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These articles are published every fortnight in Hackney Today newspaper. They are usually on p.25. They can be downloaded from the Hackney Council website at http://www.hackney.gov.uk/w-hackneytoday.htm. Articles prior to no.158 are not available online.

Issue Publication Subject Topic no. date 207 11.05.09 125-130 Shoreditch High Street Architecture: Business 303 25.03.13 4% Industrial Dwellings Company Social Care: Jewish Housing 357 22.06.15 50 years of Hackney Archives Research 183 12.05.08 85 Broadway in Postcards Research Methods 146 06.11.06 Abney Park Cemetery Open Spaces 312 12.08.13 Abney Park Cemetery Registers Local History: Records 236 19.07.10 Abney Park chapel Architecture: Ecclesiastical 349 23.02.15 Activating the Archive Local Activism: Publications 212 20.07.09 Air Flight in Hackney Leisure: Air 158 07.05.07 Alfred Braddock, Photographer Business: Photography 347 26.01.15 Allen's Estate, Bethune Road Architecture: Domestic 288 13.08.12 Amateur sport in Hackney Leisure: Sport 227 08.03.10 Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1743-1825 Literature: Poet 216 21.09.09 Anna Sewell, 1820-1878 Literature: Novelist 294 05.11.12 Anti-Racism March Anti-Racism 366 02.11.15 Anti-University of East London Radicalism: 1960s 265 03.10.11 Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females, 1851 Social Care 252 21.03.11 Ayah's Home: 1857-1940s Social Care: Immigrants 208 25.05.09 Barber's Barn 1: John Okey, 1650s Commonwealth and Restoration 209 08.06.09 Barber's Barn 2: 16th to early 19th Century Architecture: Business 167 10.09.07 Berger Paint Factory Business: Paint Manufacturer 190 25.08.08 Bicycle History Leisure 234 21.06.10 Black and White House, Narrow Way: 1578-1796 Architecture: Domestic 317 21.10.13 Black History Month: Museum Exhibition Anti-Racism 351 23.03.15 Books on Hackney Local History 199 12.01.09 Brickfields and Brickmaking Industry: Construction 228 22.03.10 Brooke House Architecture: Domestic 355 25.05.15 Centenary of air raids on London War 273 06.02.12 Charles Dickens in Hackney Literature: Novelist 310 08.07.13 Charles Reed MP, 1819-1884 Politician, Educational Reformer 222 14.12.09 Christmas Spread Leisure: Christmas 184 26.05.08 Clapton in Maps Research Methods 225 08.02.10 Clapton Library Libraries 233 07.06.10 Clapton Orient FC Leisure: Football 309 24.06.13 Clapton Park Theatre Leisure: Theatre 266 17.10.11 Clapton Pond Open Spaces 180 31.03.08 Clarnico Confectionary Company Industry: Confectionary 147 20.11.06 Clissold Park Open Spaces 334 07.07.14 Clissold Park 125th anniversary Open Spaces 272 23.01.12 CLR James Library Libraries 308 10.06.13 Congress Hall Salvation Army 292 08.10.12 Cricket in Hackney Leisure: Cricket 278 23.04.12 Criminal Confessions: 18th Century Crime 289 27.08.12 Curtain Road gas works: 1812-1872 Industry: Gas Production 203 09.03.09 Dairies and Cowkeeping Agriculture 171 05.11.07 Dalston Junction Station Transport 277 02.04.12 Dalston: Origins and Growth Local History Literature: Novelist & 148 04.12.06 Daniel Defoe Commentator 286 23.07.12 Deerfoot Revisited: 1857-1872 Leisure: Athletics 144 09.10.06 Deerfoot the Runner Sport: Ethinic Communities 319 18.11.13 Dorothy Thurtle & Henrietta Girling Women in Power 242 18.10.10 Dottridge Brothers, 1811-1983 Business: Coffin