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Amir Dotan: Promoting and Sharing Stoke Newington’s Rich History Since 2012

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Stoke Newington street names by W. F. Baxter 1927

In 1927 W. F. Baxter, a local historian, wrote a street dictionary which described the origin of street names in Stoke Newington. I transcribed this fascinating artefact with much appreciated help from Leanne Bentley, Joanna Burnett, Paul Treloar and Paddy Eason.

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There is a new planning application to demolish and redevelop the site of Anvil House in Matthias Road into a self-storage facility with ‘flexible workspace’ units and retail units on the ground floor. A planning application was orignally submitted last year. 16.03.1918 - HM Landship Julian, known as “Tank Bank”, outside Church Street School (later renamed William Patten School) in Stoke Newington Church Street during a fundraising tour selling war bonds. Clissold Park’s original bowling green behind Clissold House. Julian Korosec (left), the owner of G K Locksmiths at 45 Stoke Newington Church Street, outside the shop in 1989 when it opened. It moved across the road to number 50 a few years ago. G K stands for Guiliano Korosec, Guiliano being Julian’s first name in Italian. 1990 – The Horse and Groom pub (renamed The Auld Shillelagh in 1991) at 105 Stoke Newington Church Street. It is not a purpose-built pub and was originally a small wine and beer shop, hence the narrow layout and single entrance. It has been extended twice over the years. Photo by Derek Baker. Amwell Court in Green Lanes, built by Stoke Newington Council on a bomb site. It was named after Amwell Springs, originally the source of the New River in Hertfordshire. There is only one surviving red phone box in the former Borough of Stoke Newington, a 100-year-old K2 model outside 281 Green Lanes. It was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Thomas Day (1748–1789) was a prominent author and abolitionist, best known for his influential children’s book The History of Sandford and Merton and for co-authoring the first anti-slavery poem in English, The Dying Negro (1773). Stoke Newington Church Street. Stoke Newington Church Street in the 1920s. The Arundel Arms, 146-148 Boleyn Road, Stoke Newington (built in 1936, demolished in 2013). Designed by the Truman Brewery’s prolific principal architect, Arthur Edward Sewell, who also designed the Red Lion, the Rose & Crown and the Army & Navy in the area. He designed around 50 pubs during the interwar years. Photos by Ewan Munro. Library bookplate from Stoke Newington Public Library, featuring the first coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which was used from 1900, when the borough was formed, until 1934, when it was replaced. It can still be seen above the entrances to the library. 1914 - Park Crescent in Stoke Newington Church Street next to St. Mary’s new church. Built by Charles Birch in 1855. The Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Lordship Road and Manor Road, is seen here from Lordship Road. It was demolished in the late 1960s, and a smaller church and a block of flats were built on the site. The church itself closed a couple of years ago. Abney Chapel opposite Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington Church Street.
  • My Talks
  • 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)

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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.

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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.

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