344 LITTLE . . [KELLY'B Post & :M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.­ Wall Letter Box in Chadwell road, cleared at 11.50 a.:m. ,James Waters, sub-postmaster. Letters through Grays & 7 p.m. week days only are delivered at 8. Io a. m. 2.20 & 6.40 p.m. ; arrive at National School (mixed), built in I872, enlarged in I888, 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 11.50 a.m. 4.30 & 8.30 p.m. There & further enlarged in I893, for I8o children; averag& is no delivery or dispatch on sundays The nearest attendance, 150; Waiter Gregory, master; ~lrs. telegraph office is at Grays .Annie M. Gregory, infants' mistress Hickson .Alfred, Thurrock hall (letters received through Ward Joseph, shopkeeper Lander Rev. Thomas M . .A. Rectory Dock) Waters Jas. baker & grcr. Post offic& Gardner Charles Henry, Bull P.ll Hobdell Henry C. insurance agent White William, builder & beer re- Gaylor David, dairyman Lock Robert, blacksmith tailer (letters received througa Gregory Waiter, schoolmaster Turp George, farmer Tilbury Dock) . Hat ton J oseph, grocer, Church road Vellacott Humphrey, farmer Woollett Percy Croft, Sh1p P.R and .

WEST THJJRROCK is a parish, 3 miles east from Pur­ near the Fox & Goose, cleared at 8.45 & II. I5 a. m.. fleet and I~ west from Grays station on the London, Til­ 4·5 & 8.5 p.m.; sunday ro a.m. Wall Box near bury and Southend railway, rr south-east from Romford Tunnel House farm cleared at 8.30 & II.I5 a.m. 4 & and I9 from London, in the South Eastern division of 8 p.m. ; sunday 9·45 a.m the county, , union and petty ses­ sional division, Gravesend county court district, rural PURFLEET is a hamlet of West Thurrock, with a deanery of Orsett, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese station on the London, Tilbury and Southend railway, of St . .Albans. The Grays and Upminster section of the I6~ miles from London, 6~ west from Tilbury, 7 from. London, Tilbury and Southend railway joins the main Gravesend and 4~ west from Grays ; it is on rising line here. The church of St. Clement is an ancient ground and near the mouth of the Marditch stream~ structure, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, which is crossed by a bridge and here forms a little aisles and a low but massive embattled tower at the harbour. Here is a chapel of ease to the church of west end, containing 3 bells, dated 1632 : the nave and West Thurrock. The '\Vesl-eyans hold service on Sun­ aisles are the oldest part and date from rather early in days at the Boa;rd schools. Botany Gardens, the pro­ the _Lancet period: the chancel and west chantry are perty of Samuel Whitbread esq. M.P. a place of consi· Decorated, and some windows in the aisles and chantry derable resort in summer, can be visited by obtaining a. Perpendicular, the tower being late in the same style, ticket from the head gardener. Purfleet House is the while the south chantry is modern Gothic : the material property of Samuel Whitbread esq. M.P. and the resi­ is chiefly flint, banded, in the case of the tower, with dence of Charles Whitbread esq. The manor formerly stone : this church, built on the river bank and far away belonged to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem and from the nearest house, was erected, it is supposed, was called "Portflete," and there was then a ferry over soon after the murder of St. 'l'llomas a Becket, for the the Thames. Here are the extensive powder magazines of convenience of pilgrims going to his shrine at Canter­ the Government, consisting of store-houses and a good bury: in the north chantry there are two full-sized effigies quay, and from which all the British military stations. in alabaster of a knight and his lady, representing Sir both at home and abroad are supplied :there are also bar­ Daniel Holford knt. patron of the living, who put in racks and officers' quarters, an infantry detachment, and a the east window in I623, and his wife ; in the chancel detachment of the Ordnance Store Corps being sta-­ floor is this inscription, in Roman letters on a brass let tioned here. There is also a Metropolitan police force into a slab of shell marble, " Katherina Ridinge Filia of one inspector, three sergeants and nineteen constables. Homfridi Haies Obiit Decimo sexto Die Decembris