Kelly's Directory 1917
Transcript of the entry for Wivenhoe by Sue Glasspool
Sue Glasspool
Kelly’s Directory of Essex 1917 pp.658-660
Transcription by Sue Glasspool.
WIVENHOE (or Wyvenhoe) is a parish, on a gentle declivity of the Colne, 4 miles south-east from Colchester and 57 1/4 from London, with a station on the Tendring Hundred branch of the Great Eastern railway, from which a line extends to Brightlingsea, 5 miles distant, and another to Clacton-on-Sea, 12 miles distant, and to Walton-on-the-Naze, 15 miles distant. Wivenhoe is in the North Eastern division of the county, Colchester division of Lexden hundred, Lexden and Winstree petty sessional division and union, Colchester, Clacton, Harwich and Halstead joint county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. Wivenhoe also forms, with Brightlingsea and Rowhedge, a member of the Cinque Port of Sandwich of Kent. There is a good quay and the population is largely engaged in shipbuilding. The town is lighted with gas by a company and supplied with water from works the property of the Urban District Council; the water is obtained from an artesian well, and a water tower, with a capacity of 50,000 gallons, was erected in 1901. The parish is governed by an Urban District Council of nine members, formed in 1898, under the provisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 Vict, ch. 73) The church of St Mary the Virgin is a building of stone, consisting of chancel with south aisle, nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower with clock and 6 bells ( recast in 1905 at a cost of £276), and was restored in the year 1860 at an expenditure of about £3,000; in the church are brasses in good preservation to Sir Thomas Westerley, priest, chaplain to the Countess of Oxford. Ob. 5 Feb, 1535, with effigy, vested, and bearing a chalice and wafer; another of Flemish work to William, 2nd Viscount Beaumont and titular Baron Bardolf, with effigy in armour, and triple and super-canopy and a marginal inscription, ob. 1507; the third is to Elizabeth (Scroope) second wife of John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, and widow of William Beaumont, ob. 1537, and exhibits her effigy with coronet and heraldic mantle, triple and super-canopy and marginal inscription, both much mutilated; in the vestry is a chest of Flemish workmanship, highly embossed and studded with nails; this church suffered considerable damage by the shock of an earthquake 22 April, 1884. The register of baptisms dates from 1566; burials and marriages, 1560. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £300, with 60 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs Egerton-Green, and held since 1890 by the Rev. John Robert Sinclair Carolin M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The Congregational chapel, erected in 1840 by Mr Thomas Sanford, at a cost of £2,400, is endowed with a sum of £500, left by the late Miss Mary Ann Sanford, and has Sunday schools, erected in 1874, by Mr John Sanford. There is also a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1901, and a large Foresters’ Hall, built in 1904. The cemetery, about half a mile from the church, comprises 5 acres, and is under the control of the Urban Council. Wivenhoe Reading Club is managed by a committee of 6 seamen and 6 landsmen and is open from 9.30am to 10pm; Sundays, 2 till 5pm. A fair used to be held on the 4th of September yearly. Ship and yacht building is carried on here, and a new graving dock, 205 feet long, was constructed in 1888. A sum of £5,000 was left by the late Miss Mary Ann Sanford, for building and endowing six almshouses for six widows or spinsters of 60 years old and upwards, resident in the parish, preference being given to the widows of seamen; each inmate receives 6s. per week. A further endowment of £500 was made by Mrs Kezia Hines, sister of the foundress, for the repair of the almshouses. The charities for distribution amount to about £21 yearly. Wyvenhoe Park, the property and residence of Charles Edmund Gooch esq. J.P. is about a mile and a half from the village; the mansion, a modern building, received considerable damage by the shock of earthquake mentioned above; the park is undulating, well timbered, stocked with deer and contains about 180 acres. At the Domesday Survey the manor of Wivenhoe was held by Robert Gernon as part of his barony of Stansted Mountfichet; from 1300 to 1400 it was held by the Sutton family, and in the 15th and 16th centuries held by that of De Vere, Earls of Oxford, and was sold in 1657 by Aubrey, 19th earl K.G. to Nicholas Corsellis, whose family was long seated at Wivenhoe Hall, a fine old mansion with pleasant grounds of about 200 acres, on the north-west side of the village, and at present the property and residence of Alexander K. Barlow, esq. J.P. George F. Beaumont, esq. of Coggeshall, is lord of the manor. The principal owners of the land are C.E. Gooch, esq. and A.K. Barlow.esq. J.P. The soil is light; subsoil gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots. The area of the civil parish and the Urban District is 1,562 acres of land, 2 of inland and 7 of tidal water and 33 of foreshore; assessable value, £7,979; the population in 1911 was 2,375 in the civil and 2,251 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Post, M.O.T. & Telephone Call Office – Thomas William Goodwin, sub-postmaster. Letters from Colchester
Town Sub-Post Office, Wivenhoe Cross- Mrs Elizabeth Wade, sub-postmistress
Wall Boxes –Station, Black Buoy & The Avenue
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Meets at the Council offices, High Street, on 2nd Monday in every month, at 6 p.m.
