| AdminHistory | In late 1682 Edward Buckley, brewer of St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London, bought an estate near Goodman's Fields in Whitechapel from a property speculator, Thomas Neale (1641-1699). Neale had acquired garden lands between Alie Street and Whitechapel High Street in around 1681 to form a grid development of streets. Neale entered into an agreement with John Price in April 1682 to form Red Lion Street (later known as Leman Street) to connect up with Whitechapel High Street.
Edward died in 1683 and his son Edward (1656-1730) developed the land and laid out the streets. Colchester Street (later Braham Street) and Buckley Street (later Buckle Street) were laid out north of Alie Street, together with Plough Street. The development took place from 1685 to the early 1690s. Mostly residential properties, some industries formed, such as a white-lead yard at the east end of Buckley Street used for melting lead for painting and casting purposes (in existence by 1720). Early public houses in the middle part of the estate between Colchester Street and Buckley Street included: the Castle (later Dover Castle) and the King's Head (Henry VII's Head, later the King Harry). Little Alie Street's houses were larger, and early residents included merchants.
In 1789 Edward's grandson Edward Pery Buckley sold the estate to James Green (his name was anglicised from Laverdure), a bricklayer of Brick Lane. He held the property with Matthew and William Darby. The west end of Buckle Street was renamed Duncan Street circa 1790 and became Camperdown Street in 1921.
The western continuation of Colchester Street known as Quiet Row (in 1747) or Were Row was renamed as Nelson Street in about 1810. It then became Beagle Street in 1893 and was enlarged as Braham Street when Gardiner's Corner highway system was formed in 1964-1966.
Source and acknowledgement: Survey of London's Whitechapel volume 55 part 2, reference LC15364/2, Class 22: pp. 587, 589, 615 and 635. |