Site of late 19th century workers housing, 1-20 St Thomas's Road, South Fambridge (EHER 81656)

Now destroyed. A terrace of industrial workers cottages built by Wimshurst, Hollick and Co. for the nearby factory EHER 81655.

2005-2006. Thematic survey. Thomas Hollick built the engineering factory (EHER 81655) in South Fambridge in 1898, and along with it two rows of workmen's cottages and a club house. Electric cranes and dynamos were manufactured here until 1906 when Wimshurst, Hollick and Co closed and the factory was put to the first of many subsequent uses. Two rows of cottages were built for the staff, nos. 1-20 on the East (factory side) of St Thomas's Road (since demolished and replaced with new housing) and nos. 21-32 on the West side (see EHER 40626). Nos.1 and 2 were a Post Office and dwelling. The 1901 census shows most of these houses, occupied by men employed in the engineering industry, presumably at Hollick's. <1>