Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900.
Previously they had been parishes governed by vestries. Hackney and Stoke Newington had been united as the Hackney District of the Metropolis from 1855 to 1894.
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Hackney Council
Mortuary Buildings erected by the Hackney District Board of Works, Anno Domin...
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Hackney Council
Oops! The plaque has 'Issac' rather than the more common 'Isaac' and we can't...
First plastic in the world, known as 'parkesine', invented by Alexander Parke...
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 1743 - 1825, poet and writer, lived in this house fro...
Anthony Newley, 1931 - 1999, entertainer, was a pupil at this school and live...
MDFCTA confirms that this fountain is of a unique design but we can find no r...
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
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Lawyer and Lord Chancellor. Born Alexander Wedderburn, probably in Edinburgh. Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1757, he served as Lord Chancellor from 1793 to 1801. Died in Stoke Poges, Buc...
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Listed as "The Hon. and Revd. R. Henley - Incumbent" on the Pest House plaque. Vicar of St Mary's Putney in 1886.
Born in Manchester as Margaret Christian Garnett, great niece of Samuel Palmer. Aged about 6 her family moved to Hampstead. 1934-67 Labour member of the LCC/GLC. Married Douglas Jay (who had litera...
Film director. Born at 517 Leytonstone High Road above his father William’s greengrocery and poultry shop. See Spitalfields Life for an unusual take on his life in Leytonstone. When Alfie was about...
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
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...
Painter and co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His intended middle name was ‘Hobman’ (his mother’s maiden name) which he disliked. Discovering that it had been misspelled as ‘Holman’ at ...
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