Building "Local" Local Histories

Local Local History: the building of the histories of extremely small areas,
sometimes of only a few dozen streets, but all put into a much wider context.

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Main Index

Introducing the CD

Recent Changes (also highlighted in index in bold)

Growth of Stoke Newington

Sequences of Maps of Stoke Newington.

1. Pre 1868
2. Post 1868 for Stoke Newington Area
3. Post 1868 for Grasmere School
4. School Locations on the Early Maps

Betty Layward School

• Why Betty Layward Primary School was given his name
• Walk 2 (Church Street) Preparation
• Walk 2 - Church Street

Clissold School

• History of Clissold School
• Clissold Park School Newspaper Articles
• Clissold Road Walk 1

Grasmere School

• Grasmere School History
• Google/1868 Map
• Grasmere School Walks Preparation
• Grasmere School Walk 1: Early Houses in Albion Road and Milton Grove Old Houses
  • Preparation
  • Walk
• Grasmere School Walk 2: The Development of Church Walk
• Grasmere School Walk 3: Rebuilding the Albion Road Triangle
• Grasmere School Walk 4: The Building of Milton Gardens
  • Preparation for Grasmere School Walk 4
  • How the Planners set about planning Milton Gardens
  • Walk add 7-7-07 end

Grazebrook Primary School

• School Site in Maps
• Preparation for the Walks 1 & 2
• Walk 1, Part 2

Islington Green School

• The Story of Islington Green School - Part 1: To 1945
• The History of Islington Green School Part 2 - From 1945

Woodberry Down Comprehensive School

• History

Stoke Newington School

• Stoke Newington School Site History, Version 2
• Amalgamation of Clissold School and Woodberry Down Comprehensive to form Stoke Newington School
• Walk 2 (Church Street) Preparation
• Walk 2 - Church Street

William Patten

• The Site History of Site from 1846 in Maps
• School History (latest) (version 1) (version 2)
• School History Continued
• William Patten School Drawings - very imcomplete
• Map of Walks
• Walk 1
• Walk 1a
• Walk 2
• Walk 2a

Other Schools

• ++ 1846 Fragment

The Development of the Willow Estate and The March of Bricks and Mortar into Stoke Newington

1. To the Sale in 1891
2. The Development by 1894
3. Further Development by 1914 and the Albion Road Cinema
4. The 1891 Willows Sale Document in Facsimile

Geology
Finding Geology in Buildings and The Geology of the Lea Valley
Paleolithic History

Building Materials

1. Stone
2. Bricks
3. Wrought Iron
4. Cast Iron

Building Material Borders

1. Architectural Border 1-7-07
2. Architectural Details 3/2/08
3. Bricks and Brickwork 2/2/08
4. Cast Iron 29-6-07
5. Geometrical shapes 2/2/08
6. Leaf 29-6-07
7. Stone 5-7-07
8. Building Stone 9-7-07
9. Wrought Iron 29-6-07 use 1-7-07
10. Test Border Switching

Building Details

1. Roof Shapes Final 23-6-07 done
2. Gables 9-7-07 done
3. Barge Boards
4. Lintels 23-6-07 done, old version with extra bits
5. Arches
6. Wooden Houses
7. Fire of London 1666
8. Fire of London Building Regulations and Pediment Roofs
9. The Oil Crisis, Cavity Walls and Thermal Concrete
10. Stucco, the Poor Man's Stone
11. Sketching 1-7-07
12. An Architect’s Sketchbook Mr D.M.Jones, MA ARIBA AA Diploma 28-08-07

Designing a House

1. 2 and 3 Dimensional Geometrical Shapes
2. Architectural Design
3. Sketching
4. Making a Small Sketch Book

The Saving of Clissold Park

Housing People in Decent Conditions:

A sequence of articles on different aspects of Housing including examples drawn from Stoke Newington.

