43-767: Homerton University Hospital is a teaching hospital in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney . It is managed by Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust . The hospital has its origins in the Homerton Fever Hospital, which opened at the north of the current site in December 1870. A smallpox hospital, built on adjacent land, opened in February 1871. The two facilities merged as the Eastern Fever Hospital in 1884 and
86-408: A building dating to the 11th or 12th century suggesting that Homerton existed before it was first recorded in 1343. The hamlet of Homerton (Humberton or Hummerton, named for the farm of a woman named Hunburh) developed for about a half-mile along the road on the north side of the now buried and lost Hackney Brook , within the vale formed by the brook. This led from the hamlet of Clopton , passing near
129-701: A new isolation block was built in 1935. The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 as the Eastern Hospital and became increasingly focused on neurological patients before closing down in 1982. Construction of the new Homerton Hospital began in 1982 and was completed in July 1986. The hospital was built at a cost of £20 million and was opened by the Princess Royal in March 1987. As well as replacing
172-738: A sermon at Old Jewry meeting house entitled " A Discourse on the Love of Our Country ", thus igniting a so-called "pamphlet war" known as the Revolution Controversy , furiously debating the issues raised by the French Revolution . Burke 's rebuttal " Reflections on the Revolution in France " attacked Price, whose friends Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft leapt into the fray to defend their mentor. The reputation of Price for speaking without fear of
215-469: A successful Kickstarter campaign raised £57,000 to support its renovation in 2016. Secondary schools located in the area include Cardinal Pole Catholic School and the City Academy, Hackney . Homerton is served by London Overground at Homerton railway station , with westbound trains to Richmond and Clapham Junction via Dalston Junction , and eastbound trains to Stratford . The original station
258-418: Is built in the perpendicular style and was Grade II listed in 1975. Having been damaged by bombing during 1944 , it was restored after World War Two and rededicated in 1958. At the time of the church's construction, the area was described as being inhabited by a "very poor class of labourers & those who trust to precarious employment". The church of St Luke , Chatham Place, consecrated in 1872,
301-590: Is produced by the Office for National Statistics for the Victoria ward. In the 2011 census, the population for the Victoria ward was 13,231, with 6344 males and 6887 females. The most common ethnic group was White British in the Victoria ward, measured as 55.8%, followed by Black or Black British (24.1%) and Asian or British Asian (9.5%). The remaining percentage was made up of mixed-race and other unspecified ethnic groups. Whilst there are no London Overground stations within
344-507: Is situated in the south of the Homerton area. It was designed by Arthur Shean Newman and Arthur Billing in a gothic revival style, and is Grade II listed . Construction of the Grade II listed red brick church of St Paul , Lower Homerton on Glyn Road, was completed in 1891. It was designed in combination of Arts and Crafts and Early English styles, by Henry Cowell Boyes, the architect of
387-582: The American Revolution , became morning preacher in 1770, while continuing his afternoon sermons at Newington Green Chapel , on the green where he lived. Those who attended his sermons in Homerton included American politicians such as John Adams , who later became the second president of the United States , and his wife Abigail . On the 101st anniversary of the Glorious Revolution , he preached
430-555: The City of London markets. The majority of the land was given over to pasture for sheep and cattle, and milk and cheese were also supplied to the city. Small kitchen gardens ran at the back of the houses along the road, with large fields behind. Domestic brewing was common (there are records of brewing performed at Sutton House and the Tan House). Many unsavoury activities (banned in the city) were also undertaken, such as tanning and fulling -
473-1117: The Healthcare Commission in 2009–10. It holds the level 2 NHS Litigation Authority rating for safety for both general and maternity services. In October 2013 as a result of the Keogh Review the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the Care Quality Commission however the first CQC report following rated the A&;E dept as 'outstanding'. In a 2020 report the CQC rated the hospital as outstanding overall. The hospital serves as teaching hospital for medical students from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry as well as radiography students from City, University of London . It also provides post graduate training in all major specialities. London Buses routes 26 , 30 , 236 , 242 , 276 , 308 , 394 , 425 , 488 , N242 and W15 serve
