Sayes Court
The War Department hired the Sayes Court area and almshouses, from the City of London Corporation from 19 September 1914 to use as a Horse Transport Reserve Depot at a rental of £90 per annum (£6.4 thousand as of 2012), to enlarge its Supply Reserve Depot at the Foreign Cattle Market.
The fee simple of the Foreign Cattle Market and of the Sayes Court property were purchased by the War Department, for £400,500 (£17.2 million as of 2012), under deeds dated 25 March 1926, 18 March 1927 & 25 July 1927 including the railway, tramway, wharfage and jetty rights and easements.
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