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43 The Romans invaded Britain and Aulus Plautus built a fort to guard the Thames crossing at a point that became Londinium. Boadicea, queen of the Icini, burnt it in AD 60. From 70 to 125 Londinium was rebuilt as a Roman city.
In Roman times:
- Watling Street ran from the Channel crossing via
Canterbury to Londinium [at London Bridge]. In London, it turned west
[through
Newgate] and then
north-west as what is now the Edgware Road (A5)
from Marble Arch (Tyburn), going to Verulamium (near St Albans) and on
to Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury, (on the Welsh border) or (another branch) to
Chester.
- From the position of
London Bridge,
Ermine Street (now the A10) ran through
Bishopsgate,
Tottenham,
Edmonton,
Waltham Cross, north to Lincoln, York and Scotland.
A minor road, Stane Street, ran south-west to Chichester from London
Bridge.
- Another main road ran [through Aldgate] to Colchester on the east and [through Newgate?] to Shepherds Bush, Chiswick, Brentford, Hounslow and Staines to to Silchester to the west of London, branching to Dorchester (through Salisbury) in the south west, Bath (Aquae Sulis) in the west, and Gloucester (on the river Severn).
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London Wall
The Roman wall around London was built about 200. It enclosed 380 acres, was 2.75 miles long and marked what is now the "square mile" of the City of London. It fell into disuse when the Romans left, but later generations re-built it and re-used its materials. The gates of London guarded the roads. Bishopsgate is the gate to Ermine Street, running from London Bridge north to Scotland. The sketch map for Quakers in the City shows some of the streets associated with the wall and the gates. The gates were demolished in the 1760s |
1078 William the Conqueror built the White Tower of the present Tower of London, to guard the crossing over the Thames.
1160 The Parish church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, probably dates
from the 12th century (but may have been earlier). The first record of the
church occurs in 1160.
Shoreditch Parish starts outside Bishopsgate - the gate through the London
wall on the road north to Shoreditch. The parish of St Helen,
Bishopsgate is inside the City. Bishopsgate is also the
name of the street that runs through where the gate was. Before the first
world war it was two streets: Bishopsgate
Street Within and Bishopsgate Street Without, depending on
which side of the wall it was.
notice Hackney Road going east from the church
External link to Shoreditch history
1199 King John granted the citizens of London the right to elect
their own Sheriff - King's representative who governed the City. By a
charter of 1215 he granted them the right to elect a Mayor annually
1317 First Rector of [Parish?] church of St.Augustine's, Hackney,
appointed.
1535 Sutton House built. A tudor diplomat's house. On the road
between Hackney village and Homerton
1540
Balmes House, or
Baume's House (north of
Hoxton), was built about 1540. It was named
after its founders, two
brothers who were Spanish merchants. In
1631 it was Sir George
Whitmore's house. In 1680 it
was bought by Richard de Beauvoir. In the
1750s it was taken over by
Dr Meyer Low Schomberg for use as a private madhouse. The De Beauvoir
family, however, seem to have retained ownership of the estate.
| 1559 The oldest surviving map of London shows Moorfields and Bedlam |
1600
1613
The Minutes of the Select Vestry, 1630, state that the Churchwardens were
instructed to erect one cage, a ducking stool for women who were common
scolds, and a whipping post, to be furnished with such necessaries as are
needful thereat"
1631 Sir George Whitmore lived in Balmes House when he was Lord
Mayor of London in 1631 or 1632.
before 1636 a Presbyterian meeting place on the west side of Mare
Street. Probably somewhere near London Lane
Quakers bought land outside the City for
Bunhill Fields
(Quaker) Burial Ground.
The City of London Corporation bought land at Bunhill Fields for brying
plague victims
A dissenting academy was established by Charles Morton at Newington, about
1675. Daniel Defoe was a pupil there. I am not clear if this is
Newington Green or Stoke Newington, or of its relation to
Newington Green Chapel.
1679
Last of the Whitmores of Balmes House killed.
1680
Richard de Beauvoir purchased Balmes House.
1689
1695
Homerton College established
1706
From 1706 to 1834 the London tea auctions took place at East India House in
Leadenhall Street. Alan
Davies
1708 Dissenters Chapel, Newington Green opened. Inscription on front
is "Newington Green Church". (Now
Unitarian Church, 39
Newington Green, Stoke Newington, London N16) built. "It is today the
oldest non-conforming place of worship in London". Built by goldsmith
Edward Harrison at cost of £200.
1713
Bunhill Fields (non-denominational) Burial Ground opened in City Road.
External links:
Wikipedia -
City of London -
Chris Tolley's photos of gravestones - Mike's photos
This should not be confused with the nearby
Quaker Burial Ground. The Dissenters Graveyard is full of
gravestones. The older Quaker graveyard was a flat field with no markers
for the graves.
1715 After a contested election for the minister of the
Mare Street Presybyterian Chapel, the losing
faction broke away and established the Old Gravel Pit Meeting House at the
north-east end of Chathem Place.
(Watson, I. 1998 pp 71-72)
1720
About 1720 that Hackney House, Lower Clapton, was built by
Stamp Brooksbank
MP. (see map and description of
site) This became the Hackney Academy in 1786 It was demolished about 1800 and its materials
used in building about six smaller houses. [I am not sure if it was called
Hackney Academy or Homerton Academy]
1726
1727
St Luke's Church in Old Street was built between 1727 and 1733 to relieve
St Giles Cripplegate. It was one of the last churches to be built under an
Act of 1711 which provided for 50 new churches in London.
1730
Homerton College Society established (See
1820. From 1730 the College was administered
by the King's Head Society.
1732
The following represented Homerton on the Hackney Vestry in 1732: Mr
Charles Slaughter (dead), Stamp Brooksbank Esq, Matthew Howard Esq, ffisher
Jackson Esq, Mr Michael Rean, Mr James Lewis Bershere, John Spillet
(resigned), John Nicholas Esg, Stephen Ram esq, Mr John Brewer, Samuel webb
esq, Mr Edward Brooksby.
1736 Rebuilding of St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, started.
1739
11.11.1739 John Wesley preached for the first time in his new London
headquarters, the Foundery Chapel
1740 Rebuilding of St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, finished.
1741
Stamp Brooksbank
was Governor of the Bank of England 1741 to 1743
Poor House for the Parish of St. John Hackney moved to south side of
Homerton High Street, to "a Tudor Cottage with numerous tall chimneys and
narrow roofs, with an inner courtyard". See
Peter Higginbotham's workhouse website
1745 Map of the Parish of Hackney, surveyed by John Rocque,
1745
1750
Balmes House,
Hoxton, was
converted to a private madhouse about 1750.