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#1732875832808516-555: The Hospital of King James in Charterhouse , who continued to own the property until the 20th century, building Sutton Place between 1790 and 1806. Marsh Road, from Homerton High Street, led to, and across the marshes, towards the Templar owned water-powered corn mill at Temple Mills . Prone to flooding, the marshes were primarily used for grazing. A Roman stone causeway was discovered in
559-591: The North London Railway at Dalston to Stratford , forming a part of the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway , opened in 1847 for the carriage of coal. This resulted in Hackney Brook being placed in a culvert and the loss of the extensive watercress fields to the south of Homerton High Street. Its later development as a passenger line led to the redevelopment in the 1880s of the mediaeval core of
602-607: The Worshipful Company of Grocers , which also operated a school in the area , with its foundation stone being laid by the livery company's Master. It was declared redundant, first being used by the Celestial Church of Christ before being taken over by a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation in 2006. The Roman Catholic church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Kenworthy Road, designed by C.A. Buckler and inspired by
645-500: The church of St Augustine at Hackney, then across the marshes and the crossing points of both the River Lea , and its tributary, Hackney Brook. By 1605 Homerton was the most populous part of the Parish of Hackney , becoming a separate parish in 1846. In medieval times, Homerton, like much of Hackney, was predominantly rural and arable crops were grown, together with fruit and vegetables for
688-428: The 1770s. By 1795 the former Templar mills were being used for preparing lead. Sheets of lead were placed in clay pots and submerged in urine, then heated by decaying cow dung. The process converted the lead to lead oxide, and it was then finely ground to form a pigment for white, yellow and red lead paint . A new watermill was established on the marshes by Prince Rupert for an improved method of boring guns; however,
731-504: The East London borough of Hackney and also the City of London . Specialist care is provided in obstetrics , neonatology , fetal medicine , laparoscopic surgery , fertility , bariatric surgery , obesity surgery and neurorehabilitation . The hospital directly employs 3500 staff. The hospital received "excellent" both for service quality and use of resources in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ratings and top rating of 3 stars with
774-678: The Eastern Hospital, the new hospital replaced the Mothers' Hospital Lower Clapton Road in Hackney, which closed in 1986, and the German Hospital on Ritson Road, which closed in 1987. Clinical throughput increased further when the Hackney Hospital on Homerton High Street closed in 1995 and services were transferred to the current site. The hospital was the designated hospital for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games . The hospital services
817-603: The Hackney Union workhouse , finally closed in 1995. The old hospital was refurbished in 2006 and reopened to serve the mental health trust. Homerton's links with popular music continued with the arrival of Toe Rag Studios , relocated from Shoreditch to the Lower Clapton /Homerton border, an eight-track recording studio which uses reclaimed 1960s analogue equipment, where the White Stripes ' acclaimed 2003 album Elephant
860-618: The Homerton side of the Lee Navigation, just north of Homerton Road, producing for many years their Matchbox brand. The factory closed in 1990 and was demolished in 2010. The oldest surviving residential building in Hackney is Sutton House on Homerton High Street. It was built in 1535 and is owned and run by the National Trust . 1970s glam rock singer Marc Bolan and actor Ray Winstone were born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street. The hospital, originally built in 1841 as
903-520: The churches of Sta Maria in Dominica and Santi Nereo e Achillo was completed in 1883, and rebuilt after damage in World War Two . In the early 1890s, the author of Glimpses of Ancient Hackney wrote: "Few who traverse Homerton today will fail to note the squalid poverty of many of its inhabitants, the mean tumble-down dwellings, for which we have to thank the jerry-builders, who doubtless will pass
