History
Mare Street, 1900′s
“At present there are forty girls who are brought up in the principles of the Church of England and instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, needlework and the older girls are taught housework before they leave school. The clothes they wear are made by themselves”.
William Robinson
Eastside Academy was originally the North-East London institute school of music, science, and art, at nos. 236 and 238 Dalston Lane.
It was built in 1837 to provide an education for girls in the parish. In 1897 the buildings were aquired to form the central site for L.C.C. (London County Council) Hackney institute and by 1904 served as its northern branch, the southern brance located at Cassland House, Cassland Road. Both branches were transfered to the main site at Dalston Lane in 1909. The L.C.C. Hackney institute was then renamed in 1928 to the L.C.C. Hackney technical institute, and in 1947 to the Hackney technical college. In 1974 it was amalgamated with Poplar technical college and Hackney and Stoke Newington college of further education to form Hackney College, whose Poplar sites were transferred in 1990 to the new Tower Hamlets college of further education.
In 1990, The Hackney Technical institute made up two of the Hackney College’s eight sites in Dlaston Lane, Cassland Road, Stoke Newington and Bow, when 10,000-12,000 students were enrolled annually for full-or part-time courses.
