Description
Antique print dated 1896. The page is over 120 years old and in good condition.
In order to enhance and protect the page we have set it within a brown frame and mount.
Also available in either a gold frame or a black frame, your choice.
Frame size circa 400mm x 370mm. RL.101.
Entitled – Hoxton.
Below the picture reads: Hoxton. –
This district is approached from the City by Bishopsgate Street, Shoreditch, and Old Street. Hoxton is now included in Shoreditch parish,
but was formerly reckoned as part of Hackney. The locality in bygone times acquired celebrity from a noted tavern, or ale-house,
called “Pimlico,” which existed there; it is referred to by Ben Jonson, Dodsley, and others in plays of the seventeenth century.
The name of “Pimlico” is kept in remembrance by Pimlico Walk, near the junction of the New North Road and Pitfield Street.
Hoxton has long been noted for the number of its charitable institutions, among which Aske’s Hospital, at the upper end of Pitfield Street,
held a prominent place. The buildings were extensive, and had in front a piazza upwards of 300ft. in length. In 1875-6 the almhouses were removed, and a large middle-class school, called Aske’s Haberdashers’ School, now occupies the site. In former times Hoxton boasted
of at least one mansion of some importance; this was Balme s House, which, in the early part of the seventeenth century, was rebuilt on
a scale of great magnificence by Sir George Whitmore, who was Lord Mayor of London, and suffered considerably for his loyalty to Charles I. We need hardly say that there are no balsamic wells in Hoxton now, nor are there any fine mansions; nothing, infact, but squalor and poverty. And yet the Britannia Theatre at Hoxton is one of the largest in the Metropolis, with seating accommodation for 3,400 persons. Residents of more favoured localities would be amazed at the cheapness of the necessaries of life in Pitfield Street. Good meat may be purchased here for 2d. per lb. ; and we ourselves have seen apples retailed at 14lb. for 6d.
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