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Amir Dotan: Researching, Preserving and Sharing Stoke Newington’s History Since 2012

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Recordings From Stoke Newington History Talks

Below are recordings of some of the talks from over the years.

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View looking south along Lordship Road from Lordship Park. Cazenove Road at Stoke Newington High Street. The Weavers Arms pub is on the left. It closed in the 1950s. The corner of Barbauld Road, on the left, and Albion Road. The house on the right, on Albion Road, still stands today. An aerial view of the nine Victorian filter beds belonging to the New River on Green Lanes. During the 1980s and 1990s, a lengthy campaign sought to protect both the filter beds and the reservoirs from redevelopment. Although the campaign succeeded in saving the reservoirs, the filter beds were ultimately lost. The Walford pub in Stoke Newington Road corner of Walford Road. Now named Yucatan Bar. Bethune Road, Stoke Newington. The eastern side of the street between Dunsmure Road and Amhurst Park was in the old Borough of Hackney, while the rest of it was in the old Borough of Stoke Newington. Reveal of an old shop sign at 5 Stoke Newington Church St (Starlove, Newsagent) during refurbishment in 2017. Now Man Cave barbershop. A view of Stoke Newington Church St from Marton Road. The 1925 former Public Baths building is on the right on the corner of Yoakley Rd. Now a nursery. On the left is the entrance to Whitbread brewery’s bottle depot where Brett Close is today. Stoke Newington Church St looking east near Clissold Crescent. Affluent Paradise Row, home to wealthy merchants and bankers on the right where Kennaway Estate is today. The mansion on the very right was Kennaway Hall. This section of the New River in the park was drained in 1958. London And Provincial Bank on the corner of Albion Road/Newington Green, Stoke Newington. Later Barclays Bank. The building is now flats. Architect: Alfred B. Hutchings. The bank’s other Stoke Newington branch was at 159 Stoke Newington High St (Now Stoke Newington Bookshop). Ghost’ shop sign revealed on 15th August 2019 at 123 Stoke Newington Church Street. I was told at the time that the old sign would remain and be covered again with a new sign, so it is hopefully still there. Arthur Stone, Furniture Dealer had the shop there in the 1950s-70s. A very easy-to-miss detail on the front of 17 Victorian Grove reveals exactly when the house was built: A.D. 1839, carved directly into one of its ordinary bricks. Four new Windows into the Past plaques, ready to be given to businesses on Stoke Newington Church Street. Paradise Row, Stoke Newington Church Street opposite Clissold Park and the New River. The Red Lion pub on SN Church St in 1982, still displaying its Truman brewery sign. A pub was first recorded on this site in 1697. The original building was pulled down in 1924 to make way for the widening of Lordship Rd. The new pub was designed by A. E. Sewell, who also designed the Rose & Crown and the Army & Navy.
  • My Talks
  • The Park That Never Was: The Lost 467-Acre Scheme That Almost Transformed Stoke Newington (Slides, Recording)
  • Paradise Row: A Corner of Old Stoke Newington (Slides, Recording)
  • Ghost Shop Signs: Accidental Finds, Briefly Revealing Lost Shops (Slides, Recording)
  • Look up, Look down: Spotting local history everywhere (Slides, Recording)
  • Reconstruct, Restore, Reimagine: New Perspectives on Stoke Newington’s History Through AI (Slides, Recording)
  • The Battle of Belgrade Road: A WW1 Street Renaming Saga (Slides, Recording)
  • Pints, Partitions and Rebuild - The Red Lion’s 300-Year History (Slides, Recording)
  • From Houses or Votes to a Public Park - The Creation of Butterfield Green (Slides, Recording)
  • 1930s Stoke Newington - Rediscovering a Decade of Profound Change (Slides, Recording)
  • Bidding on the Past – Unearthing Stoke Newington’s history through eBay finds (Slides, Recording)
  • The History of Stoke Newington Street Names (Slides, Recording)
  • Stoke Newington’s Lost Pubs and Ghost Cinemas – A Visual Journey (Slides, Recording)
  • How Clissold Park was saved by the public for the public (Slides, Recording)
  • A Glimpse into Hackney Archives' photos of Stoke Newington (Recording)
  • Lost in the Shed – Unearthing a Treasure Trove of Printing Material from the 1930s-50s (Slides, Recording)
  • The Segregated Pub – A History of Class and Gender-based Drinking (Slides, Recording)
  • Back to the Local...A Stoke Newington perspective (Slides, Recording)
  • The architects who built Stoke Newington (Recording)
  • Come Fly With Me – Exploring old aerial photos of Stoke Newington (Slides, Recording)
  • Stoke Newington’s seven long-lost cinemas (Slides)
  • A Visual History of Stoke Newington Church Street (Slides)
  • Photos from the Hackney Archives (Slides)
  • The evolution of Stoke Newington Church Street 1847-2017 (Slides)
  • Stoke Newington pubs – Converted. Demolished. Rebuilt. (Slides)
  • Stoke Newington’s lost pubs (Slides)
  • 130 years of Clissold Park (Slides)
  • Stoke Newington churches (Slides)
  • Before the building boom: Exploring the 1846 map (Slides)
  • On Maps and in Minds: The Boundaries of Stoke Newington (Slides)

Do you have anything to share?

I’m always very interested to hear from people who have old photos of Stoke Newington and anything else relevant to the area’s past such as home movies, documents etc.

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Book Me as a Guest Speaker

I give talks about various Stoke Newington history related topics such as the campaign to save Clissold Park, pubs, the evolution of Church Street since 1847 and more.

Click here to get in touch if you would like to discuss a potential speaking engagement.

Stoke Newington History Talks

I run a free quarterly event called Stoke Newington History Talks where I’m joined by two different speakers each time.

Click here to get in touch if you would like to be a guest speaker at a future event. Subscribe to the mailing list to be notified about upcoming events.

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