universal Provider) in 1899 and D. H. Evans & Co in 1894. These stores were able to raise funding on
4018-522: The main store was hit by bombs during the London blitz ; the company was able carry on trading by transferring to an adjacent building. In 1968 Jeremiah Rotherham & Co. was purchased by Spencer, Turner and Boldero, later becoming part of the Dent Fownes/Dewhurst Dent P.L.C. group. The founder of the store, Jeremiah Rotherham, was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire , England. He began his career as
4100-446: The medieval period and occupy the north-west and north-east of Shoreditch respectively; however, their extent has never been formally defined. Although Shoreditch has been consistently defined, perceptions have blurred in recent years; something that became possible after the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch amalgamated with some of its neighbours to become the southern part of the London Borough of Hackney in 1965. The location of
4182-413: The place was originally named "Shore's Ditch", after Jane Shore , the mistress of Edward IV , who is supposed to have died or been buried in a ditch in the area. This legend is commemorated today by a large painting, at Haggerston Branch Library, of the body of Shore being retrieved from the ditch, and by a design on glazed tiles in a shop in Shoreditch High Street showing her meeting Edward IV. However,
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#17328444297534264-570: The possibility that the name might originally have referred to a drain or watercourse. Certainly the area was once boggy, and the name might bear some relation to the main branch of the Walbrook , which rose in Hoxton, ran along what is now Curtain Road, flowing past the former Curtain Theatre . The river was known in this area as the Deepditch , Flood Ditch or just The Ditch . Folk etymology holds that
4346-507: The ringleaders are said to have been hanged at York . Disputes over Hull's water supply continued until the 1410s, with the villages fouling the freshwater supply, and filling in the channels. In 1413 an admonitory letter from the Pope was issued, urging the villages to desist from their erroneous ways, after which the nuisance ceased. A moated square structure, Moat Hill, 250 by 220 ft (76 by 67 m), with an 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) moat, on
4428-585: The same boundaries, sometimes with minor rationalisations. The Borough's areas of modern Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston were administered from Shoreditch Town Hall , which can still be seen on Old Street. It has been restored and is now run by the Shoreditch Town Hall Trust. Holy Trinity, Shoreditch in the Old Nichol was for ecclesiastical purposes in Shoreditch from 1866 but was administratively part of Bethnal Green . Anlaby Anlaby
4510-499: The same year. Another sister, Elizabeth Shingles (1788–1877), married the Norfolk schoolmaster George Boardman (1793–1876). One of their daughters, Marian Boardman (1824–1903), appears to have become a companion to Rotherham after his wife's death. She later married Rev. Frederic Halliley Stammers (1833–1902). She and her brother, Rev. Edward Hubbard Boardman (1826–1912), became major beneficiaries of Rotherham's will, inheriting his share of
4592-512: The second "dot-com" boom, both the area and Old Street have become popular with London-based web technology companies who base their head offices around the East London Tech City district. These include Last.fm , Dopplr , Songkick , SocialGO and 7digital . These companies have tended to gravitate towards Old Street Roundabout , giving rise to the term "Silicon Roundabout" to describe the area, as used by Prime Minister David Cameron in
4674-408: The site was 117 ft, and the land area about 8000 sq feet. In May 1941 the main store in Shoreditch High Street was destroyed by enemy bombing during World War II . The company was able to reopen for business by transferring trading to the new warehouse. Government compensation was received in 1950 for the damage to the building and further awards were made later for loss of stock, etc. By 1958
4756-523: The somewhat puritanical City fathers. Even so, they drew the wrath of contemporary moralists, as did the local "base tenements and houses of unlawful and disorderly resort" and the "great number of dissolute, loose, and insolent people harboured in such and the like noisome and disorderly houses, as namely poor cottages, and habitations of beggars and people without trade, stables, inns, alehouses, taverns, garden-houses converted to dwellings, ordinaries, dicing houses, bowling alleys, and brothel houses". During
4838-460: The station operational. Tower Hamlets Council made proposals to transfer the Boundary Estate to a housing association and upgrade the accommodation in 2006. A full refurbishment of one of the blocks, Iffley House was carried out by Sprunt Architects to demonstrate how this might be achieved but the proposal was rejected by a ballot of tenants in November of that year. More recently, during
