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Heybridge Basin (Cannibal
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The Village Tour |
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Page
Three |
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Before moving on this
local area is covered in depth at an earlier time by the following.
For many years from it's begining in 1796,
much of the land in the village was owned either by the Canal
Company or several wealthy businessmen, with most of the dwellings
being rented out. There were two instances when large parts of
the old village and it's dwellings were put up for sale. The
first was on the 16th of September 1873, this consisted of a
sale of the following rented properties in 12 lots of freehold
estate ..... a Villa residence and bakery, 'The Exchange' Public
House, 6 semi-detached residences, 13 nearly new cottages, and
a valuable pasture which included areas along the sea-wall and
foreshore with access from beside No1 Basin Road. |
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(below) maps of the 1873
auction of 12 lots |
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Details of the 1873 auction
lots |
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Lot
1. Two brick built and slated roof
semi-detached residences with detached wash houses at the rear
occupied by Messrs Clark and Young at rents of 13 pounds and
5 shillings per annum. A small strip of 14ft wide along the side
of Mr Clarke's garden has been taken from this Lot and added
to Lot 5 to give it an entrance from the High Road. These residences
were No1 and 2 Basin Road. |
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Lot
2. Two Brick built and slated roof
semi-detached residences occupied by Messrs Slingsby and Metson
at rents of 12 pounds per annum. These residences were No3 and
4 Basin Road, and were later occupied by Wilmott and Brookes. |
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Lot 3. Two brick built
and slated semi-detached residences occupied by Messrs Hardy
and Willis at rents of 13 pounds and 2 shillings per annum. These
residences were No5 and 6 Basin Road and were later occupied
by Collett and Polden. |
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(above) c1910. opposite
the cart are Lots 1,2 and 3. The house that the Polden's lived
in Lot 3 was called 'Pear Tree Cottage'. The pear tree is visible
in this picture. |
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Lot 4. Four brick built and slated cottages occupied
by Messrs Slogrove, Pooley, Freeman and Lay, together with a
piece of pasture ground at the rear. This lot is sold with a
right of horse, cattle, foot,cart and barrow over the road lying
between part of this Lot and part of Lot 6. The cottages and
piece of pasture are let at rents amounting to a total of 26
pounds per annum. The end cottage was later (in the picture below)
occupied by Maud and Freddy Woodcraft, and the pasture behind
by Mrs Littlewood and rented by Colin Brookes. |
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(above) The four cottages
as in Lot 4 are on the right. The very end one on the right was
occupied by Maud and Freddy Woodcraft. The access road way is
described and shown above next to Woodcraft's and the small brick
wall on the extreme right is the frontage of Dicky 'Doddler'
Springett and Corrie's bungalow, and where the coal yard and
shed in Lot 6 were. |
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Lot 5.
this is a very desireable lot containg an extensive sea frontage,
carpenter's ways and docks, with all rights and foreshore and
river frontage, in the occupation of Messrs Pearmain, Copland
and Woodcraft, at rents amounting to 6 pounds per annum. The
whole of the pasture is let to Mr Pearmain at a rent of 2 pounds
per annum. The Lot is sold subject to the rights of the tennants
of Lots 1,2 and 3, to dry linen on the pasture. This whole lot
was eventualy bought by Arthur Butcher and became part of May
& Butcher's site of operations, with a house called 'Seaview'
being built on the pasture. |
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(above) the area in Lot 5 of the pasture and buildings
is the other side of the fence as seen in this picture taken
from an upstairs window in the 1970's of River Cottage (Lot 2).
Just out of the picture to the left is the house that Arthur
Butcher built and was lived in at the time of the picture by
Ivan Butcher. The house was later demolished when May & Butcher's
was sold and the area was developed in to the new 'The Anchorage'
housing area (much to the disappointment of 'Darby' Stebbens
who's house in the Basin was already called 'The Anchorage'). |
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Lot
6. A coal yard with large coal shed,
capital stable, loose box and piggeries (pork butcher), and enclosed
cattle yard, together with a very large and productive garden
at the rear. In the occupation of Mr E.G.Pearmain, at an annual
rent of 4 pounds. (see picture 06) |
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Lot 7. A block of three freehold cottages and a grocer's
shop, in the occupation of Messrs Smith, Rayner, Dowsett and
Clarke. At rents amounting to 26 pounds per annum. These were
the four cottages on the corner opposite the Chapel, of which
two were bombed and only two remain. |
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(above) the row of 3 plus 3 cottages of Lots 8 and 9.
The end two were also demolished by the same bombing that destroyed
the two from Lot 7 next to them. |
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Lot 8. Three brick built and slated roof cottages (the
three on the left end of the row of cottages in the picture 08
above), occudied by Messrs Manning, Leggett and Parker, at rents
amounting to 19 pounds and ten shillings per annum. |
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Lot 9. Three brick built and slated roof cottages (the
three on the extreme right of the row of cottages in the above
picture 08), with large detached wash houses. Two of which are
in occupation by Messrs Rix and Hardy at rents amounting to 14
pounds per annum. One is empty and was last rented at 7 pounds
per annum. |
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(above) a recent picture
of 'The Exchange' public House as offered in Lot 10. The Lot's
11 and 12 are up the lane further out of view. |
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Lot 10. A freehold public house 'The Exchange' Inn. In
the occupation of Mr E.G.Pearmain as a yearly tenent at a rental
of 14 pounds per annum. It contains a bar, bar parlour, taproom,
kitchen, scullery, pantry and cellar, 4 bedrooms and 2 lodgers
rooms,a good piece of ground in front of the house, and a convenient
back yard; together with a very substantial brick built and slated
stable and Chaise House with good left over, now occupied by
Mrs Joslin, subject to a right of way to the purchasers of Lots
11 and 12. |
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Lot 11. A very substantial brick built and slated roof
residence and bakery, with a Capital 8 bushel oven, lean-to warehouse,
piggeries etc now in the occupation of Mr Peter Saffen at the
annual rental of 10 pounds. |
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Lot
12. A detached brick built and slated
Villa Residence. Containing entrance hall, 2 sitting rooms, kitchen
scullery, Dairy etc, with 5 bedrooms and a dining room, and having
a large and productive walled in garden ; now in the occupation
of Mrs Joslin at an estimated annual value of 15 pounds. |
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