The History of Stoke Newington Street Names

Presented at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival on 9th June 2024

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1. The History of Stoke Newington
Street Names
Amir Dotan
www.StokeNewingtonHistory.com

4. Daniel Defoe 1660-1731
Merchant/Businessman
Pamphleteer/Journalist
Novelist
Spy
Satirist
Civet-Cat breeder

5. Daniel Defoe’s house in Stoke Newington Church Street (Defoe Road now)

6. Petherton???

7. Petherton Road is named after the village of Petherton in Somerset where Henry
Rydou, whose family owned the Highbury New Park Estate, was born.

8. Stoke Newington Street Names by Francis William Baxter, 1927

9. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/stoke-newington-street-names-by-w-f-baxter-1927/62270448

11. Shakspeare or Shakespeare?

12. Street renaming, 1937

15. Street renaming, 1937
Old New
Victoria Grove Victorian Grove
Broughton Road Barbauld Road
Gordon Road Beatty Road
Park Lane Clissold Crescent
Arthur Road Gunstor Road
Chapel Court Slindon Court
Spenser Road Spenser Grove
Mason's Court Manley Court (part)
Mason's Place Manley Court (part)
Milton Road Milton Grove
Hamilton Place Ormsby Place
St. Andrew's Road St. Andrew's Grove
Goldsmith Square St. Matthias Square
Woodland Road Sandbrook Road
Shakspeare Road Shakspeare Walk
Lansdowne Mews, Shakspeare Walk Shakspeare Mews

16. Street renaming, 1937
Old New
Church Street Stoke Newington Church Street
Clarence Terrace Stoke Newington Church Street
Clissold Park Villas Stoke Newington Church Street
Kingsway (part) Stoke Newington Church Street
Newington Hall Villas Stoke Newington Church Street
Paradise Row Stoke Newington Church Street
Park Crescent Stoke Newington Church Street
Rochester Place Stoke Newington High Street (part)
White Hart Court Stoke Newington High Street (part)
Victoria Road Victorian Road
Park Street Yoakley Road
Victoria Grove West Yorkshire Grove

17. St Martin-in-the-Fields Church Path36 characters
Stoke Newington Church Street 29 characters
Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach34 characters
Tottenham Green East South Side30 characters
South West India Dock Entrance30 characters

21. 3
9
11
12
7
6
4
2
1
1.Belgrade Road
2.Palatine Road
3.Howard Road
4.Town Hall Approach
5.Barbauld Road
6.Clissold Road
7.Yoakley Road
8.Edward’s Lane
9.Queen Elizabeth’s Walk
10.Grazebrook Road
11.Fleetwood Street
12.Summerhouse Road
5
8
10

22. *Hackney is the only borough in London with street signs written in lowercase font

24. Originally named Wiesbaden Road

25. Wiesbaden, Germany

26. Anti-German riot in Crisp Street, London 1915

27. Windsor replaced Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

28. Renaming Wiesbaden Road was a long-running saga

29. ‘List of streets bearing German names’

32. 5th June, 1916

34. 22nd Sep, 1916
22nd Nov, 1916
1st Aug, 1917

35. 22nd Nov, 1916

36. 1st August, 1917

37. S.M.S. Wiesbaden was sunk on 1st June 1916. A day before Wiesbaden
Road was officially renamed Belgrade Road

40. The Palatines were German refugees who came to Britain in 1709 to
escape poverty and religious persecution

41. The Palatine houses in Palatine Avenue were built by the parish of St.
Mary Stoke Newington to house four Palatine families

42. Palatine House

43. Palatine House

44. Palatine House, 1868

45. The coach house of Palatine House was the home of Black Beauty author
Anna Sewell (1820-1878), who lived during her childhood.

46. 16 Palatine Avenue (the former Coach House/Palatine Cottage)

49. John Howard 1726-1790
Philanthropist and prison
reformer.
While serving as High Sheriff on
Bedford, personally inspected the
state of the prisons throughout
the country.

