Erection date: 1890
These buildings were erected by John Studds and Son of Barrets Grove Stoke Newington
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Commenced 1889 Finished 1890
Yes, they've mis-spelt the name of their own road.
N1, Upper Street, 48
Number 49 returns round Berners Street and its decorative pillar tops (can't really call them capitals) each carry a beehive.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beehive foundation stone - Upper Street
A building firm based in Barretts Grove, Stoke Newington, active in 1891. Slu...
On this site was a social club which operated 1765 - 1871 as Almack's and was then renamed as Willis's Rooms. Wikipedia talks of "a bras...
This plaque implicates De Keroualle in the attack on Dryden whereas it's more usual for responsibility to be squarely laid on Rochester, ...
Gladys Mills, 1918 - 1978, pianist lived here. Loughton Town Council 2008
The plaque, as well as having rather peculiar punctuation gets the year of death wrong but only by 2 days, so understandable.
Maps showing the route of the River Fleet do not show it passing through this site. This brings into question the veracity of all the tex...
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