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Shoreditch, 1877. Limited Edition fine art print. #ThisPlaceThen

This carousel moves across a small section of the map, from west to east, following Haggerston and Shoreditch through two moments in time.

The colour shows the neighbourhood as it is today. The black ink underneath shows the same streets and spaces in 1877.

What emerges is a layered portrait of change: lost terraces, surviving routes, vanished pubs, railway lines, canals, estates, parks, yards and industrial ground.

Shoreditch Park and Haggerston Park feel settled now, but the older map reveals the different urban fabric beneath them. The Regent’s Canal cuts through both times. Streets disappear and reappear. Some names remain, while others have been overwritten by new uses, new buildings and new ways of moving through the city.

That is the idea behind #ThisPlaceThen: not just a historic map, and not just a contemporary one, but two versions of a place held together in a single print.

Printed in 12 inks on Innova Décor Smooth Art 210gsm by @panopusprinting.

Available as a limited edition fine art print from Map Editions £240. Once they are gone, they are gone.

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#MapEditions #Shoreditch #Haggerston #Hoxton #Hackney #EastLondon #LondonHistory #HistoricalMaps #MapPrint #Cartography #ArtPrint #WallArt #UrbanHistory #Architecture #InteriorDesign #LocalHistory #RegentsCanal #ShoreditchPark #HaggerstonPark by @mapeditions

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HACKNEY: This Place Then – What a brilliant night at @bootstrapcharity for the launch of @hackneyhistoryfest.

It was a real pleasure to host the opening event here in @dalston_cultural_quarter, bringing people together for stories, local history, conversation and community.

Huge thanks to everyone who came, spoke, listened, shared memories and helped make the night feel so special — and to @hackney_society and everyone involved in bringing the festival to life.

We’re proud to be part of a festival that celebrates Hackney’s many histories: the people, places, movements, buildings, cultures and communities that continue to shape the borough.

Do check out the rest of the @hackneyhistoryfest programme.

#HackneyHistoryFestival #HackneyHistory #HackneySociety #Bootstrap #DalstonCulturalQuarter #Dalston #Hackney #EastLondon #LocalHistory #CommunityHistory #LondonHistory #Heritage #LondonEvents #WhatsOnHackney by @mapeditions

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This limited edition print of Dalston, De Beauvoir and London Fields tells a story of 150 years of development and change. Just look at the north east corner of London Fields to see all the villas and terraced housing that gave way to the park. A fast-track guide to reading these maps: if it's drawn in black, it's 1870. If it's drawn in colour, it's 2026! Find out more about the new #ThisPlaceThen map series at map-editions.com taken in London Fields Park by @mapeditions

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So much of what we know of Stoke Newington today were large #brickfields where the top soil would have been removed, and the clay mixed with chalk and left to dry before being fired. These brickfields, common in the London building boom of mid 19th century would have created many of the materials used in the older Stoke Newington houses. These limited edition THIS PLACE THEN prints are available before the edition sells out. check www.map-editions.com for more info. taken in Stoke Newington by @mapeditions

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One of my favourite moments in the exhibition — and one of the joys of seeing all twelve maps side by side this month — is getting to notice small patches of extraordinary change.

This detail shows the children’s playground (the small yellow L-shaped block) just to the east of Millfileds Park.

Across the Clapton maps from 1896, 1915 and 1939, this one piece of land shifts again and again.

In 1896, the site still carries traces of its earlier life as a fireworks manufactory. Soon after, it became the home of Clapton Orient, who played here from 1896 until 1930. Then the ground was reshaped for greyhound racing, with Clapton Stadium opening as a dog track in 1928.

Fireworks. Football. Greyhounds. Housing. Playground. So much urban history folded into one ordinary-looking corner of Hackney.

On the contemporary layer, the purple blocks show the Millfields Estate housing, with the substation buildings around them. The little yellow L is the playground — a quiet marker of how radically this place has changed.

Part of #ThisPlaceThen — twelve new limited-edition maps of Hackney available now, bringing the borough’s past and present into the same frame.

On display at Printhouse Gallery, Bootstrap, Dalston, throughout May for Hackney History Festival.

#ThisPlaceThen #MapEditions #HackneyHistory #LowerClapton #Clapton #MillfieldsPark #MillfieldsEstate #ChatsworthRoad #HackneyMaps #LondonHistory #UrbanHistory #HistoricMaps #OrdnanceSurvey #LeytonOrient #ClaptonOrient #GreyhoundRacing #ThenAndNow #EastLondonHistory taken in Millfields Park by @mapeditions

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#ThisPlaceThen is a map series covering the whole of Hackney, on display @bootstrapcharity in Dalston right now. Find out more about the places you thought you knew. The exhibition is open until the end of the month, will be staying open late this Thursday 21st May till 9 pm. by @mapeditions

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Thursday 21st May, Printhouse Gallery will be open late, with map-maker Charlie Peel to talk about and answer any questions on the new "This Place Then" series of Hackney maps. 5pm-9pm. Hope you can make it. 18 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL. Drop me a note and let me know if you are coming. by @mapeditions

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Great start to the @hackneyhistoryfest at The Print House Gallery & Dalston Curve Garden.

This Place Then Exhibition by @mapeditions followed by an introduction to the festival and speakers for the upcoming programme.

Follow @hackneyhistoryfest to join in on the walks, talks & tours

📹 @mediorite taken in The Print House by @mapeditions

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Twelve new maps of Hackney are now on display at Bootstrap.

This Place Then is a new exhibition of large-format maps that align present-day Hackney with historic Ordnance Survey mapping from around 100 years ago. Lower Clapton, Stoke Newington, Dalston, Shoreditch, Homerton and more are shown across time — revealing how streets, buildings and open space have changed, and what remains beneath the surface of the city today.

The exhibition also includes laser-cut historic maps and wider London mapping work by Map Editions.

📍 Bootstrap Charity, 18–22 Ashwin Street, Dalston
🕘 Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
🎟 Free entry
Part of Hackney History Festival

#HackneyHistoryFestival #Hackney #Dalston #Shoreditch #Homerton #StokeNewington #LowerClapton #LondonMaps #HistoricMaps #Cartography #MapDesign #MapArt #LondonHistory #ThisPlaceThen #MapEditions taken in Bootstrap Charity by @mapeditions

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Overprinting is a historic printing technique where new information is printed directly over an existing map, allowing multiple layers to be read together at once. Rather than replacing what came before, the older map remains visible beneath the surface.

For This Place Then, contemporary Hackney has been carefully overprinted in colour onto black-and-white Ordnance Survey maps from around 100 years ago. Parks, buildings, playgrounds, pubs and railways from today sit directly over the earlier city, creating a map that can be read across time.

The result is somewhere between cartography, printmaking and archaeology — a way of seeing how the city has changed, and what still remains underneath.

See the series at the This Place Then exhibition as part of Hackney History Festival.

📍 Bootstrap Charity, 18–22 Ashwin Street
🕘 Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm
🎟 Free

#ThisPlaceThen #HackneyHistoryFestival #HackneyHistory #MapDesign #Cartography #LondonMaps #HistoricMaps #Hackney #Dalston #Shoreditch #StokeNewington #Homerton #LowerClapton #Printmaking #GraphicDesign #MapArt #LondonHistory #Overprinting #OrdnanceSurvey #MapEditions by @mapeditions

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