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#1732875832808946-448: The cleaning of felt cloth using urine. Homerton became a desirable suburb of London in the Tudor period , with many estates and grand houses being formed from the former Templar lands ( Knights Templar of St. John of Jerusalem). The village was divided between Upper and Lower Homerton, with the later extending towards the marshes and the house at Hackney Wick . Upper Homerton was divided from
989-467: The clerks and employees of the new purpose-built factories (like Berger Paints) being built in the area. From 1937 onwards, the London County Council built mass housing, sweeping away the worst of the slums, but also eliminating many older buildings containing shops on Homerton High Street, effectively destroying it as a commercial area. The Lesney die cast model factory was built in the 1940s on
1032-750: The college were rebuilt and expanded several times, but eventually lost to bomb damage in World War II . South of the Brook, by Money Lane, the Unitarian Gravel Pit Meeting House was built between 1715 and 1716. This was the result of an acrimonious split in the congregation of the Lower Clapton meeting. Notable nonconformist ministers preached at the Old Gravel Pit. The moral and political philosopher Richard Price , known for his support of
1075-487: The corner of Victoria Park Road and Lammas Walk utilises the buildings of the former French Hospital (La Providence) , a home for elderly Huguenots. The French Hospital was built in the 1860s in the style of a French-Flemish chateau, designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu . The area just south of Well Street features social housing such as the Kingshold and Shore Estates. The former New Kingshold Estate (built 1966, demolished 1996)
1118-399: The government on these political and philosophical matters drew huge crowds to his sermons, which were published and sold as pamphlets (i.e. publications easily printed and circulated). Another eminent minister was the formidable polymath , Joseph Priestley , discoverer of oxygen. When his support of dissent led to the riots named after him , he fled Birmingham and headed for London; he
1161-579: The hospital. The nearest railway station is Homerton on the North London Line of the London Overground . Homerton Homerton ( / ˈ h ɒ m ər t ən / HOM -ər-tən ) is an area in London , England , in the London Borough of Hackney . It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central , to the north by Lower Clapton , in the east by Hackney Wick , Leyton and by South Hackney to
1204-563: The modern Grove and Lauriston Roads; the other where Grove Street and Well Street meet. There were two moated houses, the one on the north side of Well Street belonging to the Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, the Knights Hospitaller , in 1416. The house survived into the 18th century, but by then it was in decline and the tenants included chimney sweeps . This was commemorated by
1247-548: The name of the Two Black Boys public house. which stood on the site now occupied by Bernie Grant House in Well Street. In Church Crescent, near the church are six almshouses, created by a bequest from William Monger in 1669, and funded by land on Hackney Marshes . This land subsequently came into the control of Sir John Cass . The almshouses were rebuilt in 1849, with funds from Sir John Cass's Foundation . A second almshouse
1290-530: The new University College London in 1826, but Homerton College remained here as a teacher training college until 1896 when it moved to Cambridge , eventually becoming a full college of the University of Cambridge in 2010. Students from Homerton college were principal in forming, in 1881, both the Glynn Cricket Club and Clapton Orient - which became Leyton Orient F.C. on its move to Leyton. The buildings of
1333-531: The odium on to the ground landlords". By the 1860s, London fell prey to epidemics of fever. The 200 bed Eastern Fever Hospital was founded in September 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to prevent contagion. There were six wards for typhus, two each for scarlet fever and enteric patients. Two smaller wards were reserved for 'special cases'. The buildings were almost entirely demolished in 1982 and
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1376-466: The secret died with him in 1682, and the enterprise collapsed. In the 18th century the availability of land, large houses and tolerance to dissenters made Homerton a popular place to found institutions. The educational ones were commonly known as Dissenting Academies . The Kings Head Society moved to a large house here in 1768, forming Homerton College for the education of Calvinist ministers with between 12 and 20 students. Religious education moved to
1419-569: The site became the core of the modern Homerton University Hospital , which opened in 1986. This replaced the old Hackney Hospital which (in turn) had been formed from the Hackney Union Workhouse. These buildings are now used by the Hackney Mental Health Trust. The coming of the railways and the building of the fever hospital drove many of the wealthier residents away. The tightly packed Victorian streets provided homes for
