Coordinates: 51°32′05″N 0°04′36″W / 51.53463°N 0.07663°W
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  Haggerston
Haggerston shown within Greater London |
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| - Charing Cross | 3.6 mi (5.8 km) SW |
| London borough | Hackney |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | E2 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| European Parliament | London |
| UK Parliament | Hackney South & Shoreditch |
| London Assembly | North East |
| List of places: UK • England • London | |
Haggerston is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bounded by Hackney Road on the south, Kingsland Road on the west, Middleton Road on the north with London Fields and Broadway Market on the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted as gated communities.
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Haggerston
Origin
Haggerston, is first recorded in the Domesday Book as Hergotestane, possibly of Viking origin, as an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch. By Rocque's 1745 map of Hackney, the village is shown as Agostone,[1] by the 19th century it had become a part of the urban sprawl with streets of workers' cottages, and factories lining the canal.
Today
The proximity to Hoxton and Shoreditch has made the area popular with students and workers in the creative industries, as these nearby areas have grown more expensive. In recent years, escalating property prices have driven commercial art galleries further into East London, which has exacerbated this effect.
A shortage of secondary school places has made the area less attractive to families but this is likely to change with the building of a City Academy on Laburnum Street which runs between Kingsland and Queensbridge Road.
Many Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian people have formed communities in Haggerston and nearby Shoreditch. Outside the area, the most visible sign of this is the profusion of Southeast Asian restaurants on nearby Kingsland Road in Shoreditch and on Mare Street in Hackney. There is also a notable Russian community focused on bars and cafés along Kingsland Road.
Amenities
Besides the Regents Canal, Haggerston Park, on the site of a demolished gasworks on Hackney Road, provides much-needed open space in the area. It is also the home of the Hackney City Farm.
The Grade II listed Haggerston Pool, designed by Alfred Cross and opened in 1904, was closed in 2000, with an uncertain future. In June 2009 — after a long community campaign, a £5m grant was announced from the Department for Children, Schools and Families to refurbish and re-open the pool. The building would also contain community facilities and a GP surgery.[2]
Haggerston Girls School is a Grade II listed building, designed by modernist architect Erno Goldfinger, in 1964-5.
The All Saints Centre, in Haggerston Road has a long association with clowning; the church hosting an annual "Clowns service" to commemorate Joseph Grimaldi. It housed the Clowns Gallery and Museum, founded in 1960; and the clown archive. This included props and a unique collection of painted eggs, serving as the 'registration' of clowns' make-up. Much of the collection is now on display at Wookey Hole; but the church retains a small exhibition.
References and notes
- ^ 'The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 505-24 accessed: 6 December 2006
- ^ Jun 2009 15%3A50%3A58%3A487 Cash for historic baths—what the Edwardians did for us Peter Sherlock 25 June 2009 (Hackney Gazette) accessed 27 June 2009
Notable residents
- William Randal Cremer Liberal MP for Haggerston, pacifist and winner of the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Edmund Halley, astronomer, was born here in 1656.
- Iain Sinclair, writer
- Lasse Johansson, filmmaker, artist
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman, artist, filmmaker
- Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer, filmmaker
- Michael Uwemedimo, writer
- John Hall, musician
- Rachel Whiteread, sculptor
Education
Transport
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Railway stations
Opening in June 2010, the nearest London Overground station is Haggerston
Walking and cycling
The Regents Canal towpath is easily accessible to pedestrians and cyclists. Travelling east, provides access to Victoria Park, and to the west, Islington.
External links
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- Haggerston Community Centre
- Opening Haggerston Pool 1904
- Hackney City Farm
- The Clowns' Gallery, Museum and Archive
- London Natural History Society website "one of the largest societies of its kind anywhere in the world"
- Terrence Mahoney's Wartime memories of Haggerston
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