 In Black History month Issue 20 is packed with Brilliant Black Britons, a Hackney Tudor tale, schools, some Wonderful Women of World War 2, plus canals, heritage charts, quizzes and a prize competition .....
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Making a song and dance about it |
 Thanks to (click here) TimeLine held a Heritage Fair - that was also a party for Clissold Park (119 years old on 24th July), celebrating Hackney becoming a Fairtrade Borough and ....
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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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 In May 1901, way before the time of Disneyland, thousands of visitors flocked to New York for a great day out. One huge star of the show, nick- named the King of Carnival Kings, lies buried in 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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 Anne, the last performing elephant in Britain's circuses, retired in 2007 (see issue 15). Her ancestors may once have appeared in the North London Colosseum & Amphitheatre in Dalston.
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 It's crammed with stories about Clissold, water, and swimming; Victorian values and voices; health, buildings, people, loads of quizzes, issue 17 is now here
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 With the 2012 Games heading for Hackney, high jumping hero Dalton Grant describes what it really feels like to compete in the Olympic Games.
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 Friday April 10th 1992 should have been a quiet night in the City of London. Nothing unusual would happen on a boring old Friday night, would it?
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 Magic Arsenal Moments: aged 79, Con Collins looked back over sixty years as a devoted Arsenal fan. Way before the Emirates Stadium, Con's first visit was to Highbury - way back in 1946 .....
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 Stan Rose sent us an e-mail about going to school in Stoke Newington - until his life (like so many others in Hackney) was turned upside down by World War 2.
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