Hoxton Academy, or
Hoxton Theological College, was established by Samuel
Pike about 1750
[but see below].
It merged with
Highbury College
in 1830.
A room for the sick reserved in the
Hackney Poorhouse
The
Hospital Database History begins the history
of Hackney Hospital here.
1758
Richard Price
became minister of the
Newington Green Chapel. Price lived in
Newington Green. Hackney Gazette article 6.5.1994 says
27.4.1759
Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797) born in Spitalfields, London. In 1763 the family moved to a
farm at Epping. In 1765, to Barking, Essex. In 1768, to Beverley in
Yorkshire. They returned to London in
1774
Brooke House,
Clapton (on the road north from Hackney village), converted to a madhouse.
"A monopoly on all trade in
"the Indies"
(of which tea was only
one item although it was to become arguably the most important) was
granted to the East India Company in 1600. The licence was not revoked
until
1834 when trade became open to all..........The dates are uncertain but
the first auction site was in Philpot Lane which runs between Fenchurch
Street and Eastcheap. (Named I believe for a prominent merchant/Lord Mayor
circa Richard II.) The second site was Crosby Hall in Bishopsgate (This
must have been almost opposite the junction with Threadneedle Street
because even today there is a Crosby Square at that location). Alan Davies"
"By reason of a Faculty dated December 9th, 1613, the Parish of Hackney
came under the control of a Select Vestry consisting of the Rector, Church-
wardens and a few local inhabitants. The Vestry became 'Open' in 1834.
[Hoxton] "was one of the birth-places of the illegal Non-
Conformist sects, who met behind locked doors and constructed secret escape
passages. The Act of Uniformity, passed in 1662, barred these religious
Dissenters from schoolteaching and excluded them from the universities. So
they started to establish their own colleges, or Academies... One of the
earliest Academies was opened - in 1669 - in Hoxton Square... The
first Academy in Hoxton Square was followed by two others, both equally
successful. The last survived till 1830, when it moved to
Highbury.
But the name of Hoxton Academy was kept alive in its Chapel and Sunday
School. The Chapel, opened in Hoxton Street in
1796"
Coombs, T. 1975 p.39)
The Presbyterian Fund Board originated in 1689, projected by a group
of Presbyterian and Independent ministers in London, as a Common Fund to
assist the poorer country congregations by making grants to their
ministers, and to assign the education of students for the ministry. In
1693 the Independents seceded and formed their own Independent, or
Congregational, Fund Board
"East India House is a vast edifice; it was originally founded in 1726, but
was in 1798 so much altered and enlarged as to become almost an entire new
building; it comprises the principal offices of the East India Company, and
contains several noble apartments."
[Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to
it Sights, 1844]
"Founded as a dissenting academy in 1730 by the Congregational Fund Board
and the King's Head Society, Homerton College took its name from Homerton
in East London in 1823. By 1850 its theological training became the work of
London
University
and the Congregational Board of Education then combined
its training colleges for men and women teachers at Homerton College, which
in 1894 moved to the site of Cavendish College in Cambridge. It is an
independent specialist college within the University of Cambridge"
"Stamp Brooksbank, another of the Homerton representatives on
the Hackney Vestry, lived at
Hackney House, a large house
surrounded
by 200 acres of park and gardens, extending from Clapton to Brooksby's
Walk, part of which is now occupied by the Eastern Hospital. The estate
passed through several hands after Brooksbank's death, and in
1786
was
purchased by the Calvinist Protestant Dissenters who used the house as a
Ministers' Training College - hence College Avenue, the old name of Tresham
Avenue"
(Heward, A.K.C. 1948 p.17)
[The names are still preserved in Tresham Walk and
College Close on the estate to the rear of Lower Clapton Health Centre
(map link). The Eastern Hospital has now been
replaced by Homerton Hospital.
see map below]
"The church became truly Unitarian when the famous Welshman, mathematician
and economist, Dr Richard Price became minister in 1758."
| The narrow medieval gates to the City of London were demolished in the 1760s: These were Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Aldersgate, Newgate and Ludgate, which had been gates through the Roman Wall, plus Cripplegate (originally a gate leading from the Roman Fort by Aldersgate); Moorgate (a later postern gate leading into the Moorfields outside the wall between Aldersgate and Bishopsgate); and the Bridge Gate that had been erected on London Bridge |
"City Road is a broad thoroughfare... projected in 1760 by Mr Robert Dingley. Harrison described it in 1776 as an easy and pleasant communication from the eastern parts of the City to all roads between Islington and Paddington and from thence down to Oxford Road and the Great Western Road, thus avoiding the necessity of travelling three miles over the stones. The City Road, which is one mile in length, was then regarded as one of the handsomest in England, and was maintained in proper repair by the tolls levied on horses and carriages. For many years after its construction it remained on the fringe of the country."(Clunn, H.P. 1962 p. 360)
In 1762 Richard Price added the evening preachership in Poor Jewry Lane to his ministry, but in 1769 resigned this and took on the Gravel Pit Meeting House in Hackney.
1768
1770
1771
An address to Presbyterians & Independents, or, A letter to a friend in
defence of religious liberty : occasioned by several ministers being denied
the benefit of the Independent Fund for refusing to send in satisfactory
confessions of faith London : printed; and sold by J. Johnson, [1771]
24 pages (8vo) [Date of publication supplied in ms]
1774 Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch secured an Act of Parliament
enabling it to buy land for the construction of a new workhouse. The
workhouse was completed within three years. [Shoreditch Parish Workhouse]
Wollstonecraft family
moved to Hoxton, London. They moved to Walworth in
1777 and Enfield in 1778. In 1778 Mary became companion to an elderly lady
in Bath.
John Pye Smith (1774-1851) born
1776
Societas Evangelica formed in 1776 to extend the gospel by itinerant
preaching. The Academy established by this body was known as
HoxtonAcademy
and later as
Highbury College
"In 1770, after being turned down by the better-known academy
at Homerton, William
[Godwin]
attended the Dissenting academy, Hoxton, where he
wrote numerous sermons, hymns, and religious paraphrases as well as full-
scale tragedies and comedies."
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| Margaret Fell worked this in Tottenham in 1777, but who was Margaret Fell? The sampler is the same as another worked in Tottenham by Jenny Warner in 1782, suggesting that it was model used by a school. The sampler by Jenny Warner the first in the second row of this archive of Madelana Antiques online catalogue - or the first row of this one |
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The verse on both is The Youth's Request
Preserve me Lord .amidst the croud,
From all enemies of truth,
Lord in my heart to evil prone,
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| Hazel Whitehouse of Bruce Castle Museum has searched for Margaret Fell in the Parish Registers, but not found her. She suggests that Margaret might have been a pupil at a local Quaker school. But even if that mystery is solved - How did Margaret's work get to America? It was found under a print in Ohio, and the pictures sent to me by Peter McGrath of Massachusetts. And who wrote the poem that the young ladies embroidered on their samplers? If you have any suggestions, please share them |
November 1782 HoxtonAcademy founded?
