14! , . • The Corn Exchange, in the Market place, was built Commissioners dated March rg, 1909, for the purpose in 1847, and a cattle market formed, both of which are of meeting any claims made by the education authori­ the property of the Ely Corn Exchange Co. Limited, ties, £40 to the Ely Dispensary, £21 to Addenbrooke's and are well attended. Thursday is the market day. Hospital, Cam bridg-e, £zoo in the distribution of coal The fairs, anciently held on Ascension Day or Holy to the poor, £15 to the poor people in their almshouses, Thursday and October 29th, the former for three and about £6o for general relief to the poor, £so in renting the latter for nine days, have been reduced to three days of allotments of land and sub-letting to the poor, and each, the May or summer fair commencing on the last besides this a considerable portion of the charity land is Thursday in May, except when that day falls on Holy let to the poor in husbandry allotments and small hold­ Thursday, and then the Thursday before, and the Octo- ings: there is also another large charity, derived from her or winter fair on the last Thursday in October. estates at Soha.m and Fordham, left by Benjamin Laney. Needham's charity provides education and clothing for Bishop of Ely I075-77, for the apprenticing of poor poor boys of Ely, and was founded by Mrs. Catherine children of Ely and to honest trades, the pre­ Needham, of Aylesbury, in 1734, who left land in tlie mium not to exceed £zo. parish, originally producing £8o yearly, but now bring- The boundaries of the city and Urban District of Ely ing in about £zso a year, for this purpose. This school include 16,742 -acres; the population in I9II was 7,917; was reorganized Sept. 5, 1910: there are scholarships the area of Holy Trinity parish is 3,833 acres of land for :five boys of 12 years of age, elected by examination and water and St. Mary parish is 3•459 ac~es of land each year, who receive free education and maintenance and water; the total includes 8,668 acres of intermixed exhibitions to .the value of £z a year for three years. land rated to the two parishes; Ely College, 33 acres; The charity is managed by a body of governors, now Gravel, 399 acres ; the rateable values are--e - comprising the Dean of Ely, C. Bidwell esq. W. J. Evans of Holy Trinity, £33,227; of St. Mary, £I8,8IJ; of Ely esq. Harold Archer esq. and others; treasurer, A. Hall College, £8oi; and of Witcham Gravel, £473· esq.; schoolmaster, Mr. Henry S. Boyden. The population of the parishes in I9II was Ely Laney's charity is for apprenticing boys of Ely and College, 99; Holy Trinity, 3•794; and St. Mary, 2,867 Soham; clerk, E. R. Evans, solicitor, Ely. (including 9 officers and 130 inmates of the Poor Law Parsons', Howard's and Tunkiss' charities, for the Institution); Witcham Gravel, 9 relief of poor during winter, are nianaged ~~ a body of The population of the ecclesiastical parishes in I9II 12 governors; George M. Hall, clerk; Ph1hp Shelford was-Holy Trinity 477 • St. Mary 2 738. · Bidwell, St. Mary's street, receiver; Daniel William I ' 4 ' ' '. ' • Harper, Silver street, superintendent. I Ely College o: Ely Cath~ral. Precmcts 1s reputed to Parsons' charity, an ancient benefaction, produces up- be extra-parochial for ecclesiastiCal purposes. wards of £I,ooo net yearly revenue, from lands in Ely J Parish Clerks (Trinity church), William Rickwood, and , out of which the feoffees or governors I High Street passage; (St. Mary's church) Arthur Henry pay £130 yearly under the sealed order of the _Charity I Pilgrim, Church lane.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS ~..c. Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Luddington Maj. Henry Tansley, Plantation house, Market street.-Alfred Burgess, postmaster , Ely Letters & parcels are delivered & dispatched at various Luddington James Little, Audley house, Littleport, Ely times Luddington Lieut.