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Street Views: 19 and 10 Suppl.
Address: 130 Strand
The Baddeley family worked from various addresses in London and to avoid mixing them up when writing the blog posts, I started with an overview of the addresses Tallis listed for the Baddeleys involved in the shoe and boot making industry:
102 Fleet Street
48 Oxford Street
130 Strand
From other records could be added: 119 Oxford Street, and 86 and 95 Strand. There were a few other addresses mentioned in the records for other Baddeleys, but as those are not in Tallis, I am ignoring them for the moment.
The next step was to see who lived/worked at the above addresses. It looks as if they can be grouped nicely: Charles senior and heirs at the Strand; John at 48 Oxford Street (he was Charles’s brother); and Charles junior in Fleet Street and 119 Oxford Street (he was Charles’s son). I will give Charles junior and John their own blog posts and concentrate on Charles senior, Ann and William here.
86 Strand:
– 1798?-1806 Charles
95 Strand:
– 1806-1818 Charles
130 Strand:
– 1819-1836 Charles
– 1837-1839? Ann
– 1843?-1848 William
48 Oxford Street:
– 1805-1848 John
102 Fleet Street:
– 1839-1841 Charles jr
119 Oxford Street:
– 1843-1851 Charles jr
130 Strand was situated on the southern side of the Strand, on the corner of Wellington Street (now Lancaster Place), that is, from 1817 onwards. Before that, Wellington Street did not exist and 130 was neatly tucked between 129 and 131, but when Wellington Street was constructed to become the approach road to Waterloo Bridge, numbers 131 to 134 were completely demolished. The 1815 Land Tax records list George Cross, Durs Egg, a Mr Ottridge and G. Yonge in those four houses, but in the 1817 record, the description is four times “pull’d down”. We have came across Durs Egg, the gunsmith, in another blog post and it is no wonder that he moved to Pall Mall. The demolishing of the houses had everything to do with the Strand Bridge Company who had been granted the right to build Waterloo Bridge and to levy toll on it. The 1818 tax records still show Thomas Alexander, a baker, at number 130, although he had died in 1817. The 1819 records lists Charles Baddeley who had moved from number 95 where he had been working from 1806 onwards (before 1806 he had been at 86 Strand). Because the neighbouring property was pulled down, number 130 needed a new side wall and when Baddeley moved in, he not only had more space than in his old premises, but also additional shop windows on the Wellington Street side.

elevation in the 1847 Supplement. Notice the change in the position of the doors as compared to the elevation shown at the top of this post which dates from 1839 or 1840.
The whole area must have been a hive of activity between – roughly – 1810 and 1835, and not just with the Waterloo Bridge construction. In the Strand, just around the corner from Wellington Street, the Exeter (Ex)Change could be found, a building that had served various purposes over the years, the most interesting perhaps as a small zoo or menagerie (see for a poster of Pidcock’s menagerie here). As you can see in Horwood’s 1799 map above, the building jutted out into the street, hampering the flow of traffic and it was finally demolished in 1829. The building has been depicted several times from the same viewpoint, but the illustration below by George Cooke included just a tiny bit more of Baddeley’s shop than the other pictures did. On the left-hand side, you can just about see the number 130 and the last letters of Baddeley’s name.

engraving by George Cooke (Source: rareoldprints.com)
On the other side of the street, the Cooke print also shows the old Lyceum Theatre, which burnt down in 1830, creating a convenient opportunity to extend Wellington Street northwards in order to connect it to Charles Street.(1) The new Lyceum Theatre was erected in this new section of Wellington Street, so just around the corner from its old spot. And Mr. Baddeley who saw all these building works from his window? He died in late 1836 and left his “beloved wife everything I possess” and “the choice to carry on the business or to dispose of it or lett the house no. 130 Strand on lease or otherwise as she may think best”.(2) He had married his wife, Ann Cordell, in February 1792 at St. Marylebone and they had at least twelve children.(3) Ann choose to continue the business after the death of her husband as Pigot’s Directory of 1839 lists her as boot & shoemaker at 130 Strand, but by 1843, she had relinquished the business to William Baddeley, her son. He was still there in 1848, but by 1851 he had disappeared and R.S. Newell & Co, wire rope makers, had taken over (Post Office Directories). [See the comment section for a link to a photograph of the property with Newell’s name on the facade]
Ann died in early 1858, 84 years old, and was buried at All Souls, Kensal Green. Her address is given as King Street, St. Paul Covent Garden, which was where her daughter Caroline lived with husband Alexander Moffatt. More on the double link between the Cordell and Baddeley families in the post on JohnBaddeley.

