The book of the exhibition of houses and cottages, Romford garden suburb, Gidea Park (1911)
Romford (London, England). Gidea Park · London : published for the Exhibition Committee · leaf 44
about 1400 to1676. There is a series of charters from Henry IV.onwards. The old tale is that Havering was so named becausethe ring of St. John—declared by tradition to be the sameGeorge V. will presently receive at his Coronation—wasthere delivered to Edward the Confessor. The legend isa common… … STOCKS AND PILLORY ATHAVERING-ATTE -BOWER 35since that time never has nightingale been heard to sing as inother places. Close to Gidea Park, at Pyrgo, stood another Royal Palace,which was used as a dower house for the Queens of England. In no part of the ancient Liberty has time wrought lesschange…
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