1462-422: The south. In 2019, it had a population of 14,658 people. In terms of ethnicity it was 43.9% White, 33.0% Black, 10.9% Asian and 7.8% Mixed. It covered an area of 0.830 sq kilometres. Homerton ward on Hackney Borough Council is currently represented by three Labour councillors. There are fifty listed buildings located within the boundaries of the ward. Archaeological excavations at Link Street exposed
1505-499: The village of Hackney by the width of the rectory manor's Church Field, and a path led to the churchyard. In 1538, this estate, including other fields lying along the brook, passed to the Tudor diplomat Sir Ralph Sadler . Around 1560 part of this estate came into the ownership of Thomas Sutton , a resident of the Tan House (adjacent to Sutton House ). This land formed part of his endowment of
1548-643: The village on Homerton High Street with Victorian dwellings and public houses, and speculative building on the lands either side of Homerton High Street. In 1868 Homerton Station opened . The parish church of St Barnabas on Homerton High Street, designed by Hackney-born Arthur Ashpitel , was built between 1843 and 1852, of Kentish ragstone , with a grant from the Incorporated Church Building Society and its endowment and vicarage funded by Joshua Watson . Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "interesting as an effort to copy local character", it
1591-592: Was appointed minister here in 1793. Today a Blue Plaque marks the site of the Gravel Pit Meeting House in Ram Place and a brown plaque marks the site of the Priestley's house at 113 Lower Clapton Road (on the corner of Clapton Passage). Priestley said of his time here, "On the whole I spent my life more happily at Hackney than I had ever done before". The meeting house is now used as a factory. A spur connecting
1634-525: Was founded in 1857 in memory of South Hackney's first rector, Henry Handley Norris (1771–1850). Norris was a leading member of the Hackney Phalanx , a group of early nineteenth-century Anglican High Churchmen. His portrait hangs in the parish church. South Hackney originally had a chapel of ease in Well Street, but became an independent parish in 1825, with the parish church of St John of Jerusalem erected in 1848 near Well Street Common. Demographic data
1677-436: Was opened on 1 October 1868. Services ceased on 15 May 1944 with a substitute bus service provided until official closure on 23 April 1945. Other than a partial section of wall to the north of the bridge over Barnabas Road, the original 1868 station has been demolished. Although of reduced size, the original station building would have been similar to buildings remaining at Hackney Central and Camden Road. The present basic station
1720-652: Was opened on 13 May 1985. Homerton is served by a large number of London Buses routes 26 , 30 , 236, 242, 276, 308, 388, 394 , 425 and 488 as well as the W15. Homerton is also served by the London night bus network by route N26 and N242. South Hackney South Hackney is an area in London , England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney . It is in East London and is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) northeast of Charing Cross . The Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy on
1763-567: Was originally established as a Carnegie library , built in 1912–13 for the betterment of the people of the East End . The council closed the library in 1976 but members of the local community reclaimed the building. In October 2014, historic pub the Chesham Arms on Mehetabel Road became Hackney's first Asset of Community Value . Homerton is home to the Castle Cinema , which re-opened following
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1806-612: Was produced. More recently, Sound Savers studios was also established in Homerton, and Gun Factory Studios relocated to the area from Stoke Newington . UK drill artist Unknown T is from Homerton. Homerton is also home to Chats Palace arts centre, named after the nearby Chatsworth Road. Chats Palace has presented and encouraged a wide variety of music, comedy, theatre, photography, carnival, disability arts, dance and transgressive performance, including Clifford Jarvis , Tom Hunter , Miniscule of Sound , Red Saunders , Asian Dub Foundation and Graeae Theatre Company . The building itself
1849-404: Was subject of a 1990 Channel 4 documentary Summer On The Estate highlighting some of the problems on the estate with crime and disrepair, and residents' fight to improve it. A follow-up series aired in 1995 as the two tower blocks on the estate, Thornhill Point and Halston Point were demolished in July 1995. In Tudor times , South Hackney consisted of two small settlements. One around
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