'Bits of Old Hackney', c1876. Showing Brook House - converted for use into a private asylum in 1758, Barber's Barn - residence of John Okey, a signatory to Charles I's death warrant, and Shore Place in 18th century Hackney, a retreat for nobility until construction of the railway c1850s. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]