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1/ THREAD: A government prescribed, socially distanced walk into Shoreditch and Hoxton, #Hackney. Beginning at Shoreditch House, approved 1961, a 16-storey block built by Tersons for Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council.
2/ Passmore Edwards Free Library, Pitfield Street: Designed by HT Hare in 1899 - one of 24 public libraries and 70 major public buildings founded by Cornish philanthropist and radical, John Passmore Edwards. Now the Courtyard Theatre.
3/ Almshouses and school built for the Haberdashers' Company between 1825 and 1826. Later occupied by Shoreditch Technical Institute and the London College of Furniture.
4/ Royal Oak Court, Pitfield Estate. Built for Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council, approved in 1952.
5/ 57-145 Haberdasher Street: artisan flats, built circa 1900 as part of the Haberdashers' Estate.
6/ Fairchild House, Pitfield Estate: a Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council scheme, opened by Nye Bevan in 1949 who praised it as ‘a tribute to an intelligent borough’.
7/ Arden house, Pitfield Street. The brown plaque commemorates a much earlier history.
8/ The Church of St John the Baptist: a Classical-style church built by the Church Building Commissioners in 1824-26 and designed by Francis Edwards. Grade II* listed.
9/ St John's Estate and Crondall Court and Cherbury Court, built in the early 1960s for Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council.
10/ Burbage Primary School, Ivy Street. Built by the London School Board and enlarged by the London County Council in 1911.
11/ Caliban Tower: part of the Greater London Council's expansion of the Arden Estate, designed by Leonard Manasseh and completed in 1970.
12/ Hoardings marking Hackney Council's redeveloped and expanded Britannia Leisure Centre.
13/ Clinger Court, Hobbs Place Estate - an eleven-storey block approved by Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council in 1956.
14/ The Colville Estate: a traditional, walk-up, balcony-access estate of the 1950s, now subject to major redevelopment
15/ Shoreditch Park: an area of terraced streets destroyed in the Blitz, the site of post-war temporary prefabs, before being made a park by the London County Council in 1964-73. Everybody was observing social distancing - don't close the parks!
16/ The restored 1860s lampposts in the park mark the pioneering work of the Shoreditch Vestry: 'More light, more power'. You can read more about that here:
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/shoreditch_electricity/
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/shoreditch_electricity/
17/ Gainsborough Studios, overlooking the park - a film studio active between 1924 and 1951 in a building originally designed as a power station for the Great Northern and City Railway. Now converted into housing.
18/ Wenlock Barn Estate: Parr Court, Sylvia Court and Cropley Court. Built for Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council from 1949 and expanded into the 1960s. Now run by a Tenants Management Organisation.
19/ Nevitt House, Cranston Estate: seven-storey blocks built by the London County Council from 1950.
