Newington Green Church built 1708, enlarged 1860. Oldest non-conformist place of worship in London, which is still in use.
N16, Matthias Road, 39
Wollstonecraft attended this church from 1784.
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Newington Green Unitarian Church
A Grade II listed building. It is one of England's oldest Unitarian churches,...
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Newington Green Unitarian Church
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
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Newington Green Unitarian Church
Mary Wollstonecraft The trailblazing feminist writer had passionate relations...
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{In a circle around the edge of the image:} Roman warehouse uncovered 20 yards south of here. Dated 100 AD. Recovered 1988. Preserved.
Charles Lamb lived with his sister at Colebrooke Cottage from 1823 - 1827. Of this home he wrote "a cheerful dining room is studded all o...
Oh, dear, what is happening to the City plaques? This one looks really cheap, and the letter spacing is dreadful: Br A Dbury, Dick Ens, ...
The general post office system started in the City of London and seems to have been confined to Central London, north of the river ...
Our thanks once again to David Hopkins for his generosity with his Latin knowledge.
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on 26 September of that year, over 1,000 men were sworn in in the grounds of the Foundling Hospital. (From Sarah Wise's boo...
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever. 22 people were killed in Englan...
Born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, second son of a wealthy man. Thrice Lord Mayor of London: 1397, 1406 and 1420 (actually four times but two were consecutive). Three times Master of the Mercers' C...
Person, Literature, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Theatre
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Early & devoted workers in the Chelsea Temperance Society. Parents of Robert. We found a McCurrey grave in Brompton (pt1) cemetery which we believe holds Margaret, James and their son Robert....
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