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A History of the County of Middlesex - Volume X: Hackney Parish (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of Middlesex - Volume X: Hackney Parish (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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This volume is the third to cover parts of Middlesex which lay from
1889 until 1965 within the county of London. It treats the history
of Hackney, the largest parish transferred in 1889, which became a
metropolitan borough with over 220,000 inhabitants before giving
its name to a Greater London borough. The volume traces the origin
of Hackney within the bishop of London's extensive Stepney manor,
with medieval settlement round the church and at Dalston by the
13th century, and at Clapton and Homerton by the 14th. Hackney Wick
and Shacklewell also had medieval origins. Before 1750 most people
lived along Mare Street and its offshoots. London has been
decisive, malting Hackney a desirable retreat, healthy but
accessible, before turning it into a largely industrial suburb.
Aldermen bought property there in the 13th century, as did Bank of
England directors in the 18th. Nobles and courtiers abounded in
Tudor and early Stuart times, when monarchs visited. Samuel Pepys
admired girls at the fashionable schools and Daniel Defoe praised
an opulence said in 1756 to sur-pass that of any village in the
kingdom. The 18th century brought canals, rail-ways, factories,
substantial villas, and jerry-built terraces for workers from the
old East End. Britain's first plastics were made at Hackney Wick in
the 1860s, and other products became household names. By 1901 south
Hackney, with Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, formed the centre of
London's clothing and furniture trades. The better off retreated
northward. Their houses, if not subdivided, gave place to council
estates, often for Londoners and for which more room was to be made
by bombing. The population has shrunk over seventy years. Since
1945 Much heavy industry has left and immigrants have come mainly
from the new Commonwealth, although Jews remain prominent around
Stamford Hill. 'Gentrification', delayed by the widespread
distribution of council estates and lack of an Underground
rail-way, is bringing the refurbishment of older houses, often in
the shadow of tower blocks which themselves are under threat.
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