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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hackney Council
Mortuary Buildings erected by the Hackney District Board of Works, Anno Domin...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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...
Labour and Co-operative politician. President of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Minister of Transport, 1945-51. Born North Woolwich. Lost a leg in a fairground accident...
Fought on the anti-royalist side in the Civil War. In 1652 he married for the second time to Bridget, Cromwell's daughter and widow of Henry Ireton. That same year he was appointed Lord Deputy of I...
Born in Essex. Caught supporting the wrong side when Edward IV assumed the throne, he was arrested and convicted of high treason which led to the loss of his head at Tower Hill.
Westminster Councillor. Married to Hugh Garside. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly investigated this woman: Mair Eluned Rees was born on 30 August 1931 in Cardiff or Neath (depending on source...
Mexican lawyer and politician, who served as the 26th president of Mexico, 1858 - his death in 1872. He was the first president of Mexico who was of indigenous origin.
First erected in 1880 and moved here in 1904. We've found two images of it in the original location (iStock and Harringay on-line) which...
Bronze. This statue, considered Clarke's best work, belongs to the select group of seated London statues - see Peabody.
You can see that there used to be another plaque fixed to this wall. Let's hope it was a cheap temporary thing removed when this rather n...
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