In the early 19th century many of London's Quakers came to live in Stoke Newington, and they built a meeting house in 1827 in Yoakley Road
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Following the migration of City of London Quakers in the 19th century, Stoke Newington became the largest concentration of Quakers in London
Isaac Watts, the "Father of English Hymnody", lived with the Nonconformist Hartopp family at Fleetwood House where the fire station is today
Abney Park was much used by Newington Academy for Girls when that Quaker school was set up in 1824 in Fleetwood House, next to Abney House
The Manor of SN was auctioned at the request of Elizabeth Abney (d. 1782). The proceeds (£13,000) were given to nonconformist charities.
It was estimated in 1782 that nearly a quarter of the families in Stoke Newington were protestant dissenters
'...This was due in part to the presence of wealthy and prominent nonconformist families such as the Hartopps, Fleetwoods and Abneys'
Fleetwood House became the centre of nonconformist meetings before the Act of Toleration of 1689 meant nonconformists could worship in peace
Oct 1948 - Stoke Newington Peace Group presents a centenary peace exhibition at Stoke Newington Friends Meeting House
From about 1824 Fleetwood House on Church Street was a school for Quaker girls. It lost most of it grounds when the cemetery opened in 1840
Wilmer Place is named after John Wilmer, a Quaker who lived and was buried at 187 Stoke Newington in 1764.
"In 1782 there was only 1 family of Jews, 5-6 of Quakers and 1 Roman Catholic family and about 40 other Dissenters" (Robinson, 1820)
@amyelizgray Issac Watts, renowned nonconformist hymnwriter lived in Abney House in the early 18th century
Abney House (1700-1843) was used as a Dissenting College when @AbneyParkN16 opened in 1840 on the land of Abney and Fleetwood estates.
George Parrott's heirs sold the Fleetwood estate in 1797 to the Robley family who left and leased it in 1824 to a Quaker Girls' School
RE Wilmer Place - John Wilmer was a wealthy Quaker who lived in Stoke Newington. Died 1764 and was buried in a vault in his garden.
@hackneytours @BritishQuakers at one point Stoke Newington had the largest Quaker community in London.
Two block of flats on Yoakley Road were built on the site of a Quaker meeting house and burial ground (Built: 1829, demolished: 1956)
The Quaker girls' school, opened in 1824 in Abney House on Church St, commissioned the world's first school bus taking the pupils to worship
The Quaker School for Girls (1824) at Fleetwood House on Church Street taught chemistry, astronomy and physics.
From the 17th century Stoke Newington village was a refuge for Dissenters who were not allowed to live in the City of London.
Many prosperous city Quakers began to live in Stoke Newington in the early 19th century.
Abney Park Cemetery – Established by Dissenters and Open to All – An Introduction cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/abn…
@richardbeer well, before the 1860’s, Stoke Newington was a small posh village mostly made of wealthy dissenting merchants and bankers
The tomb of John Wilmer (died 1764), a quaker who owned 187 SN High St and was buried in its garden, stood until 1977 (future car park).
As a result of the Act of Uniformity, 1662, many dissenting ministers which were deprived of their livings settled in rural Stoke Newington.
The 1904 map also shows the Quaker meeting house and burial ground in Park Street. The street was renamed Yoakley Road in 1937.
RT @clissoldpeople: Open House Clissold House aka Crawshay's Farm/Paradise House. Quakers, Abolitionists, Forbidden Romance, Peacocks and P…
Allen Rd is possibly named after Matthew Allen, builder and member of a Stoke Newington Quaker family who built flats for the middle classes
In the early 19th century most Stoke Newington Quakers lived in Paradise Row in Church St opposite the park and were wealthy City merchants
In 1903 in Stoke Newington there were 16 chapels and 6 halls belonging to protestant nonconformists (Quakers, Congregationalists, etc.)
1894 map showing the Quaker meeting house, burial ground and Almshouses on Yoakley Road (formerly Park Street).
...fairly recently when houses were renovated. Named after Quaker teacher Mrs. Sweetapple. Had school nearby. Didn't live in the house.
