From DE BEAUVOIR to NEWINGTON GREEN and then to STOKE NEWINGTON
Pointed on the map THE RAILWAY TAVERN, on ST.JUDE’S ST. To the NE, NG, and more to the N, CLISSOLD PARK
CONTENT
You are entering the LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON
NEWINGTON GREEN. The village that changed the world (and it is not me who said that!)
MARY WOLLESTONECRAFT
London’s OLDEST brick house
Founding Fathers & Revolutionaries of all types
OXYGEN!
ISLINGTON
The Borough of ISLINGTON is, as a whole, out of the scope of this guide. ISLINGTON is considered a NORTH Lo don borough, rather than an EAST one, but as far as this guide is concerned, you are still in the NE quarter of Greater London.
Alongside ST.JUDE’S RD
THE RAILWAY TAVERN
The London Overground MILDMAY LINE
The RAILWAY nowadays is the LONDON OVERGROUND, a network created in 2005, unifying old railway routes, which were normally run, until the 1990s, by BRITISH RAILWAYS, but not all, as the former EAST LONDON LINE, was run by the LONDON UNDERGROUND.
The reason I am talking about railways now is that the line which you just crossed is called, within the LONDON OVERGROUND network, the MILDWAY LINE. And, precisely, you are entering the MILDMAY ESTATE!
The MILDWAY ESTATE
Sir WALTER MILDMAY was CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER under ELIZABETH I. He was, as well, one of the special commissioners in the trial of QUEEN MARY OF THE SCOTTS.
He founded EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, in 1584.
His grandson, SIR HENRY, served as MP and was MASTER OF THE JEWELL HOUSE, under CHARLES I.
He was critical of the king’s religious policies, supported Parliament during the CIVIL WARS and attended the trial of Charles I.
After the RESTORATION, he was arrested for his part in the REGICIDE but, as he refused to sign the death warrant, was granted leniency, being only sent to life imprisonment, after being stripped of his knighthood and his estates.
The MILDMAY HOSPITAL owns its name to the estate, and, in homage to it , the LO line carries its name.
Alongside MILDMAY GROVE NORTH
ST.JUDE’S & ST.PAUL’S Church and, next to it, the VICARAGE
A church built 1856, responding to a growing population.
Known by its missionary support, the Vicar, from 1864 to 73 was WILLIAM PENNEFATHER, noted hymn writer and renowned speaker.
He founded the MILDMAY CONFERENCE and built the CONF.HALL.
He established a missionary training school and a HOSPITAL.
Alongside QUEEN MARGARET’S GROVE
VICTORIAN HOUSES, 1863
SCHOOL
B.1857
QUEEN MARGARET’S COURT
1
B.1959, due to bomb damage.
WOLSEY ROAD
Former THE LADY MILDMAY PH
Now, flats
No.122 Site of the MILDMAY COTTAGE HOSPITAL
F. in a 1870 house, it was replaced by the MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, in NEWINGTON GREEN
Nos.129-133. Former first base of the MISSIONARY TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WOMEN
Established by Vicar PENNEFATHER
The trainees were called the MILDMAY DEACONESSES. Their work was dedicated to the poor of London and, as well, they worked abroad. They worked as nurses at the COTTAGE HOSPITAL and taught evening classes at the CONF. HALL.
You are now in NEWINGTON GREEN
In 1086 the DB already recorded this place: NEUTONE. And it was part of the demesne of ST.PAUL’S CATHEDRAL. Afterwards, the name became NEWTON, then NEWINGTON. To the North, you will see, a suffix was added, to distinguish it from NEWINGTON BARROW (or BERNERS), in ISLINGTON, which became HIGHBURY, after the MANOR HOUSE was built in a hill.
So, a medieval settlement, here, where the prevailing activity was agriculture, as London needed hay and food.
By the 15th c. prosperous Londoners owned houses around here. And the GREEN, gets the first mention in 1480. It was fringed by cottages, homesteads, crofts..
