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7 unusual facts about Hackney Central


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.

Ethel Skinner

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

Hackney Central

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

It relocated to the All Saints Centre, Haggerston around 2005; but the exhibition has since moved out of the borough to Wookey Hole.

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.

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.

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.



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