1930 map showing the New River along western Church St and old Quaker Almshouses & burial ground in Yoakley Road
Abney Park Cemetery opened in 1840 after Bunhill Fields the foremost burial ground of Dissenters since 1665 was judged 'filled to repletion'
The Quaker meeting house on Yoakley Road, Stoke Newington close to Church Street. It was demolished in 1957.
In the C19 Stoke Newington had the largest Quaker community in London -> Quakers: The faith forgotten in its hometown bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
SN became a haven for Dissenters following the Corporation Act (1661), Act of Conformity (1662), Conventicle Act (1664), 5 Mile Act (1665)
@VictorianLondon I know Bunhill Fields the burial ground of Dissenters since 1665, but does that make it nondenominational as Abney?
@eccentricparab I agree. Symbolically at least, it ties nicely with Stoke Newington being in the past a secluded rural haven for Dissenters
The Yoakley Road Quaker meeting house, almshouses and burial ground near Church St. (Built: 1829, demolished: 1956)
@maryonthegreen That said, the two has a lot in common as far as being a haven for Dissenters and political and religious radicals
@maryonthegreen Quakers were one group, though at one point a large one. SN was a haven for dissenting ministers since the Reformation.
From C17th dissenters thrived in Stoke Newington, which had a tradition of toleration for those refusing to accept the established church
The Manor of SN was auctioned at the request of Elizabeth Abney (d. 1782). The proceeds (£13,000) were given to nonconformist charities.
William Allen (1770-1843), Quaker, philanthropist, scientist, abolitionist, and pioneer of girls' education lived in Stoke Newington
Samuel Hoare (1751-1825), Quaker and abolitionist lived in Paradise Row, Stoke Newington.
Joseph Woods (1776-1864), Quaker, botanist and architect, son of a founding abolitionist by the same name lived in Stoke Newington
1928 map - Showing Quaker Meeting House and Almshouses on Yoakley Road, which still appears as Park Street
Wilmer Place behind Foxtons is named after John Wilmer, a Quaker who lived and was buried at 187 SN High St in 1764
c1950 - The Yoakley Road Quaker meeting house, Stoke Newington (Built: 1829, demolished: 1956)
The old Quaker burial ground on Yoakley Road, near Church Street, which is now a public garden.
The Quaker meeting house, burial ground and almshouses occupied most of the west side of Yoakley Road by Church St
@MrsFantabulous demolished to make way for flats. Quaker community may have been too small by then to maintain it perhaps.
Isaac Watts, "Father of English Hymnody", lived with his patrons the Nonconformist Hartopp and Abney families on Church St for many years
"Stoke Newington contains about 195 houses, in which there are 1 family of Jews, 6 of Quakers, 1 of Catholics and 40 other Dissenters." 1783
Clissold House. Built in 1793 for local Quaker Jonathan Hoare, brother of Samuel Hoare Jr en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ho… https://t.co/d5MbjzTLJN
Paradise House (later renamed Clissold House). Built for local Quaker Jonathan Hoare in 1790 in Newington Park.
RT @jsomerfield: @HistoryOfStokey Fave line - "Church street, through all changes, still retains a certain lingering air of Quaker quietude…
The Quaker meeting house on Yoakley Rd close to Church Street was built in 1829. It was demolished in 1957.
Clissold House was built for local Quaker Jonathan Hoare in 1790 and was originally called Paradise House.
Clissold House c1840. Built in 1790 for local Quaker Jonathan Hoare it was originally called Paradise House after Hoare’s family home nearby
1913 - Clissold House built in 1790 for local Quaker Jonathan Hoare it was originally called Paradise House after Hoare’s family home nearby
Looking for examples of Quakers involved in environmental activism preferably 19th century apart from Cadbury and allotments movement
@dr_hick @markehazell I'm especially trying to understand how/if Quaker principles fuelled such environmental campaigns
@dr_hick @markehazell I know Quakers were involved in public and mental health initiatives, which open spaces link to directly obviously
1814 map of Stoke Newington, a small rural village outside London. For centuries it had attracted wealthy Dissenting City merchants.
