A brief history of
the house
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| Twenty-nine
Adolphus Road appears to have been completed in 1879 or perhaps
in the previous year and acquired by the Church Commissioners. |
| The
first lessee was one Henry Adolphus Wickes who is believed
to have built all the houses in the street and the surrounding
streets. His role must have been significant enough to have
two of the streets named after him: Henry Road and Adolphus
Road. It appears he held the head lease and sublet the house
to various sub-lessees. Over the next eighty years many people
lived in the house as tenants. By the 1950's it had become
cheap rented accommodation. |
| In
1957, a relation of Henry Wickes, May Woodward, bought the
freehold from the Church Commissioners. Her son, Derek bought
the house from her in 1971 and carried out the conversions
which were completed in 1975. Derek Woodward retained the freehold
and lived in Flat 7 until the early 1980's. The lessees formed
the Twenty-nine Adolphus Road Limited management company and
bought the freehold in 1989. |
| In 1901 a photographer called Edgar Salomon, then 29, was living in the house. |
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| References |
| Mander,
D., Hackney in Old Photographs, Alan Sutton |
| Whitehead,
J. (1985). The
Growth of Stoke Newington: a Model for Other Local Studies. Jack
Whitehead, 55 Parliament Hill, NW3 2TB |