Around that time, the place received some ROYAL visits. South of the GREEN, HENRY VIII had a hunting base, a house, Wild bulls, stags, wild boars… roamed the surrounding forests.
HENRY PERCY, in 1523, became engaged to ANNE BOLEYN. He had a residence, BROOK HOUSE, to the NE of the Green. After being demolished, became BISHOP PLACE, which was divided into tenements.
At that time, he was a page to CARDINAL WOLSEY. He was, then, the heir to the 5th EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
Now, look again at the street names of the area…
(another important house in the area, out of the scope of this guide, but that I recommend you to look closer, is CANNONBURY HOUSE. Look at the names: TH.CROM., JOHN DUDLEY, EARL/WARWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND, BACON, SIR TH COVENTRY LORD KEEP OFCTHECSEAL, OLI.GOLDSMITH).
SAMUEL PEPYS was sent here to benefit from fresh air. Now, we are talking about the 17th c.
And OLIVER CROMWELL’s family had links with the area. His great-granddaughter MARY was born here in 1691.
NONCONFORMISTS’ or DISSENTERS’ ACADEMIES
Following the religious upheavals of the 16th and 17th cs., and after the RESTO., some radical Protestants decided to remain in England and maintain their religion and practice it openly, but they had to live with the restrictions the State placed upon them.
They tended to move to places more tolerant of them, general y in rural areas, close to London (as merchants that they were, they needed to attend their business in the City, as well) and often they set up there EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS, known in general as DISSENTING ACADEMIES, which were, intellectually and morally, more rigorous than the Anglican UNIVERSITIES, OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE, which were the only ones in England (until UCL arrived in the 19th), and where the Dissenters were no allowed to study. Those Academies taught, in English, modern su ju Ts, as mathematics, sciences and politics.
The truth is that a critical mass of dissident intellectuals, people who had a radical thinking, who were social reformers, pedagogs… a well to do edge of radical Protestantism, clustered around this GREEN, and, as well, as you will see, in other parts of East London, like STOKE NEWINGTON and HACKNEY. UNITARIANS, as J. COAKLEY LETSOME, and QUAKERS, VICESIMUS KNOX, were the most notorious.
At the core of their thinking: the promotion of a progressive education.
Churches
When the DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY ACT was passed, in 1813: the English Dissenters were finally freed from their civil disabilities. They no longer needed the security of NG and other hamlets outside London. And the area started to lose its intellectual cohesiveness.
The Church of E. had touched a low point and, at the same time, the nature of NG was changing : not anymore a village, it was becoming a suburb, thriving and expanding, prosperous… but a tide of poverty arrived, during the Victorian era, what we call DICKENSIAN London, where cholera epidemics and rampant malnutrition were logical consequences of that deprivation.
And some Victorians understood that they were on a mission, that they have a social responsibility. The guiding light of this vision, at the start, was THOMAS CROMWELL, FSA local historian, an Anglican vicar. Some of his contributions: a SUNDAY SCHOOL, a regular DAY SCHOOL DOMESTIC MISSIONS (visiting the poor in their homes), a LIBRARY, a SAVINGS CLUB… Think that we are in the 1840s, 50s and 60s. The core idea was SELF-HELP.
A small religious community, but very energetic, campaigned on the political stage for full religious freedom and a watchword was self improvement. And the. HURCH thrived and the congregation grew.
The LONDON SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY recognised the school at NG, as the best. Behind the main building a new schoolhouse was b. in 1887.
A range of groups sprang up: a SOCIETY FOR MUTUAL THEOLOGICAL STUDY, cycling and cricket, young men and women, mothers, a PROVIDENT SOCIETY (CO-OP), teetotalism, women’ suffrage, social reform, educational…
Living here were THOMAS REES, minister after BARBAULD, ALEXANDER GILCHRIST, minister and biographer of WILL.BLAKE, ANDREW PRITCHARD, friend of FARADAY, who studied organisms under microscope, MARIAN PRITCHARD, JOHN STUART MILL.
