Alongside the old ROMAN ROAD to the North. From HOXTON to DALSTON and STOKE NEWINGTON
ERMINE STREET
Not very stylish calling the route “alongside the A10”, is it?. What happens is that the road that follows the course of the the ROMAN road leading from LONDON to LINCOLN and YORK, that was called ERMINE STREET in SAXON TIMES (from an old Celtic tribe called the EARNINGAS) and became the OLD NORTH ROAD later on in history, has a different name at each stretch… and I cannot remember their order!. So, once at for all: BISHOPSGATE, NORTON FOLGATE, SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET, KINGSLAND ROAD, KINGSLAND HIGH ST., STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON HIGH STREET, STAMFORD HILL…
CONTENT
*SHOREDITCH and *HOXTON Dr.PARKINSON & Nurse CAVELL
THE MUSEUM OF THE HOME (the design of the English home over the centuries)
The mystery of WW2 railings
*HAGGERSTON
The TURKISH, KURDISH and WEST-INDIAN communities
TURKISH RESTAURANTS
*DALSTON
VORTEX. Jazz The CLOWNS CHURCH
*SHAKLEWELL
*STOKE NEWINGTON
SHOREDITCH & HOXTON
CALVERT AVENUE, to the BOUNDARY ESTATE, BETHNAL GREEN
ST.LEONARD’S Church
A Neo-Classical building, succeeding the church which became the 17th c. ACTORS’ CHURCH.
Memorial to Elizabethan theatre men, by the LONDON SHACKESPEREAN LEAGUE.
The BURBAGES, SPENCER, TARLTON… buried here.
The TREE OF LIFE, BENSON MEMORIAL, with 2 skeletons ripping it apart
Do not miss the PILORY inside the porch, maybe exhibited in those times as a deterrent for malefactors…
To the East, COLUMBIA ROAD MARKET. (Sundays).
To the WEST, RIVINGTON ST., CURTAIN ROAD, OLD STREET, HOXTON SQUARE. Charming. Trendy. Busy. Art galleries. Life music. Eateries.
LITTLE HANOI area. Plenty of choice, when it comes to Vietnamese eateries!
To the WEST, HOXTON STREET MARKET, HOXTON HALL, eateries and convenience stores
Former GEFFRYE ALMSHOUSES, now the MUSEUM OF THE HOME
To the EAST, to the rear of the museum, HOXTON LO Sta
ST.LEONARD’S HOSPITAL. EDITH CAVELL. PARKINSON
CHRIST APOSTOLIC church
The ALADURA -PRAYING PEOPLE in YORUBA- congregation meets here. It is a PENTECOSTAL church, founded by JOSEPH AYO BABALOLA (who had been jailed for alleged witch-hunt towards Medical establishments). Originally ST.COLUMBA’s, Anglican parish, it looks like several buildings crammed together. Designed by arch. JAMES BROOKS. The MORTUARY CHAPEL was added 1904-05.
Due to falling attendances, it became surplus to requirements, and the parish was amalgamated with ST.ANNE’s.
LITTLE HANOI or THE BOAT PEOPLE
Vietnamese, Laosian and Cambodian people live in this area, I bet you have noticed it (how many Vietnamese restaurants have you already counted?).
To the North, on 151 WHISTON RD. there is a COMMUNITY CENTRE.
The truth is that Vietnamese refugees began arriving in important numbers due to the border war between Vietnam and China, 1979. Many Northern Vietnamese, ethnically Chinese, emigrated to HONG KONG.
War and ethnic cleansing pushed thousands to embark in tiny crafts, with a great risks for their lives. On arrival, they were traumatised by their experiences. In the UK they were first housed in refugee camps, as the one in a RAF base in HAMPSHIRE. Then a dispersal policy was operated, sending them to villages, far away from organisations that could provide support and from the provision of their needs (village shops did not stock enough rice!).
Despite this dispersal, the first COMMUNITY GROUPS started to be established, mainly in London, where sizeable numbers are to live (PECKHAM, KIDBROOKE, DEPTFORD). They suffered from poverty, poor health, especially mental, lack of education… were victims of drugs and organised crime, like CHINESE TRIADS.
In the 1980s new arrivals enlarged a small community here, of about 200. Finally a housing association (now LIEN VIE5 HA) started to provide them with a safe haven, affordable and sensitive with their culture.
Secondary migrations made the communities grow, resettling in cities. The authorities, though, ever had a clear strategy. There were 3000 Vietnamese in Hackney, by the 90s. New housing and hostels were built.