Makers 300 11.02.13 Drainage Plans Research: Documents 217 05.10.09 Dresses and Fashion Business: Clothing 194 20.10.08 Eagle Tavern and Grecian Theatre Leisure: Music Hall 244 15.11.10 East & West Bank nature reserve Open Spaces 232 24.05.10 East London Line Transport 155 19.03.07 Edgar Allan Poe Literature: Novelist and Poet 201 09.02.09 Edgar Allan Poe and William Warbis Literature and Illustrator 245 29.11.10 Effects of WW2 on home life War: WW 2 218 19.10.09 Elizabeth Fry Refuge Philanthropy: Women 285 16.07.12 Eton Manor Sports Clubs: 1698 onwards Leisure: Sport 259 04.07.11 Festival of Britain Public Celebrations 368 30.11.15 Fire Services Fire Service 299 28.01.13 Fleetwood House: Stoke Newington Local History 359 20.07.15 Frederick Parslow V.C. World War I: Merchant Captain 271 09.01.12 French Hospital, 1718 onwards Health: Hospitals 174 17.12.07 Gas Light and Coke Company Industry: Gas Production 327 24.03.14 Geffrye Museum Architecture: Conservation 175 14.07.08 German Hospital Health: Ethnic Communities 338 08.09.14 Gibson Photographic Collection Business: Photography 173 03.12.11 Gothic Hall, Stamford Hill, 19th Century Architecture: Domestic 290 10.09.12 Grace Aguilar, 1816-1847 Literature: Religious & Fiction 326 10.03.14 Great Storm of 1703 & Daniel Defoe Disasters: Natural 333 23.06.14 Greyhound Racing, 1928-2003 Leisure: Greyhound Racing 150 08.01.07 Hackney Brook Waterways 322 13.01.14 Hackney Brook Waterways: Lost Rivers 348 09.02.15 Hackney City Farm Agriculture 287 30.07.12 Hackney Downs Riot 1837 Civil Disturbance 170 22.10.07 Hackney Downs School Education

301 25.02.13 Hackney Electricity Industry: Electric Supply 1901-1976 192 22.09.08 Hackney in Flood Water: Floods 202 23.02.09 Hackney Music Societies Leisure: Music 361 24.08.15 Hackney Reading Society Leisure: Literature 165 13.08.07 Hackney Town Hall Architecture: Civic 219 02.11.09 Hackney War Memorials War: WW 1 339 22.09.14 Hackney's Slave-Owners Slavery Open Spaces: Industrial 282 18.06.12 Haggerston Park: 1956 onwards Reclamation 365 19.10.15 Hannah Snell Soldier: Transvestite 18th century 200 26.01.09 Harold Pinter, 1930-2009 Literature: Playwright 337 25.08.14 Henry Fawcett MP, 1833-1884: blind politician Politician, Reformer 358 06.07.15 Henry Sayer, 1857-1911: Life Saver Life Saver 250 21.02.11 History of 43 De Beauvoir Road Arhitecture: Civic 313 26.08.13 Holywell Priory Church History: Mediaeval 343 17.11.14 Homerton College Education: Dissenters 362 07.09.15 Hop Picking Agriculture 176 28.01.08 How to Research House History Research Methods 270 12.12.11 Hoxton Christian Mission: 1881-1983 Social Care: Deprivation 293 22.10.12 Hoxton madhouses 17th-18th Centuries Health: Mental 283 25.06.12 Hoxton Square: 1683-present Architecture: Domestic 304 15.04.13 Ironmongers Almshouses/Geffrye Museum Social Care: Almshouse 196 17.11.08 Isaac Watts, 1674-1725 Literature: Hymn Writer 296 03.12.12 Israel Renson Author: Socialist 331 26.05.14 J.G. Ingram India Rubber Works Industry: Rubber 221 01.12.09 James Parkinson, 1755-1824 Medicine 364 05.10.15 James Richardson Spensley Sport: Footballer 181 14.04.08 James Shirley Hibberd, 1825-1890 Horticulture 169 08.10.07 James Stephen, 1758-1832 Anti-Slavery 258 20.06.11 JDR Tyssen Collection Local History: Records 168 24.09.07 Joanna Vassa, 1795-1857 Anti-Slavery Author: Medicine, Biography, 