Group    From 1900  To 1965

Stoke Newington Borough Council

Formed from the Vestry of Stoke Newington Parish in the County of London, and the South Hornsey Urban District Council in Middlesex. In 1965 it became part of the London Borough of Hackney.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Stoke Newington Borough Council

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SNBC flats 1936

This ceramic plaque is lovely - the colours, the font, the design. Composed o...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Stoke Newington Borough Council

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Hugh Gaitskell House

{The top plaque:} These flats erected for the Stoke Newington Borough Council...

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Stoke Newington - civilian war memorial

The 113 names are grouped by the location/date of the bomb: 88 people ("also ...

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Emily Wilding Davison

Emily Wilding Davison

Militant suffragette. Born Roxburgh House, Vanbrugh Park Road, Greenwich (see Running Past for info about the house). Brought up in Hertfordshire until aged 11 when the family returned to London. H...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

4 memorials
J. Gray Buchanan

J. Gray Buchanan

President of the Hornsey Central Hospital in 1924. From St Andrew's Law Journal, concerning "The criminal prosecution in 1914 of two Glasgow businessmen, Messrs Hetherington and Wilson of William ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Lord Gowrie

Lord Gowrie

Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, PC, FRSL, was both a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was a Co...

Person, Politics & Administration, Ireland

1 memorial
Lyon Playfair

Lyon Playfair

One of the Special Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851. Born in Bengal. Chemist. 1st Baron Playfair. Died at home in South Kensington.

Person, Politics & Administration, Science, Bengal, Scotland

1 memorial

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Michael Ventris

Michael Ventris

Architect and decipherer of Linear B script.  While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...

Person, Architecture, History, Greece

1 memorial