A touring exhibition of Essex libraries during 2015 celebrated the work of the Victorian Society with an accompanying 48-page pamphlet illustrating buildings lost before the Society’s foundation in 1958, indignity expressed over the demolition of the Euston Arch in London, the renaissance of London St Pancras hotel and station, and other failures and successes in the preservation of Victorian church, industrial and other buildings. St Erkenwald’s Church, Southend-on-Sea (designed Walter Tapper, built 1905-10) was demolished in 1995 its congregation having departed a number of years earlier due to the crippling cost of heating and maintenance. St Mark’s Church, Silvertown (see illustration, being a photograph from c1880), designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon and built 1860-62 (incidentally the same architect as Great Birch), found a new use after fire in 1981 as the Brick Lane Music Hall.
At the time of the 1881 Census, apart from the Havis family, 6 lodgers are listed as living at the Woodman – 5 Agricultural labourers and 1 shoemaker.
Son of Frederick Murton licensee in 1890.