Tales of Central Hackney Shops and Trades – 1670s-1970s weaves the memories of residents together with historical accounts, and information from maps, newspapers, and records to tell the intriguing, often surprising story of how Hackney Village’s thoroughfare evolved over 300 years into a major high street serving Northeast London and beyond.
Read about how linen drapers developed department stores, furniture makers became suppliers to Hackney’s large furniture emporiums, and highly skilled grocers, Italian warehouses and specialist bakers, butchers and dairies diversified to became chain stores. Discover how the shop buildings, many familiar today, and street developed alongside transport to create a centre serving every need. Learn about the lives and skills of traders, apprentices, and shop workers, and how shopping itself has changed with the times.
The book has chapters on clothes and shoes, food, entertainment, building materials, ironmongers and homeware, books, printers and stationers, photography, street sellers, and money to make and spend.
Tales of Central Hackney Shops and Trades – 1670s-1970s is written by Carolyn Clark and Alison Palmer and published by the Hackney Society. The book is lavishly illustrated with over 280 images, many npt published before, and several maps.
ISBN: 9781068376511
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Carolyn Clark is the author of The East End Canal Tales, The Lower Clapton Tales, Tales of Old Ford, Bow, and co-author of The Shoreditch Tales. Carolyn organises community history events, writes for a range of publications and gives illustrated talks on a variety of topics. Carolyn has led heritage projects in Hackney, Islington, Tottenham, and Tower Hamlets.
Alison Palmer has worked and lived in Hackney since 1977. She first
met Carolyn when both were involved in a project at the Museum
of the Home (then The Geffrye Museum) called Who Lived in Your
House. This encouraged her to delve further into the history of her
street and its residents. She assisted in the research for The Lower
Clapton Tales which sparked her interest in exploring other local
history topics.
