Presented at the 17th Stoke Newington History Talks event on 12.12.2022 in St Matthias Halls. Organised by Amir Dotan / www.StokeNewingtonHistory.com

1. The History of Stoke Newington
Street Names
Amir Dotan
www.StokeNewingtonHistory.com

2. Daniel Defoe 1660-1731

3. Anna Laetitia Barbauld 1743-1825

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1. Belgrade Road
2. Palatine Road
3. Summerhouse Road
4. Fleetwood Street
5. Edward’s Lane
6. Grazebrook Road
7. Clissold Road
8. Town Hall Approach
9. Howard Road

7. 4. Belgrade Road (Formerly
Wiesbaden Road)

10. Originally named Wiesbaden Road

12. Anti-German riot in Crisp Street, London 1915

13. Windsor replaced Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

14. Renaming Wiesbaden Road was a long-running saga

18. 22 Sep 1916
22 Nov 1916
1 Aug 1917

22. Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty
S.M.S. Wiesbaden was sunk in the Battle of Jutland a day before
Wiesbaden Road was o
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Battle of Jutland 31.5-1.6.1916

23. 10. Palatine Avenue and Palatine
Road

25. Palatine Road

26. Palatine Avenue

27. The Palatines were German migrants who came to Britain in the 18th
century to escape poverty, religious persecution and seek a better life

28. The Palatine houses were built by the parish in 1709 to house four
families of Protestant refugees from the Rhine Palatinate

29. Palatine House

30. Palatine House, 1864

31. Palatine House, 1868

32. In the 1820s the coach house of Palatine House on Palatine Avenue
was home to the author Mary Sewell and her daughter Anna

33. 1. Summerhouse Road

36. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1868

37. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1894

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41. James Stephen is Virginia Woolf’s great-grandfather

42. 2. Fleetwood Street

45. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1868

46. Charles Fleetwood 1618-1692
Parliamentarian soldier and
politician. Lord Deputy of Ireland
in 1652–1655, where he enforced
the Cromwellian Settlement
following the Act for the
Settlement of Ireland 1652
The Parliamentarian conquest
was brutal, and Cromwell remains
a deeply reviled
fi
gure in Ireland

47. Fleetwood House 1635-1872

51. Stoke Newington Church Street, 1894

52. Fleetwood House

54. 8. Edward’s Lane

60. 1868

63. 9. Grazebrook Road (Formerly
Brook Road)

67. 1864

68. Grazebrook Road
1864

69. Originally named Brook Road (1868)

70. Victorian ‘Stinkpipe’ in Greenway Close over the Hackney Brook

71. 3. Clissold Road (formerly Park
Road)

74. Rev. Augustus Clissold
1797-1882
Curate of St. Mary’s Stoke
Newington
Between 1835-1882 he was the
owner of the estate that became
Clissold Park in 1889

76. Rev. Augustus Clissold and his wife Eliza are buried in Tunbridge
Wells, where they had another house.

81. Albert Town development 1868

82. Albert Town development 1868

84. South Hornsey’s Town Hall in Milton Grove

86. 1947

87. 1947
Town Hall Approach

88. 1947
Town Hall Approach
Former Town Hall

94. John Howard 1726-1790
Philanthropist and prison
reformer
While serving as High Sheri
ff
on Bedford, personally
inspected the state of the
prisons throughout the
country.

95. John Howard's detailed
proposals for improvements
were designed to enhance
the physical and mental
health of the prisoners and
the security and order of the
prison