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unusual facts about Church of St John-at-Hackney


Church of St John-at-Hackney

Fr Rob Wickham was inducted as Rector of Hackney in March 2007


A102

A102 road (England), a road connecting Clapton in the north London Borough of Hackney and Kidbrooke in the south London Borough of Greenwich

Anne Stallybrass

She was born Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex to Edward Lindsay and Annie I. (née Peacock) Stallybrass who wed around June 1933 in Hackney, London.

Arthur Stanley Hirst

Born in Hackney where his father practiced medicine, he was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School, and studied zoology at the University College London.

Banksia paludosa

The species was grown at Kew, Cambridge Botanic Gardens, Woburn Abbey, Loddiges nursery in Hackney, John Miller's nursery in Bristol and George Hibbert's garden at Clapham Common.

Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton

He married at Hackney, Middlesex, on 8 May 1630, Elizabeth (died 1672), eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir Charles Montagu, of Boughton, Northamptonshire.

Church of All Saints, Pocklington

The most famous branch of the Sotheby family moved to Bishop Wilton and then to Hackney, London, and Sewardstone in Essex.

Ebenezer Prout

His son Louis Beethoven Prout (b. Hackney, 1864) was also a writer on musical theory, having trained under his father at the Royal Academy, and becoming professor at the Guildhall School.

Elevator Gallery

located on the fifth floor of a former chocolate factory in Hackney Wick, Hackney, east London, England.

Ethel Skinner

Ethel was based on an elderly woman that Smith had encountered in a pub in Hackney.

Eton Manor

In 1909 four Old Etonian philanthropists founded Eton Manor Boys' Club to provide sporting facilities in the Hackney area, purchasing the former Manor Farm in 1913.

Glamma Kid

Iyael Iyases Tafari Constable (born 14 March 1978, Hackney, London, England) better known as Glamma Kid, is a British ragga and dancehall toaster and former Royal Air Force trainee of part Jamaican descent.

Hackney Central

Schools in the area include The Urswick School (formerly known as Hackney Free and Parochial Church of England Secondary School).

Hackney Empire

Charlie Chaplin, WC Fields, Stanley Holloway, Stan Laurel and Marie Lloyd all performed there, when the Hackney Empire was a music hall.

Hackney Hawks

The riders and track staff marched onto the track to the sound of the theme tune of the film The Magnificent Seven and that tune inspires more memories for Hackney Hawks fans than anything else.

Hackney RFC

Hackney RFC have recently toured to Madrid, Munich, Budapest, Malta and Portugal playing against RFC Chaminade, Studentenstadt Munchen RFC, Medvek RFC, Valletta Lions RFC respectively.

Hackney Road

Hackney City Farm is located at the junction of (intersection with) Goldsmith's Row on the northern (Hackney) side of the road.

For half of its course it forms the boundary between the London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

Henry Aaron Stern

Henry Aaron Stern (Unterreichenbach, near Gelnhausen, 11 April 1820 - Hackney, 13 May 1885) was an Anglican missionary and captive in Abyssinia.

Henry Benyon

He had inherited his father's estates - as well as the patronage of St Mark's Church, Englefield and St Peter's Church, De Beauvoir Town, Hackney - in 1935 and was raised to the baronetcy on 8 July 1958.

Independent College, Homerton

Homerton College was known as King's Head Academy when it moved in 1768/69 from Plasterers' Hall, London, to a large house on the north side of the high street of Homerton, in the parish of Hackney, close to London, in which they sought to base all their teaching.

Jaca Navarra

The word jaca has an unusual history, from Old Spanish haca, itself from Old French haque, which in turn is ultimately derived from the English place-name Hackney, a place famous for its horses.

Jeff Rich

He attended school in Hackney at Upton House Comprehensive, and whilst there he appeared in the opera Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Leila Hoffman

Leila Hoffman (née Rothstein) (born 1934 in Hackney) is an English comedian, actress and writer.

Lesney Products

Lesney originally started operations in a derelict pub in north London (The Rifleman), but later, as finances allowed, changed location several times before finally moving to a factory in Hackney which became synonymous with the company.