Members:
Chairman, Arthur Vinson
Vice-Chairman, Herbert Leslie Wright
John Augustus Fale, William Hook, John Perry, Arthur Henry Seymour, Edward Herbert Squire, Stacey Wood, John Worsp
Clerk, Chas. Wm. Denton, 8 East Stockwell st, Colchester
Treasurer, Major Nevill Arthur Charles de Hirzel Tufnell, J.P. The Old Bank, Colchester
Medical Officer of Health. Graham Travers Kevern M.R.C.S.Eng, L.R.C.P.Lond, Rowhedge
Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Robert Hugh Barrell
Rate Collector, Thomas William Goodwin, Post Office
Waterworks Engineer & Water Rent Collector, Josiah Mallett
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS
Cemetery, T.W. Goodwin, Clerk to the Burial Board
County Police, Edgar Richard Pryke, Bellevue Road, Sergeant in charge
Foresters Hall, Arthur E. Cuthbert, sec
Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners Royal Benevolent Society; Hon. Representative, Stacey Wood
PUBLIC OFFICERS
Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, 2nd District, Lexden & Winstree Union and Medical Officer, Part of No.5 (El[m]stead) District, Tendring Union, Edward Herbt Squire M.R.C.S.Eng
Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Peldon sub-district, Harold Goodwin
Town Crier, S. William Currell
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Public Elementary School (boys, girls & infants) for 276 boys, 232 girls & 198 infants; William Thomas Wadley, master; Mrs. Wright, mistress; Miss Emily Kent, infants’ mistress
Railway Station, Edwin Douse, station master
Carriers to Colchester- William B. Cole, to “Swan” daily, thurs excepted; Robert Wyatt, to “Castle”, daily, thurs excepted
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Baker Hector Brough, Aline Villas
Barlow Alex.K.,J.P. Wivenhoe Hall
Carolin Rev. John Robert Sinclair M.A., Rectory
Chapman Edgar, Fern Lea
Duncan George Colville, Hillside
Ellis Charles Albert
Fleming Andrew Chalmers, High St
Gooch, Chas Edmd, J.P., Wyvenhoe Park
Goodwin Mrs E.A. Elaine House
Head William, Oakleigh, High Street
Husk James, jun. Beau-Site
Jennings Miss, Gurney Vale
Laws Mrs, Alexandra House
Perry John, Fernbank
Rice Harry Oliver, The Nook
Sargeant Hedley, Bromley House
Seymour Arthur Henry, Leigh House
Squire Edward Herbert, Colne House
Squire Miss, The Limes
Tapling Alfred John Barton
Trayler Gerald William, The Cottage
Trayler Mrs. J. The Hollies
Turner Arthur George, Aline villas
Tyler Rev. William Franklin (Congregational). Avenue Villas
Wadley William, J.P., Avenue Villas
Worsp Jn. The Moorings, Bellevue Road
COMMERCIAL
Early closing day, Thursday
Adams Robert, shopkeeper
Barclays Bank Limited (sub-branch) (open fri.11a.m. to 1 p.m.) draw on head office, 54 Lombard street, London E C
Barr Benjamin Archer, Falcon P.H.
Barr Blanche (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Barrell Benjamin B. & Martin, builders, Rectory Road
Barrell Robt. Hugh, builder, surveyor & sanitary inspector to the Urban District Council, Rectory Road
Barrett Rosa (Mrs.), confectioner
Bartlett William & Sons, oyster mers
Beckwith Asa, dairy
Beckwith Hannah (Miss), shopkeeper
Bird Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Bishop Henry Edwin, beer retailer
Brown Joseph George, jun. Hair drssr
Brown Jsph. Geo. Rose & Crown P.H.