Hoxton Academy "Chapel, opened in Hoxton Street in 1796, developed such a large local congregation that it had to be completely rebuilt - ten years later - to house 1,500 people. A purpose built Sunday School (the first of its kind) was added in 1814. Here, every Sunday, six or seven hundred children got some sort of elementary education. The poorest were supplied with cast-off clothes, whilst the best-behaved were rewarded with special lessons in writing and arithmetic. A sunday school survived on the site, in Hoxton Street, till it was bombed in 1941." Coombs, T. 1975 p.39)
1783 Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb established by Thomas Braidwood (1784-1820) in what became 36 Chatham Place, Hackney. (map link to Chatham Place) "Braidwood took over the lease of a rebuilt Bowling Green House, a property occupied by one Dr Rawlinson, and renamed it Grove House". Lee, R. 7.2001
1783
Hackney Gazette article 6.5.1994 says
1784
Mary Wollstonecraft attended her sister, Eliza Bishop, after Eliza's
nervous breakdown. They ran away to Hackney, then to Islington, where,
together with Fanny Blood, they tried to establish a school. They then
moved to Newington Green where they did establish a school. Mary
Wollstonecraft met Richard Price and became friends with many local
dissenters.
John Hewlett, schoolmaster at Shacklewell (Hackney) took Mary to visit
Samuel Johnson in Islington in the summer of 1784 (He died in December).
"Several times she compares Hewlett with Rousseau, whom she had begun to
read and worship" [TOMALIN, C. 1974 p. 54] Hewlett later introduced her
to the publisher, Joseph Johnson. In November 1785 Mary Wollstonecraft left
to help nurse Fanny Blood in Lisbon. Fanny and her baby died shortly after
being delivered. Mary returned to London in January 1786.
The school
was in dire straights and they were forced to close it. Sometime
afterwards she recieved a £10 advance from Joseph Johnson on her
first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, which was
written in 1786.
In 1786 the Calvinist Protestant Dissenters bought Hackney House and
used it as a Ministers' training college. They called it New College.
Richard Price was the first Principal. He was succeeded by Joseph
Priestley.
Kepis: A Sermon preached at the old Jewry on Wednesday 26th April 1786
on the occasion of the new academical institution among Protestant
ministers for the Education of their Ministers and Youth
William Johnson Fox (1786-1864) born
New College, the new Academy at Hackney opened in September 1787.
Wednesday 28.4.1790. Thomas Belsham (1750-1829) delivered a
discourse
on "The importance of truth, and the duty of making an open profession of
it" at the Meeting-House in the Old-Jewry, London; to the supporters of the
New College at Hackney. It was published along with 'The report of the
Committee to the general meeting of Governors and subscribers to the New
College, Hackney, in January, 1790.'
4.11.1789 Richard Price delivered a Discourse on the Love of our
Country to the "Revolution Society" (formed to commemorate 1688) in
London. The society sent a congratulatory letter to the National Assembly.
Price's Discourse published (1789): A Discourse on the Love of Our
Country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, At the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry,
to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain. With an
Appendix, containing the report of the Committee of the Society; an Account
of the Population of France; and the Declaration of Rights by the National
Assembly of France. (See
Burke)
1791 Building of the new church of St John at Hackney started
following an local Act of Parliament in 1790 -
(external link to church history)
April 1791: Death of Richard Price
Joseph Priestley... became minister of the Gravel Pit congregation in 1791,
succeeding his friend Richard Price. At New College, Priestley taught
religious and scientific subjects to student ministers:
6.4.1794 Thomas Belsham preached at the Gravel Pit Meeting in
Hackney on Dishonest shame the primary source of the corruptions of the
Christian doctrine Published by Joseph Johnson.
1796 Dissenters bought a house in Homerton High Street to replace
the first
Homerton Academy
On this 1950s map, the position of the second Homerton Academy would have
been about opposite Digby Road, and to the west of College Lane. [south end
of map] The site of the Academy is now part of the housing estate called Bannister House
The position of Hackney House (which became the first
(1786)
Academy would have been about the junction of Median Road with Glenarm
Road. [north end of map] But it had a very large formal garden that
stretched down to Homerton Row, and an entrance drive that ran along the
line of Tresham Avenue, starting at what was (1960s) College Mansions, on
the corner of Tresham Avenue.
1797
7.4.1797:
Letter from Charles Lamb saying he has taken
his sister, Mary, out of confinement
(Fisher House, Islington), and found her a
room in Hackney. This could have been anywhere in a very large parish.
However, the other connection between Charles Lamb and Hackney is
his attachment to Joseph Priestley and
subsequent
identification with unitarians in Hackney. It is possible that
some members of the Gravel Pit Meeting House cared for Mary after her
confinement. It is also possible that she was in a
"single house" or some other form of
domestic care. We do not know how long she
stayed in Hackney or how much she moved around during the years
1797,
1798 and
1799.
15.7.1797: Consecration of the new church of St John at Hackney.
Harry Sedgwick, a trustee, oversaw a subscription for planting the
churchyard. 129 subscriptions enabled nearly 200 elms and horse chestnuts
to be planted in avenues.
(see external link)
1798 The body of the old church demolished. The tower was left to
house the peal of bells. Some of the material from the old church was used
for the bridge built to for Hackney brook in 1799. The bells
remained in the old tower until 1854
1799 Building of St John at Hackney finished. (Tower added a few
years later).
1800
26.9.1800 Thomas Warburton purchased the
White House, Bethnal Green, and
its madhouse business from the executers of James Stratton. He already
owned Balmes
House in Hoxton.
8.4.1804 Thomas Belsham delivered a discourse at Hackney "on
occasion of the death of the Rev Joseph Priestley" which was published "at
the desire of the congregation" with a brief memoir of Dr Priestley's life
and writings. Something in this elicited published letters from John Pye
Smith and a response from Belsham (1805) including "a defence of Dr.
Priestley's character and writings, in reply to the animadversions of the
Rev John Pye Smith".
5.5.1805
Thomas Belsham recommended "Adherence to
Christian truth"
in a discourse delivered to the Unitarian congregation at Hackney
upon the resignation of the pastoral office in that society. He became the
Minister at the Unitarian Chapel in Essex Street. [That Charles Lamb,
in 1823
should refer to Mr Belsham as being in Hackney suggests his contact with
the Hackney Unitarians did not extend to 1805].
