Haggerston
| Haggerston | |
| Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Queenbridge Road, Haggerston | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ340835 |
| Location: | 51°32’5"N, 0°4’36"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 10,376 |
| Post town: | London |
| Postcode: | E2, E8 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Hackney |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Hackney South and Shoreditch |
Haggerston is an urban village in Middlesex, immediately north-east of Shoreditch.
In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities. In 2010, Haggerston railway station re-opened, a little to the north of the original station.
Name
Haggerston is first recorded In the Domesday Book of 1086, as Hergotestane,[1] a name that may derive from a Saxon farmer called Hærgod, who either had a ‘tun’ (farmstead) here or a stone that marked the boundary of his land.[2]
History
Haggerston was an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch. On Rocque's 1745 map of Hackney, it is shown as Agostone[3] but by the 19th century it had become Haggerstone.[4]
Edmond Halley was born in the village on 8 November 1656.[5] He is known as the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet that was later named after him,[6] Halley's Comet.[7]
At the end of the 18th century, Haggerston was still rural, with local farmers supplying nearby London with milk and dairy products and feed for horses.
The Cat & Mutton Bridge which crosses the Regents Canal still carries the name of a former alehouse that stood on the site at the extreme right, and has been closed since at least 1919. The present pub on a new site was built in 1909 as the Sir Walter Scott but is now known as La Vie en Rose.[8]
Nichols Square was a development built in 1841, and featured two rows of Tudor gothic villas at its centre; it was later enhanced in 1867-9 by the addition of St Chad's church. In 1963, Nichols Square was demolished by a compulsory purchase order in order to build the Fellows Court Estate.[9]
Haggerston railway station was opened in 1867 two years after the line to Broad Street was completed. It was originally to be known as De Beauvoir Town but this name was changed before it opened.[10]
Ronald and Reginald Kray, identical twin gangsters known as the Kray twins, were born on 24 October 1933,[11] on Stean Street.
The architect George Finch worked on the Suffolk Estate, which was an early low-rise, high-density scheme built in the 1950s, with a mix of flats and houses.[12]
Haggerston Park was developed in two phases; the previously industrial northern half of the site became a public park in the late 1950s and the southern part of the park was fully developed in the 1980s. Formerly the site had been occupied by gas works operated by the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company.[13]
In August 1990, PC Laurence Brown was murdered while responding to a 999 call along Pownall Road in Orwell Court on the Suffolk Estate. Mark Gaynor, an unemployed 20-year-old, pulled out a shotgun and fired directly at him. PC Brown collapsed and died in a car park off Pownall Road.[14]
By 2015, Haggerston's proximity to Shoreditch had made the area popular with students and workers in the creative industries, as nearby areas had grown more expensive. In recent years, escalating property prices have driven commercial art galleries further into east London, which has exacerbated this effect. For the same reason, Haggerston has been attracting tech start-ups around Silicon Roundabout in Old Street, with some people calling the area "Hackerston".[15]
About the village
The Grade II listed Haggerston Baths, designed by Alfred Cross and opened in 1904, was closed in 2000, but reopened ten years later with taxpayers' money as a wider community resource.[16]
Holy Trinity Church, Dalston hosts an annual clowns' service to commemorate Joseph Grimaldi, and All Saints Centre at one time housed the Clowns Gallery and Museum, including props and a unique collection of painted eggs, serving as the 'registration' of clowns' make-up. Much of the collection is now on display at Wookey Hole.[17]
Churches
- Church of England:
- All Saints, Haggerston
- Holy Trinity Church, Dalston
- Roman Catholic: Little Sisters of Jesus, a Roman Catholic community of nuns founded in Algeria in 1939.[18]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Haggerston) |
References
- ↑ Blake, Monica; Finn, John. "Highlights of Haggerston". The Hackney Society. https://www.hackneysociety.org/documents/Highlights_of_Haggerston1.pdf.
- ↑ "Haggerston". https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/haggerston/.
- ↑ The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney: Old and New London, Vol 5
- ↑ "Stanford's Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1872". http://london1872.com/stanford32.htm.
- ↑ "Edmond Halley". http://www.ianridpath.com/halley/halley3.html.
- ↑ "Edmond Halley | Astronomer, Mathematician & Comet Discoverer | Britannica". 10 January 2024. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmond-Halley.
- ↑ Cartwright, Mark. "Edmond Halley". https://www.worldhistory.org/Edmond_Halley/.
- ↑ "Geograph:: Regent's Canal: Cat & Mutton Bridge (C) Dr Neil Clifton". https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727784.
- ↑ "Nichols Square in Haggerston is demolished (1963)". https://horridhackney.com/f/nichols-square-in-haggerston-is-demolished-1963.
- ↑ Disused Stations: Haggerston
- ↑ "The Kray Twins | London Murderers | Ronnie Kray | Reggie Kray". 15 June 2022. https://www.theswinging60s.com/the-kray-twins/.
- ↑ "Architect of the Brixton Rec". http://brixtonrecusersgroup.blogspot.com/p/architect-of-brixton-rec.html.
- ↑ Highlights of Haggerston: The hackney Society
- ↑ "Memorial service for Hackney policeman shot dead 20 years ago". 1 September 2010. https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/crime/22949542.memorial-service-hackney-policeman-shot-dead-20-years-ago/.
- ↑ "Why tech start-ups are swerving Silicon Roundabout for Haggerston". 11 June 2015. https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/why-tech-start-ups-are-swerving-silicon-roundabout-for-haggerston-10313216.html.
- ↑ June 2009; Cash for historic baths—what the Edwardians did for us Peter Sherlock 25 June 2009 (Hackney Gazette) accessed 27 June 2009
- ↑ Dangerfield, Andy (4 February 2013). "BBC News - Clowns in Joseph Grimaldi church tribute service". Bbc.co.uk. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21319024.
- ↑ "Jesus Caritas News & Archive of the Spiritual Family of Charles de Foucauld". http://www.jesuscaritas.info/jcd/en/45/hackney-london.
- Jones, T. E.: 'Father Wilson of Haggerston: a life simply offered' (Anglo Catholic History Society, 2003) (biography of Herbert Arthur Wilson of St Augustine's church, Haggerston)