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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.The Manor of Stoke Newington gave its name to Stoke Newington, the ancient parish.
He was the second son of Thomas Dudley of Yanwath, Cumberland and Grace, co-heiress of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Yanwath. Thomas Dudley (MP) was his younger brother. [1]He joined the household of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, who secured his return as Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Carlisle in March 1553. [2]
The by-election took place on 12 September 2024, following the resignation of Mete Coban, who became Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy. [1] The Green Party's gain in Stoke Newington increased their representation on the council to three seats, the highest number they have held since 1992, when they held two seats.
Stoke Newington had a Quaker presence from the early days of the Society of Friends.(George Fox stayed for a time in neighbouring Dalston, for example. [1]) From 1668 there was a Quaker girls' school in nearby Shacklewell, run first by Mary Stott and then Jane Bullock, “to Instruct younge lasses & maydens in whatsever thinges was civill & useful in ye creation” [2] By the early nineteenth ...
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.
The building at 13 Stoke Newington Road was built in 1936 as an Art Deco cinema called The Savoy, later ABC, that ceased operations in 1984. It was later used as a snooker hall and wedding venue, among other uses. "The main auditorium then lay derelict for 40 years" until 2015.
The Stoke Newington and Hackney Observer was founded as the North London Observer in 1939 and merged with the Islington Gazette in 1971, which subsequently published as the Islington Gazette and Stoke Newington Observer. The Gazette celebrated its 150th birthday on 21 September 2006.
Boon contributed a regular column to the Stoke Newington free quarterly community magazine N16, [5] and is part of the crew at the annual Stoke Newington Literary Festival, held first weekend of June [6] Married to retired BBC Radio Science Editor, Deborah Cohen MBE, with whom he is the father of Museum Curator Rachel Boon and chef Adam Boon.