At the beginning of the 20th c. the GREEN had acquired the pleasant image of a well-manicured garden square. The ISLINGTON VESTRY had taken jurisdiction over it, fenced it, laid it out as it is today.
Then, it fell into depression, becoming for many years a run-down green space, straddling the border between ISLINGTON and HACKNEY.
In 1979 the NG ACTION GROUP was formed with the aim of regenerating the area, working with the LB. of ISLINGTON Council: traffic-calming measures, easing congestion, better pedestrian crossings, making it safer, adding more lawn space, more playing areas, a café, new planting, in order to encourage biodiversity…
From the first decade of the 21rst c.,what used to be a deserted park, looks like a real village green, enhanced by children playing, fairs, JAZZ-ON-THE GREEN an other festivals and events, as the OPEN GARDEN SQUARES DAY. In 2006 the GREEN FLAG was awarded (KEEP BRITAIN TIDY, NATIONAL STAND, and the ENGLISH HERITAGE conceded the GREEN HERITAGE SITE AWARD.
The NGAG teamed up with MAYVILLE GARDENING CLUB and KING HENRY’S WALK COMUNAL GARDEN, in 2010.
One more award obtained was the HIGH SILVER GREEN GILD RH SOCIETY URBAN COMMUNAL AW., as part of the LONDON IN BLOOM scheme.
LIZZY’S ON THE GREEN, the café, opened in 2013.
The NGAG has published THE VILLAGE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: A HISTORY OF NEWINGTON GREEN, written by ALEX ALLARDYCE, and winner of the WALTER BOR MEDIA AWARD.
Definitely, the area has changed almost beyond recognition, thanks to a process of gentrification. To the old shops, new and trendy ones have sprang up, together with cafés, bars, restaurants…
And, as you are in NE London, the TURKISH-CYPRIOT community is always present.
SIGHTS around the GREEN, anti-clockwise
TERRACE OF VICTORIAN houses
NG PRIMARY SCHOOL, NG SBL SCHOOL and MANUAL TRAINING CENTRE
Site of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SCHOOL
CROMWELL LODGE
First mentioned in 1877, although a house stood on the site in the 18th c.
Pair of GEORGIAN houses
From the 19th c. to the 1950s, ARBOR LEAF CO., artificial flower makers, were based here.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT in NG, and her School
She has been one of the most important residents in the GREEN.
In 1784, when she was 25 she moved here her fledging ACADEMY FOR GIRLS, from its first home in ISLINGTON. She needed to earn money to sustent mother and sister, and a friend.
Education for women, back in the 18th c., was poor, and that hampered their opportunities. Thus, initiatives as MW’s were…revolutionary!. Law, politics or sciences, taught to women!.
Mrs. BURGH, widow of the educationalist, used her influence to find a house to establish the school and helped to find students to fill it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT was attracted the rational atmosphere of the Dissenting institutions based to the N of London. And their hardworking attitude, humane character, their respect towards women, their critical but un cynical approach.
She was an Anglican, but she attended PRiCE’s services. Those appealing ideas were ingested from the his sermons at the NG UNION CHAPEL, and pushed her to a political awakening.
In 1790, 2 years after leaving STOKE NEWINGTON, those seeds germinated into A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MEN, a response to BURKE’s denunciation of the FRENCH REVOLUTION and his attacks on PRICE.
In 1792, she published the work for which she is best known and remembered, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, in the spirit of rationalism, extending PRICE’s argument about EQUALITY to women.
THE FOUNDING WORK OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY!. NG left its mark on Mary, on the world…
And MW’s ideas were embraced by women like MILLICENT FAWCETT (who wrote an introduction to the Centenary Edition, and re-established her a key to the modern feminist movement) and VIRGINIA WOOLF, and in the late 20th c. their returned to prominence.