William Johnson Fox (1786-1864)
was a student at Homerton Independent College from 1806 to 1810. He came
by coach from Norwich.
1812
Regent Canal Company formed. The canal, which opened in 1820, connects the
Grand Union Paddington Branch at Little Venice with Regent's Canal Dock
(now called Limehouse basin) the Thames and the River Lee.
15.12.1812 Report presented to the King's Head Society by a
committee appointed to enquire into the circumstances connected with the
resignation of a probationary student at Homerton Academy
1813
James Parkinson (1755-1824) appointed surgeon, apothecary and man midwife
to the Parish of St.Leonard, Shoreditch. In the Shoreditch Parish Workhouse
he set up separate male and female surgical and medical wards as well as
imbecile, maternal and refractory wards. James Parkinson lived at
1 Hoxton
Square
On the sacrifice of Christ : its nature, value, and efficacy : a
discourse delivered at the Rev. George Burder's Meeting House, March
11, 1813, to the patrons and students of the Protestant Dissenting
Academy, at Homerton by John Pye Smith. 88 pages. Printed by C. Stower,
Homerton, for Josiah Conder; J. Hatchard; J. Black; and T. Hamilton
Letters to the Revd. John Pye Smith, D.D., on the sacrifice of
Christ: occasioned by his sermon, preached March 11, 1813, before the
patrons and students of the Protestant Dissenting Academy at Homerton
by William Johnson Fox. London: Printed by Richard Taylor and Co. Sold by
J. Johnson and Co; and D. Eaton
Vindiciae academicae: A letter to the Rev. Robert Winter, D.D. in
defence of the Protestant Dissenting Academy at Homerton against
the assertions and insinuations of a pamphlet published, in opposition
to Dr. Winter, by a "late member of the King's Head Society" by
John Pye Smith. 37 pages Printed by C. Stower
Vindiciae academicae: part the second, of a defence of the
Protestant Dissenting Academy, at Homerton, against the further attempts of
an anonymous writer, called "a late member of the King's Head Society,"
by John Pye Smith. 108 pages Printed by C. Stower
A letter to the author of a pamphlet entitled The substance of a
report presented to the King's Head Society, Dec. 15, 1812 : by a committee
appointed to enquire into the circumstances connected with the resignation
of a probationary student at Homerton Academy, published by
the author of the report by John Pye Smith.
2nd edition with a few explanatory notes and a postscript containing
remarks on a letter to the Rev. Robert Winter, D.D., by the Rev.
J.P. Smith. 42 pages. London: Printed for, and sold by, S. Burton
1814 Hoxton
Academy moved from Hoxton Square to (present day) 91 Hoxton
Street. The building was destroyed by bombing in the second world war.
1815
10.11.1815 madhouse list:
Madhouses in
Hoxton:
trustees for Sir Jonathan
Miles (Hoxton House),
George William Burrow (Holly House),
Thomas Warburton, Whitmore House.
Madhouses in
Hackney:
Dr George
Rees (Pembroke House?),
Samuel Fox, London Lane and
William Bignall, Kingsland Road. Madhouse in
Clapton:
Dr Thomas Monro, Brooke House.
The reasons of the Protestant religion : a discourse delivered at a
monthly association of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and
Congregations, held at the Meeting-house in Islington, May 4, 1815
by John Pye Smith. 60 pages. London: printed by Stower and Smallfield for
Josiah Conder.
1816
The Guilt of neglecting the knowledge of Christ; a sermon [on John
i. 10] by John Pye Smith. London
New year 1817:
William Johnson Fox installed as minister of
Parliament Court, Bishopsgate, following the death of William Vidler. He
was installed there at the New Year of 1817.
The Sorrows of Britain, her sad forebodings, and her only refuge. A
sermon [on Jer. ix. 20, 21] on occasion of the great national calamity of
the death of the Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta,
delivered on Lord's Day, Nov. 16, 1817, to the congregation of Protestant
dissenters assembling in the gravel-pit meeting-house, Hackney.
by John Pye Smith. 3rd edition. 31 pages. London. Printed by G. Smallfield
... for Jonathan Conder
30.7.1818
Pembroke
House, off Mare Street, Hackney, officially opened
for East India
Company lunatics
30.7.1819 Benjamin and Catherine Clarke came to Hackney, taking over
a recently (1815) established chemists shop on Mare Street, just north of
Pemberton Place (172 Mare Street). Benjamin Clarke, their eldest son, born
1821, became a surgeon and a local doctor. His series of articles
1820:
William Johnson Fox and Eliza Florence
"were married at St George's-in-the-East, there being as yet no provision
for the ceremony outside the Church of England. Their first home was in
Hackney, one of several nearby villages where nonconformists were
numerous."
Opening of the Regents Canal, from Paddington around northern London to
Limehouse Docks
King Square, Finsbury, was named in honour the new King (previously Regent)
George 4th.
See church
1822
27.1.1822 Foundation stone of St Barnabas Church, King Square. See consecration
Hoxton was part of
Shoreditch Parish
until the 1820s when St. John the
Baptist was built (1822 to 1826) to the design of Francis Edwards, and a
separate parish created. -- click for
Hoxton madhouses -
Hoxton Academy -
- Hoxton Hall -
Hoxton Market
Christian Mission
16.7.1822 Samuel Byles married Elizabeth Barbet at Saint Botolph
Bishopsgate, London.
1824
James Parkinson (1755-1824) was succeeded by his son, William Keys
Parkinson, as surgeon, apothecary and man midwife to the Parish of
St.Leonard, Shoreditch.
Annual report of the Committee of the Homerton College Society,
established A.D. 1730 London 1824 With an appendix, containing an
account of the receipts and disbursements relative to the building of the
New College, lists of donors, donations, &c.&c.&c
1.2.1824
South Place Chapel, Finsbury (near the
present Liverpool Street Station), opened.
1826
Highbury College, a training establishment for dissenting ministers, was
designed by John Davies in the classical Ionic style and built in 1825-
1826. The College had been founded in
November 1782
and had previously been known as Hoxton
Academy
when it occupied the buildings later taken over by Hoxton Mission College.
Within 30 years, it had become a college for schoolmasters and
in 1866
became an Anglican theological college. Part of its grounds were leased to
Arsenal Football Club in 1913. The college buildings were destroyed by
bombing during the Second World War.
12.6.1826 Consecration of St Barnabas Church,
King Square. It was, at
first, a chapel of ease for
St Luke's.
It became a parish in its own right
in 1842. Kings Square is just south of City Road. In 1832
building was solid up to the road, but there was not much north of it. As
the population increased, other churches were built: St Paul's, Pear Tree
Street
(1865), St Matthew's on City
Road (1849) and St Clement's, Lever
Street (1880). The parishes of St Barnabas, St Clement and St Matthew were
united in 1952 as St Clement (the present name of the church) with
St Barnabas and St Matthew, Finsbury.