More:
Film LILTING, about the CAMBODIAN BRITS. Dir. HONG KHAOU
Lemongrass Rest. Royal College St
KHMER NEW YEAR
From GEFFRYE ALMSHOUSES to MUSEUM OF THE HOME
The origin of the almshouses, founded by the WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF IRONMONGERS, lies in a bequest made by SIR ROBERT GEFFRYE, who had been Master of the company and LORD MAYOR, who died in 1703.
The almshouses opened in 1715, providing homes for up to 56 pensioners or widows, 4 to each of the 14 cottages. Each, with sash windows and semi-circular fanlights. Typical 18th c. domestical architecture
The central feature is the CHAPEL. Over the door a statue of Sir Robert, and at both sides of it a large rounded window. A simple, wooden bell-tower surmounts the pediment.
The statue remaining in place might cause controversy as the merchant who made possible the almshouses made a lot of money from the TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. The museum explains which is its position concerning this subject.
The LCC purchased the buildings from the IRONMONGERS COMPANY in 1911, and they were subsequently converted to a MUSEUM OF FURNITURE AND WOODWORK, thus complementing the industry which had developed in this district of East London. From its opening, this museum has developed into a museum of ENGLISH DOMESTIC INTERIORS, showing the history and evolution of the dominant interior and living style from the 17th to our times. Now, though, the museum is run by an independent charity trust.
One of the almshouses, though, has been restored to its original appearance, offering a rare glimpse into the daily lives of the pensioners.
The iron railings and the gates along KINGSLAND ROAD, removed during WW2, were restored to their original appearance in 1973 by the GLC.
The mysterious case of the London (and the rest of British towns and cities) iron railings
When wrought iron railings and gates were cut down back in the 1940’s the reason provided was that they would be smelted down into guns and munitions to help the war effort. What actually happened next is a mystery and since then there have been many rumours and much speculation, including theories that huge quantities of iron were just dumped in the Thames or out at sea.
So what really did happen?
One theory states that the iron collected was unsuitable and could not be used. However, Alpha Rail believes this was very unlikely, because at the time recycled iron was a key component in the steel industry.
A far more likely explanation is that more iron was collected than was needed or could be processed, hence indeed it was disposed of as quietly as possible! It is public record that by September 1944 over one million tons of iron had been collected by cutting down railings and commandeering anything made of iron. These records also show that that the huge underground munitions factory called Beaverbrook that was set up in Corsham in Wiltshire ran far below capacity for its short life.
The legacy of this action is that many towns and cities across the UK are littered low height walls that have stumps of removed metal railings jutting out from them!
Thankfully for us, recent years have seen a determined effort by many communities, led by residents who are keen to restore these areas to their former glory, to replace the gates and metal railings that were lost over 60 years ago”.
This text has been literally copied from the ALPHA-RAIL company website, where they, wuth absolute honestly, add: “Alpha Rail is proud to manufacture a wide range of metal railings and gates in a variety of designs and finishes colour. We can also offer a choice of decorative finial to complete the perfect look and feel. For details please browse the website, complete the enquiry form or call us on 01623 750214”.
LONDON PARKS & GARDENS and THE GREAT WEN offer the same information.
HAGGERSTON
I leave you with
this Wikipedia article…
an SPITALFIELDS LIFE one
and, finally , with the EVENING STANDARD
ST.LEONARD’S HOSPITAL: PARKINSON and CAVELL
Dr. JAMES PARKINSON. Born in SHOREDITCH in 1755
His father, JOHN, was an apothecary-surgeon, practicing in HOXTON SQ.
James obtained the approval to be a surgeon, by the CORPORATION OF LONDON, in 1784, and that same year succeeded his father in his practice.
He was a political man. A critic of the PITT GOVERNMENT, he was involved in social and revolutionary causes. Some historians argue that he was a firm supporter of the FRENCH REVOLUTION. He wrote numerous pamphlets advocating for for radical social reform and universal suffrage.
He was a member of the LONDON CORRESPONDENCE SOCIETY and the SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION.
And he even was examined under oath, by the PRIVY COUNCIL, to give evidence about a trumped-out plot to assassinate KING GEORGE II.
He refused to testify regarding his part in POPGUN PLOT (so called due to the plan use of a poisoned dart from an air pressure gun) until he was certain that he woud not be forced to incriminate himself. Instead, some of his friends languished in prison.
As as a medical doctor, he wrote about gout, ruptured appendix, welfare subjects, legal protection of the mentally ill… And, in 1812, he wrote, with his son, the first instance of a description of a case of appendicitis in England, where perforation was shown to be the cause of death.
In 1817, he published AN ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY, where he reported on 3 patients and 3 others who he saw in the streets. PARALYSIS AGITANS is how he referred to the disease. He distinguished between resting tremors and tremors in motion.
The term PARKINSON DESEASE was coined some 60 years later by the father of NEUROLOGY, JEAN MARTIN CHARCOT.
He dedicated time, as well, to nature: geology and palaeontology were his interests, collecting and drawing fossils (his daughter EMMA would colour them). He used to go out on excursion with his children or friends to observa fossilised plans of animals. Not much literature had been written in England about the subject. He even wrote an introduction to the study of fossils. He published ORGANIC REMAINS OFVA FORMER EORLD 3 volumes (1804-1811), And, in fact,m several fossils were named after him.
In 1822 he published OUTLINES OF ORYCTOLOGY.
In a meeting at the FREEMASONS TAVERN, in which he participated, together with DAVY, AIKIN and BELLAS, the GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON was f.
CATATROPHISM was his school of thought: creation and extinction take place after large scale cataclysms, where God is the guiding hand. He understood that the biblical one day period of the creation meant 1.000 years.
He was buried in ST.LEONARD’s but his grave is now unknown.
EDITH CAVELL
Originally, the MATERNITY HEALTH CENTRE, now SHOREDITCH HEALTH CENTRE
See, above the door, a SECULAR image of a woman holding a child. B. 1922-23 by arch. FRANCIS DANBY SMITH.
This was a pioneering experiment in PUBLIC healthcare (funded by the CARNEGIE UK TRUST) where anti-natal care and infant care outpatient clinic was provided, en respondo do GEORGE FREDERIC McCLEARY campaign, from 1915: the MATERNITY AND CHILD CARE MOVEMENT.
The MOSQUE. SÜLEYMANIYE CAMII
A very tall minaret, indeed. In a OTTOMAN style, designed by arch. OSMAN SAHAN. B. 1995-99. With a flor space of 8.000 sq.m. and a capacity for up to 3.000 worshippers. Conference and wedding halls, classrooms, guest rooms, funeral services, canteen
TURKISH HACKNEY
The London neighbourhoods that concentrate the majority of the TURKISH population, are to the N and NE of the metropolis.
The first TURKS came in the 16/17th c. They had been freed from slavery (in the galleys of Spanish ships) by English pirates. Elizabethan England and the Ottoman Empire kept a good relation: MURAD II’S Navy helped split the naval force intended for the SPANISH ARMADA. The 1588 victory followed, and invasion was avoided.
In 1627 here were around 40 Muslim Turks in London.
In 1652 the first COFFEEHOUSE opens in London. An English merchant trading with the LEVANT had returned with a Turkish servant, PASQUA ROSEE, who was in charge of the business, beside ST.MICHAEL’S CORNHILL Ch. (yes, now the JAMAICA WINE HOUSE is on its site).
The craze begins, and thousands of coffeehouses open in Britain. That meant that trade with the Ottoman Empire grew enormously. Tailors, shoemakers, buttonmakers… even there was an Ottoman sol.licitor practicing in London. The Turks were not all baristas!.
In 1878 CYPRUS became a British territory. A new migration channel was open.
In the 1950s and 60s, the social and political instability in Cyprus, even hostilities, between ethnic Greeks and Turks, cause an increase of migration. The newly arrived engrossed the clothing industry, working in factories or at home. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (on the Greek side) was fighting for unification with Greece.
In the 1970s, WAR push many Turks-Cypriots to seek refuge. A coup overthrew the government. TURKEY invaded, and the island was divided, with 2 governments in place.
In de 90s, hardship (the Turkish si de dia not obtain any internacional recognostion) caused more migration.
After the 2004 accession of the Greek side of CYPRUS to the EU, many Turkish Cypriots applied for Cypriot citizenship in order to be able to emigrate easily.
Many Turks are self employed (restaurant, café, shop owners, taxi drivers, textile industry), many working in hospitality and in retail.
LANGUAGE
As for the mainland Turkish, in the 70s and 80s, they arrived in numbers as guest workers, first from the rural areas, then students and highly educated people.
The Turkish government has aided supplementary schools, and, as well, musical and cultural activities in Britain.
The Turkish language has entered the curriculum of State PRIMARY SCHOOLS, to help the integration, and in SECONDARY education, as a subject.
Some CLUBS (exclusive membership male cafés) named after football clubs line the street.
And BARBERS…
RELIGION. At the beginning of building places of worship was not a priority, although the community was reluctant to attend non-Turkish mosques.
In 1979 was formed the UK TURKISH ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION.
In 1983 opened the first mosque, AZIZYE
POLITICS. On MAY DAY, here, down along the KINGSLAND HIGH ST. takes place London’s largest march, joined by various political, leftist, factions of the community.
MEDIA
Newspapers
Radio
INSTITUTIONS
And the KURDS…
Moré about KURDS here
APRIL. The KURDISH NEW YEAR is celebrated here in style
DALSTON LANE
HALKEVI. KURDISH and TURKISH Community Centre. DALSTON SOLIDARITY CAFÉ
HOWARD ROAD (closer to NEWINGTON GREEN)
DAYMER. Community Centre
Ocakbaçi, Mangal?. Mangal Ocakbaçi!.
I leave you with SAVEUR if you need advise about Turkish cuidine
What about the AFRO-CARIBBEAN community?
Former HAGGERSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Funded by J.PASSMORE EDWARDS. Opened by the DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, in May 1893. The foundation stone states that EDWARDS laid it out in 1896.
A building initially conceived as a dwelling, with the Library accommodated to the left of the entrance porch. This explains an unusual the Neo-Classical style for a PE Library. Later the library was extended. Now, apartments.
BRIDGE HOUSE
A former pub, or the façade of a warehouse?. Now, occupied by a design company.Notice de decorative spikes on top of the window bays
REGENT’S CANAL and the KINGSLAND BASIN. Eateries alongside the canal
RAILWAY BRIDGE
QUEBEC WHARF. ”NMT Co. 1878”
Now office and residential but originally owned by the NORTH METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS COMPANY, which used the building to store forage to feed their horses. Afterwards, became a spice warehouse.
Site of the METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL
Now offices. Founded in 1836 by JOSEPH FRY, ELIZABETH’s son, in STEPNEY, as METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. In 1886 were built here these premises. Intended to provide healthcare for the poor, but due to financial difficulties, it started charging subscriptions, and the “free” bit was dropped. It became part of the NHS in 1949. Closed in 1977.
To the EAST:
SEE ROUTE FROM BROADWAY MARKET
-STONEBRIDGE GARDENS and DUKE OF WELLINGTON PH.
-ALBION SQUARE
-HAGGERSTON LO Sta
KINGSLAND
KINGSLAND ROAD STREET MARKET
Cafés, eateries, convenience stores, PO
FAULKNERS, FISH&CHIPS
THE HAGGERSTON PH
THE JAGO DALSTON. Live music
To the WEST, DE BEAUVOIR TOWN
SEE ROUTE FROM BROADWAY MARKET
BEECHWOOD RD
HOLY TRINITY Church. The CLOWNS CHURCH
The first Sunday of February, an annual service is held here in memory of JOE GRIMALDI, born, 1779, in CLERKENWELL. The most famous English clown and the FIRST CLOWN (as we understand, on our days the character) in the world, is buried (the tomb can be seen) in the former churchyard of ST.JAMES’S Church, PENTONVILLE ROAD, destroyed in WW2, where the service used to be held (he died in 1837)
A collection of clown memorabilia is open to the public.
DALSTON JUNCTION LO Station
On the WINDRUSH LINE of the LO. The EMPIRE WINDRUSH was the ship which brought the first WEST INDIANS to London, and the present WEST INDIAN communities are are established in areas served by the Line, as DALSTON, PECKHAM and WEST CROYDON.
DALSTON
Stops alongside KINGSLAND and BALLS POND ROADS and DALSTON LANE
On the map, the DALSTON EASTERN CURVE GARDEN
Before you carry on… a little diversion
After THE CURVE & the MURAL (see later), alongside DALSTON ROAD, and then, along GRAHAM ROAD, after passing the
HISTORICAL HACKNEY BRANCH of the BRITISH RED CROSS
you will be in front of No.55 in 10 min.
MARIE LLOYD lived here
This was one of the dwellings of the super star of Victorian MUSIC HALL, and local girl, MARIE LLOYD. She was from HOXTON.
Here you have a literal citation from the great website LONDON REMEMBERS, and there you will find more info about memorials dedicated to her, in London.
“The Music hall artiste was born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood at 36 Plumber Street, Hoxton. She made her debut at the Eagle Tavern in 1884, using the name Bella Delmere. The following year, she changed her stage name and rapidly achieved fame, both in Britain and abroad. Her songs of working-class life such as 'My Old Man' endeared her to her audiences.
She developed a reputation for bawdiness and in 1894, clashed with the Social Purity Alliance and was called before the LCC's theatres and music-halls committee with a view to changing some of her songs. She sang the song 'Johnny Jones' without her customary nods and winks and then performed the demure parlour ballad 'Come Into the Garden Maud' imbuing it with complete innuendo, to demonstrate her point that any obscenity was in the mind; although the lyrics of songs like 'She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas' leave virtually nothing to the imagination.
She had a turbulent private life, suffering abuse from two of her three husbands. Died at her home, 37 Woodstock Road, Golders Green.”.
Let us follow the showbiz subject… Some experts say that the very one place that inspired the laying out of the WALFORD E20 (ELSTREE BBC Studios!) ALBERT SQUARE was somewhere in East London, and you have it around the corner!:
FASSETT SQUARE.
Well, have a look, and enjoy.
The EASTENDERS ENCYCLOPEDIA states that “Fassett Square was planned to be the original filming place of EastEnders. But due to the fact that it was designated in a high trafficked area, there was a hospital, which is now closed, and real people lived in the Square, the idea was soon wiped.
Several features of Fassett Square are similar to the Albert Square concepts such as the gardens and the Victorian houses, and the layout of the Square was helped to resign Albert Square. The square itself is a small residential area in the London Borough of Hackney and was built around the 1860s.”.
Read more about the neighbourhood in THE GUARDIAN’s “The real East Enders are happy to put Albert Square behind them”.
”The hospital mentioned is the building at the bottom of the square, which was once part of the German Hospital, the Victorian wings of which you will see later.
Grade II listed Bruno Court was built in 1935-36 as an extension to the Hospital. This Modernist building, designed by Scottish architects Burnet Tait & Lorne, had a famous roof garden for convalescent patients. The new wing had nurses’ accommodation and a third-floor maternity ward with a delivery room. The fourth floor was the children’s ward, with a sun balcony onto which the beds could be wheeled running the whole length of the western side. It stands in contrast to the East End square.”
Go back to GRAHAM ROAD, then, at CLIFTON GROVE, turn right and you would discover a little secret gem of East London: those. VICTORIAN wings of the GERMAN HOSPITAL.
“Opened with 12 beds in 1845. The local German community was very large at this time and nurses were recruited from Germany from the Kaiserworth Institute. Florence Nightingalewas so inspired by this place that she enrolled there in 1851. In WW2 concerns about potential German espionage meant that the nursing staff were all arrested and interned on the Isle of Man. Was subsumed into the NHS in 1948. The picture source website gives the history.
Returning from the Congo in 1889 with dysentery Joseph Conrad was treated in this Hospital.
It closed in 1987 and Its services were transferred to the new Homerton Hospital.” (see LONDON REMEMBERS, contains more information).
Next door, in RITSON ROAD, the former HAMBURG LUTHERAN CHURCH, now a PENTECOSTAL
I leave you with LONDON REMEMBERS:
”See German Lutheran Church in London for a historical overview starting with the Great Fire.
In 1871 the congregation moved from Holy Trinity in the City (demolished to make way for the Mansion House station on the new Metropolitan line) to this newly-built Dalston church.
Built 1875-6 as the Hamburg Lutheran Church. Designed by E. Habershon and E. P .L. Brock in a German Gothic style as the church for the adjacent German Hospital. At the time the road was named Alma Road. This new church, consecrated on 13 July 1876, incorporated some of the furnishing of the old church including, apparently, a reredos attributed to Grinling Gibbons. Information from the Listing entry.
Both world wars made life for Germans living in London very difficult. In most cases the suspicions were unfounded but there was one self-declared Nazi: Pastor Schönberger of this Dalston church. In 1939 he returned (or was expelled) to Germany and the church closed. He was its last pastor. It is said that the church housed a radio transmitter larger than the BBC's. We are surprised how little information is available about him.
In 1982 the new Pentecostal Congregation bought the church and it is now known as the Faith Tabernacle Church of God”
After seeing al this I would walk Northwards, until you reach DALSTON LANE, then left until you join RIDLEY ROAD, so you are going to start to visit the street market by its Eastern end (see later).