anno Near the Thames on the marsh land are extensive petro­ domini I591, anno retatis wre vicesimo quarto." Another leum storage works and a paper mill. The Tilbury­ brass is that of Humphrey Heies, ob. Oct. 10, I584, and Masonic lodge (No. 2,oo6) is held at the Royal hotel his son of the same name, ob. Jan. 22, I585, with 0111 the 2nd Saturday in May, June, July and October. eighteen elegant Latin lines, containing a succession of Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- puns on the name of Rays or Heies : a rectangular slab Purfleet (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Essex. Il(~ar the east end of the chancel floor is inscribed­ added).-David Brice Maxted, sub-postmaster, Letters " Nichol(a)s: Ferobavd: gist: ici: dev: de: sa: alme: delivered at 7 a. m. 2 & 7.30 p.m. ; dispatched 11. Io eyt: merci:" and in the centre is the matrix of a a.m. 5 & 9.30 p.m.; sunday delivery 7.30 a.m.; dis­ floriated cross, with a demi-figure in the head. The register of marriages dates from I668; burials, I68I; patch 9.30 p.m baptisms, 1683. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent­ Wall Box, West Thurrock road, cleared at 10.55 a.m. &. charge £192, net yearly value £149· with 3 acres of 8 p.m. ; sundays 8 a.m glebe and residence, in the gift of Samuel Whitbread Government Powder Magazines, Lt.-Col. Edward B. .Ap­ f'sq. M.P. and held since 1876 by the Rev. Thomas Al­ pelbe, assistant commissary-general of ordnance, in dersey Morley M . .A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The charge ; Sergeant-Maj. William ~fanning, conductor oi Primitive Methodist chapel here was erected in r876 ; ordnance store department; Surgn.-Major James .Ad­ there is also an iron chapel, built in 1885, chiefly through setts; John Rose, canteen keeper; John Webb, police­ the exertions of Mr. W. H. Vellacott, but attached to inspector no particular denomination. Here are extensive cement The " Cornwall" Training Ship, moored off the shore,. works. Samuel Whitbread esq. M.P. of Southill Park, contains about 250 boys, who are taught seamanship Beds, who is lord of the manor, the Tunnel Cement Com­ & various trades: it was certified May 2, 1859; Cap­ pany, G. R. Burness esq. John Hunt esq. and John tain Arthur Morrell R.N. superintendent Edward Curtis esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are Schools. wheat, beans and peas. There is much marsh land here. A School Board of 5 members was formed 15 Feb. I876; The area is 2,995 acres of land and 7IO of water; rate- Thomas Alfred Capron, 2 Orsett road, Grays, clerk tO' able value, £15,616 ws. ; the population in r891 was the board; George Watts, Grays, attendance officer 2,540, which includes Purfleet and 314 civil and mili- BoarJ School, built in 1879 & since enlarged, for 208 tary in the garrison and 207 persons on board the re- boys, I5o girls & I8o infants; average attendance, 125' formatory ship "Cornwall," off Purfleet. boys, 120 girls & I 50 infants; veorge Davis, master; Parish Clerk, John Francis. Miss .Annie Condy, mistress; Mrs. Elizabeth A. P os t , M . 0 . & T . 0 ., S . B ., E xpress D el 1very. & Annmty · Davis, infants' mistress & Insurance Office.-.Alfred Burfoot Avery, sub- Purfleet (mixed,) built in 1889, for t6o children; ave- postmaster. Letters arrive from Grays by foot rage attendance, qo; .Arthur Stapleton, master m!'SSE>nger and delivered at 7 & 8.15 a. m. 2.30 & Railway Station, Purfleet, Charles M . .Ansell, station mast 7 p.m. ; dispatched 8.45 & II.3° a.m. 4 & 8.3o p.m. Conveyance Bus, from Fox & Goose inn, every week day sunday delivery 8 a.m. ; dispatch ro a.m to Grays railway station at 8.30 & II a.m. 2.o, 4·45 ·wall Box near the cross roads, cleared at 8.50 & 11.35 & 7·45 p.m.; returning from Grays at 9.50 k 11.50 a.m. 4·35 & 8.35 p.m. Sunday 10.10 a.m. Wall Box a.m. 2.50, 5.25 & 5.40 p.m WEST THURROCK. Roberts Rev. Charles Thomas (curate) Band John Gibbs Douglas H. Millwood home Manor road Bowstone (The) Company (Bertie S. Harvey George COMMERCIAL. Harvey, manager), artificial stone Morley Rev. Thomas .Aldersey M.A . .Avery Alfred Burfoot, draper & manufacturers Vicarage newsagent Carter & W oodgate, brick m.ake:n.. Morley Miss, Vicarage Baldwin Thomas, Old Ship P.H Clark Thomas. shopkeepe~