Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is by Gainsborough, 1758. Information from Kirby and His World.
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Nathaniel Acton
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Nathaniel Acton mosaic
{At the centre:} This estate is named after Nathaniel Acton, 1725 - 1795, who...
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Taylor Wimpey
House-building company, formerly known as Taylor Woodrow PLC. It was created from the merger of Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey.
Stoke Newington Manor House
The photograph appears under Stoke Newington Manor House on the Hackney Plaques and Local History website. There is no further explanation. Maybe it shows excavations at the site.
Old Watch House - E17
Before an effective police force was established each local council or vestry organised their own watchmen. The watch house was where they would hold prisoners before they appeared in court. Like t...
Charter Quay Development
A residential and commercial development in Kingston upon Thames. It comprises housing, restaurants, bars and The Rose Theatre.
Sir Henry Meux
Henry Bruce Meux was born at 41 Brook Street into a wealthy brewery family and became the 3rd baronet. Theobalds, the family country seat, had been closed as a result of his father's insanity, but,...
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Lady Dacre
Gentlewoman and benefactress. Born Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, treasurer to the exchequer of Queen Elizabeth I. She married Gregory Fiennes, who subsequently became 10th Baron Dacre. I...
Reverend Ernest Arthur Blackwell Sanders, M.A.
Vicar of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. As rector in Whitechapel he built the St Mary's Clergy House (still there, immediately south of this Whitechapel drinking fountain) in 1894–5, also with Herbert ...
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