DALSTON MURAL
DALSTON EASTERN CURVE GARDEN
Enjoy a tea or a pint of beer in an unexpected quiet, hidden, green corner of DALSTON.
O, enjoy the same in a couple of trendy places in
ASHWIN ST.
Trendy CAFE OTTO, or in the antiques shop (yes, you can have a glass of wine in an antiques shop!), or in the bar of the ARCOLA THEATRE
Alongside the main road,
DALSTON-KINGSLAND LO Sta
The NORTH LONDON LINE was laid out to link the EAST and the WEST INDIA DOCKS to the MIDLANDS, in 1850 -by the long named E&WIDandBR).
Now on the MILDMAY LINE (name given in 2024] of the LO (network created in 2005).
Former F.COOKE EEL and PIE&MASH shop
Founded in 1862. The 1910 tiles, marble, glass, are all very well preserved (it was listed a long time ago) but, now, housing a different type of eatery.
RIDLEY ROAD MARKET
A classical street market in London’s East End!. At its best, Fridays and Saturdays. A general market: clothes and footwear fruits and vegetables, with some exotic produce, spices, personal higiene products, household goods…
Stalls on the street and, unusual, permanent SHACKS, along the South side.
WEST INDIAN coloured shirts, reggae, yams, cassavas, bananas, dried fish, and all wrapped in a sort of calypso atmosphere that makes you feel that you are KINGSTON.
But there are still COCKNEY market holders, and TURKISH/KURDISH stores, HALAL butchers and the BAGEL shop (former KOSSOFF) is still here.
Back in the 1930s this market was huge, totalling up to 200 stalls. But those were times, as well, of gang warfare, vendettas and protection rackets, and Fascists and Comunists fought for supremacy in the streets….
Towards the Eastern end, can you see high in the building the STAR OF DAVID?.
GILETT SQ.
The 43 GROUP, against FASCISTS
This area was the scene, in the late 1940s, of battles between MOSLEY’s FASCISTS and supporters of the 43 CLUB, an organisation set up by JEWISH EX-SERVICEMEN who intended to combat the resurgence of fascism in Britain.
Nowadays, the different communities who live in this area have an enough strong presence not to feel threatened by the residual WHITE RACISM of the borough’s Southern fringes
SHACKLEWELL
To the East of the old Roman road lied the hamlet of SHACKLEWELL
The core of the hamlet, SHACKLEWELL GREEN is a CA. Sit down, relax and have a look at this HACKNEY CA Appraisal.
On the map, the SHACKLEWELL GREEN
RIO CINEMA
Art Deco. The only survivor. In the good old days there were up to 4 cinemas alongside KINGSLAND and STOKE NEWINGTON HIGH STREETS. You will see, later on, the ALHAMBRA which has, by a judicious twist of fate, been turned into a mosque.
SANDRINGHAM ROAD
BARRETT’S GROVE
Apartment building by AMIN TAHA Architects.
Crack-dealing
All was not rosy in Hackney only a few years ago. Around SANDRINGHAM ROAD, just one block from the market, this was the epicentre of an influx of crack-dealing, which brought with it an alarming increase in shootings, stabbings and burglaries, and a sorry tale of widespread police corruption!.
STOKE NEWINGTON
BEYOND RETRO
This former SIMPSON’S OF PICCADILLY department store (now a bookstore) had here a factory building, which was for sometime the HALKEVI community centre
PALATINE AVENUE
Parts still standing of PALATINE HOUSE.
Former APOLLO CINEMA
Now AZAZIYE MOSQUE & AZAZIYE RESTAURANT
Always along the main road, first ROAD, then HIGH STREET
YUCATAN BAR
FARMERS MARKET
BAGEL HOUSE
THE ROCHESTER HOUSE PH
Local Stokey history buff Amir Dotan has posted a route on his blog for a walk around the boundaries of the old metropolitan borough. As he points out, there are two historic rock n’ roll pubs along its edge. The Manor House Tavern, now unfortunately defunct, and just the wrong side of Seven Sisters Road, was a venue in the 1960s for bands like the Rolling Stones and the Jimi Hendrix Experience when they were unknown enough to still be playing in pubs. And in the 1970s, the Rochester Castle on Stoke Newington High Street, still in existence but no longer a music venue, hosted the likes of Ian Dury, the Stranglers, The Jam and The Damned.
THE THREE CROWNS PH
You are not at the corner of STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH ST. and very close to the core of the village. See the chapter dedicated to it…
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