4920-526: The stock market for expansion and to purchase other smaller stores, for example Harrods purchased Dickins & Jones in 1914. The application for shares in Jeremiah Rotherham & Co. was heavily oversubscribed and about two years later a further sale of debenture and ordinary shares was offered. The dividend paid to shareholders for many years was between five and seven percent. The 600-page illustrated catalogue and general price list of 1904 details
5002-439: The store in 1856 as an apprentice and later became Jeremiah Rotherham's private secretary. Gotelee (1840–1918), draper from Buckinghamshire, also started as a trainee at Rotherham's and later became a buyer. Ellis (1841–1924) was from Devon and described in the 1861 census as draper's assistant, later becoming a buyer. Dummett (1843–1907), also from Devon, began his career at Rotherham's in the dispatch department, eventually becoming
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#17328444297535084-403: The store up for sale for £500,000 via a stock market flotation. They agreed to stay on as directors to ensure a continuity of business arrangements and to liaise with stakeholders . At the time of Rotherham's death, several of the buildings in Shoreditch High Street appear to have been leased, however by the time of the sale the company's property portfolio was said to be mostly freehold, including
5166-409: The variety of stock they carried in the store. There was also a mail order service on offer. The four partners, Snowden, Dummett, Gotelee and Ellis, became wealthy from the sale of their business, but chose to remain as directors of the newly formed company. The most remarkable of them for long service was probably the chairman, Frederick Snowden, who retired on health grounds in 1926, having worked at
5248-527: The western edge of the village is thought to have been constructed in the 14th century, and to have included a manor house . During the English Civil War Anlaby was used as a base by Royalist forces, and fighting took place at Anlaby during the relief of the first siege of Hull (1642) , and during the second siege (1643) , during which an attack on the Royalists was repulsed. Anlaby Hall
5330-769: The widowed Sophia married Jeremiah Rotherham: she was 40 and he was 28 years old. When Burrough died in 1844, Rotherham took over the lease of his shop, where both he and Sophia worked and lived. Sophia's sister, Mary Ann Shingles (1810–1849), lived with them, but in 1849, during the cholera epidemic that struck the East End in that year, Sophia died in August, followed within a month by Mary Ann. They were both buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in Rotherham's family vault. Jeremiah's brother, Joseph Rotherham, who lived in Stepney, also died in
5412-596: Was Devon born draper, Robert Shapland (1826–1864). He helped to expand the wholesale side of the business, selling extensively to the millinery trade. Rotherham seemed genuinely fond of Shapland and his family; he was a witness at their wedding and the Shaplands named their third child Edgar Rotherham Shapman. The next partnership was set up with four employees who had worked their way up in the company. They were Frederick Snowden, George Gotelee, Robert Dummett and William Ellis. Snowden (1844-1932) from Shoreditch, had started with
5494-422: Was Martha Halliley, from Dewsbury , Yorkshire. Her brother-in-law was Vicar John Buckworth of Dewsbury who had appointed Patrick Brontë as his curate in 1809. After Frederick Snowden left the business in 1926, a new chairman was appointed. He was Joseph Hockley (1873–1954) who had trained as a draper and joined Jeremiah Rotherham & Co . in about 1894. He had been company secretary before becoming chairman,
5576-645: Was a centre of entertainment to rival the West End and had many theatres and music halls : None of these places of entertainment survives today. Music hall was revived for a brief time in Curtain Road by the temporary home of the Brick Lane Music Hall . This too has now moved on. A number of playbills and posters from these music halls survive in the collections of both the Bishopsgate Institute and
5658-404: Was also first staged in Shoreditch. Shakespeare's Company moved the timbers of "The Theatre" to Southwark at the expiration of the lease in 1599, in order to construct the Globe . The Curtain continued performing plays in Shoreditch until at least 1627. The suburb of Shoreditch was attractive as a location for these early theatres because, like Southwark , it was outside the jurisdiction of
5740-450: Was attached to 118th Brigade , part of the 39th Division . The battalion was involved in many actions on the Western Front in 1916–18. Syd's coffee stall was established in Calvert Avenue in 1919 and operated continuously until 2019. In the 1930s, Shoreditch, Holy Trinity parish united with that of St Leonard. Shoreditch was heavily bombed during the Second World War , with around 495 of its civilian residents killed. The area
5822-407: Was based for many centuries on the Ancient Parish of Shoreditch (St Leonard's) , part of the county of Middlesex . Parishes in Middlesex were grouped into Hundreds , with Shoreditch part of Ossulstone Hundred. Rapid Population growth around London saw the Hundred split into several 'Divisions' during the 1600s, with Shoreditch part of the Tower Division (aka Tower Hamlets) . The Tower Division