In A VINDICATION RIGHTS WOMEN he hailed equality and railed against marriage, as LEGALISED PROSTITUTION, obviously contesting the divine right of husbands and demanding “JUSTICE FOR ONE HALF OF THE HUMAN RACE”.
MW was a writer and a philosopher, a feminist before its time. She was born in PRIMROSE ST (NORTON FOLGATE), in 1759. Her father was a violent, spendthrift man, and she had to look after her mother, and her unhappily married sister, and her best friend FANNY BLOOD.
Her first years were spent in HOXTON, then HACKNEY (No. 373 MARE STREET).
After losing a job as a governess in Ireland she moved to SOUTHWARK (DOLBEN ST.). Across the new BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE she was able to walk to her publisher’s offices (ORIGINAL STORIES, illustrated by her friend WILLIAM BLAKE). And SHELLEY, the poet, her future son in law, lived in NELSON SQUARE.
She left in 1791. In 1792 she wrote A VINDICATION RIGHTS WOMEN, in 6 weeks, while living in STORE STREET, BLOOMSBURY.
Once the ideas of ROBERT PRICE were ingrained in he, she travelled to FRANCE to see for herself the de elopement of the revolutionary process, started in 1789. But she became rapidly disillusioned, as she saw more blood than freedom and equality
She and artist HENRY FUSELLI had a passionate friendship.
She had a daughter, FANNY, with an American chancer, GILBERT IMLAY. They even travelled on business to SCANDINAVIA, taking the baby girl with them. But, while in France, he deserted her, she porsuived him back to London, and in 1795 they lived in 26 CHARLOTTE ST., although his affairs led her to attempt suicide, from PUTNEY BRIDGE.
But, in 1797, she married WILLIAM GODWIN, an anarchist writer. Their daughter MARY had been born shortly before. WG wrote a well-intentioned, and honest, biography of his wife, including her unwanted pregnancies and her unstable mental state, but that repelled readers.
MW would die 11 days later in the POLYGON, SOMMERSTOWN.
MARY would become MARY SHELLEY and would go on to create the famous FRANKESTEIN character.
Her marriage and burial happened in the same place: the OLD ST.PANCRAS Church and churchyard.
However, MW’ rests were moved to BOURNEMOUTH when the brial ground was broken up by the new railway tracks to the STATION, although the TOMBSTONE remained in ST.PANCRAS.
A street name and a house name in CHALTON ST. are two of the reminders of MW period here.
And her memorial statue…
The stencil painted on the side of the building represents MW. I am grateful to the WIKIPEDIA for this photo.
The NEW UNITY, originally the NG UNITARIAN CHURCH
One of the oldest in the country, a the oldest in London, still in use. F. in 1708, thanks to the £300 donated by the GOLDSMITH EDWARD HARRISON. Built in a near square form, with a high, tiled, hipped, projecting roof, a pediment with a central oval window.
Mod 19th c., it was extended with an internal gallery, allowing more seating. And the roof and apse were renewed. The new stucco frontage mirrored the original façade, with TUSCAN pilasters and pediment.
Thr most famous minister was DR.RICHARD PRICE, a political radical, Libertarian and Republican, remembered for his role in the REVOLUTION CONTROVERSY, a British debate about the FR1789.
His works in finances and statistics were pioneering. And he cemented the reputation of SN
The most famous member of the congregation (and you can admire the bench where she sat) Was MW, who as you already know, drew great inspiration from DR. RP’s sermons, when she argued in her works in favour of the new French Republic, and when she raised the issue of the rights of women.
ROCHEMONT BARBAULD was appointed minister here in 1808, and his wife ANNA LAETITIA (née AIKIN) was a political writer, tutor at the WARRINGTON ACADEMY in CHESHIRE. She was an admirer of DR.JOHNSON and WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. And she was friends of JOHN PRIESTLEY and WILL.ENFIELD, Unitarian minister and author of bestseller THE SPEAKER.
