As Aglet says, mine was the manor house that gave Manor Park its name, Manor Park being one stop further up from Forest Gate on crossrail/Elizabeth/purple line.
I'd always assumed the eponymous manor had long since gone, but it just about survived, now well hidden by surrounding 80s housing. It was probably built around 1800 by James Humphreys, who had bought manorial rights of the whole of West Ham from the Crown. It was sold to Eastern Counties Railways, and sold again to William Storrs Fry, son of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. It then became a Roman Catholic Industrial School in 1868 until Co-op took it over as a milk factory/depot in 1925. They continued to own it until the 1980s when it was sold in a state of decay to an Irish property developer and turned into 10 flats.
Interesting but pretty bleak details of its time as an Industrial School:
As Aglet says, mine was the manor house that gave Manor Park its name, Manor Park being one stop further up from Forest Gate on crossrail/Elizabeth/purple line.
I'd always assumed the eponymous manor had long since gone, but it just about survived, now well hidden by surrounding 80s housing. It was probably built around 1800 by James Humphreys, who had bought manorial rights of the whole of West Ham from the Crown. It was sold to Eastern Counties Railways, and sold again to William Storrs Fry, son of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. It then became a Roman Catholic Industrial School in 1868 until Co-op took it over as a milk factory/depot in 1925. They continued to own it until the 1980s when it was sold in a state of decay to an Irish property developer and turned into 10 flats.
Interesting but pretty bleak details of its time as an Industrial School:
http://www.e7-nowandthen.org/2015/11/a-nod-at-our-neighbours-manor-park-pt-2.html?m=1
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp68-74