5904-481: Was constructed around 1680, and extended in the early 18th century with modifications in the 19th century. Anlaby House was built in the late 18th century, and extended in the 19th. In the 1850s the small hamlet of Anlaby contained few dwellings in addition to Anlaby Hall and House, and was set in an entirely rural and parkland environment. Wesleyan (built c. 1805 ) and Primitive Methodist Chapels had also been established by this time, and
5986-561: Was exacerbated by the extensive devastation of the housing stock in the Blitz during the Second World War , and by insensitive redevelopment in the post-war period. A south-west to north-east tube line called the Chelsea-Hackney line was proposed in 1970 by the then London Transport Board 's London Rail Study as the next project after the completion of the Victoria line and the Fleet line (now
6068-403: Was formerly a township in the parishes of Kirk-Ella and Hessle , in 1866 Anlaby became a separate civil parish , on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Haltemprice and Sculcoates . In 1931 the parish had a population of 1,734. The village is bordered by and contiguous with Willerby and Kirk Ella to the north and west; the dismantled Hull and Barnsley Railway forms
6150-438: Was hit by at least 279 high explosive bombs, 6 parachute mines 7 V-1 'doodlebugs' , 2 V-2 rockets and many thousands of 1 kg incendiary devices. The destruction of housing and industry caused by the two V-2s contributed to the opportunity to create Shoreditch Park and Haggerston Park . Post-war, Shoreditch declined in conditions, as did both textile and furniture industries with competition elsewhere. This situation
6232-467: Was married to Rev. Frederic Halliley Stammers (1833-1902) who was the incumbent minister at All Saints', Clapton in Hackney, an area of London where Jeremiah Rotherham had lived up until his death in 1878. The Stammers did not have children, but Rev. Stammers, who was a widower, had two children from his previous marriage and they were remembered by Rotherham with a legacy in his will. The Rev. Stammers' mother
6314-528: Was noteworthy in that the men of the area owed military service to the Tower of London – and had done even before the creation of the Division – an arrangement which continued until 1899. The Ancient Parishes provided a framework for both civil (administrative) and ecclesiastical (church) functions, but during the nineteenth century there was a divergence into distinct civil and ecclesiastical parish systems. In London
6396-462: Was originally from Iraq, and naturalised in Britain in about 1947. He had worked in the textile industry for several years and during this time, he and his family had acquired controlling interest in several weaving companies belonging to Haighton Holdings. In 1951 he and his sister, Flora Yentob, sold these businesses to Aurochs Investment Company, although Khazam remained on as managing director. By 1968
6478-651: Was philosopher Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett . George Gotelee died 18 September 1918 aged 78, having served with Rotherham’s for 62 years. His probate was recorded as £117,264. He was replaced on the board by Snowden's son, Frederick Sydney Snowden, who remained as a director until 1958. Gotelee's son, Sydney Treble Gotelee (1878-1959), later became a director, a position he retained until he retired in 1958. William Ellis died aged 84 on 11 March 1924 at his home in Reigate, Surrey leaving £178,616. He had been with Jeremiah Rotherham for about 64 years and regularly attended
6560-526: Was previously an extramural suburb of the City of London, centred on Shoreditch Church at the old crossroads where Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road are crossed by Old Street and Hackney Road . Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road are a small sector of the Roman Ermine Street and modern A10 . Known also as the Old North Road, it was a major coaching route to the north, exiting
6642-540: Was reported that the internet retailer Amazon.com was close to signing a lease to move its UK headquarters there. The project had been on hold since January 2012, when the anchor tenant, the law firm CMS Cameron McKenna pulled out. Soon after, the developer Hammerson sold its interest in the scheme to Brookfield . There has been some consideration of creating an interchange with the Central line between Liverpool Street and Bethnal Green at Shoreditch High Street, where
6724-481: Was the site of a house of canonesses, the Augustinian Holywell Priory (named after a Holy Well on the site), from the 12th century until its dissolution in 1539. This priory was located between Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road to east and west, and Batemans Row and Holywell Lane to north and south. Nothing remains of it today. In 1574, the City authorities banned the building of playhouses in
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