Publications and local history resources for sale All items for sale are available in our shop in the search‐room. If you cannot visit, orders can be place by emailing us at [email protected]. Payment is required in advance of delivery via cheque or credit card. Hackney History The journal of the Friends of Hackney Archives covers a range of local history articles. Back issues are £4 each plus £2 postage and packaging (£3.50P&P for up to 4 issues). Volume 3 
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History in sermons: the Tyssen Collection David Alves Rebello: a Jew of Hackney The Rebello Collection of Coins and Tokens The last harvest of Haggerston Farm The 1890 Housing Act: a Shoreditch case study Volume 4 
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Sadleir of Sutton House and the Standon Lordship: an iconography Disasters and misfortunes: the story of John and Jane Daniell Waste and place: late‐18th‐century development on Kingsland Road Football missionaries at Hackney Wick, 1880‐1913 First in the country: Dr Richard Tee and air raid precautions Volume 7 
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‘Naboth’s Vineyard’: Hackney rectory in the 17th century Restoration Hackney, haven for the ejected Stoke Newington and ‘the golden flower’ Culture comes to Finsbury Park: the public library movement in South Hornsey, 1890‐1900 Labour in power: Hackney Borough Council 1919‐1922 Postscript: the symbolism of the Rebello token Volume 6 
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Hackney and the beginnings of nonconformity Shirley Hibberd: Stoke Newington’s forgotten gardener The Victorian values of Dr Tripe Shoreditch Town Hall Casella: the London progress of a scientific instrument‐making company Volume 5 
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The absentee bishop: Thomas Wood of Hackney and Lichfield Curtain Road: an early London gasworks The athletics capital of England: the White Lion, Hackney Wick, 1857‐75 Bretts of Homerton: a case study in detection The threepenny doctor revisited Volume 9 
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Under Hoxton: excavations at Nuttall Street The Borough of Hackney’s Working Men’s Club: the early years The poor law in Hackney a century ago Frets, fakes and fibreboard: the last years of the Hoxton furniture trade Jim Warren, streetsweeper extraordinare ‘Wings for Victory’: Stoke Newington’s Lancaster Volume 10 
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The Defoe collection The Refuge for Destitute and female emigration to Australia Patients in Hackney Workhouse Infirmary 1880‐1885 School Field: an educational experiment ‘Terra incognita’: a gazetteer to local fiction Volume 11 
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Newcome’s School The elusive Pennington: pinning down a forgotten hero Quakers in Stoke Newington: the 19th and 20th centuries ‘A dream to keep you happy for a week’: the Dalston Turkish baths – and two that never happened The mystery of Homerton H‐O‐G The Lee Valley Regional Park: a historical perspective Volume 15 
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Books, not feathers: the library of John Dawson The brothers Bevan and Barber’s Barn Cholera and public health in 19th century Hackney Harper Twelvetrees: industrialist, philanthropist, campaigner ‘It is as though we start a new life’: council housing in Shoreditch 1945‐50 Volume 14 
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Early dissenting academies Clapton Field and Clapton Passage: the 17th and 18th centuries Masters and servants: the Norris papers The first generation of flats ‘The influenza fiend’: how the flu pandemic of 1918‐19 affected Hackney Volume 13 
