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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · Jan 1

By 1874, the Midland Railway Company had run out of space at St Pancras Goods yard and it expanded into the area south of Brill Place. 4,000 homes were demolished and 10,000 people were relocated to make way for the goods yard.

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 5d

I need to know more..

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 6d

BISHOP WOOD'S ALMSHOUSES.Clapton Pond Lower Clapton Hackney c1910 The entrance to three of the almshouses, with an almswoman. Half- tone [from Kelly's Directory ?]

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 6d

BISHOP WOOD'S ALMSHOUSES, CLAPTON. c1890 shows John Frost's [bakers] cart, Eastern side of Clapton Pond Hackney

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 6d

AUSTIN'S BUILDINGS, CLAPTON. 1934 opposite Clapton Pond gardens demolished to build the Ritz cinema now Anthony Kendell Court

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 7d

Cottage shop Lower Clapton Road, Clapton Hackney west side, opposite Orphans Asylum now Linscott Road. Photograph [from postcard] 1880 became Roller Rink then a Cinema now a Jet Garage.Clapton Premier Skating Rink 1909/10 lower clapton road, was bombed WW2 now jet garage soon to became a Lidls store

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

Aerial view of Hackney Downs school and prefabs on Hackney Downs. Photograph Aero Snaps,1950. Photo damaged and stained.

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

LOWER CLAPTON ROAD (Clapton Pond now).West side.British Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females, 179 Lower Clapton Road.demolished to build Hackneys first Council Estate Powell Hse Photograph by Albert Hester.1930

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

'Piss Pot Hall' in Lower Clapton razed for housing estate ...

Horrid Hackney
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'In the early 1930s, the Council was looking for sites to build much-needed housing for local people. The site was selected as suitable because it was ...

Horrid Hackney

recounting Hackney’s horrible histories!

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

Hackney House Built Circa 1727 was a wealthy merchant's manor built around 1727 at Homerton by the architect Colen Campbell and was demolished in the 1960s.The estate covered 18 acres of walled grounds and 200 acres of farmland stretching to Homerton and beyond. East of Lower Clapton Road.

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

Broadway Marketfrom about 1800 was officially known as Margaret Place. (see Laurie & Whittle Map 1819). To the north of the Cat & Mutton Bridge, in 1831 it was renamed Duncan Place, then Broadway with the “Market” added in the late 19th C. (Renamed again in 1831; Starling Map

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

Broadway Market from about 1800 was officially known as Margaret Place. (see Laurie & Whittle Map 1819). To the north of the Cat & Mutton Bridge, in 1831 it was renamed Duncan Place, then Broadway with the “Market” added in the late 19th C. (Renamed again in 1831; Starling Map

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

Shoreditch Empire 95-99, Shoreditch High St, Formerly Holywell St. Built in the year 1856 was reconstructed in the year 1894. Later on in the year 1895 it became known as the London Theatre of Varieties, in the year of 1896 it became known as The London Music Hall. The theatre demolished 1935

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 9d

Fitted with what appears to be an escape shute, these ladders could be moved either by horse drawn or manual appliance, or pushed by hand from a street escape station.

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 9d

WESTGATE STREET. South side, nos.1-5. HACKNEY c1890 Showing Willmots Decorator and Contractors and on the left, the rear of a fire brigade (or Society for the preservation of life from fire) escape ladder.

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 9d

Welshpool Street Broadway Market London Fields Hackney London Nos. 31-37 (odd), in 1930.

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 18d

Sandringham Road Congregational Church, Kingsland High Street,, showing damage to church following an attack by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), with high explosive (H.E.) bombs, 8/9th November 1940

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 22d

Sadly, the street where my paternal grandfather was born, Sarah Street, was erased only in recent years -behind the 'dole office' on Hoxton Street. My grandmother's place of birth, Drysdale Street still exists. So close to the City in which I worked, yet in socio-economic terms, a million miles away

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Th Ka @shaoyuandalou.bsky.social · 20d

#Archway #Tavern #Highgate
#Photography

Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · Dec 1

The Archway Tavern Highgate .

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Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 20d

Shacklewell Lane Baths, Dalston, Hackney London showing damage to premises following an attack by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), with high explosive (H.E.) bombs, 24/25th September 1940