Edith's Streets

this post is only partly edited and may not be accurate.  The links below need to be rethought. Great Eastern Railway to Chingford The Great Eastern line to Chingford running north from Hackney Downs station and having diverged from the line to Enfield continues northwards Post to the south Hackney Post to the north Upper Clapton Amhurst Passage Marks a spring there at the Hackney Downs end Amhurst Road 90 Pembury Tavern. This pub was built in 1866 - with an address of Medina Terrace, Dalston Lane. In the 1990s it closed and re-opened in 2006. This very handsome building is now owned by Individual Pubs, with a tie in to Milton Brewery.  They take bitcoins. Apsland and Marcon Estates Community hall Lower Clapton Congregational Church, Hall and School. This was a new church built in 1864 in Kentish rag stone. Replaced by shops and flats after the church closed in 1951 Many distinctive blocks of workers flats Samuel Lewis Trust Estate. By Joseph of 1931-2, extended 1934 and ...

Great Eastern Railway to Chingford The Line running north from London Fields curves North West to Hackney Downs Station, then curves north east and north Post to the south Hackney Central Post to the north Hackney Downs This post covers only the south east corner of this square Amhurst Road 90 Pembury Tavern . This pub was built in 1866 - with an address of Medina Terrace, Dalston Lane. In the 1990s it closed and re-opened in 2006. This very handsome building is now owned by Individual Pubs, with a tie in to Milton Brewery.  They take bitcoins. Apsland and Marcon Estates Community hall Lower Clapton Congregational Church, Hall and School . This was a new church built in 1864 in Kentish rag stone. Replaced by shops and flats after the church closed in 1951 Bodney Road 1 Bodney Road Joinery .  In the 1930s this was a branch office for the British Union of Fascists. 2 this site was bought for a fire station in 1912.  The building has now been converted to fla...

Great Eastern Railway to Chingford From London Fields Station the line swings north westwards and divides with a single line diverging north westwards to join the North London line running westwards and the line to Chingford continuing northwards. Post to the south London Fields Post to the north Hackney This posting covers only the north west portion of this square Amhurst Road Hackney Central Station .  Opened in 1850 it now lies between Homerton and Dalston Kingsland Stations on the North London Line. The first station opened with the line in 1850, with a substantial building against the viaduct on the east side of Mare Street. There was also a goods and coal depot from 1851. This was replaced on the opposite side of Mare Street in 1870 by a building by the Company’ architect, Edwin Henry Home, whose buildings were distinctive. The street level was built to impress, with the company’s name shown in a frieze below the roofline. From 1885, footways linked the west end of ...

Great Eastern Railway Line to Chingford The Line running from Cambridge Heath Station goes northwards Post to the south South Hackney Post to the north Hackney Central This posting covers only the south east corner of this square Bayford Mews Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association and a blue plaque which says they were founded here in 1959. Bayford Street Bayford Street Industrial Centre Site of Pembroke House which has been built in the 17th by William Parker.  In 1799 it became a school for the deaf and dumb founded by Thomas Braidwood who had moved here from Edinburgh in 1783. It continued here by his family until 1810. In 1818 the house was used by an institution to house East India Company employees who had become insane in India. It remained here until 1880 when the area was acquired by the Great Eastern Railway.  Warburton was involved and managed this as he did with other insane asylums in east London and it was later known as Dr. Warburton's House. E...

Great Eastern Railway to Chingford The railway line to Chingford continues north running from Cambridge Heath Station Post to the south Cambridge Heath Post to the north London Fields This post covers only the north east corner of this square Andrews Road Before the Second World War the area to the north of the curve in Andrews Road was houses in residential streets. 43 London Borough of Hackney. Car pound. Ash Grove Before 1900 Ash Grove was a residential street and there appear to have been a number of charitable religious institutions in them. St Mary .  Franciscan convent also described as Franciscan Nunnery. Present in the 1870s Orphanage. This was for boys orphaned by cholera and opened in 1866 by the Revd. R. Tuke of St. Anne's, Soho. He set up the order of St. Joseph, which adopted the Franciscan habit but which was disbanded on his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1867. It appears that some of the sisters working at the orphanage also converted with him....