17/10/2026
Our East London heritage
My personal roots to East London go back nine generations.
My great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Stamp Brooksbank (Governor of the Bank of England) bought land in Hackney in the 1720s and built Hackney House. Long since gone, Homerton Hospital now rests on the site. Brooksbank Street and Brooksby’s Walk are within the gardens and fields once so loved by Stamp. My two children were born at Homerton Hospital and I have lived proudly with my family in Hackney for nearly two decades.
The landscape and its residents provide a constant source of inspiration and I feel blessed to call it home.
Love Bear x