-Col. William James Cropley, Egre- ,The office is open for the transaction of business from mont house, Ely 7 a.m. till 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 to IO a.m. The Peake Thomas, Hampden house, Littleport, Ely telegraph office is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; on Porter Waiter, Lynn road, Ely sundays from 8 to ro a.m Tebbutt Ernest, Haddenham, Ely Telephone, week days continuous W esley John, Grove house, Stretham Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, St. Mary's street.­ Wright Alfred Edwin, Ivy lodge, Haddenham, Ely Mrs. M. A .. Jefferson, sub-postmistress; box cleared The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Ely Urban & 5-IS & 8.r5 a.m. 12 noon & 3-IS, 5·45 & 9·45 p.m Rural District Councils are ex-officio magistrates Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, Broad street.-Mrs. Clerk to the Magistrates, Willia.m Johnson Evans, Sarah Fox, sub-postmistress; box cleared 12.30, 8.15 High Street passage, Ely & 11.4~ a.m. & 3, 5.30 & 9.30 p.m Petty Sessions are held at the Justices' room, at the Town Sub... Post Office, Adelaide ·Bridge.-Arthur S. Sessions House, Ely, every thursday at 12 o'clock Barker, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 6.25 a.m. The following places are included in the petty sessional & II.55 a. m. from Ely; dispatched at ro.55 a.m. & division :-Parish of Holy Trinity, Ely; 'Parish of St. 6.35 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office Mary, Ely; Ely College, Littleport, Downham, Stret­ is at Ely ham, Thetford, , Haddenham, Sutton,, URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Witcham, Wentworth, Coveney, , , R.edmere & Witcha.m Gravel Meetings held at the Shire Hall, every fourth wednes­ day at 3.30 p.m. ELY RURAL DISTRICT OOUNCIL. Members. The parishes in the District are the same as in the Union with the exception of the three Ely parishes & All retire in April, 1917. Witcham Gravel. The area is 63,999 acres; the Chairman, Willia.m Cutlack J.P. population in I9II was 12,916 Harold Archer Arthur Hall J.P Council meets at the Poor Law Institution monthly at P. S. Bidwell Frank Litchfield Harlock .ro a.m. J. S. Burrows E. S. Harvey Chairman, J. L. Luddington, Audley house, Littleport. T. W. H. Olarke , Lancelot Harold Luddington Clerk, Edmund Button Ola.xton, Egremont street, Ely Frank George Coy Lieut.-Col. William James Treasurer, Edmund H. ;parker J.P. banker, William Cutlack Cropley Luddington Medical Officer of Health, Bushell Anningson M.A., M.D. Henry Downie, sen W. Teverson Camb., M.R.C.S.Eng. Wait-ham-sal, Barton road, Frank Green William Theobald Cambridge Hig-hway Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Fred Waiter Officers. Firby, Sutton, Ely Clerk, George Martin Hall, Market· place Treasurer, Edmund Henry 'Parker J.P.banker,Cambridge PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Medical Officer of Health, Spencer Clabon Harris · Almshouses, Parsons', St. Mary's street L.-R.F.P. & S.Glas. St. Mary's street Cemetery, New Barns road, Harold Archer, clerk to tha Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Wm. McKelvie, Fore hill burial board; John Knights, curator Collector, James Weatherhead, Back hill Corn Exchange, Market place. Henry Rickwood, lessee Corn Return Office COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE DIVISION OF County Court Office, Market place ; :the court is held THE HUNDRED OF ELY & SOUTH WITCHFORD IN. every two months in the Shire hall, His Honur THE ISLE OF ELY.. James Mulligan K.C. judge; George Martin Hall, Pell Albert Julian D.L. Wilburton manor, Ely, chairman; registrar & high bailiff ; Harry V ail,· bailiff & broker Bidwell Charles M.A. St. Mary's street, Ely· of the court; Herbert Bennett, clerk. The places in Cutlack William, Hazelwood, Hills avenue, Cambridge· the . district are : , Black Horse Dr.ove, Drake Richard, Hickling house, Sutton, Ely Coveney, Dairy Houses, Little -Downham, Dunstalls, Hall Arthur D.L. Forehill house, Ely Eari'th Bridge, Grunty Fen, Haddenham, Hermitage, Hall Bertram, Blundeston lodge, near Lowestoft Hill Row, Littleport,. Mepal·&· Fen, Old Middle· F.en