Liberty of Norton Folgate
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Norton Folgate was a liberty in Middlesex, England; adjacent to the City of London in what would become the East End of London.
Looking south along Norton Folgate street in 2005. The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe), left, and Tower 42, right, can be seen in the background.
Plaque on Norton Folgate Almshouses, opened 1860, listing ten trustees. The buildings replaced earlier almshouses of 1728, and stand in Puma Court (formerly Red Lion Court), on the east side of Commercial Street, and therefore outside the boundaries of the Liberty.
The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, when it was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington and the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney to form the London Borough of Hackney.
Shoreditch Town Hall
Detail of the town hall facade. Note that the imposing figure representing Progress carries an axe to clear the way to the future. (September 2005)