Hackney: Settlement and Building (1750)

A map of Hackney circa 1750. Colonnades Apartments was eventually built about 100 metres west of Spurstowe Almshouses.

Source British History Online
Article Hackney: Settlement and Building to c.1800

Map of the Parish of Hackney (1800)

A map from the early 1800s. Colonnades Apartments is almost exactly where the 'N' is on the map.

Source V&A Museum
Author John Roque
Name Map of the Parish of Hackney, before its division into district parishes.
Description Lithograph map of the Parish of Hackney, modified from Roque's original 1745 design to reflect the district in the early 1800s

Hackney Village (1830)

A closer look at the development of Grove Place which ran west from Spurstowe Almshouses and eventually became Sylvester Road.

Source British History Online
Article Hackney: Hackney Village
Besides establishing a coffee house in the street, Silvester built five houses in Sylvester Row (later extended as Grove Place and from 1883 Sylvester Road). Richard Dann, who bought most of Silvester's estate, in 1792 leased to George Scott land on which a terrace of twelve houses projected into the fields north of the almshouses.

Coach houses for the Grove were provided in Willow Walk as Potts Mews (later Grove Mews and finally part of Wilton Way)

Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs (1864)

Source MAPCO - Map and Plan Collection Online
Map Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1864; Showing All The Proposed Metropolitan Railways and Improvements.

Edward Weller - Map of London (1868)

Source MAPCO - Map and Plan Collection Online
Map Map Of London 1868, By Edward Weller, F.R.G.S. Revised And Corrected To The Present Time By John Dower, F.R.G.S.
It is important to realise that Bacon overlaid many of the new London developments over the top of the Weller and Dower plates. Some of the London features shown on the map were speculative in nature, representing known planned developments or information published in Parliamentary Papers, some of which never eventuated and were not build.

This is probably why the railway lines are shown even though later Ordnance Survey maps don't include them.

Ordnance Survey Maps (1868)

Source National Library of Scotland
Publisher Ordnance Survey
Series Six-inch England and Wales, 1842 - 1952
Region Middlesex
Sheet Middlesex Sheet XVII
Surveyed 1868 to 1873
Published 1880 to 1882

Ordnance Survey Maps (1871)

Source National Library of Scotland
Publisher Ordnance Survey
Series 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952
Region London
Sheets London (First Editions c1850s) XVIII
London (First Editions c1850s) XVIX
Surveyed 1870, 1871
Published 1873

Hackney Village (1883)

Grove Place and Silvester Row are renamed Sylvester Road.

Besides establishing a coffee house in the street, Silvester built five houses in Sylvester Row (later extended as Grove Place and from 1883 Sylvester Road). Richard Dann, who bought most of Silvester's estate, in 1792 leased to George Scott land on which a terrace of twelve houses projected into the fields north of the almshouses.

Source British History Online
Article Hackney: Hackney Village

Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke Newington (1893)

Excerpts from page 241:

Before further alterations in our populous neighbourhood quite obliterate "Pigwell-path," we will start from the Old Church-path, between the White Horse Public House, and Spurstowe's Alms Houses, and pass due west towards Dalston. Immediately on the left hand we find stables - in fact a "mews." Here the former residents in the Grove kept their horses and carriages, as is the present custom in the West End of London; and on the right hand we have the back walls of the once stylish and well-build houses in Grove-place.

Although once a footpath only, Pigwell-path has now emerged into a wide, well kept road - "Wilton-road"

Title Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke Newington Being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Hackney Mercury, from April 23rd, 1892, to November 25th 1893
Author F. R. Clarke 1893

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Charles Booth Poverty Map (1886-1903)

Source London School of Economics
Author Charles Booth
Map Maps Descriptive of London Poverty

The red line on the south side of Sylvester Road indicates the residents in the houses there were in the "Middle class. Well-to-do." social class (see What were the poverty maps?).

Ordnance Survey Maps (1894-1896)

Source National Library of Scotland
Publisher Ordnance Survey
Series Six-inch England and Wales, 1842 - 1952
Region London
Sheet London Sheet VII.NE
Revised 1893 to 1894
Published 1894 to 1896

Ordnance Survey Maps (1895)

Source National Library of Scotland
Publisher Ordnance Survey
Series Five feet to the Mile, 1893-1896
Region London
Sheets Sheet VII.8
Sheet VII.18
Revised 1893
Published 1895

Police Notebook (1897)

Charles Booth's researchers joined police officers on their London beats to collect the data used to produce the Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-99.

From https://booth.lse.ac.uk/notebooks

Starting at Hackney Station N.L.R. then south down Mare St & west along Graham Road. red & pink as map. A few shops at western end & a block of flats in place of the waste ground shown on ordnance map a little way down on the south side. Houses generally 3 storied. Tram to Dalston starts at the Mare St end. Behind it entered by the Penpoll road is Sylvester Rd. Big dark houses with gardens at the back built originally as dwelling houses 4½ & 2½ stories, many of which are now used as factories : boot, etc. Many railway people live here.
Source London School of Economics
Reference BOOTH/B/347
Title George H.Duckworth's Notebook: Police District 13 [South Hackney and Hackney], District 14 [West Hackney and South East Islington] and District 16 [Highbury, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill]
Description Walk with Inspector Thomas Fitzgerald, District 13 [South Hackney and Hackney], 30 August [1897]
Page 31 / 249

Ordnance Survey Maps (1920)

Source National Library of Scotland
Publisher Ordnance Survey
Series Six-inch England and Wales, 1842 - 1952
Region London
Sheet London Sheet K
Revised 1913-1914
Published 1920

Hackney Archives (1925)

Source Hackney Archives
Reference M1461
Title SURVEY, CORRESPONDENCE and PAPERS
Description Of Ellis & Son concerning the Union rating of the factory of Stapley & Smith, Pigwell Path, Sylvester Road. Confidential
Date November 1925

From COSGB

Stapley & Smith was a clothing manufacturer that specialised in foundation garments and underwear such as bustles and corsets. The company was founded by Richard Stapley and Henry Smith in London. Stapley & Smith advertised widely in the 1870s and 1880s and were one of the first companies to register their underwear designs.

Ordnance Survey Maps (1950)

Source National Library of Scotland
Publisher Ordnance Survey
Series National Grid maps, 1940s-1960s - TQ Grid Square
Region London, TQ 100km square
Sheet TQ3484NE - A
Revised 1949
Published 1950

Hackney Village (1985)

Changes behind the town hall included rebuilding for the council's technical services department, the replacement of Casterton Road by a sports centre opened in 1979, and the conversion of a factory next to Sylvester House into flats called the Colonnades.
Source British History Online
Article Hackney: Hackney Village