33 Bridge Street33 Bridge Street, The Fox and Goose
History of 33 Bridge Street
West of Bridge Street in the Nineteenth Century
For detailed history see T E Faber, An Intimate History of St Clement’s Parish, 2006.
c. 1260: Eustace Eldkorn
1617-19: Robert Coward, waterman, later Widow Coward
1659-72: Robert Coward in nos. 33/34 in 1666; Sarah Coward widow in Fox and Goose in 1672.
1666: one of 4 tenements left by John Hills to John Tabor
1673-1700: John Fisher, waterman, for Fox and Goose in 1673-74
1690: Mr Peppiatt occupied; estate owned by Mr Tabor
1717: 33 & 34 were in the estate of Sir George Downing.
1752: Fox and Goose not listed
1811: Downing estate put up for auction. highest bid from William Eaden senior, linen draper. Vendors were Downing College.
1827: Eadens mortgaged the property for £2000; the property had been rebuilt to provide:
- a ‘newly-erected tenement adjoining the Great Bridge’ with ‘wharf, granaries, malt chambers, counting house’, etc
- another newly erected tenement with shop which adjoined
These tenements are nos. 33 and 34 Bridge Street.
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1851: John Eaden, 77, magistrate and corn merchant
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1861: William Eaden, 60, maltster
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1871: Edward Bell, seed merchant
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1885: estate sold by Eadens to Benjamin Jolley
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1913:
B Jolley and sons, furniture dealers
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1928: St John’s bought property from Benjamin C Jolley
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1962:
W J Moore Ltd, pianos