Presented at the 2018 Stoke Newington Literary Festival

1. Alexander Guttridge’s photos of
Stoke Newington in the 1930s
Amir Dotan
www.StokeNewingtonHistory.com

2. This is my hobby since 2013

3. StokeNewingtonHistory.com

10. @HistoryOfStokey
4,339
14,000+
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Followers
Tweets
Photos

11. facebook.com/
TheHistoryOfStokeNewington
1,143 Likes

12. flickr.com/photos/snhistory
5,525 Photos

13. The late Robbie and Carol Richards
The Fox Reformed Wine Bar
176 Stoke Newington Church Street
1981-2015

18. Derek Baker (1936-2016)

19. Alexander Guttridge 1887-1977

23. The Guttridge family, Stoke Newington
John
Thomas
(Jack)
1868-1893
George
William
1870-1935
Edwin
Owen
1872-1873
Evelina (Eva)
1874-1964
Frederick
1876-1942
Hubert
Chamberlain
1878-1935
Ann
Elizabeth
1880-1898
Charles
1883-1883
Walter
James
1885-1885
Ernest
Alexander
(Alec)
1887-1977
Edwin
Alexander
Guttridge
1835-1913
Mary
Jane
Chamberlain
1845-1922

24. Mary Jane Chamberlain
(1845-1922)
Alexander Guttridge’s
mother
Photo by Alexander Guttridge

25. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

26. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

27. Barn Street, 1894

29. Charles Booth’s London Poverty Map - 1898

30. In 1933 Stoke Newington Borough declared the
following areas as (Slum) Clearance Areas under its
powers under the 1930 Housing Act:
Masons Court and Place
Rochester Place
White Hart Court
Selsea Place off Crossway
Hewling Street
Leonard Place in Albert Town
Barn Street (Added in 1934)

32. Architectural Journal
26th. October 1933. p 11

33. 1937 - Denman House replaces 50 early 19th century small
cottages in Barn St, Edward’s Lane, Lordship Terrace and
Lordship Road

34. We are here

35. Denman House. View from Lordship Road (Built 1937)

37. Stoke Newington photo mashups
www.stokenewingtonhistory.com/photos-mashups/

39. Barn Street looking
south towards
Church Street from
Lordship Terrace
(Unknown photographer,
Courtesy of Hackney Archives)

40. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

41. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

44. 10 Barn Street in 1912 (Unknown photographer)

45. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

48. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

51. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

54. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

56. Church Row (1695-1935)

58. late 1850s - Charles Dickens visiting his
publisher F.M. Evans at No. 7 Church Row

59. Wynne Edwin Baxter (1844-1920)
Lawyer, translator, antiquarian and
botanist, best known as the Coroner who
conducted the inquests on most of the
victims of the Whitechapel Murders of
1888 to 1891 including three of the victims
of Jack the Ripper in 1888, as well as on
Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man"

60. John Howard (1726-1790)
Philanthropist and the early prison
reformer, lived at no. 8 Church Row (later
no. 168 Church Street). His detailed
proposals for improvements of prisons
were designed to enhance the physical
and mental health of the prisoners and the
security and order of the prison.

62. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

64. 10 Barn Street 7 Church Row
1 min
walk

65. Unknown photographer

66. Church Row houses being pulled down in 1935 (Unknown photographer)

67. Stoke Newington’s Municipal buildings. Designed by Reginald Truelove. Built 1935-7

69. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

72. The Rose & Crown pub c. 1925 (Unknown photographer)

74. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

76. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

77. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

78. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

79. Stoke Newington Church Street property survey 1847-2017
www.bit.ly/amirstokey
The history of 170 Stoke Newington Church Street

80. Courtesy of Amelia Dyster,
Alexander Guttridge’s granddaughter

81. Stoke Newington photo mashups
www.stokenewingtonhistory.com/photos-mashups/

82. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

83. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

84. Photo by Alexander Guttridge
Frederick Guttridge 1876-1942

85. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

88. R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in
1929 as part of a British government programme to develop
civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes
within the British Empire.

90. The R101 crashed in France on October 5th 1930. A total
of 48 of the 54 passengers and crew were killed.

92. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

93. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

94. Stoke Newington photo mashups
www.stokenewingtonhistory.com/photos-mashups/

96. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

98. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

99. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

100. Stoke Newington photo mashups
www.stokenewingtonhistory.com/photos-mashups/

101. The history of 187 Stoke Newington Church Street
Stoke Newington Church Street property survey 1847-2017
www.bit.ly/amirstokey

102. In case I have a few minutes left…

103. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

105. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

106. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

107. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

108. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

109. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

110. Photo by Alexander Guttridge

111. Thank you
Amir Dotan
www.StokeNewingtonHistory.com