THOMAS CROMWELL, historian of the district, was as well minister here.
The umbrella organisation to which now belongs is thecGENERAL ASSEMBLY of UNITARIAN and FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. And, since the MILLENIUM, two new ministers have injected energy into the area, adding events:
CAL COURTNEY, a “radical spirit “ who organised multi-faith protests against the IRAK WAR; published the N16 Magazine dealt with the furor around the election of gay GENE ROBINSON as bishop; revived the RICHARD PRICE MEMORIAL LECTURE (the last given in ‘81), which now is sponsored annually by the NE NUC. Liberty, reason and ethics are the main topics.
ANDREW PAKULA grew up in NEW YORK, in a secular Jewish family. He made history refusing to carry out any wedding at all, until gay couples have the right to full legal marriage. BBC called this place “the Gay Rights Church “.
In 2008, the anniversary was celebrated: “300 years of Dissent”. A crab apple tree was planted, a picnic was organised, and the church hosted a concert of OTTOMAN CLASSIC MUSIC.
In 2009 it commemorated the 250th anniversary of MW, with large banner (“BIRTHPLACE OF FEMINISM”) and a lecture by BARBARA TAYLOR, and a panel discussion with MPs DIANE ABBOTT, JEAN LAMBERT and EMILY THORNBERRY.
Other events on offer were the MOTHER OF FEMINISM art exhibition, a concert featuring CAROL GRIMES and ADEY GRUMMET to raise money for “STOP THE TRAFFIK”, a tribute to her tombstone, and a birthday cake baked by men.
Poetry readings, participation in OPEN HOUSE, concerts…
CHURCH WALK. The route will continue alongside this passage..
Site of CHARLES MORTON ACADEMY
CH.MORTON, a mathematician, born in 1627, in CORNWALL, issued of WADHAM COLL. (OXF.). Here were taught DEFOE and SAMUEL WESLEY father. The schoolmaster was JAMES BURGH (author of DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE), who , later, opened his own academy.
CH.M, was arrested and excommunicated, which forced him to emigrate to MASSACHUSSETS BAY COLONY, then arrested for sedition in BOSTON, and acquitted. He became associated with HARVARD COLLEGE (vice-president, text-books.
He became, as well, minister of the first church at CHARLESTOWN. He died in 1698.
No. 36 NG MILDMAY RADICAL CLUB & INSTITUTE UNION, now MILDMAY CLUB
First, when f. in 1888, in NG RD., here from 1900. The arch. was ALFRED ALLEN, In a Baroque style.
One of the few surviving working men’s clubs in London. At its peak it had up to 3.000 members, and it offered regular music hall entertainment, and formed its own cricket team. Riffle ranges were added in 1907 and again in 1921.
The vicar of ST.MATTHIAS’, though, castigated its pernicious influence among the young.
In 1930 it changed its name to MILDMAY CLUB AND INSTITUTE, and became non political.
At the corner with ALBION RD.
No.40-41 TARIRO HOUSE, on the site of a BANK
TARIRO LTD. is a real estate company.
The building dates from 1892, in a confident and flamboyant Italianate style.
A large mansard roof creates a third storey.
Heavy stone dressings accompany a light yellow brick: keystone arch, architrave, pilasters, capitals, banding.
Rusticated brick pilasters above the vermiculited stone base.
Elaborated pedimented dormer windows.
Split pediment.
Paired pilasters.
Cast stone balusters and rail, behind the mansard.
18th c. Houses with WEAVERS WINDOWS
West side of the NG
Site of the London HQ of the CHINA INLAND MISSION, a Protestant missionary society.
Now, after conversion by HAWORTH TOMPKINS, ALLIANCE HOUSE, CITY UNIVERSITY student accommodation.
The CIM was f. by JAMES HUDSON TAYLOR Jun. in 1865, on the principles of faith and prayer, that is, bringing the GOSPEL to the entire world. They recruited working class missionaries and single women, to be sent, first to China, later on to the whole of East Asia.
