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The St Luke's Vestry was incorporated as local government body and appointed one member to the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed at a cost of £6,400 (equivalent to £715,801 in 2023) on the St Luke's Workhouse site in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch, fronting City Road.
A local act in 1782 [a] enabled the St Luke's Vestry to build the new workhouse and offices just over the boundary in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch at a cost of £2,000 (equivalent to £310,547 in 2023). [1] In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed on the site, fronting City Road. [2]
This is a list of workhouses in London. [1] In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End [2]. Aldgate workhouse; Bethnal Green workhouse
In 1862 St Leonard's parish was again divided to create the parish of "Shoreditch, St Michael". In 1866 a new parish of "Holy Trinity, Shoreditch" was formed from part of Saint Leonard's and part of neighbouring parish of Bethnal Green. In 1872 the parish of "Shoreditch, St Agatha" was created from part of Saint James, Curtain Road.
St Luke's is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Islington. It lies just north of the border with the City of London near the Barbican Estate, and the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch areas. The area takes its name from the now redundant parish church of St Luke's, on Old Street west of Old Street station.
Haggerston was an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch.On Rocque's 1745 map of Hackney, it is shown as Agostone [3] but by the 19th century it had become Haggerstone, [4]. Edmond Halley was born in the village on 8 November 1656. [5]
“On 9th St between Main St and Baltimore Ave taken in the year 1890.” (Eschbacher’s research later dated it 1895.) ... Ninth St. The photo that started the search for the giant leg building.
The hospital was founded as the infirmary for the St Leonard’s Shoreditch Workhouse in 1777. [1] It was known as St Leonard's Infirmary. The workhouse was rebuilt between 1863 and 1866 and the infirmary was rebuilt in 1872. [1] It had become known as St Leonard's Hospital by 1920 and came under the management of London County Council in 1930. [1]