Twentieth century buildings in Hackney
Volumne 1
Famous Women of Hackney
Leaflet (out of print) This leaflet traces the histories of sixteen Hackney women, including Celia Fiennes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maire Lloyd, Anna Sewell and Edith Cavell, and identifies the buildings in which they lived and worked. 1998 | 16pp | OUT OF PRINT | ISBN 0 9536734 0 5 This leaflet is now out of print […]
Plan of Hackney Church & Churchyard, 1794
Historical Map by Roger Root This fascinating document is one of the earliest surveys of Hackney’s buildings. The drawings show the old church of St. Augustine as rebuilt at the beginning of the 16th century, plus the buildings round the churchyard. The plan gives a flavour of village Hackney in the 18th century, together with […]
Loddiges of Hackney the largest hothouse in the world
By David Solman For one hundred years the most famous nursery garden in Europe stood near Mare Street close to today’s Town Hall. Here tropical plants grew and flowered for the first time outside their native rainforest. ‘I fancied myself in the Brazils’ wrote a visitor, in wonderment at the artificial tropical rainstorm inside the […]
Hoxton – Architecture And History Over Five CenturiesSouth Shoreditch (out of print)
Christopher Miele In his monumental Life and Labour of the People of London(1889-90), Charles Booth characterised Hoxton as one of the most ‘crime ridden and pestilential areas of the Metropolis’. Petty thieves and pickpockets were said to thrive in its airless courts, and infant mortality there was among the highest in the nation. These unpleasant […]
St John at Hackney: The story of a Church
(out of print) David Mander A sturdy brown temple with a tower floating over it – or ‘the ugliest church in Christendom, save one’, St John-at-Hackney was consecrated in 1797 and has attracted praise and criticism ever since. This book traces the history of the present church, and the original St ]ohn’s church which it […]
The German Hospital South Shoreditch
(out of print, download only) A social and architectural history 1845-1987 Elizabeth McKellar The German Hospital is little known today in Hackney. It lies concealed behind high walls in the heart of Dalston. Glimpses may be had of it from the North London Line railway, suggesting a large country mansion surrounded by wooded grounds. Its […]
Buildings at Risk in Hackney
A report on decline and decay (1987) This is a report on the decline and decay of historic buildings in Hackney, based on a survey and research undertaken by the Hackney Society in 1986-87. The report is structured in terms of building types, using a cross-section of buildings as case studies.It examines the issues that […]
Glimpses Of Ancient Hackney And Stoke Newington (out of print)
Benjamin Clarke Written in the 1890s under the pseudonym (or more accurately his post-nominative surgical qualification) “F.R.C.S.”, Benjamin Clarke, a local doctor, takes a series of imaginary walks through the streets of that time, reconstructing what had been there forty or fifty years before. These walks originally took the form of a series of newspaper […]
South Shoreditch
Historic and Industrial Buildings (out of print, download only) This survey, completed in 1986, covers the urban environment of South Shoreditch, where an extraordinarily rich survival of buildings of architectural and industrial archaeological interest is to be found. This forms a systematic recording of the buildings in South Shoreditch, with a historical account of the […]