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‘Lives of the convicts’: solving a puzzle in printing history The Tyssen Library copy of ‘Lives of the Convicts’ More light, more power: electricity generation and waste disposal in Shoreditch, 1897‐2009 Mayors’ medals for local children, 1902‐1919 Elizabeth and Mark Wilks, campaigners for women’s suffrage The skid‐kids: the post‐war phenomenon of cycle speedway From high hopes to tall flats: the changing shape of Hackney’s housing, 1945‐
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Hackney, Shoreditch and moneyers in the Mint in later‐medieval and early‐
modern London A scoundrel and a scandal: Benjamin Walsh and Pond House Hoxton Hall ‘The omnibus bishop’: William Walsham How The gentrification of Broadway Market Volume 17 
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Stamped with their private stamps: the tokens of the 17th century Edward Berdoe: a doctor with a dilemma? W. Pedr Williams, the disappearing minister of Lower Clapton The Abney Park way of death: an archivist’s perspective Stoke Newington’s double eagles: the story of the ‘Hackney Hoard’ Volume 18 
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The cult of celebrity in 18th century Stoke Newington The bells of Shoreditch Stamford Hill – opulent and healthy ‘An avalanche of wrathful violence’: physical opposition to the Salvation Army, 1881 – 1883 Laburnam Street School Books For multiple items, please contact Hackney Archives before sending payment to confirm the postage costs. Overseas postage to be confirmed on ordering. Sale items Title Author Reduced Price Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke Newington Benjamin Clarke £2.50 UK Postage £3.50 Lost Hackney House History for Beginners ‘Late Extra!’: Hackney in the news Elizabeth Robinson £2.00 Colin and O‐lan Style £10.00 David Mander £5 £2.00 £3.50 £3.50 Limited copies remaining Title Author Price UK Postage The German Hospital: a social and architectural history 1845‐1987 Elizabeth McKellar £3.75 £1.50 Builders of Repute: the story of Reader Bros Josephine Boyle £18.50 £3.50 Strength in the Tower: an illustrated history of David Mander £9.99 £3.50 Hackney Title Author Price UK Postage Look Back, Look Forward: an illustrated history of Stoke Newington David Mander £9.99 £3.50 Under Hackney: the archaeological story Keith Sugden £4.95 £1.50 Researching in Stoke Newington David Mander £2.25 £1.00 Hackney Houses Helen Peacock £4.50 £1.50 Researching London’s Houses Colin Thom £13.95 £3.50 Sources for the Study of Public Housing Alan Cox £1.00 £1.50 Education by Election: Reed’s School, Clapton and Watford Norman Alvey £4.95 £1.50 Census indexes Not available on Ancestry.com – limited copies remaining Title Author Price Postage Hackney 1811 Census (only one left) East of London Family History Society (EoLFHS) £12.00 £1.50 Hackney 1821 Census Part 1 (A‐K) EoLFHS £12.00 £1.50 Hackney 1821 Census Part 2 (L‐Z) EoLFHS £12.00 £1.50 Census indexes (on Ancestry.com) Stoke Newington 1841 Census (booklet with EoLFHS microfiche) £3.00 £1.00 Hackney 1851 Census Part 1 (A‐K) (booklet with microfiche) EoLFHS £3.00 £1.00 Hackney 1851 Census Part 2 (L‐Z) (booklet with microfiche) EoLFHS £3.00 £1.00 Cont… Author Price Postage DVD: Stoke Newington. Highlights themes Bill Hall in the area’s history including the rich non‐