Brunning Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Canham John, boot repairer
Cemetery (Thomas William Goodwin, clerk to the burial board)
Chamberlain Thomas, Flag P.H. Wivenhoe Cross
Chapman Edgar & Daniel, builders
Child Harry & Charles, plumbers
Cockrell Leonard Charles, master mariner, Bellevue road
Colchester Co-operative Reading Rooms & Library (branch)
Colchester & East Essex Co-operative & Industrial Society Ltd. (branch)
Cole Annie E. (Mrs.), draper
Cole William B., carrier
Corbel, Frank, wholesale clothing manufacturer, Wivenhoe Cross
Cracknell, Ernest James, baker
Culley William Easter, Horse & Groom P.H. Wivenhoe Cross
Cuthbert Arthur Edward, Yachtsman’s Arms P.H.
Dodson Leonard, butcher
Everett William, farmer, Tye farm (letters through Elmstead)
Fale John, fishmonger, Anchor hill
Fleming Andrew Chalmers L.R.C.P. & S.Edin., L.R.F.P.S. Glas. physician & surgeon, High street
Flux Grace (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Ford John, boot repr. Wivenhoe Cross
Foresters’ Hall (Arthur E. Cuthbert, sec)
Franks Edwin (Mrs.), baker
Garnham Jas Herbt. farmr. Lodge Farm
Garrett Arthur, draper
Glozier Tilford Henry, hair dresser
Goodwin John Arthur Fredk. (exors. of), builders
Goodwin Harold, deputy registrar of births, marriages & deaths, Peldon sub-dist. Lexden & Winstree union
Goodwin Mosley, shopkeeper
Goodwin Thomas William, stationer, assistant overseer & collector of rates to the Urban District Council, Post office
Green Emma (Mrs.), fishmonger
Hadley James Leonard, boot repairer
Hadley Joseph, master mariner, Bellevue Road
Ham Dick, builder
Harvey Abraham, master mariner
Head Miss Daisie, teacher of pianoforte
Heath James, farmer, Cross farm & oyster merchant, Quayside
Hillyard George, beer retailer
Husk James, boat builder
Jackson Edward, insurance agent
James William Harry, blacksmith, Wivenhoe Cross
Johnson William Henry, farmer
Joliffe Walter, jobmaster
Kevern Grahame Travers M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., physician & surgeon, High street (attends daily 5 p.m.)
King Brothers, butchers
Last William, baker
Lee William F. Greyhound P.H.
Madder William & Co. sail makers
Maling Thomas William, clothier
Mason James, master mariner
Mason Robert James, master mariner
Masonic Hall (2477, Colne Valley) (Dick Ham, sec), meets 2nd tues. from Oct. to April, The Avenue
Mason Wm. Edward, Grosvenor Hotel
Moore James & Son, grocers
Mortlock Chas. William, miller (oil)
Nicholls Joseph, greengrocer
Norfolk George, butcher
Nottage Institute (William Wadley hon.sec)
Oakley Henry Richard, master mariner, Bellevue Road
Parr’s Bank Limited (branch) (open 12 till 1.30 wed); draw on head office, Bartholomew la. London E C
Payne Frederick Charles, shopkeeper
Porter Alfred, Park Hotel
Porter Roger Geo. insur. agt. Stanley Road
Powell Thomas, Station Hotel
Proctor Isabel (Miss), ladies’ school, Trinity House
Pryke Golden Boxley, farmer, Blossomwood (letters through Elmstead)
Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Limited (G. Bostock, sec.) ship builders
Roberston Frederick Chas. insurance agent, Wivenhoe Cross
Sainty Charles, Black Buoy P.H.
Scofield Charles G. painter
Scollick Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Slaughter Louis, shopkeeper
Smith Frank William, plumber
Squire Edward Herbt. M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. physician & surgeon, & medical officer, Elmstead district, Tendring union & medical officer & public vaccinator for 2nd district, Lexden & Winstree Union, Colne House
Stebbing George, grocer
Steward Honor (Miss), confectioner
Tapling Alfred John Barton, barrister-at-law, Wrawby House; & 8 Stone buildings, Lincoln’s inn, London E C
Taylor Bellman (Miss), teacher of music
Urban District Water Works (Josiah Mallett, engineer & collector of water rent)
Wade Elizabeth (Mrs.), confectioner, Post office, Wivenhoe Cross
Walker Eliza (Mrs.), drug stores
Warner Alfred Wm. coal merchant
Warren Minnie (Mrs.), wardrobe dlr
Watsham Frederick, farmer, Vine Farm
Wilby Henry Charles, assistant insurance supt. High Street
Wivenhoe Gas Co. (A.W. Green, Sudbury, sec)
Wivenhoe Reading Club (Arthur Goodwin, sec)
Wood Stacey, grocer
Wyatt Robt. carrier, Wivenhoe Cross
Wyatt Wm. coal dlr, Wivenhoe Cross
Wyncoll Thos. Edwd. frmr. Park Farm
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