1948 - Peace Exhibition, Stoke Newington Peace Group, Friends Meeting House, Yoakley Road, Stoke Newington
Built in 1790 for local Quaker Jonathan Hoare. Originally called Paradise House after the family home nearby on Church St opposite the park x.com/marianmartinar…
Stoke Newington was a haven for persecuted Dissenters for centuries and has a long tradition of tolerance and progressive, liberal values. x.com/williamsheehy1…
RT @kayegodleman: @HistoryOfStokey It's got a lot of religious symbols for a dissenting village!
@AlexanderAbney The Manor of SN was auctioned at the request of Elizabeth Abney (d. 1782). The proceeds (£13,000) were given to nonconformist charities.
The Friends (Quaker) Meeting House on Yoakley Road close to Church Street. Built in 1829, it was demolished in 1957.
Hartopp and Popham Court on Nevill Road are named after two prominent 17th century dissenting families that lived in Stoke Newington
@VictorianLondon @AbneyParkN16 @misssamperrin @msromany The Quaker burial ground on Yoakley Road (formerly Park Street) in Stoke Newington would be another example. Some of the tombstones were used in landscaping a small public garden on the site.
@VictorianLondon @AbneyParkN16 @misssamperrin @msromany Here’s another view of the former Quaker burial ground on Yoakley Road as it is today. Been meaning to go and have a closer look at the tombstones.
Visited the Quaker Burial Ground garden on Yoakley Rd behind Lister Court 7-12, where the Stoke Newington Quaker burial ground once was. Photographed all the legible headstones, while searching for that of Clissold Park co-founder Joseph Beck. Found his ancestors. Coming soon.
Here are the 87 photos I took at the Quaker Burial Ground garden on Yoakley Road earlier flickr.com/photos/5316579… x.com/historyofstoke…
Went to the Quaker Burial Ground garden on Yoakley Road looking for the headstone of Clissold Park co-founder Joseph Beck. Found those of his grandmother Elizabeth Beck (1767-1857), father Richard Low Beck (1792-1854) and sister Anne Beck (1830-1837).
Coincidentally (or maybe not), the block of flats adjacent to the Quaker burial ground where the Beck family members were buried is called Lister Court. Joseph Beck’s cousin was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Li… and his uncle was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ja… x.com/historyofstoke…
Here’s what the Quaker Meeting House, Almshouses and burial ground on Yoakley Road near Church St looked like before demolition in the 1950s x.com/HistoryOfStoke… x.com/HistoryOfStoke…
Here’s why I couldn’t find the gravestone of Clissold Park co-founder and chief campaigner Joseph Beck yesterday in the Quaker Burial Ground garden on Yoakley Road.
@GE0RGYGIRL Well, both were built for Quakers. The design of Clissold House is attributed in some resources to Joseph Woods (1776-1864), Jonathan Hoare’s nephew, but Woods was 17 at the time so highly unlikely.
A look inside Church Street’s oldest residential building no. 173 built in 1714 with no. 171. Named now “Sweetapple House”, but in fact Sarah Sweetapple’s Quaker Girl School was at the neighbouring house called “The Laurels” where no. 163-7 are today. rightmove.co.uk/property-to-re…
The first Quaker meeting house in Stoke Newington used from 1698 till 1741. Drawing from 1825 when it was Mary Lister’s Invalid Asylum. In 1829 a new meeting house was built in Yoakley Rd close to Church St. It was demolished in the 1950s.
1868. Quaker meeting house, graveyard and almshouses on Park St (later Yoakley Rd). East side of Bouverie Rd near Church St is mostly the pleasure grounds of a detached villa called Manor House. All such grand houses along Church St were pulled down by the end of the 1870s.
