Catalogue description Records of Thomas Ennor, builder, of Commercial Road, and of his executors

The collection consists of financial and property records.

Ennor, Thomas, 1815-1875, builder of Stepney

The Records were deposited on indefinate loan by the National Westminster Bank Archives in January 1996 having recently been recovered from their Whitechapel Branch. They relate to the last few years of Ennors life and the period immediately after his death and their survival is no doubt due to their necessity in the winding up of Ennor's affairs by his executors.

Thomas Ennor was a builder of some note in the Victorian East End. He was born in 1815 in St Agnes near Truro in Cornwall as was his wife Jane. By 1855 he was established as a carpenter at 38 Hardinge Street near Commercial Road, though by 1857 he is described in the trade directory of that year as "builder and contractor". By 1859 while retaining the Hardinge Street premises he had expanded into premises south of the River at Vauxhall Gardens and to 2 Marine Place, Commercial Road. The 1861 census shows him residing at 2 Marine Place with his wife Jane. By 1865 they were residing at 4 St Agness Terrace, Victoria Park in a development he had built himself and named after his birth place. By 1870 his business operations were conducted from 1 Devonshire Place, later 242 Commercial Road. He died in 1875.

The following is list of buildings known to be built by him including buildings completed after his death:-

1855 British and Foreign Sailors' Institute, Hardinge Street

1859 "Sir John Franklin" P.H. East India Dock Rd.

1860-1861 St. George-in-the-East Town Hall

1862-1863 St. Agnes Terrace, South Hackney

1865 The Queens Hotel (now the "Falcon and Firkin" P.H.) South Hackney

1865-1866 Methodist Church, Grove Road (later St. Barnabas C. of E. Church

c.1866 The Bedford Hotel, Wetherell Road, South Hackney

1876 St. John's Vicarage, Castalia Street, Isle of Dogs

1876 Glengall Road School, Isle of Dogs

1876-1877 The East London Synagogue

1876-1877 The Jamaica Taven (alterations), West India dock Road

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