226 22.02.10 John Aikin, 1747-1822 Religion 341 20.10.14 John Scott Health Centre Woodberry Down: Health 220 16.11.09 Joseph Granger, 1723-1776 Collector of Ephemera 224 25.01.10 Kemble & Co, Piano Manufacturer: Archive Business: Music 275 05.03.12 LBH Archival Holdings Local History: Records 261 08.08.11 LBH Coat of Arms Heraldry 269 28.11.11 Lea River and Lee Navigation Waterways: River Lee/Lea 284 09.07.12 Lea River Rowing Clubs Leisure: Rowing 164 30.07.07 Lea River watermills Waterways: Industry 354 11.05.15 Local photography studios Business: Photography 204 23.03.09 Local Theatres Leisure: Theatre 249 07.02.11 Lock Hospital, c.1280-1846 Health: Hospitals 210 22.06.09 Loddiges Nursery 1: Foundation, 1775 Horticulture 211 06.07.09 Loddiges Nursery 2: Flourishing and Decline - 1852 Horticulture 149 18.12.06 London Fields Open Spaces: Sport 307 27.05.13 London Orphan Asylum Social Care: Orphanage War: American War of 223 11.01.10 MajorJohn André, 1751-1780 Independence 240 20.09.10 Mapledene Estate Housing 195 03.11.08 Marie Lloyd, 1870-1922 Leisure: Music Hall 206 27.04.09 Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797 Feminist Writer 159 21.05.07 Matthew Rose Department Store Business: Retail 324 10.02.14 Maurice Hostel Settlement Community 302 11.03.13 Metropolitan Hospital Health: Hospitals 255 09.05.11 Millfields Disinfecting Station, 1900-1980s Health: Disease Prevention 267 31.10.11 Monteagle Letter: 1605 Gunpowder Plot 291 24.09.12 Mothers' Hospital Health: Maternity Services 235 05.07.10 Murder of Thomas Briggs, 1864 Crime: Murder 336 11.08.14 New North Road Canal Bridge Architecture: Industrial 153 19.02.07 New River Waterways: Amenities 315 23.09.13 New River Anniversary 1 Waterways: Amenities 316 07.10.13 New River Anniversary 2 Waterways: Amenities 305 29.04.13 Newcome's School Education: 18th Century 186 23.06.09 Newington Green Chapel Architecture: Ecclesiastical 229 12.04.10 Newspaper Collection Research 193 06.10.08 Nisbet House, Homerton High Street Architecture: Domestic 353 27.04.15 NO ARTICLE DUE TO LACK OF SPACE 166 NO ISSUE 188 21.07.08 Old Haggerston Library Libraries 256 23.05.11 Origins of Estate Names Place Names 185 09.06.08 Origins of School Names Place Names 335 21.07.14 Outbreak of WW1 War: WW 1 295 19.11.12 Palatine Estate: Stoke Newington Local History 345 15.12.14 Pantomime History Leisure: Theatre 177 11.02.08 Paradise House School, 1876-1929 Education 318 04.11.13 Paradise Row: Stoke Newington Local History 254 18.04.11 Passmore Edwards Libraries Libraries 243 01.11.10 Passmore Edwards Murder, 1925 Crime: Murder 311 22.07.13 Pear Tree Place, Clapton Local History 172 19.11.07 Pollock's Toy Theatres: 1 Business: Leisure 369 14.12.15 Pollocks Toy Theatres: 2 Business: Leisure 330 12.05.14 Private Alexander Dyall, 1898-1917 War: WW 1 298 14.01.13 Ram's Episcopal Chapel Church History 297 17.12.12 Reeves artists' materials Business: Artists' Paints 276 19.03.12 Refuge for the Destitute: 19th Century Social Care: Homelessness 151 22.01.07 Regents Canal Waterways 247 10.01.11 Rev Pedr Williams, 1894: 1 Crime: Absconder 248 24.01.11 Rev Pedr Williams, 1894: 2 Crime: Absconder 306 13.05.13 Rev. Andrew Reed, 1787-1862 Social Care: Orphanage 332 09.06.14 Rev. Thomas Manton, served Cromwell & Charles II Commonwealth and Restoration 230 26.04.10 Rio Cinema Leisire: Cinemas 352 13.04.15 River Walbrook Waterways: Lost Rivers 238 23.08.10 Round Chapel Architecture: Ecclesiastical 281 04.06.12 Royal Jubilees and Coronations Public Celebrations 360 10.08.15 Sadler Balloon Ascent from the Mermaid, 1811 Ballooning: 1811 237 09.08.10 Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855 Literature: Poet and Critic 179 10.03.08 Sara Lane, 1822-1899 Women: Leisure, Theatre 197 01.12.08 Savoy Cinema, Stoke Newington Rd and Traman Rd Leisire: Cinemas 157 23.04.07 Scouts in Hackney Leisure: Clubs 329 28.04.14 Shakespeare and the Burbages Shoreditch Theatre 213 04.08.09 Shop front displays Business: Retail 262 22.08.11 Shoreditch Almshouses Social Care: Almshouse 162 02.07.07 Shoreditch Dust Destructor Health: Disease Prevention 231 10.05.10. Shoreditch Furniture Trade Industry 320 02.12.13 Shoreditch Model Welfare Centre Health: Maternity Services 163 16.07.07 Shoreditch Park Open Spaces 314 09.09.13 Shoreditch Parochial Schools Education: 18th Century 191 08.09.08 Shoreditch Street Names Place Names 263 05.09.11 Shoreditch Workhouse Social Care: Deprivation 367 16.11.15 Sir John Cass. 1661-1718 Merchant, Phllanthropist 189 04.08.08 Sir William Cremer, 1828-1908 Philanthropist 350 09.03.15 Slum clearance: Bannister House Housing: Slum Clearance 1930s 198 15.12.08 Snow and the Hoxton Mission Philanthropist: Christmas 323 27.01.14 Societies for the Reformation of Manners Morality: Supervision 187 07.07.08 Springfield Park Open Spaces 178 25.02.08 St Agnes le Clare Spring, 1622-1845 Health: Spring Water 205 06.04.09 St Augustine's Tower Architecture: Ecclesiastical 182 28.04.08 St Barnabas Boys' Club Leisure: Clubs 321 16.12.13 St Leonard's Bells Architecture: Ecclesiastical: Bells 154 05.03.07 St Leonard's Church Architecture: Ecclesiastical 264 19.09.11 St Leonard's Hospital Health: Hospitals 143 25.09.06 St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington Architecture: Ecclesiastical 274 20.02.12 St Matthias Church Architecture: Ecclesiastical 344 01.12.14 St Michael and All Angels Architecture: Ecclesiastical 145 23.10.06 Standard Theatre Leisure: Theatre 214 24.08.09 Stoke Newington Abolitionists Anti-Slavery 156 02.04.07 Stoke Newington Manor Architecture: Domestic 279 07.05.12 Stoke Newington Town Hall Arhitecture: Civic 161 18.06.07 Sutton House Architecture: Domestic 346 12.01.15 Temperance Societies Temperance 152 05.02.07 The Blitz War: WW 2 239 06.09.10 The Blitz War: WW 2 253 04.04.11 The Census in Hackney: 1841-present Demography 325 24.02.14 The Island, a Unique Community Community 328 07.04.14 The Year of the Bus Transport 340 06.10.14 Thomas Fairchild,1667-1729: Pioneering Nurseryman Horticulture 257 06.06.11 Tolls and Tollgates Transport 280 21.05.12 Traveller History in Hackney Travellers, Gypsies, Roma 260 18.07.11 Watercress Beds Agriculture 268 14.11.11 West Hackney Church Architecture: Ecclesiastical 251 07.03.11 White House Fishery Leisure: Angling 246 13.12.10 Wick Road Shopping Poem Business: Christmas 342 03.11.14 William Pennington, hero of Balaklava, 1854 War: Crimean 160 04.06.07 Women in local government Women: Local Government 356 08.06.15 Woodberry Down: the peoples' story Woodberry Down 363 21.09.15 Workhouses Social Care: Deprivation 215 07.09.09 WW2 in Hackney War: WW 2 241 04.10.10 Xylonite/Parkesine Industry: Plastic Manufacturing