The new MAO ZEDONG’s PR of China, though, foreign workers were expelled in 1950, and the CIM redirected its efforts to other parts.
Their principles were: to reach areas not yet covered, not to solicit financial help, identify themselves with Chinese dressings and pigtails, using the language, following their customs, training Chinese co-workers in self-government, self-support and in propagating the Gospel, encouraging countrymen to become pastors and officials, recruiting based in spiritual qualifications, being interdenominational, being headquartered on the field, in Chinese style buildings.
From 1964, it became the OVERSEAS MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP, now OMF INTERNATIONAL, with its international centre in SINGAPORE.
No. 54 NEWINGTON GREEN. The ODEST brick terrace in Greater London. RICHARD PRICE’s house
Price’s politics
Born in LLANGEINOR, WALES, in 1723, he arrived to NG, with wife SARAH, in 1758. This terrace of houses was then 100 years old. This is GL OLDEST brick terrace.
RP had studied in Wales and at a Dissenting Academy in MOORFIELD. He became chaplain at SM, and had a lectureship at OLD JEWRY.
He was a Republican and in favour of American independence. His view on the FR?. He wrote: if the French can get rid of their king, then maybe we… He wrote pamphlets about civil liberties, principles of government, justice, policy of war in America, selling thousands of copies.
Wheb the DECLARATORY ACT was passed, repealing the STAMP ACT, and a declaration to save face, he attacked it.
He corresponded with TURGOT.
He was offered a role in financial administration, by the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, but turned it down.
He ignited the REVOLUTION CONTROVERSY when he preached a sermon on the 101rst anniversary of the GLORIOUS REVOLUTION.
From the LONDON REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETY, he drew up parallelisms in between the 2 historic events, as those of 1688 spread enlightened ideas, paving the way for further changes. He exhorted the public to embrace cosmopolitanism, in order to better understand the enlightenment.
He was seen as a seditious, of course. Definitely, the reverse of BURKE’s REFLECTIONS on the FR1789.
The CITY OF LONDON presented him with the FREEDOM OF THE CITY.
YALE COLLEGE awarded him (and to GWAS) a degree of DOCTOR IN LAW.
Politicians, thinkers, reformers, writers… visited here:
Founding Fathers of the USA, like JEFF, FRAN, ADAMS. With FRAN. they met, as well, at the LONDON COFFEE HOUSE, ST.PAUL’s, as members of the CLUB OF THE HONEST WHIGS.
LORD LYTTLETON, the EARL OF SHELBURNE (around him the BORWOOW CIRCLE of Liberal intellectuals; his wife was ELIZABETH MONTAGUE, leader of the BLUE STOCKINGS) and EARL STANHOPE (“CITIZEN STANHOPE”).
WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER PM.
DAVID HUME and ADAM SMITH, philosophers.
JOHN HOWARD, agitator, prison reformer.
JOHN HORNE TOOKE, gadfly to the establishment.
JOHN and ANN WEBB, political and social reformers.
DANIEL DEFOE (you will meet him when you deal with the STOKE NEWINGTON town centre).
MW, met here publisher JOSEPH JOHNSON, a radical, who published her travelogues, novels, children’s books, and her HISTORY OF THE FR.
THOMAS PAINE, who wrote influential political pamphlets and inspired the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
BEN FRAN, J.CANTON, PRINGLE, VAUGHAN, PRIESTLEY, here, together. He was friends with them.
Precisely PRIESTLEY, political writer, took refuge here, after the BIRMINGHAM RIOTS that in fact bear his name, which erupted following his support for DISSENT. PRIESTLEY, as well a chemist, Is credited with the discovery of OXYGEN.
PRICE formed strong friendships with his neighbours and members of the congregation. One was THOMAS ROGERS, father of the poet and banger SAMUEL. He had married to a long-está Dissenting family, and lived in No.56.
