Presented at the 12th Stoke Newington History Talks event on Dec 3rd 2019 www.StokeNewingtonHistory.com

1. Thinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
Mapping the Ghosts of Stoke Newington Past

2. Thinker
William Allen
1770-1843

3. Sailor
Hannah Snell
1723-1792

4. Soldier
General
Charles Fleetwood
c.1618-1692

5. Spy
Daniel Defoe
1660-1731

6. J

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11. Layers of London
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12. Charles Booth’s Poverty Map (1886-1903)
Stoke Newington
‘Blue’ areas around Barn Street were demolished in
1930s slum clearance

13. Bomb Damage Map -
Stoke Newington

14. ‘Hackney History’ Collection at
Layers of London

15. In November we created 300
Hackney records!

16. In November we created 300
Hackney records!

17. In November we created 300 Hackney
records!
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18. Including many in Stoke Newington.
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20. Timeline of four notable
people of Church Street

21. Soldier
General
Charles Fleetwood
c.1618-1692

22. General Charles Fleetwood
Played a principal
part in the English
Civil War
(1642-1651) and
became one of
Oliver Cromwell’s
most trusted
followers.

23. Married Bridget Cromwell in 1652 - daughter
of Oliver Cromwell and widow of Henry
Ireton, who had been one of the signatories on
Charles I’s death warrant before he was
executed in 1649.
Oliver Cromwell Bridget Cromwell Henry Ireton

24. Under Cromwell he was
appointed Lord Deputy
of Ireland; an
administrative major-
general in England and a
member of the new
House of Lords.
Allegedly Cromwell was
keen that he become his
successor.

25. Richard Cromwell’s
leadership was
inferior to his father’s
- the monarchy was
restored in 1660.
Under Charles II
Fleetwood was
incapacitated from
holding any office of
trust. His public
career then closed.

26. Fleetwood at Stoke Newington

27. Fleetwood House, c.1630 - 1872

28. Fleetwood House, c.1630-1872
1665 General
Fleetwood acquired an
estate by his third wife
in Stoke Newington,
then a village north of
London.
The house was named
after him, ‘Fleetwood
House’.

29. General
Fleetwood lived
at Fleetwood
House until his
death in 1692.
Fleetwood is
buried at
Bunhill Fields
along with
fellow dissenters
Daniel Defoe,
William Blake
and Isaac Watts.

30. Fleetwood House, c.1630-1872
Mash-up courtesy of Amir Dotan.

31. Fleetwood House, c.1630-1872

32. The demise of Fleetwood House
“A street of small
houses is being
carried across the
site of the garden,
and the materials of
the mansion are
used as required for
the erection of
these houses.”

33. 66-78 Church Street

34. Stoke Newington Fire Station

35. Stoke Newington Church
Street -1746 John Rocque Map

36. Stoke Newington Church Street
- 1868 Ordinance Survey Map

37. Stoke Newington Church Street c.1848
A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot, 'Stoke Newington: Growth, Church Street', in A History of
the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington
(London, 1985), pp. 163-168. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol8/pp163-168

38. Stoke Newington Church Street
- Booth Poverty Map 1886-1903

41. Spy
Daniel Defoe
c.1660-1731

42. Daniel Defoe the spy
Author of Moll Flanders,
Robinson Crusoe and A Journal
of the Plague Year.
Merchant, political agent,
bankrupt, journalist,
propagandist and spy.
Daniel Defoe was a key
contributor to the Act of Union
between England and Scotland in
the 1700s because he had worked
as a spy for the then Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Robert Harley.

43. Put in the pillory and Newgate Prison
for “seditious libel’.
Visited at Newgate by Robert Harley
and bribed to work in Edinburgh and
Glasgow as a secret agent of the Crown.
Strongly associated himself with
Scotland because he had been raised as
a Presbyterian.
But felt union between Scotland and
England would help Scotland both
financially and in terms of security.
Used writing of ‘The History of the
Union of Great Britain’ as a cover, to
monitor and note public and private
perceptions around the proposed Union,
reporting back directly to King William
III, of whom he was a great supporter.

44. Defoe’s house, 1724

45. Courtesy of Amir Dotan

46. Courtesy of Amir Dotan

47. Defoe in the Hackney History
Collection at Layers of London

48. Defoe in the Hackney History
Collection at Layers of London

50. Defoe in the Hackney History
Collection at Layers of London

51. Modern map and 1746 John
Rocque map overlaid

52. Sailor
Hannah Snell
1723-1792

53. 'Why gentlemen,
James Gray will cast
off his skin like a
snake and become a
new creature. In a
word, gentlemen, I
am as much a
woman as my
mother ever was, and
my real name is
Hannah Snell.' - The
Female Soldier, 1750

57. “Hannah
Snell in her
Regimentals as
she performs
the Manual
Exercise as a
soldier at
Goodmans
Fields Wells
1750.”

59. Hannah died in Bedlam in 1791.

60. Hannah died in Bedlam in 1791.

61. Hannah died in Bedlam in 1791.

63. Thinker
William Allen
1770-1843

65. 1840 Anti-slavery convention

66. Bilney Lodge
135 Stoke Newington Church Street

67. Bilney Lodge, 135 Stoke
Newington Church Street, c.1848

68. Paradise House, Paradise Row,
Stoke Newington Church Street

69. William & Grizzell

70. Paradise House, Paradise Row,
Stoke Newington Church Street c.1848

71. Paradise House, Paradise Row,
Stoke Newington Church Street

72. Paradise House, Paradise Row,
Stoke Newington Church Street

73. Paradise House, demolished
to make way for...

74. Millington House, 1936

75. Courtesy of Amir Dotan

76. William Allen’s ‘Newington Academy for
Girls’ Boarding School opened at Fleetwood
House in 1824.

77. George Shillibeer provided
Newington Academy with the
world’s first school bus.

78. Yoakley Road Quaker Meeting
House and Burial Ground

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