Ship Yard Tottenham Middx

Ship Yard, Tottenham, Middlesex. "Engraved for the supplement to Robinson's History and Antiquities of Tottenham." (See vol I p.80 - Library L25). William Robinson's 'The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High Cross. Tottenham, 1818'. Above each of the two doors of this utilitarian building (probably alongside the river Lea) is a notice headed 'Academy': "Quakers in general, and Tottenham Quakers in particular, had a long interest in education. When George Fox visited Tottenham in 1689 he held Meetings in a school for women at High Cross, run by Bridge Austell. When negotiations were in progress for the possible building of the first meeting house, the presence of two well-established Quaker schools was presented as additional reason for the Meeting to continue. These schools belonged to Richard Claridge and Alice Hays and were situated in Old Ship Yard at High Cross." - http://www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/Education001.html In 1798 "Priscilla Wakefield founded the first frugality bank in England, at Ship Inn Yard in Tottenham." - http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/quasho.htm These penny savings banks spread through the country and were eventually nationalised as the Post Office Savings Bank in 1865.