Excerpt from Some Wants of the Church, at Home and Abroad: With Suggestions How to Supply Them West Ham, in the diocese of St. Albans, and in that part of Essex which has been well described as London over the Border, is another instance. Fifty years ago it had less than inhabitants. Now it has and houses in large numbers are being rapidly built. In this parish the Victoria and Albert Docks are situated, and here persons engaged in them, and others employed in the great gas works at Beckton, and in the various industries that abound along the banks of the Thames, have, with their families, taken up their abode, many of their houses being built on what, until the last few years, was marsh land, affording only pasturage for cattle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.