Nursery Place ran alongside Pamplin’s nursery.
Richard Siborn ran the nursery in Lea Bridge Road from 1755 to 1774. Later the tenant was a Mr Pamplin.
The 1830s were the heyday of horticulture and market gardening. In 1839, potatoes, turnips, green peas, green clover, and tares were being grown for London consumption and as green manure crops and all the marshland and two-thirds of the upland grass were being mown, sometimes twice, for hay. A watercress grower is mentioned in 1863 and 1882.
Pamplin’s nursery at Black Marsh Farm (Lea Bridge Farm) was given up soon after 1870. Finlay Fraser’s nursery, Lea Bridge Road, and the American nursery of Protheroe and Morris in Leytonstone High Road flourished until the early 1890s.
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Nursery Place ran alongside Pamplin’s nursery.
