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29 Apr

1880 Mare Street, looking north from near Hackney Tower; showing Manor Rooms. Mare Street was a distinct settlement in 1593. By that date it may have included the Flying Horse Inn, said to have been a staging post, the Nag's Head and the Horse and Groom, since all three were

timber-built. In 1695 Mare Street had 23 residents. By 1720, Mare Street was the most populous district of the parish, with 111 ratepayers, and contained 6 of the 36 select vestrymen in 1729. Tramways were built in 1873. After the First World War the area became more industrial.

During the Second World War, Mare Street suffered bomb damage, including Georgian Houses at the Triangle. By 1993 Mare Street had become a nondescript mixture of low-rise factories, shops and institutional buildings, the tallest being Pitcairn House Looking north from No 381,

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Alan Russell

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29 Apr

Hackneys best known gardens, behind the Mermaid Inn on the west side of Church Street, corner of Brett & Kenmure included upper and lower bowling greens, presumably where Dudley Ryder in 1716 was amused by the earnestness of the players, and a trap ball ground in 1810. They

extended in 1766 beyond Hackney brook to a lime walk and in 1831 to a larger kitchen garden one green was used for archery in 1842. They witnessed successful balloon trips, notably by James Sadler in 1811, when the number of sightseers 'exceeded calculation', and by Mrs. Graham

and two other women in 1836. An ascent was advertised in conjunction with a fireworks display in 1822. The Mermaid made way c. 1840 for J. R. Daniel-Tyssen's Manor House, which by the 1890s had been divided into shops, nos. 378 and 378A Mare Street. The gardens, 'much curtailed',

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Alan Russell

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29 Apr

Hackney featured highly in Renton Nicholson’s Cockney Adventures and Tales of London Life. “In the early-to-mid-19th century, water colourists were busy depicting a world that was disappearing or which had recently disappeared. At much the same time, positioned between the

pastoral and the urban, is Renton Nicholson's Cockney Adventures and Tales of London Life (from 1837), first issued in serial form, much at the same time a Dickens' Sketches by Boz (which itself describes a visit to the Eagle tavern). “For the most part the Adventures relate,

umour, the jolly japes perpetrated by young working men and their consorts on their day off from the City. Trips into the near countryside often involve an excess of strong drink, and sometimes a misadventure with a cowpat. “In The Beau, the Kiddy and their Ladies, a journeyman

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Alan Russell

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28 Apr

Manor Gardens Allotments: a Scandalous Legacy The scandalous treatment of the Manor Gardens Allotment Society continues. In the autumn of 2007 the allotments were forcibly, but supposedly temporarily, removed to Marsh Lane Fields in Leyton, now ridiculously renamed Jubilee Park.

The original planning permission was granted by Waltham Forest on the strict condition that this was to be a temporary relocation and the allotments were to return to the Olympic Park, although not to their original site, now part of the 'Not the largest new urban park in Europe

for 150 years'. Indeed, back in February 2007 so determined was Waltham Forest to ensure the allotments should return that it threatened to throw a spanner in the works when it turned down the LDA’s first planning application forcing the LDA to offer concessions and reapply.

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Alan Russell

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28 Apr

Manor Garden Allotments were allotment gardens occupying 4.5 acres (18,000 m2) between the River Lea and the Channelsea River in Hackney Wick, London, England. They are also sometimes referred to as Eastway Allotments, particularly in the 2012 Summer Olympics planning application

documents. They were demolished to make way for the Olympic site. The site was formerly in the London Borough of Hackney, but after ward boundary changes in the 1990s the footprint sat within London Borough of Newham. At the time of eviction the site was owned by Lee Valley

Regional Park Authority. The "Eastway Allotments" were known more locally as "Abbott's Shoot" or "Bully Fen". The gardens were established in 1924 by Major Arthur Villiers, director of Barings Bank and philanthropist, to provide small parcels of land for local people in that

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8 Dec 18

The last wall of Newgate prison is being demolished, allowing St Paul's to emerge in the background. This was the end of the last prison in the City of London. A prison had stood on this spot since at least the 12th century. Hangings, which had previously been held in public at

Tyburn, still took place within its walls after 1868. In the 18th century it was the largest and most notorious of London's 150 prisons. When Newgate was demolished, the gallows and the male inmates were moved to Pentonville Prison, and the women to Holloway. Until that point,

men and women had not been segregated in prison, which had led to the birth of many children inside. The Central Criminal Court at Old Bailey, opened in 1907, now stands on this site.the demolition of Newgate Prison, L S & P Co, 1903.LTM

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