Lizzie Woods

Her family were forced to move to Hackney, London for economic reasons following the Thatcher government's decimation of the mining community.

Louisa Courtauld

She lived in a cottage behind Joseph Priestley's house off Clapton Square on the corner of Clapton Passage and Lower Clapton Road in Hackney.

Mare Street

Mare Street is a street in Hackney.

Milton Brewery

The Milton Brewery has a pub-owning sister company which operates the Pembury Tavern, Hackney, London, the Coalheavers Arms Peterborough, the White Lion, Norwich and the Devonshire Arms and The Haymakers, both in Cambridge.

Mohamed Nur

The family initially stayed in Hackney, later relocating to the Queen's Crescent neighborhood, where they are still based.

Nathaniel Mellors

Mellors plays bass in the art-rock group Skill 7 Stamina 12 with Dan Fox, Ashley Marlowe and Maaike Schoorel, and has also released music with Toilet, God in Hackney, Mysterius Horse and under his own name.

North London Line City Branch

In 1861, the North London Railway Act was passed giving permission to the NLR to build an extension from its main line through Hackney to a site at Old Broad Street.

Oliver Letwin

He stood at the 1987 election for Hackney North, and again unsuccessfully stood against Glenda Jackson for the Hampstead and Highgate seat in the 1992 election, before winning the West Dorset seat in 1997, by the narrow margin of 1,840 votes.

Pamphill

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.

Paula P-Orridge

P-Orridge's musical career began in 1979 when she met musician and artist, Genesis P-Orridge, while working at a Tesco supermarket in Hackney, East London.

Roland Camberton

A novel reflecting Jewish life in Hackney during the thirties, this book received a much more positive review (this one from Julian Symons).

Rosie Wilby

In August 2012, she appeared alongside Jenny Eclair and Ellie Taylor at the Hackney Empire, part of the season Ha Ha Hackney.

State Herbarium of South Australia

Since 2000 the Herbarium has been located in the historic Tram Barn A building adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Garden's Bicentennial Conservatory on Hackney Road, Hackney.

Steve Bendall

Bendall boxed to national level as an amateur before turning professional in May 1997, winning his first fight at the Rivermead Leisure Centre, Reading, Berkshire, England, in which Bendall knocked out Hackney's Dennis Doyley on an undercard that included Junior Witter and Tony Booth.

Street Pastors

The initial activities of street pastors in areas such as Lewisham and Hackney focussed mainly on confronting gang culture and the use of knives and guns.

Sutton House, London

At the turn of the 18th century, Hackney was renowned for its many schools, and Sutton House contained a boys' school, with headmaster Dr Burnet, which was attended in 1818 by the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Swandown

To make the film, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedaled a swan pedalo over 160 miles down the River Thames from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in East London, occasionally joined by guests including Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Dudley Sutton, Dr Mark Lythgoe and Marcia Farquhar.

There Is No Authority But Yourself

As well as reflecting on the band's past the film focusses on their current activities, and includes footage of Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at the Vortex jazz club in Hackney, a compost toilet building workshop and a permaculture course held at Dial House in the spring of 2006.

Thomas Walter Jennings

Thomas Walter Jennings, also known as Tom Jennings (born 28 February 1917 in Hackney, London, England) was the founder of the company that produced the first Vox Guitar amplifier.

Tony Want

Anthony George "Tony" Want (born 13 December 1948 in Hackney, North London) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

William Isaac Palmer

In 1876, he purchased Hoxton Hall, in Hoxton, Hackney (a former Music hall) on behalf of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission.

Worshipful Company of Skinners

It has evolved into an educational and charitable institution, supporting schools such as Tonbridge School in Tonbridge, Kent; The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells Kent; The Judd School (also in Tonbridge) and Skinners' Academy in Hackney, London.

Yardie

The gangs in London are specifically known to have occupied and operated in their infamous grounds of Brixton, Harlesden, Stonebridge, Hackney and Tottenham.


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