Stoke Newington Church Street property survey 1890-2017 by Amir Dotan

In my talk I guided the audience through my recent research, which traced the history of every building on Stoke Newington Church Street. This research paints a vivid picture of the changing commercial landscape over the decades as tobacconists, tailors, and bootmakers made way for manufacturing, sewing machine repair shops, and later restaurants, cafes, and estate agents. I shared insights, trends, and stories of different shops from the late Victorian period onwards.

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Images of Stoke Newington in the 1970’s-80’s by Alan Denney

Local resident Alan Denney has been photographing Stoke Newington since he moved to the area in the mid 1970s. His vast collection of photos from that era offers a fascinating and colourful view of pre-gentrification Stoke Newington. In this talk Alan shared his favourite photos from his collection and talk about life in Stoke Newington at the time.

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The birth of the Garden City Movement in Stoke Newington by Ken Worpole

On 3 December 1898 at Rectory Road Congregational Church in Stoke Newington Ebenezer Howard gave his first public lecture on his proposal for a ‘Garden City’, an idea that became one of the most influential town planning concepts throughout the world in the 20th century. Local writer and social historian Ken Worpole discussed the religious and political milieu of Stoke Newington, where Howard lived for many years, as a key influence on his thinking and his ideas for shaping a better world.

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