1. Early housing Conditions and Southwood Smith. An experiment in building clean flats and saving lives.
   
2. The fashion for encouraging healthy housing at model factories and as attractive model dwellings as additions to wealthy estates.
   
3. Octavia Hill and Ruskin, The 5% Philanthropic Housing Movement, Peabody Society, etc. discussed in connection with Gibson Gardens, an 1881 Philanthropic Housing development in Stoke Newington.
   
4. 1900 The Right of Councils to build to let, with the aid of 60 year loans at low interest. The new London County Council flats in Central London. There were none in Stoke Newington at this time.
5. 1917, as a reaction to he political unrest on the Clyde, the promise of ‘Homes For Heroes'.
6. Slum Clearance in the 1930s
   • The Achitects' Protest Survey
   • Building by the LCC in Stoke Newington - 1933
   • Building by Stoke Newington Council - 1936
   • Buildung the Howard Estate between Howard Rd and Matthias Rd
   • Planning the Woodberry Down Estate.
7. The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps, 1939-45
8. Example of Bomb Damage - Flying Bomb Damage in Albion Triangle
9. 1945 Rebuilding after World War II
   • Post War Building - The Burma Court Estate
   • Post War Building - Bomb Sites and Old Houses around Milton Grove
   • Post War Building - Planning the building of Milton Gardens
10. Tower Blocks
11. 1985 Refurbishing 1935 Slum Clearance buildings after 50 years
    ++ Extra bit
12. The Squatters Movement
13. Mrs Thatcher and the statement that, ‘There is no such thing as Society'.
14. Lady Porter and Gerrymandering in Westminster
15. Housing Trusts.

School Building Design

1. Three Decker and the fight against Tuberculosis
2. Modern Brick
3. Prefab Bungalow

Examples of London Industrial History

1. Building a Housing Estate
2. The Drinks Trade - Walter and Alfred Gilbey
3. Gun Smiths
4. Scientific Instrument Making
5. Piano Manufacture in Camden Town
6. Albion Road Cinema

Studies

1. The Development of the Theodolite
2. Thomas Cubitt, Builder, (1788-1855) and Albion Road
3. Housing Conditions in Stoke Newington over the Years (Summary of Above)
4. 1855 Lecture by Thomas Jackson, Stoke Newington becoming engulfed.
5. Prosperous Living (Cubitt Albion Road?) 11-7-07 done
6. The Story of South Villa, Albion Road
7. The Story of Newington Hall
8. Selling off the Stoke Newington Estates by the Earl of Darlington in 1810
9. Lintels
10. Lintels as a gallery
11. Sketching
12. An Architect’s Sketchbook
13. Building Wooden Houses
14. The Great Fire of London in 1666
15. The Fire of London Building Regulations
16. Gables
17. Barge boards
18. Keeping a House Dry
19. Roof Shapes
20. Stucco, the Poor Man's Stone
21. The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps, 1939-45
22. Early Houses - Examples in Church Street
23. Albert Town and Hornsey Removed
24. Building, Restoring and Rebuilding the Clissold Road Houses
• Clissold Road When It Was First Built in the Eighteen-Sixties
• Clissold Road in the Nineteen-Eighties
• Tackling the Problem of Restoration - Restoring the Fronts
• The Restoration and Rebuilding the Backs of Nos.1-15
• Coade Stone

The Open Spaces Movement

1. Saving Clissold Park from the Builders 14-7-07 partially done
2. Albert Gardens - "The Park That Never Was"
3. The Open Spaces Movement
4. The Saving of Highgate Wood
5. Saving Churchyard Bottom (Queens Wood, Muswell Hill) 15-7-07 partially done
6. Creating Paddington Recreation Ground 13-7-07 done
7. Open Spaces Mornington Crescent Gardens 16-7-07 done

Other Stoke Newington Estate Sales Documents

• Map of the Estates Around Albion Road - based on 1868 map - done
• Stoke Newington Sale Plans and Sale Documents

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