1827
Benjamin Flower gave up his business and removed to Dalston, where
William Johnson Fox was living. Benjamin
Flower died in 1829. Fox became trustee for his daughters, Eliza Flower
("Ariel") (1803-1846) and
Sarah Flower (22.2.1805 - August 1848). For a short time they were members
of his household. Eliza became a friend of
Harriet Taylor.
Sarah married William Bridges Adams in 1834. In 1835 Eliza moved in with
William Fox to supervise his household. Sarah was author of the words of
the hymn "Nearer my God to Thee"
30.7.1829
Eli Lawrence married Caroline Ann Barbet at St Katherine
Creechurch in the City of London. From 1833 to about 1848
Eli was a woollen draper. He has been traced as such in Aldgate and then in
Leadenhall Street Market. Eli Caroline's children, were Caroline, born
1831, traced as far as the 1851 census when she is a
visitor to Eli's sister in Welford. -
James Eli, born 1833, married Clara
le Maitre in 1858. He was a surgeon in Wandsworth. They had no children
and he died 1896 in
St Lukes Hospital. Edward and Emily (twins) were born 1835.
Edward was apprenticed to Alex Beck at Haydock Lodge and to
Samuel Byles in Bethnal Green or Hackney. He died in
1904 - Henry born 1838, married Fanny le Maitre (Clara's sister)
in 1866. He was a pharmaceutical chemist in Godalming, Surrey. He died in
1881. Emma, born 1840, married Horatio Tiltman in 1871 and lived in
Hastings, where her mother died in 1875. Eli Lawrence became superintendent
of
Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum in Lancashire in
October 1848
3.12.1829: Samuel Byles evidence at The Old Bailey
1830
1831
A Topographical Dictionary of England
by Samuel Lewis:
1834
1834 to 1837: Eventually successful resistance by the trustees of the
Shoreditch Parish Workhouse to the New Poor Law.
1836
The Metropolitan Hospital was originally founded in 1836 by Jospeh Fry, son
of Elizabeth Fry.
31.12.1836 By an order dated 31.12.1836 made by the Poor Law Commissioners
for England and Wales under the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the
parishes of St.John at Hackney and St.Mary, Stoke Newington, were united
for the relief of the poor and a Board of Guardians was appointed.
1840
Until 1840 the area now covered by De Beauvoir Town was open country with a
few grand houses; then De Beauvoir Town was built to accommodate some of
the growing population. [But Balmes House closed as a private asylum about
1850?]
From 1840 'the Old College at Homerton' was affiliated to
London
University
1841
St.James, Clapton opened. St.John of Hackney's first daughter churches,
built by Hackney Church Building Society were St.Philip's, Dalston and
St.James, Clapton.
Britannia Saloon, Hoxton Street opened.
1842
1843
19.1.1843: Plans were made for a new infirmary and fever block containing
168 beds at Shoreditch Parish Workhouse.
Samuel Byles, surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife, Spitalfields: indenture
taking T.N. Brushfield as apprentice. 1843. (MS.5146).
(Wellcome Library)
1844
October 1844: New fever block and infirmary completed at Shoreditch Parish
Workhouse
1845
The German Hospital, Dalston, founded as a hospital for the German speaking
community of London. It was established as a voluntary subscription
hospital for the poor German community of the East End.
1846 "One of Whitechapel's medical officers, Sam Byles, took a
special interest in insanity and persuaded the guardians to adopt a
minimal-restraint policy in advance of other boards of guardians".
(Murphy, E.
2003)
1847
St. Barnabas Church, Homerton was consecrated on St. Barnabas day 1847.
Map of the Parish of Hackney, from a Recent Survey, 1847
1848
Erection of a new school at Brentwood for 400 of the older children of the
Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch.
[
Peter Higginbotham
says that Shoreditch Industrial School, Brentwood, was erected between 1852
and 1854 by Shoreditch Trustees, north side of Brentwood Hill. In 1877,
Brentwood School District was formed, covering Hackney and Shoreditch
Unions. The Industrial School was sold to it, and extended. It was taken
over by Hackney Union in 1885, and further enlarged. The Metropolitan
Asylums Board took it over as a
colony for epileptics. This became
St Faith's
Hospital.
1849
Edward Manning (born 24.10.1833) attended Highbury College sometime between
1850 and
1858, when he was sent to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to establish a
Church of England grammar school. (Jonathan Tomlinson, who says the college
was burned in 1946) "as I
understand, the college required its attendees to be at least 18 years
old. So I would think then that Edward began his education there in the
Spring of 1852. Further, he was described as a prodigy, so he would have
graduated in four years or less, so his tenure there would have been 1852
to 1855 or 1856"
1851
Florence Nightingale visited the German Hospital as part of her nursing
training, and published a paper on ward arrangements and hygiene.
(Pollock's) Toy Theatre Shop, Hoxton
Street, founded by John Redington. It was run by Benjamin
Pollock and family. The card theatres sold in this shop were the origin of
the phrase 'Penny Plain, Twopence coloured'.
1851 Census:
James Eli Lawrence was living with Samuel Byles and his family
at "Philadelphia Place, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets". Edward Lawrence was,
at some time, apprenticed to Samuel Byles of "Philadelphia Place, Hackney,
County of Middlesex" - to become a surgeon.
1853
The Illustrated London News, April 30, 1853:
"The annual meeting of the
Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution
took place at the College of Highbury, on Wednesday"
1855
The 1855 Local Management Act was passed to regulate local and
Metropolitan administration in and around London. It set up the
Metropolitan Board of Works with responsibility for the main sewers of
London, for regulating building, and lending to District Boards. For the
purposes of the Act, the parishes of Hackney and St. Mary, Stoke Newington,
were united to form the Hackney District.
1858
Britannia Saloon, Hoxton
Street rebuilt as the Britannia Theatre by Samuel Lane (wife Sara). The
theatre housed nearly 4,000 people. It was bought by Gaumont in the First
World War. It was burnt out in an early raid of 1940 and then wrecked by a
land mine on 8.12.1940. It was then demolished.
1863
4.1.1863 Agreement to commence work on the new Shoreditch Parish
Workhouse. Building started the next day (5.1.1863). The first block of the
new infirmary was completed in 1863. It still stands as the Shoreditch
Chest Clinic.
Saturday 7.11.1863 Opening of Hoxton Hall, High St. Hoxton, built by James
Mortimer on a piece of land at Wilkes Place, Hoxton Street. The site was
one with cowsheds that had been used by
drovers bringing cattle form Wales
to London. Mortimer intended
that his theatre should combine instruction with entertainment.
