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On July 15, 2018 By amird

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For a brief period in the 1990s, the Three Crowns at 175 Stoke Newington High Street was known as the Samuel Beckett. The former pub sign is in the pub now. 1814 map of Stoke Newington. Stoke Newington Borough’s first Coat of Arms above the entrance to the First World War Memorial Hall on Church Street, which opened in 1923. Clissold House, Clissold Park, 1999. Photo by Peter Marshall. Steptoes, 102 Stoke Newington Church Street. Built in 1860 as the Clarence Tavern, it is the oldest surviving pub building on Church Street. However, it is not the oldest pub, as several others were established centuries earlier but rebuilt after 1860. The pub reverted to the name Clarence Tavern a few years ago. A view from Clissold Park of St Mary’s Old Church, showing on the left its original north aisle. The north aisle sustained severe bomb damage during the Second World War, and a smaller replacement with a flat roof was rebuilt in its place. During the summer months, in the days before roads were surfaced with tarmac, the council operated water carts, also known as “sprinkler carts” or “street sprinklers”, which sprayed water over the roads to suppress dust and keep the surfaces damp. This was a common practice in urban areas before the widespread adoption of paved roadways. The wrought ironwork of the Rose & Crown, a Grade II listed pub built in 1933 on Stoke Newington Church Street, is by Morris Singer Co., a notable art foundry responsible for casting Sir Edwin Landseer’s four monumental lions at Trafalgar Square. morrissinger.co.uk Work in progress! Since 2015, once a year around this time, I photograph every business on Stoke Newington Church Street. The result is a poster collage, a kind of school photo, capturing the street at that moment in time. Photo mashups I created of Stoke Newington Station. Opened in 1872. The ticket building was rebuilt in 1975. WW2 bomb damage in Albion Road, Sandbrook Road, Hawksley Road and Lilian Street. Hawksley Court Estate opened on the site in 1948. The Red Lion on Stoke Newington Church Street, pictured in 1890. First recorded in 1697, it was demolished and rebuilt in 1924 when Lordship Road was widened. The new pub was designed by Truman Brewery’s principal architect, A. E. Sewell, who also designed the Rose & Crown and the Army & Navy in the 1930s. Clissold Court, a 67-flat estate in Greenway Close next to Clissold Park, was built in 1935 on the site of nurseries as housing for the middle classes. The Saloon Bar in the Shakespeare pub at 57 Allen Road in 1922. 111-113 Stoke Newington Church Street circa 1985.
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