advert Newell & Co (Source: Graces Guide)
Nothing is now left of 130 Strand as Baddeley knew it. These days, the whole block is covered by Wellington House which was built in the 1930s.
(1) Act 1 and 2 William IV, c. 29, public. See also Survey of London, vol. 6 and the article on the Arthur Lloyd website (here).
(2) PROB 11/181/21.
(3) They were all baptised at the Baptist chapel in Keppell Street, Russell Square: Thomas 1793, Emily 1795, Mary Ann 1797, Ann 1798, Charles 1800, Caroline 1802, Elizabeth 1804, Eliza 1807, Frederick 1808, Henry 1810, William 1812, Edward 1815.
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This is a most interesting website/blog. Thank you for a most important contribution to the history of the Strand, Charles Baddeley and family. I have a personal interest because I am directly descended from Charles and Ann Baddeley on my mother’s side.
My mother’s great-grandmother was Eliza Baddeley (1807-1894), daughter of Charles and Ann. Eliza married the Rev Thomas Sanderson (1801-1868) at the Savoy Chapel on 14 May 1835, nine months after the death of his first wife, her sister Emily Baddeley (1793-1834), eldest daughter of Charles and Ann. Thomas Sanderson (DD Oxford), son of Thomas Sanderson (1772-1844), Grocer in Wellingborough, was headmaster of Wellingborough Grammar School and Vicar of Great Doddington. He had 8 children: with Emily he had two sons (Robert Edward and Charles); and with Eliza he had four daughters (one died in childhood) and a son.
In 1869, their 4th daughter Caroline Eliza (1841-1926) married Alexander Charles Moffatt (1841-1925), son of Caroline Baddeley and Alexander Moffatt, brush maker of King Street Covent Garden. Alexander Charles Moffatt was an inventor and mechanical engineer. The Moffatt’s had 7 sons and a daughter. Their 5th son Hugh Edmund Moffatt (1877-1957), was an engineer working for the railways in the Argentine. He married Lucy Anne Neva Hudson (1885-1955) in 1909. They had four daughters. My mother Phoebe Marianne Baddeley Moffatt was the eldest, born in Buenos Aires in 1911, died in England in 2004.
With the death of Emily, Charles Baddeley changed his will and money that was for Emily went to her sons, each of them receiving £2,000. One of daughters contested the Will objecting to Thomas Sanderson being he executor and his two sons inheriting money. The dispute went to the Court of Chancery. My mother talked about a disputed will. Charles Baddeley owned a couple of houses in the City of London – does this have anything to do with Cordell?
I am looking forward to your post on the Cordell family
Jacqueline Williams
Dear Jacqueline,
Many thanks for this comprehensive overview of the later history of some of Charles’s children. Fascinating!
There is not all that much more that I can tell you about the Cordells, other than what I wrote in the post on John Baddeley https://londonstreetviews.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/john-baddeley-son-boot-makers/. Thomas Cordell was a silk weaver and left a rather lengthy will which I have not tried to transcribe completely as it did not bear any relation to the shop at 48 Oxford Street, but you may find it of interest. He wrote the will in 1795 and is then of Monkwell Street in the parish of St Olave Silver Street. When his widow Mary writes her – much simpler – will in 1808, she is said to be of Tottenham Court Road.
Charles indeed wrote a codicil after the death of Emily, giving his grandsons £200 each [not 2,000!]. Thomas Sanderson was only one of the executors; widow Ann, son Charles and James Granger, a draper, were the others. the will does not mention any particular property, so I do not know if he had any other houses in London, but it is of course perfectly possible that he had some through the inheritance his wife had of her mother.
If you like to correspond a bit more about any of the above, email me at baldwinhamey [at] gmail.com.
Fascinating. Did you know that a
photo of 130 Strand (Wellington
Street elevation) taken in 1907
appears in the book Lost London
1870-1945 (English Heritage)? |
can see the similarities with the
painting above, esp the windows.
Also, linking to what you said
about subsequent business
owners, the shop lettering on the
wall is for Dixon&Corbbitt and RS
Newall, Lightning Conductor
Manufacturers, so Newall’s name
was still there in 1907, It’s a
remarkable photo and shows an
early electronic advert for Oxo. I
can send you a scan if you don’t
have.
Thanks for the Lost London suggestion. I have looked through the book in the past, but do not remember seeing a picture of 130 Strand. If you could send me a scan, I’d be most grateful. Must look up the book again when I’m next in a library that has it.
Here you go, not a scan but a photo of the image from my phone. Not sure how to embed here so link to it:
https://wp.me/pquEU-2e
Thanks!