(Hoxton Hall 1977 page
4)
Click here for a modern map of Hoxton
Street, with arrow pointing to
Hoxton Hall Theatre, 130 Hoxton Street, London, N1 6SH. The short
passage way to the north is Wilkes Place. Until
1910, the entrance to
Hoxton Hall was down this passage way and the date "1863" can still be seen
above the old entrance. The larger Britannia Theatre was south, on the other side of
Hoxton Street, between what is now Crondale Street and Fanshaw Street.
(Plaque opposite 74 Hoxton Street)
Pollock's Toy Theatre Shop
was south of Fanshaw Street. (Plaque)
1865
St Paul's,
Pear Tree Street (EC1) opened. Shown on a 1903 marriage certificate as
"St. Paul's Church in the Parish of Clerkenwell".
A church is shown on the north corner of Pear Tree Street and Central
Street on a London map about
1950, but not on later maps. Does
anyone have any knowledge about what happened to this church?
1866 Hoxton Hall became McDonald's Music
Hall, 64 High Street, Hoxton. (By 1878 it was 128a Hoxton Street). The Music Hall had
seating for only 300 people. Its use as a Music Hall was short. It was
overshadowed by the
Britannia Theatre
(Hoxton) and it was frequently
closed, "either by due course of law or through other stringencies".
1868
Description of Hackney in The National
Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland says it has eight private
lunatic asylums, but does not name them. The six or seven I know are
Brooke House -
Pembroke
House -
London House - [and
possibly
Mare Street House] -
Hoxton House
and
Northumberland
House.
Grove House had
probably closed.
1871 McDonald's Music
Hall lost its licence. The building was probably empty from 1872
to 1877.
1878 Advertisement "Hoxton Hall (No. 128a Hoxton Street)
Valuable Freehold Property, area 2300 square feet and fitted with seating
for over a 1,000 persons. There is an excellent stage with orchestra,
footlight, scenery, drawing rooms etc. Suitable for Bijou Theatre, Public
Entertainments, Gymnasium, Lecture rooms etc."
3.9.1879
William Isaac Palmer concluded the purchase
of Hoxton Hall for £2,900, for the use of the Blue Ribbon Army
(Temperance Movement). It became their headquarters.
1881 John Burtt and Lewis H. Burtt started Hoxton Market Christian
Mission in an underground kitchen. In 1883 Hoxton Market Christian
Mission secured premises "in Hoxton Market itself" [On the
sketch map of Hoxton, the position of Hoxton
Market (a street) is clear from "Market Place" in the south west. Hoxton
Market is the street parallel with "Old Street Road"
1881 Census C. Buckley, Curate of Hackney, at
21 Sutton Place
1885
Dame Leila Paget was a member of The Guild and Hostel Council of
Reference
in 1934. Lady Paget is included in the list for 1946-1951.
1894
After Cavendish College, Cambridge, closed in early 1891, Homerton, a
teachers training college in London, moved to Cambridge to occupy the
buildings
Hackney Marshes came into public ownership in 1894. The row of forty
(plus?)
plane trees north of the Hackney Cut between Homerton Road and
the
A12 was planted about this time, as were the Black Poplars along Hackney
Road.
(external link) -
(map). Plane trees have also been planted
(with other trees - at about the same time?) along the bank of the River
Lea to the east of Hackney Marsh.
1895 In 1895 the
Bedford
Institute
accepted responsibility for Hoxton Hall.
extracts from Hackney and Islington pocket diaries
Islington: Saturday 12.6.1897 Went with Mr Arnold to Stamford Hill, River
Lee and then on to Epping Forest with Albert Harris, G. Janes and William
Raynham. Fine.
Hackney: Sunday 20.6.1897. "To St Johns (Parish Church) at 11 (unreadable
word) Hackney: Special service for Queen and Jubilee in addition to it
being Hospital Sunday. Islington: Fine
Hackney: Monday 21.6.1897 "Letter from Annie. In all day. Longest day".
Islington: Fine
Hackney: Tuesday 22.6.1897 "Lovely weather. Out at 9.30 up High St to see
illuminations with Arthur. In at 10. Stayed up till 11.25. Diamond Jubilee.
60 years reign". Islington: Stamford Hill. Fine
The diamond jubilee was the first royal occasion of which there is a film
record.
Hackney: Wednesday 23.6.1897 "Out at 7.20. Walked round to see
illuminations." Islington: "illuminations. Fine"
Hackney: Thursday 24.6.1897 "Letter from Arthur and Mother. Wrote to Arthur
and posted Mother's on to him. In all day. Thunder storm 5pm to 6. 81
degrees in shade at 9am." Islington [shorthand words] 5 o'clock. Fine
Islington: Friday 25.6.1897 Fine
Islington: Saturday 26.6.1897 Fine
Islington: Sunday 27.6.1897 Wet morning. Dull later.
1904 Hoxton Market Christian Mission premise rebuilt. Official
reopening not until 11.2.1915
1910 Extra rooms were added to
Hoxton Hall, doubling its
size. Next
to the hall (down Wilkes Place) a new mission centre was built on the site
of the last remaining cowsheds. This is the present Coffee bar, Stewart
Hall and rooms above. The Music Hall itself was dramatically altered. The
Wilkes Place entrance was blocked up and a new entrance opened on Hoxton
Street in the gap between old Hoxton Hall building (134 Hoxton Street) and
130 Hoxton Street, which had been leased in 1883. There was a "setting of
the first memorial stone of the new Institute" on Saturday
11.6.1910. Several groups operated in the Hall, including the
Girls Guild of Good Life, a
men's club, a
boy's club, and a mission church that met in
the theatre.
Chatsworth Road Market is called
"Hackney's oldest street market. But how old is it? In 1841,
Chatsworth Road did not exist - There was a footpath from Homerton to
Millfields where it now is. A Hackney Today feature said that Ridley
Road Market started in the 1880s as a Saturday Market in Kingsland Road.
Well Street had barrows in 1919. The earliest I have heard of Chatsworth
was in the 1920s and 1930s. Hackney Today said it had over
200 stalls in the 1930s. In the 1990s I spoke to the man whose father
supplied many of them. It was a big business wheeling them out and setting
up the staging that held the lamps to allow shopping after dark. In the
1970s, when I first knew it, you could buy fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit,
clothes, household goods, crockery, ornaments, cleaning materials. By about
1988 when my friend Jack Thompson left Well Street and took over the
established vegetable stall near Clifden Road (the furthest south) there
were still a scattering of stalls down past Glenarm. They died out in the
1990s.
