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Illustrated Map of Clissold Park

On June 30, 2018January 3, 2025 By amirdIn Uncategorized

I contributed the history section to a beautifully illustrated map of Clissold Park. The map was produced by the Clissold Park User Group and illustrated by Anna Hymas. You can buy the map in Clissold House cafe.

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Whincop & Son, builders’ merchants and timber yard, traded from 32–40 Stoke Newington Church Street from 1867 until 1998. A small stone tablet on the northern boundary wall of the Lordship Terrace and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk Estate is quietly disappearing. Something is slowly emerging from beneath the paint at 82 Mountgrove Road. One of the details that often goes unnoticed on Victorian houses is hidden above the front door. Health of Stoke Newington in 1896 Clissold House in 1876, when the house and its surrounding grounds were still part of a private estate. This 1930s ‘Borough of Stoke Newington’ street sign on Green Lanes, near Endymion Road, marks the northernmost point of the former Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which existed from 1900 to 1965. The commemorative fountain in Clissold Park is dedicated to Joseph Beck and John Runtz; the chief campaigners who saved the park from development in the mid 1880s. Erected in 1890, paid for by donations from local residents. Both Joseph Beck and John Runtz died in 1891. The tram shelter in Seven Sisters Road, Stoke Newington looking west with Finsbury Park in the background. The steps linked it to Manor House Tube Station. A view of the New River from Woodberry Down Bridge, Stoke Newington. The East Reservoir is on the left. The bridge is still there and can be accessed from Bethune Road or Newnton Close. The view has changed but the New River is still there since it opened in 1613. St Mary’s new Church, Stoke Newington. Built 1855-8. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The steeple, designed by Scott’s son John Oldrid Scott, was only added in 1890. Built on the site of the old wooden Rectory House. 163 Stoke Newington Church Street, corner of Woodlea Road. Walford Road Synagogue began as the New Dalston Synagogue in 1912, initially located at Blanche Hall, a former events venue at 99 Belgrade Road, on the corner of Wordsworth Road near St. Matthias Church. Hawksley Court Garage, Albion Road (Photo by Terry Gilley). Then & Now: Stoke Newington High Street.
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