Abney Park & South Tottenham: I ended my stroll on Sunday 1st October 1989 (which had begun at Finsbury Park) in Abney Park Cemetery, considered one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ backyard cemeteries laid out after an 1832 Act of Parliament inspired the institution of personal cemeteries within the outer suburbs of London as graveyards within the internal metropolis have been dangerously overflowing.
Abney Park Cemetery was laid out on the grounds of Abney Home and its neighbours and named after Sir Thomas Abney, Lord Mayor of London in 1700–1701, who had Abney Home constructed for him in 1676 – it was demolished for the cemetery which opened in 1840.
These concerned with establishing the cemetery have been members of the Congregational Church however it was arrange on a completely non-denominational foundation. For the following 40 years was the burial place of selection for a lot of main non-conformists. Amongst those that had performed a component within the landscaping of the realm round Abney Home lengthy earlier than it turned a cemetery was the prolific Congregational hymn author Isaac Watts, a lot of whose hymns are nonetheless well-known and beloved, and there’s a statue of him within the cemetery.
Unusually, in addition to a cemetery it was additionally established as an arboretum and retains a powerful assortment of timber and a big instance of panorama design. From 1880 it was run strictly on business traces, however when the corporate went into administration within the Seventies the cemetery turned massively overgrown. Within the Eighties it was taken over by Hackney council, however at first they did little to enhance its situation apart from establishing it as a nature reserve. Extra lately it has been significantly improved with the assistance of lottery funding.
Based on Wikipedia “Henry Richard (3 April 1812 – 20 August 1888) was a Congregational minister and Welsh Member of Parliament between 1868–1888. Richard was an advocate of peace and worldwide arbitration, as secretary of the Peace Society for forty years (1848–1884). His different pursuits included anti-slavery work. “
The memorial over his grave was erected by public subscription in 1891, and his statue within the Sq. in Tregaron the place he was born was unveiled in 1893.
I can inform you nothing about George Clayton apart from is recorded right here, however I used to be attracted each by the younger angel and surrounding flowers on this comparatively current instance of a memorial, shortly earlier than the cemetery fell out of use.
I didn’t spend lengthy within the cemetery on this event, strolling by means of it to get to Stoke Newington Station as by the I used to be in a rush to get house. I took round a dozen photos in my stroll by means of the park however have up to now solely put two of those on-line. However I did return to it on my subsequent stroll per week later – and have been again fairly a couple of occasions since.
My subsequent stroll started from Seven Sisters Station per week later, and I walked from the Victoria Line exit south down the Excessive Street.
Typically I got here throughout what appeared to me, no less than in {a photograph}, a type of visible conundrum and this was considered one of them. Most likely standing the place I used to be to take the image I may have sorted out why what seems to be a view by means of a slightly smeared tranparent sheet in some locations exhibits what’s behind it however elsewhere replaces it with a distinct view. Form of seeing by means of a glass darkly. And what’s this unusual construction which holds this sheet. I can’t now inform you. However the empty can of Ginger Beer spiked on the fence is sort of clear.
Turkey and Africa meet on the posters right here. The Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi – Revolutionary Communist Social gathering of Turkey – is, based on Wikipedia, “a clandestine communist social gathering in Turkey” and “To not be confused with Revolutionary Communist Social gathering (Turkey).” Kahrolsun Fasist Diktatorluk! I feel interprets as ‘Down With Fascist Dictatorship’ and presumably implies that of Turkey slightly than Haringey Council.
Beneath is a poster for and occasion at Dougie’s Nightclub within the Decrease Clapton Street, which would seem to function sounds from Africa and Zimbabwe particularly. Dougie’s was in a perform room for the White Hart pub, which later turned the Clapton Cinematograph earlier than turning into an evening membership, Dougie’s in 1983. Later it was the Palace Pavilion nightclub the place stabbings and shootings made this highway often called ‘Homicide Mile’
And beneath these, different posters which little or virtually nothing might be seen. It was a well-used submit, simply south of the railway bridge after which simply to the aspect of a small store or cafe, the previous station ticket workplace, since demolished to supply a path to South Tottenham Station.
The Dutch Home public home at 148-156 Excessive Street, Tottenham has lately been renamed The Station Home and is now an Irish pub. This space was developed round 1880-1900 and this constructing dates from shortly after 1894. Domestically listed it was not constructed as a pub, however presumably as a music hal. It it has some unimaginable Venetian and Moorish detailing as this image exhibits. It’s by far essentially the most attention-grabbing structure within the space and I feel needs to be given correct itemizing.
Initially this constructing was accomplished with a spire above that unimaginable nook tower which maybe appears oddly truncated now. However in fact I’d have needed to stand a lot additional again to take the image have been it nonetheless there. In addition to a pub, the constructing additionally housed clothes factories and vogue outlets.
Extra from this stroll in later posts.
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