Susanna Corder (1787–1864), headmistress of the Newington Academy for Girls (est. 1824), which was in Fleetwood House where the Church St fire station is today. The Quaker girl school ran at a time when girls' educational opportunities were limited. Had world’s first school ‘bus'
Wilmer Place is named after John Wilmer, a Quaker merchant who lived at 187 High St in the 18th century. The back garden of the house was developed in the 1980s as a carpark along with 9 small cottages that were called Aldam Place. Wilmer famously asked to be buried with a bell.
Mashup: Warwick House on Paradise Row, Church St. One of several 18th century houses on the affluent row facing the park and river, which was home to wealthy Quaker merchants. All but a few were pulled down by the 1950s. (Source of old photo: buff.ly/2q0j7jN) https://t.c…
Mashup: Warwick House on Paradise Row, Church St. One of several 18th century houses on the affluent row facing the park and river, which was home to wealthy Quaker merchants. All but a few were pulled down by the 1950s. (Source of old photo: buff.ly/2q0j7jN) https://t.co/Hj8o69tJUD
Fleetwood House mansion (1635-1872) on Church St was sold to George Parrott, Baron of the Exchequer who lived in the western section of the house between 1763-1775. His heirs sold the estate in 1797 to the Robley family who left and leased it in 1824 to a Quaker Girls' School.
Here are the slides from last night's talks: Before the building boom: Exploring the 1846 map slideshare.net/slideshow/before-the-build… Susanna Corder's Pioneering Girls’ School slideshare.net/slideshow/susanna-corders-… Mapping the photography profession in Victorian Stoke Newington slideshare.net/slideshow/mapping-the-phot… https:/…
Here are the slides from last night's talks: Before the building boom: Exploring the 1846 map
slideshare.net/slideshow/before-the-build… Susanna Corder's Pioneering Girls’ School slideshare.net/slideshow/susanna-corders-… Mapping the photography profession in Victorian Stoke Newington slideshare.net/slideshow/mapping-the-phot… https://t.co/gvzdpNPLX3
@AnnieCaird He was the quintessential Victorian renencance man and a social reformer like many of his fellow Quakers in Stoke Newington. We owe him a great deal.
Just discovered in the car park of the SN Seventh Day Adventist Church on Yoakley Road the headstone of renowned pioneering opticist and Stoke Newington Quaker Joseph Jackson Lister en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jackson_List…. The local Quaker burial ground was where the car park is now. https://t.…
Just discovered in the car park of the SN Seventh Day Adventist Church on Yoakley Road the headstone of renowned pioneering opticist and Stoke Newington Quaker Joseph Jackson Lister en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jackson_List…. The local Quaker burial ground was where the car park is now. https://t.co/VecUhlx5il
Margaret Stafford Allen (1747-1830) was the first person to be buried in the Quaker burial ground in Yoakley Rd. The burial ground was behind the Friends Meeting House (1829-1957). The headstones are scattered in a church's car park and adjacent Quaker Burial Ground garden.
Here are all the photos I took this afternoon of the former Quaker burial ground on Yoakley Road, which is now a church's car park flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&s…
The rainwater hopper of the Stoke Newington Seventh-day Adventist Church in Yoakley Road indicates when the church was built on the site of the Quaker Meeting House.
1903 New Years greeting card from A. W. Dennis of 45 Park Street, Stoke Newington. Park Street was renamed Yoakley Road in 1937 after Michael Yoakley, a Quaker businessman (yoakleycare.co.uk/about-us/history/) https://t.co/shRMa9cIjO
RT @woodywould: "he... moved to a new house in Stoke Newington, an area to the north of London where Dissenters could live freely, outside…
1906 - Clissold Park. The original estate was created by local Quaker Jonathan Hoare in 1790. It was later extended by William Crawshay and in 1835 it became the home of Rev. Augustus Clissold and his wife Eliza Crawshay. Saved from development in 1888. Opened as a park in 1889
1979 - Derelict 187 Stoke Newington High Street. Photo by Peter Froster. Built in 1712 and once home to John Wilmer, a wealthy Quaker. The building was rebuilt in 1983 after it stood derelict for about 20 years. Only the original facade was retained. Now YumYum.