Many thanks to everyone who attended the final Stoke Newington History Talks event of 2024. The evening featured brilliant talks by Wayne Fortune on the Church of England’s impact on urban development in Stoke Newington as a major landowner, and Jan Leybourne’s account of her inspiring shopfront poster project, which captured Church Street’s colourful (and evolving) shopfronts in the 90s and late 00s. I presented a talk on the history of the Red Lion pub, which was rebuilt 100 years ago. Ticket sales raised £649 for the Boiler House Community Space, bringing the total raised for various local charities through these events to £10,079.

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The 22nd Stoke Newington History Talks event featured three talks about the Town Hall, Allen’s Estate and the 1960s. St Matthias Halls was packed as always, and it was great seeing many familiar faces as well as meeting people who have attended the event for the first time. Ticket sales raised £683 for The Old Fire Station, bringing the total raised for charitable causes from the last 15 events to £9,472.

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The first Stoke Newington History Talks event of 2024 had a full house, generating £643 for Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground, bringing the total raised for 13 charities in the last 14 events to £8,789. 

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