1924 14 & 15 Geo. 5 c.43 Hackney and New College local Act
Alfred E. Garvie, D.D., Principal of Hackney and New College, Hampstead,
London, 1927. [Garvie, Alfred Ernest (1861-1945) Principal of Hackney and
New College]
Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) was Classical Tutor, Hackney and New
College, London, 1926-1935; Reader in Ancient History, New College, London,
1935-1959
1929
1930
Hackney workhouse came under the control of the London County Council,
becoming Hackney Hospital. Control of the Eastern Hospital passed to the
London County Council.
1937
8.12.1940 Landmine wrecked
Britannia Theatre
10.5.1941 During the night, oil bombs fell on
Hoxton Market
Christian Mission
and three floors were completely destroyed by fire. Work
continued in the "Mission Institute" nearby and Sunday Services and women's
meetings were carried on in various halls lent by local churches. Temporary
repairs were effected and, after twelve months, the Mission resumed in its
old premises.
1939
Middlesex. The Jubilee of the County Council. 1889-1939 by C.W.
Radcliffe. Clerk of the Peace and Clerk and Solicitor to the County
Council. Evans Brothers. London. 240 pages. Introductory note dated
January 1939. The book was prepared (1937-1939) "for presentation to
all the senior school-children" of the county.
1945 Post war housing
Bannister House The blocks of flats on Homerton High Street called
"Bannister House" are anonymous and nameless apart from letters. They have
obliterated the pattern of street names evident on maps until the 1950s (see 1950s map). Bannister
Street, College Lane and half of Holmebrook Street are either no more, or
are anonymous roads through the estate. This may have happened from the
early 1950s. A block (or blocks) of flats known as Bannister House was
erected before the war. After the war new blocks were built in stages as
"Bannister House extensions". By 31.3.1955 two were completed: First
extension: (two) five storey blocks with lifts, a community hall and
laundry (100 dwellings). Second extension: a six storey block with lifts
(50 dwellings). Flats for another 65 dwellings were in course of
construction. Hackney Guide
1955 pp 80-87)
1948
Second Edition of Homerton. Its History and its Church by
F.C.Heward, A.K.C. St Barnabas Church House, Homerton published.
1.5.1951 Re-building of Hoxton Market Christian Mission began. For
six months, during the re-building "alternative accommodation had to be
found for Sunday Services and the Women's Meetings. This time our friends
at Hoxton Hall came to the rescue".
16.5.1952 Hoxton Market Christian Mission official re-
opening. In 1952 the Mission Council was (all men) L.A. Anderson, FCA
(Chairman); H. Basil Foster (Honorary Treasurer);
P.T. Shorey, MBE; M.H. Knott; Dr D. Perkins,
MRCS (England), FRCP (London). The Superintendent was Frederick Jerman and
the Secretary D.M. McCombie.
1950
About 1950: The Authentic Atlas of London by Geographia Latest date
is April 1948 on p.136, Roosevelt Memorial.
1955
Hackney Guide 1955: The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
Official Guide. Information of the Borough, its Amenities, Industries and
Local Trade. Produced under the direction of the Public Relations
Officer.
R.W. Raby, esq. (Dated from an entry on page 81 that gives housing to
31.3.1955 and then gives further schemes in progress).
1969 Hackney Gazette article 6.5.1994 says
Gravel Pit Chapel
in Chatham Place was demolished. Another source says the building survives
with an industrial use.
1972 Hoxton Hall added to the Statutory List of buildings of
historic or architectural interest.
1974 Mary Scott wrote a short pamphlet on Hoxton Hall and afterwards
researched its history at Westminster and Colindale libraries. She passed
her material on to Terence
Goodfellow.
1976 The Bedford Institute handed over the running of Hoxton Hall to
a group of educationalists and community workers who wanted to use the arts
to enrich people's lives. Quaker trustees oversaw the activities and grants
were awarded to restore the building. The theatre was re-opened for public
performance and creative classes for all age group were introduced, often
provided by the Inner London Education Association or (sometimes) the
Workers Educational Association. The community work continued with a
pensioners lunch club, daily playgroup, youth and junior clubs, free legal
advice and information.
1977
Hoxton Hall. A Short History published by Hoxton Hall. Introduction
signed "Terence Goodfellow, March 1977" said "The completion of the present
restoration work seemed a suitable time to publish something about the
history of Hoxton Hall. The discovery of handbills and other interesting
debris during the course of building works was another spur".
1979
Simms, T H: Homerton College 1695 - 1978: From Dissenting Academy to
Approved Society in the University of Cambridge. Privately Published:
Homerton College 1979. 109p pb 13 illustrations, appendices, index,
1988 Islington Past by John Richardson.
Historical Publications.
1984
Hackney City Farm opened -
website
1990 Hackney and Stoke Newington Past. A visual history of
Hackney and Stoke Newington by Isobel Watson.
Historical Publications.
1995 City of London Past by Richard Thames.
Historical Publications.
2000
The Hamlets and the Tower: 1000 Years of Tower Hamlets' History
by David Rich published by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets 2000
2002
Hackney historians Mike Gray and Sean Gubbins set up Walk Hackney to
provided guided walks through interesting historical areas. Walks are
available for Heart of Hackney, Stoke Newington, Clapton and London Fields.
Visit their website to learn more:
http://walkhackney.ground-level.org/
7.12.2002 Revival of the Chatsworth Road Market.
Visit this year's
2003
Easter Weekend 2003 The Hoxton Project Most of Hoxton Hall was opened for
anyone to wander round and illustrated in the spirit by a group of artists
called 2Step Digital
Arts. In the Theatre a ballerina's dance was projected onto
a roof high sheet of gauze as she performed her version of the "skirt
dance" swirling the enormous drape of coloured silk around her in sweeps of
wings above her head and panties high around her legs. Performed like this
in Victorian music hall, it must have been an erotic highlight. Here it was
movement heavenwards and earthwards, centring every now and then on a
terrifying pulsation of creativity around her belly. The notes suggested
she might be the spirit of a
woman trapped in one of the local asylums, but it seemed to me more like a
woman free. A path of pebbles, winding its way around the building, carried
the words of Billy Penylan
the drover and in a quite corner the pong of strong lavender was hung to
remind you of an actor
(Dan Leo)
who needed to cover a more offensive smell. In one
room, the litter at the side included recently discovered
Quaker magazines wrapped in old newspapers
and the blocks that had been used to print pictures in them.
Saturday 6.12.2003 second Chatsworth Road Market Fetival Visit:
Visit this year's
Now the organisers are planning an exhibition of photographs and will soon
start work on Festival 2005
Visit their website:
http://www.shoreditchparade.com/. It will soon be displaying
pictures of the festival.
Join in this living history!
The Chatsworth Market Festival
Once again we celebrate. Make sure you visit the school as well as the
market. There is music in the playground. And mulled wine to warm you up.
