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HACKNEY BRICK
CISTERN OR HOMERTON LOCK
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Lock |
State |
Date |
Length |
Length - Working Distance |
Width |
Fall |
Removed or bypassed |
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Hackney Brick Cistern Lock |
Built |
1769 |
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1862 |
26.12.1767 The Clerk to advertise for contractors to dig
the Hackney Cut (NA Rail 845/50
 
On 27.11.1779 "...it
was ordered that the Locks in Hackney Marsh and at Old Ford be forthwith
repaired..." (NA
Rail 845/51)
On 12.1.1780 it was
“Resolved that the following Locks be repaired with all convenient speed
Viz. … Hackney Marsh Brick Cistern Lock And It Is Ordered that the
Surveyor do repair the same as he shall find them absolutely necessary”
(NA Rail 845/5).
6.3.1793 “Also at this
meeting it is ordered that the Clerk of this Trust do write Dr Newcome
of Hackney to prevent his Schoolboys drawing the Slackers of the
Navigation for Bathing” (NA Rail
845/6)
20.11.1793 “And that new
gates, Posts, Slacker Frames and Bridge be made to Hackney Cistern. (NA
Rail 845/7)
14.10.1813 A lock house to
be built at Hackney Brick Cistern (NA
Rail 845/8). The plan below was prepared by James Griggs in 1844
LMA ACC 2423/P724 LMA ACC 2423/P/457
A minute of 21.3.1861
records (the chamber’s) imminent removal (NA
Rail 845/15). Later that year the navigation was dredged back to Pond
Lane and the brickwork of the chamber was finally removed in March 1864
(NA Rail 845/15).
16.3.1888 "That the old Homerton Lock
house (called "Brick Lock Cottage") be let to John Palmer of 21 Glyn
Road, Clapton Park, Clapton; Rent £18, and a piece of the River Bank £3,
on a quarterly tenancy as from Ladyday 1888, in the place of Thomas
William Kentisher, who has occupied the place for the past 30 years; (NA
Rail 845/25)
15.4.1910 Jane Stannard, tenant of the
Old Lock Cottage has died and her son has applied for the tenancy
(NA Rail 845/37)
13.5.1910 Decision
that the cottage be occupied by one of the Board's River Constables (NA Rail 845/25)
This led to the house being radically
altered as shown in the plans below dated 1911.
Original
Altered
 
All from LMA ACC 2423 P014
The lock house thus became a
residence for Board employees until its
demolition in 1946. (See note 18.1.1924 at Lea Bridge)
Hackney Brick Cistern or
Homerton Lock
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Census/Date |
Name |
Title |
Wife |
Location given by
enumerator/Comments |
Source Reference |
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10.1851 |
William Willburn |
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Deceased. Lock keeper at Hackney
for 14 years. Widow granted 2/- per week pension. (see below) |
NA Rail 845/14 |
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Letter from Mr Pulley of the Hackney
Union, Homerton, Oct 9th 1851...I am directed by the Guardians
of the Poor of this Union to solicit the attention of the
Trustees of the River Lea Navigation to the case of Sarah
Wilburn the widow of Henry Wilburn who is lately deceased and
was prior to and up to the time of his decease for Twenty Five
years a Lock keeper to the Trustees.....She is forty two years
of age and has a family of four children - three getting out in
the world and one is entirely dependant upon her. She
seems a very well conducted woman and deserving of any
consideration that the nature of the case at your hands as the
Widow of an Old Servant to a Public Body who it is believed
discharges his duties faithfully for the long period of Twenty
Years can command...
the place of settlement is
St Andrews, Hertford, to which she does not wish to be removed
as a pauper and here is ot a case for admission into the Hackney
Union....(NA Rail 845/14) |
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7.6.1841 |
William Willborn (30) |
Lock keeper |
Sarah |
Brick Lock in Marsh |
Mx/St John
Hackney/Hackney/20/8 |
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21.3.1837 |
(Henry) William Willborne |
Lock keeper |
Transferred from Hertford |
NA Rail 845/11 |
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21.3.1837 |
William Johnson |
Lock keeper |
Transferred to Cheshunt |
NA Rail 845/11 |
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18.9.1832 |
William Johnson |
Lock keeper |
In place of T Smith |
NA Rail 845/11 |
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21.8.1832 |
Thomas Smith |
Lock keeper |
Deceased |
NA Rail 845/11 |
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18.5.1824 |
Thomas Smith |
Lock keeper |
Appointed |
NA Rail 845/9 |
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16.3.1824 |
Thomas Judd |
Lock keeper |
Deceased |
NA Rail 845/9 |
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11.3.1819 |
James Burton |
Lock keeper |
On the Hackney Cutt be allowed
1/- a barge for taking an account of those unloading in that
Cutt in order to avoid their paying the Tolls due at Lee Bridge |
NA Rail 845/9 |
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6.12.1810 |
James Harris |
Walksman |
Appointed |
NA Rail 845/8 |
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6.12.1810 |
James Guest |
Walksman |
Discharged |
NA Rail 845/8 |
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10.10.1792 |
James Guest |
Walksman |
Appointed in his stead |
NA Rail 845/6 |
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10.10.1792 |
John Hanchent |
Walksman |
Discharged for neglect of Duty |
NA Rail 845/6 |
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