50. John Howard lived in 8 Church Row (renumbered 168 Church Street)

51. Middle: 8 Church Row (renumbered 168 Church Street)

52. John Howard's detailed
proposals for improvements
were designed to enhance the
physical and mental health of
the prisoners and the security
and order of the prison.

56. Albert Town development 1868

57. Albert Town was built by the National Freehold Land Society (Founded 1849)
Richard Cobden
(1804 – 1865)
Radical and Liberal politician,
 manufacturer, and a
campaigner for free
trade and peace
Samuel Morley (MP)
(1809 – 1886)
Woollen manufacturer and
political radical. Philanthropist,
Congregationalist dissenter,
abolitionist and statesman.
Buried in Abney Park Cemetery
John Bright
(1811 – 1889)
Radical and Liberal
statesman and a campaigner
for free trade

58. Reform Act
1832
Second Reform
Act
1867
Third Reform Act
1884
Representation of
the People Act
1918
21+30+
Representation of
the People Act
1928
21+21+
Voting rights reforms
Extended voting
rights to more
property owners and
redistributed
parliamentary seats.
Further expanded
voting eligibility,
especially in urban
areas, by reducing
property qualification.
Extended voting
rights to agricultural
workers in rural
areas.
Granted the right to
vote to men aged 21
or over and women
over the age of 30,
who met minimum
property qualifications.
Achieved full
universal suffrage,
granting voting rights
to all men and
women over the age
of 21.

59. Town Hall Approach connecting Albion Road and Wordsworth Road

60. South Hornsey Local Board (1865-1900)

61. Hornsey
Detached

63. South Hornsey’s Town Hall in Milton Grove
Town Hall
Approach

64. South Hornsey’s Town Hall in Milton Grove

66. 1947

67. Town Hall Approach
1947

68. Town Hall Approach
Former Town Hall
1947

69. Original footpath Original footpath
Postwar footpath
Original footpath - Built over
Town Hall Approach following postwar rebuild

70. The Foundation Stone is all that’s left of the old Town Hall

73. Anna Laetitia Barbauld 1743-1825
Prominent poet, essayist, literary
critic, editor, and author of
children's literature.
Pioneering voice for women's
rights and abolition, criticising
Britain's role in the slave trade
and Napoleonic Wars.

76. Barbauld Road was originally named Broughton Road

78. 3. Clissold Road (formerly Park
Road)

80. Rev. Augustus Clissold
1797-1882
Curate of St. Mary’s Stoke
Newington.
Between 1835-1882 he was the
owner of the estate that became
Clissold Park in 1889.

81. Clissold House in 1876 (Built 1790)

82. 1946

83. Originally named Park Road

86. 1985

89. Lister Court (Built c. 1960)

91. Quaker Almshouses (Built 1835)

92. 1937 Street renaming

94. Quaker Burial Ground

95. Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869), inventor of the modern microscope

96. 8. Edward’s Lane

101. Edward’s or Edwards??

104. Elizabeth I (1558-1603) when she was a princess

105. Sir John Dudley’s tomb in St. Mary’s Old Church (1526-1580)

112. Current bollards
Original bollards

116. 9. Grazebrook Road (Formerly
Brook Road)

118. The Hackney Brook

119. 1864

120. 1864
Grazebrook Road

121. Originally named Brook Road (1868)

122. Victorian ‘Stinkpipe’ in Greenway Close over the Hackney Brook

123. 2. Fleetwood Street

125. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1868

126. Charles Fleetwood 1618-1692
Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1652–
1655, where he enforced the
Cromwellian Settlement following
the Act for the Settlement of
Ireland 1652.
The Parliamentarian conquest was
brutal, and Cromwell remains a
deeply reviled figure in Ireland.

127. Fleetwood House 1635-1872

130. Demolished in 1871

131. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1894

132. Fleetwood House

133. Remnant of Fleetwood House?

134. 1. Summerhouse Road

136. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1868

137. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1868
KAC

138. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1894

139. Summer House
Summerhouse Road

140. Renowned Summer House resident

142. St. Mary’s Old Churchyard

143. James Stephen is Virginia Woolf’s great-grandfather

145. Thank you