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Stoke Newington School has a sixth form which was launched in September 2006. [citation needed] Renovation of the school under the 'Building Schools for the Future' (BSF) programme was completed in 2010. Willmott Dixon was the main contractor undertaking the new building and refurbishment of the school.
Stoke Newington's boundaries with the two neighbouring metropolitan boroughs within the County of London were as follows: [7] Islington to the west and south: the centres of Blackstock Road, Mountgrove Roads, Green Lanes, (diverting to take in Petherton Road and Leconfield Road) Matthias Road and Boleyn Road.
Stoke Newington is an area in the northwest part of the London Borough of Hackney, England. The area is five miles (eight kilometres) northeast of Charing Cross.
Colin Roach was a 21-year-old black British man who died as a result of a fatal gunshot wound having entered a police-station reception. [1] [2] A subsequent inquest ruled his death was suicide - him having placed the barrel of a shotgun in to his mouth before squeezing the trigger - inside the entrance of Stoke Newington police station, in the London Borough of Hackney, on 12 January 1983.
Stoke Newington was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish, used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the ...
In the 1810s, Bransby opened Manor House School on Church Street at his residence in Stoke Newington. [5] From 1817 until 1820, Edgar Allan Poe resided in the house and was one of Bransby's pupils. [2] Bransby was a classicist who educated Poe and other students in Latin, Shakespeare, and Horace. [6] [7]
Stoke Newington Common is an open space in the London Borough of Hackney It lies between Brooke Road to the south and Northwold Road to the north, straddling a railway line and the busy Rectory Road. The common is 2.15 hectares (5.3 acres) in area.
Mary Gunston was born in 1676. Her brother, Thomas, became Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington in the late 1600s.. In 1700, she married Thomas Abney (1640–1722), who was 36 years her senior and that year Lord Mayor of London.