Hackney in 50 Buildings

For much of its history Hackney was a rural outpost of London, but today it is one of the capital’s most densely populated areas and contains a wealth of wonderful architecture, including the medieval St Augustine’s Church tower and sixteenth-century Sutton House. Hackney and the surrounding hamlets of Homerton, Dalston, Clapton and Kingsland rapidly changed once industrialisation took hold, bringing factories, workshops, new housing, churches, synagogues, pubs and the Hackney Empire th