Visit the website:
http://www.chatsworthroade5.co.uk/.
The address of Historical Publications Ltd is 32 Ellington Street, London,
N7 8PL (Telephone 020 7607 1628)
"Dr Price moved to the village of Hackney in 1783 and became principal of
the newly founded Hackney College in 1786"
"But his presence was a cause of disquiet to those local people who
perceived themselves patriots, not least when he was made an honorary
French citizen. He himself found the fervent atmosphere in which the Loyal
Hackney Volunteers were established more than enough to make him uneasy. In
1794 he followed his
sons to the freer atmosphere of America, never to return."
(Watson, I. 1998 p.72)
"Between the Lamb and Flag and College Lane stood an old
mansion belonging to a Mrs Hawtyn, which was purchased in 1796 by the
Protestant Dissenters' Academy, a Theological College for candidates for
the Noncomformist Ministry"
(Heward, A.K.C. 1948 p.19)
Highbury College, date uncertain (1827/1830?). Clicking on the print will
take you
to the website of the seller. See below 1831 - As far as I can see from maps, Highbury in
1832 and earlier was still outside London. That is, there were open fields
between it and Islington (Angel)
"In 1830 William James - known to his family as Billy Penylan - walked his
cattle from West Wales to Hoxton, a distance of 200 miles. He was the last
in a long line of drovers in his family, men who had spent much of their
lives walking to and from London in the gentle company of their cows."
(2step catalogue, Easter
2003)
"The Church Missionary Society, in 1827, purchased the
house and grounds formerly occupied by a Mr. Sabine, opposite Tyndal-place,
on the site of the back premises of which they have erected a spacious and
handsome building, for the residence and preparation of young men intended
for foreign missions: it is capable of affording accommodation for forty
students, who are instructed in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, the Mathematics, &c.:
the theological and classical tutors are resident, and a professor of
Arabic and other oriental languages, attends two terms in the year. The
students usually remain from three to four years, according to
circumstances; and ten, on an average, are annually fitted out for the
several stations they are required to occupy abroad.
Highbury
College, established at Mile-End in 1783, removed to Hoxton
in
1791, and thence to Highbury in 1826, is an institution for
bestowing a liberal education on young men intending to become dissenting
ministers: the building, which is a handsome brick edifice, consists of a
centre with a fine portico, and two wings, and was erected at an expense of
£22,000, for the reception and accommodation of the students, who
must be single men, eighteen years of age and upwards, producing
testimonials of their piety, and being able to translate Virgil, having
also some acquaintance with the Greek grammar, fractional arithmetic, and
the elements of geography: the institution is under the management of a
committee chosen from among the subscribers, by whose contributions it is
supported: the course of studies, conducted under two tutors, comprises the
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac languages, the belles lettres,
intellectual and moral philosophy, the mathematics, history, biblical
criticism, the composition of sermons, theology, Hebrew antiquities, &c. A
proprietary grammar school, in connexion with the church of England,
was instituted in 1830, for the use of which handsome premises have been
erected in the later English style, in Barnsbury-street, at an expense of
œ1400, to be defrayed by shares of œ15 each.
"
"Being now free of the East India Company's monopoly the trade
presumably had no wish to remain at East India House because that same
year, 1834, they moved to the London Commercial Salerooms in Mincing Lane
which runs parallel to Philpot Lane between Fenchurch Street and Eastcheap.
The auctions remained here until 1937" Alan Davies
"In 1849 over 1,000 books were taken from the Old Homerton College to form
the nucleus of the library of New College, Finchley Road. A number of
archives were transferred to New College at this time, including all but
two of the minute books of the King's Head Society collection"
"The
Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution, which
opened at
Highbury College in
1849 to train men and women for Anglican
schools, included a model school which had 175 boys in 1854. It closed
about
1865"
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2003
"How the Girl's Guild Began In November, 1885, in
response to invitations, we commenced with a membership of 56 girls. We
began with girls of 16 year, but experience proved that from 13 to 16 was a
dangerous age for many, as they got into all sorts of bad ways through
running wild through the streets, so the age was reduced to 13. Afterwards
we admitted juniors of 19 years" (From the
1912 Annual Report)
"the Girls Guild of Good Life" [had] "bright lively evenings
with music, talks and classes of various kinds. Word soon went round the
work-rooms of the City that girls could become members, and they flocked in
from long distances...many came from the Borough and Old Kent Road, some
even from Clapham and Brixton, till Hoxton Hall became so overcrowded the
President said "We must start Girl's Clubs among the Churches, Halls and
Missions now in existence." This was done, she helping to start them in
many places. Miss Maud Stanley's Girls' Club was the only other one in
London at that time... Lady Elizabeth Biddulph and Lady Jane Ellice,
both firm teetotallers and Ladies-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, strongly
supported the President, and through them the Queen became interested in
the Guild" (From the
1932 Annual Report)
1897: The Year of Jubilee
click for Lancashire
Inside and outside Hoxton Hall about 1906
The banners at the back are for the [Something - Not Blue Ribbon]
"Gospel
Temperance Mission" and "Hoxton Hall Mission Choir"
Both pictures are scanned from postcards published by Hoxton Hall in
1978
or after. The inside one [whole picture reproduced] says "Harvest
Thanksgiving, Hoxton Hall, c.1906" The outside [only part of picture
reproduced] says "Proclaiming the Good News c.1906"
"In 1937 the tea auctions moved a few yards to Plantation House, a new and
grand building...Plantation House was so large that it had imposing and
grand entrances on four sides---from Fenchurch Street, Mincing Lane, Rood
Lane, and
Eastcheap. At the time it was one of the tallest office buildings in the
city, eight stories high........From there it was all downhill as
companies consolidated and the industry became dominated by just a few
companies. At the same time consumption in the U.K. slowly declined,
auctions in countries of origin grew it importance and in number.
Plantation House became too large and expensive. In 1971 the auctions
moved to more modest quarters in Sir John Lyon House on High Timber
Street, Upper Thames Street. Finally in 1990 they moved to the London
Chamber of Commerce, a fraction of their former size. The last London tea
auction was held in 1998. A sad day." Alan Davies
Homerton's Archives lay undisturbed in the strong room of the old
Combination Room until 1951, when nearly 1,500 items were catalogued and
studied by T. H. Simms, who published his history of Homerton College
1695-1978 in 1979
Revised edition 2000.
Revised edition 1998.
The 2004 Shoreditch Festival theme was Dreams and Memories.
As a finale to Festival 2004, there was a parade
through the streets of Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch and Hoxton Market. on
Saturday 21.8.2004.
Saturday 4.12.2004
Alan Davies is an historian of the tea trade
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