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30 unusual facts about London Borough of Hackney


Acme Studios

Acme also purchased Orsman Road in Hackney, N1 through cross-subsidising the sale of work-live units.

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.

Elevator Gallery

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

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 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 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.

I Need You Tonight

The music video for "I Need You Tonight" was shot at a pub in Hackney, London.

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.

Jamaican posse

They are strongly populated in London and are specifically known to have occupied and operate in Brixton, Harlesden, Tottenham and Hackney, among other areas.

Jeff Rich

Jeff Rich also known as "Worzel" (born 8 June 1953, Hackney, London) is an English rock drummer, best known as a former drummer for the English rock band Status Quo.

Leila Hoffman

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

Mel Capleton

Melvyn David "Mel" Capleton (born 24 October 1973 in Hackney) is an English professional football goalkeeper.

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.

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.

Obalende Suya Express Restaurant

The restaurant has two branches, one, a takeaway located 43 Peckham High Street, Peckham, not far west from Peckham Library and a restaurant located at 523 Kingsland Road in Dalston, Hackney.

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.

Peter Rees Jones

Jones initially took a position with a draper in Hackney before moving on to apprenticeships with William Tarn in Newington and then Stagg & Mantle at Leicester Square.

Pond Lane Flood Gates

Pond Lane Flood Gates is a redundant flood defence structure, located near Lea Bridge Road on the River Lee Navigation in the London Borough of Hackney, England.

Religion and HIV/AIDS

According to the African Health Policy Network, some churches in London claim that prayer will cure AIDS and the Hackney-based Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV reports that several people have stopped taking their medication, sometimes on the direct advice of their pastor, leading to a number of deaths.

Ricky Otto

Ricky Junior Otto (born 9 November 1967 in the London Borough of Hackney) is a former footballer.

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.

Swanage Grammar School

Jeremy White, Local Government Ombudsman from 1995-2009, and Chief Executive from 1989-95 of the London Borough of Hackney

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.

The Wallbirds

They travelled the country using various studios, like the legendary RAK Studios(Mickie Most's studio) and they tracked the drums and bass at The Way studios in Hackney.

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.

Yardie

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


Amber Beattie

Amber Beattie attended William Patten Primary School, underwent secondary education at Stoke Newington School – Media Arts & Science College in Hackney, attended La SWAP sixth form in London and now studies Zoology at the University of Leeds.

Dunwich Dynamo

The Dunwich Dynamo is an annual semi-organised, through-the-night bicycle ride from London Fields park in Hackney, London, England to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast.

Edward Malin

Edward Ernest Malin (born October 1894 in Hackney, London – died 1 March 1977 in Ealing, London) was a British actor.

Henry Aaron Stern

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

Holywell Priory

Haliwell or Holywell Priory (various spellings) was a religious house in Shoreditch, formerly in Middlesex, and now in the London Borough of Hackney.

Sink estate

In London there are sink estates in the North and East, the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Haringey, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney.

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.