conformist heritage and Stoke Newington’s links with literary figures. £6.95 £3.50 DVDs Title Walks Title Author Discover Stoke Newington: a walk through history Friends of £4.95 Hackney Archives £1.50 Discover De Beauvoir Town and environs Friends of £1 Hackney Archives £1.50 Historic Hackney circular walk £1 £1.00 £0.20 each £1.00 Hackney Walks. A series consisting of (1) Upper Clapton; (2) Central Hackney; (3) Stoke Newington; (4) Shoreditch and Hoxton; (5) Kingsland and Dalston; (6) The Heart of Hackney Past and Present Price Postage Maps and posters Title Price Postage Hackney 1831 map £4.00 £3.50 Shoreditch 1745 map £5.00 Plus postage & packaging Hackney workhouse rules £3.00 Plus postage & packaging Godfrey maps £3.50 each, plus postage: £1.50 for up to 5 25” Ordnance Survey maps, with historical notes and photographs. Sheet number Area Dates available 12 Hornsey 1912 13 Tottenham 1894 20 Finsbury Park / Stroud Green 1894 1912 21 Stamford Hill 1868 1894 1913 22 Walthamstow Marshes 1894 1913 29 Upper Holloway 1894 1914 30 Stoke Newington 1868 1894 1914 31 Lower Clapton 1868 1894 1914 32 Leyton 1894 1914 39 Highbury & Islington 1871 1894 1914 40 Dalston 1870 1894 1913 41 Hackney 1870 1894 1913 42 Stratford 1893 1914 50 Clerkenwell / Kings X 1871 1894 1914 51 Shoreditch 1872 1893 1914 52 Bethnal Green & Bow 1870 1894 1914 53 Bow, Bromley & West Ham 1893 1914 63 Whitechapel / Spitalfields 1873 1894 1913 64 Stepney & Limehouse 1914 77 Bermondsey / Wapping 1894 1914 78 Rotherhithe 1894 1914 79 West India Docks 1867 1914 92 Greenwich & the Isle of Dogs 1913 Godfrey Maps: 60” Ordnance Survey maps, with historical notes and photographs. Sheet number Area Dates available 7.08 Central Hackney 1870‐93 7.09 Homerton 1870‐93 7.46 South Shoreditch & Bunhill Fields 1872 7.56 Finsbury Square & Circus 1873 Postcards 63 different designs are available, showing a range of images from the collections. Postage £1.00 for up to 20. Please note it is cheaper to purchase post cards when visiting the search‐room. Colour postcard – 8 separate images – £1 each AA1 Church Street, Hackney (Mare Street) and the Hackney Brook. Samuel Prout, 1800 copy of a view of c.1740 (HAD WP 2994) AA2 Kingsland Crescent. C.H. Matthews. Watercolour of 1852 showing view of c.1800. (HAD WP 3752) AA3 Sutton Place and the Hackney Proprietary Grammar School. George Hawkins, 1836. (HAD WP 4512/3) AA4 The Jolly Anglers, north of Lea Bridge Road c.1800‐20. (HAD WP 12062) AA5 Dawson’s Corner, City Road and East Road junction. Charles Ivanoe, 1902. (HAD WP 3824) AA6 Weavers Almshouses and the Refuge for the Destitute, Old Street. Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, c.1850 (HAD Ellis Vol 4) AA7 The Red Lion, Church Street, Stoke Newington. J.T. Wilson, 1869. (HAD WP 4540) AA8 Clissold Park: mansion and old and new St Mary’s church spires. William Beck, c.1896. (HAD WP 4551) Black and White/Sepia – 55 separate images – 50p each. Collection sets contain 8 postcards for the letter reference. For example set U contains U1‐U8. Each set of 8 cost £3 (plus postage and packaging) T1 Members of the Stoke Newington Cycle Club outside the Swan Public House, Clapton Common in 1886 T2 The children’s ward of the German Hospital, c.1910 T3 Hoxton Street looking north towards the Shoreditch Workhouse, c.1905 T4 The Hackney Picture Palace in Mare Street, c.1915 T5 Looking east down Well Street from Mare Street T6 Stoke Newington Church Street looking west at the junction with Albion Road, c.1893 T7 The London Coffee and Dining Rooms, 7 Amhurst Road, showing A.W. Bacon and staff, c.1906 T8 The Butters family in their garden at ‘Parkfield’, 49 King Edwards Road, c.1875 U1 The Invalid Asylum at 187 Stoke Newington High Street, c.1900 U2 Berger’s Paint factory in Morning Lane, 1906 U3 VE celebrations in Essex Street, Hoxton, 1945 U4 Workmen laying tramlines at Stamford Hill in 1909 U5 Shell fish sellers in Mare Street, c. 1890 U6 