This area formed part of Holywell Priory, founded 1152/8, dissolved 1539, named after a holy well. Bounded by Curtain Road, Holywell Lane, Bateman Row & Shoreditch High Street.
London Borough of Hackney
EC2, Curtain Road, 98, Morrell House
The front gable is decorated with the date of the building: 1883.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Holywell Priory
This covered a roughly square-shaped area, bounded by: (clockwise) Bateman's ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Holywell Priory
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, and pioneered Army Cadets 1887 - 1890. London Borough of South...
On 2 May 1907 Henrietta Barnett cut the first sod here. The ceremony involved children dancing around maypoles, the presentation of flow...
Marie Taglioni, 1809 - 1884, ballet dancer, lived here in 1875 - 1876. London County Council
These premises are now Peabody Trust housing. Londonist have a good page on this area, once know as the Devil's Acre, "widely regarded a...
In 1951 the pub was called Grafton's and run by Jimmy Grafton who helped create the Goons and get them on the radio.
Unveiled by Prince Philip in 1967. Inside the bust there is a ½ pint Guinness bottle and a note written by Belsky. The Guinness was, it i...
Textile manufacturer and philanthropist. His family fled from France after the Nazi occupation and he was naturalised as a British subject on 1 November 1948. In 1986 he merged his Nottingham Manuf...
