 Click here and here to read the special issue for Local History Month, with stories about Tudors, the Tower, wars & roses, Kench Hill - and the bombs of the Blitz. Plus plenty of puzzles, quizzes, jokes and prizes.
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 When The Blitz got going in Hackney on the night of September 7th 1940, people just did not know what was going to hit them. Do you remember when high explosives were smashing into houses
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.jpg "Image") On 2nd September 1882 the story of The Ashes began after England had a disaster at cricket. But the very next day a baby was born in Stamford Hill who would one day fight for those Ashes ...
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 Click here for the special City issue, and find about coaches and carnivals, food and football, a horrible Hackney school, the Lord Mayor of London plus loads of fun, games and quizzes
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Anne Frank - and the others .... |
 What would it be like to live every single day hiding from people who wanted to kill you? Never going outside, or playing with your friends, always keeping quiet, terrified of a knock at the door .....
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 On Holocaust Memorial Day people all over the world stop to think about the horrors of what humans can do to each other. In Hackney, January 27th, the anniversary of when help came to the victims in Auschwitz, is very special.
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 In 1850 the newspapers were full of stories about James and Ann Merritt of Pear Tree Place in Clapton. Click here for their story, and these are some extra facts ...
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 A week that began in Tottenham for schoolboy Ralph Joscelyne and PC William Tyler exactly one hundred years ago ended with their funerals in Stoke Newington ....
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 Over two hundred and fifty years ago, there was a disaster in Lisbon that was like the Great Fire of London and the Tsunami in 2004 all rolled into one ....
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 Just days after that terrible Tsunami in 2004, George Alagiah from the BBC was one of the very first journalists to visit Sri Lanka .....
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 Two pupils from Hackney primary schools went to find out from Station Officer Kelly what it is really like to be a fire-fighter. If you would like to know what happens in a fire station, plus some great safety tips, please click here
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 The Victim
In 1899 people up and down the country were gripped by the tragic mystery of the Dalston Murder - a little boy called Manfred, and his murderous mother, Louise Masset.
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Bertha: aged four forever |
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 When they spotted a faint inscription in Abney Park Cemetery, history detectives followed clues that led them to the sad story about the life and times of Bertha Allsop who died aged four years and six months. This is what they discovered :
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.jpg "Image") People still love Kew Gardens, 250 years after they first opened. But once upon a time there was a world famous botanical garden right in the heart of Hackney ....
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 Close your eyes and imagine it is the year 1870. Victoria is Queen, cars and aeroplanes have not been invented. But pedal-power is about to hit Hackney......
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 Sally Haywill, cycling supremo from STA Bikes, tells how people of all ages, shapes and sizes cycled from Hackney to watch the start of the Tour de France ....
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