Another, Rev.JAMES BURGH sent his pupils to RP’s sermons.
RP, ROG & BUR formed a dining club, eating in rotation at each other’s houses.
Mathematics!
RP was, not only a rebellious preacher, but a mathematician and a demographer. He had “another life”.
His letters exchanger with BEN FRAN verse about life expectancy, the detrimental effects of life in large cities, the population doubling trend in the US, versus the diminishing English population, due to ill health (MALTHUS).
SeeRoberta Wedge,
RP is credited with having founded actuarial science. In 1774 he produced a report, addressed to the Directors of the SOCIETY FOR EQUITABLE ASSURANCE, which is considered a key document for the history of such discipline. In the ACTUARIES archives there is evidence of RP being a consultant to the SOCIETY, from the 1770s onwards.
He recommended the SEA the appointment of their first ACTUARY: WILLIAM MORGAN, who occupied the position from 1775 to 1830, and put his stamp on the organisation. WM was his nephew!.
ROBERTA WEDGE found out a connection between RP and the parsonage of ST.NICHOLAS ACONS, NICHOLAS KANE, where, in 1762, EQUITABLE LIFE, the world’s oldest mutual insurer started business.
RP pioneered the scientific life assurance, by basing premiums on age and mortality rates.
Coffee houses, Clubs, Bluestockings, Benjamin Franklin
Carry on exploring NG. West side
Nos.52-55
The oldest surviving brick terrace (1658) although altered internally and externally over the years, with the addition of storeys, widening of staircases, addition of detailing, enlarge of windows and their conversion into sashes, instead of the medieval oak and leaded light mullions and transom pattern.
In the 1880s the GF levels were lowered to street levels, and shopfronts added.
In the 1990s they were in a very poor condition, in a serious danger of collapsing. The GLC bought them, carried out structural repairs and sold them on, as single family dwellings. Plasterwork, panelling, doors, windows and other joinery were repaired and reinstated. The fronts were recladded with new bricks, the first floor cornice being reinstated, and the shops replaced. following two successive projects of architectural practices ROGER MEARS and BERE
No.56, is, originally, a house built in 1663,
S side of the GREEN
Site of the MILDMAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL and NURSES HOME. Now social housing
On the site of the grounds of the CONFERENCE HALL, where Henry VIII’s hunting lodge used to be 500 years ago.
THE WEAVERS PH
To the S of the NG
MILDMAY GROVE NORTH
No. 37. Site of the STEAM LAUNDRY (1890s). Original carriage entrance
MILDMAY PARK
Site of the CONFERENCE HALL
It seated 2.500 and was used by missionary conferences, and a highly success night school.
LIBRARY. Open in 1954, enlarged and computerised (first in ISLINGTON) in 1987
Site of SYNAGOGUE
Open in 1886, it closed in the 1930s
MILDMAY PARK, MILDMAY GROVE SOUTH
Site of the MILDMAY PARK STATION. Closed in 1934, finally demolished in the 1980s.
Routes towards CLISSOLD PARK and STOKE NEWINGTON town centre
Pointed on the map PETHERTON ROAD.
If you look closely, between the former BANK and the famous church on the green, runs a narrow road, CHURCH WALK
To the W of NG
POETS ROAD
DALSTON SYNAGOGUE
PETHERTON ROAD: The course of the NEW RIVER
Click to see the whole PATH following the NEW RIVER course
You are going to find great pleasure walking or cycling Northwards towards CLISSOLD PARK
From the GREEN alongside CHURCH WALK
After cycling or walking along CHURCH WALK you emerge in ALBION ROAD. You are going to find a few eateries, especially ROMEO & GIULIETTA, ARTISAN GELATERIA.
From there, along CLISSOLD ROAD, you will be in CLISSOLD PARK in 10 min. Or, alongside, ALBION ROAD, inside THE ROSE & CROWN PH. or beside the 2 churches (see previous chapter)
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