Title

'Bits of Old Hackney', c1876

Caption

'Bits of Old Hackney', c1876. Showing Brook House - converted for use into a private asylum in 1758, Barber's Barn - residence of John Okey, a signatory to Charles I's death warrant, and Shore Place in 18th century Hackney, a retreat for nobility until construction of the railway c1850s. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]

Date

1876

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F23_089

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,1Mb (3,0Mb) / 12,6in x 18,5in / 3790 x 5546 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors city urban road building buildings London England hospital house houses architecture country shape British English lane avenue location retreat circular Victorian century Britain facade concept United Kingdom B&W MONOCHROME detached publication hackney Day inset asylum 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century façade nineteenth century history historic The Print Collector Brook House East London TGN outside Barber's Barn street building exterior engraving Old and New London Unknown John Edward Walford Co Edward Walford Cassell madhouse Petter Petter & Galpin Shore Place John Okey Okey engraving