Kingsland Road at Dalston Junction in 1905 U7 The River Lea at Middlesex Wharf in 1885, showing the Alexandra Rowing Club and the Jolly Anglers Public House U8 The boundary between Hackney and the City of London in 1909, showing shop premises on Norton Folgate and Bishopsgate. Greater London Photograph Library. V1 Sutton House, Homerton, c.1900 V2 Sitting room, City Mission’s Ayah’s Home, 26 King Edward Road, South Hackney, 1906 V3 J. Walter Butters and his walking stick collection, 49 King Edward Road, South Hackney, 1905 V4 Well Street, South Hackney, looking east from Balcorne Street, c.1905 V5 Clissold House and the New River, from Paradise Row, Stoke Newington Church Street, c.1860 V6 The Windsor Castle public house and adjoining shops, Lower Clapton Road, c.1883 V7 Conduit Court, off Conduit Place, Rossington Street, Clapton, prior to slum clearance, 1933 V8 Fish inspection from Hackney’s Public Health Department, 1953 W1 Hackney Empire, Mare Street, c.1920 W2 Lewis Burtt, Secretary of the Hoxton Market Christian Institute (front row with bowler), Professor James Stuart, MP for the Hoxton Division (standing right with top hat) and friends at or shortly after the opening of the new Institute, July 1892 W3 Steam tram heading south along Stamford Hill near Olinda Road, c.1902 W5 Rear of Church Row, 166‐80 Stoke Newington Church Street, prior to demolition to construct the Town Hall, 1933 W6 St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch and Shoreditch High Street, from the roof of Shoreditch Station, c.1920 W7 Linscott Road and the Salvation Army Hall, Clapton, after bombing, 16 October 1940 W8 W.H. Smallshaw outside his newly refronted shop, 10 Stamford Hill, 1904 X1 Amhurst Road, looking towards Hackney Old Church Tower, with horse cab, 1867 (P10445) X2 Mare Street looking north towards railway bridge, c.1884 (P5804) X3 Stoke Newington Church Street looking east to junction with Albion Road and Halstead House, c.1880 (P692) X4 Newington Green, north side and the Unitarian Chapel, c.1855 (P10881) X5 Stoke Newington Church Street with cows and sheep at the junction with Yoakley Road, 1922 (P685) X6 River Lea and the Robin Hood public house, 1890 (Album 3) X7 Pond Lane (now Millfields Road) looking west towards Clapton Pond, 1885 (P24) X8 The Chief Engineer and staff: the Reader family in their garden, 28 Christie Road, 1909, courtesy of Mrs J. Boyle (P14591/3) Y1 The King’s Hall and Baths, Lower Clapton Road, 1905 (P5815) Y2 Scene at the Hackney Workhouse, c.1900 (P3299) Y3 John Sturch’s butchers shop, 213 Mare Street, c.1900 (P3398) Y4 Pear Tree Place (east of Lower Clapton Road, opposite Clapton Pond), 1912 (P8691/192) Y5 Children and cart, near Hoxton Market, c.1930, courtesy of Mr A.E. Kay (P14687/60) Y6 Pitfield Street, looking north from Charles Square junction, 1896 (P1724) Y7 Saturday morning market in Shoreditch High Street, near Bethnal Green Road junction, 1896 (P1729) Y8 Marie Lloyd. Signed photograph, 12 June 1905 (P5105) Z1 Wardens gathered by their post at Lebon’s Corner, Dalston Lane, in 1940 (P9608/4) Z2 The Britannia, Mare Street, after bombing on 23/24 September 1940 (H/A/ 34/127) Z3 The ‘A’ Shift, Millfields Light Rescue team, making toys for Hackney Day Nurseries, 1942 (P9610) Z4 Stoke Newington Reference Library in use as a food office, World War II (P14452) Z5 The ‘Captain’ of the mock up submarine HMS Thrasher poses with his ship in Shoreditch Council yard at the start of Warship Week, 21 March 1942 (P3038) Z6 Queen Elizabeth inspects Stoke Newington’s defences, 1940 (P11163/7) Z7 Troops and wagon in Downs Park Road, 1940 (P9621/4) Z8 VE Day party, Clapton Passage, May 1945 (P9562)