Overlea Road, E5

Overlea Road is one of the streets of London in the E5 postal area.

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Parkers Row, SE1 Added: 9 Jan 2025 18:51 GMT	Parkers Row, SE1 My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor. Reply
Lindsay Trott Lockside, E14 Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT	Lockside not on 1939 Register I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register. Reply
Janelle Robbins Blossom Place, E1 Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT	Harriet Robbins Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins Reply
Dave Hinves Bacon Street, E1 Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT	he was a School Teacher Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed. Reply
Kevin Pont St George’s Square, SW1V Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT	St Georges Square This is rather lovely and well worth a visit! Reply
Simon Chapman Blossom Place, E1 Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT	Blossom Place My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square. Reply
Mark G Skidmore Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT	Skidmore Street, E1 Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street. Reply
Alan Russell Cheshire Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT	Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Reply

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Blue plaque erected in 1932 by London County Council at 95 Stoke Newington Church Street. London’s blue plaques link the people of the past with the buildings of the present. Now run by English Heritage, the London blue plaques scheme was started in 1866 and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world Credit: Wiki Commons/Spudgun67 TUM image id: 1630578736 Licence:	Coat of arms of the former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1658874224 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Nightingale Estate, Hackney Downs (1999) Hackney Council demolished five of the six towers that made up the estate. Since 2003, low-rise buildings have been constructed where the blocks once stood. It forms part of the portfolio of photographer Colin O’Brien - working since 1948 - and is featured in his book ‘London Life’ Credit: Colin O’Brien TUM image id: 1684851980 Licence:	The Jolly Anglers was a riverside pub and rebuilt around 1840. A sale notice of 1846 describes the Jolly Anglers as having a "handsome tea room with two fireplaces, three bedrooms, a small dining room, a bar and a bar parlour, a tap room, a kitchen and a cellar". Credit: Hackney Archives TUM image id: 1674553669 Licence:	Section of the Earl of Dorset’s 1619 map of the Parish of Tottenham, Middlesex. TUM image id: 1491308014 Licence:
Clyde Road (c.1900) This Tottenham road commemorates Lord Clyde who was a significant figure in the Crimean War, the ’hero of Balaclava’ Credit: Bruce Castle Museum TUM image id: 1627732186 Licence:	The rear of the houses of Church Row on Church Street, Stoke Newington. They were demolished in 1932. Will Owen, who sketched the houses, wrote: "... at the end comes a row of early eighteenth century houses, built of that rich red brick that grows richer with age, with pretty porches creeper-covered and this is Church Row." TUM image id: 1616755919 Licence:	Durley Road in Stoke Newington (1905) Old photos can provide evidence of building dates of roads. Here we can see that ivy, which takes years to grow, has completely taken over a row of houses. Durley Road is thus a bit older than 1905! Old London postcard TUM image id: 1616779014 Licence:	Gibson Gardens with original cobblestone paving (2005) Gibson Gardens is a historic tenement block of flats in Stoke Newington, built by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes in 1880. Credit: Fin Fahey TUM image id: 1616685138 Licence:	Millfields Road, Lower Clapton was previously Pond Lane. This image is one of numerous photos, postcards and sketches from the notebooks of the late Mr G.W. Mason, past Senior Partner of Bunch & Duke chartered surveyors at 360 Mare Street, Hackney. TUM image id: 1608044297 Licence:
Pawnbroker, 201 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, c. 1910 Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1684848140 Licence:	Red Lion, Church Street (1890) Credit: Hackney Library Services TUM image id: 1568045079 Licence:	Summerhill Road (1914) By the 1850s, Summerhill Road had been constructed on 36 acres of meadow between Philip Lane and West Green Road. The first terraces of Summerhill Road were built in 1856 and 1859. TUM image id: 1582908280 Licence:	Deep thoughts Credit: All On The Board TUM image id: 1630629984 Licence:	Old Holborn tobacco - the lingering smell of 1960s grandfathers TUM image id: 1630627179 Licence: