Friday Hill derives its name from John Friday who held land here in the fifteenth century – prior to this, it was known as Jackatt Hill.
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London E4
By the 1850s, the rapid growth of the metropolitan area meant that London became too large to operate efficiently as a single post town. A Post Office inquiry into the problem had been set up in 1837 and a House of Commons committee was initiated in 1843. In 1854 Charles Canning, the Postmaster General, set …