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Police Hero in Stamford Hill |
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 Nowadays we all have to be so careful on our busy roads, but was it as risky in the days before bendy buses and those white vans always rushing along?
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Happy Birthday, dear St. Mary's |
 The new St Mary's church turned 150 years old in June 2008. Find out about two people who fought really hard to stop the slave trade, and are buried in the old St. Mary's churchyard.
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 Rene Broider, winner of TimeLine's short story competition with her tale about The Letter, has had a taste for writing since she first went to Church Street (now William Patten) School ....
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 Jack Whitehead was first bitten by the building bug when he was a little boy, just after World War One. To find out more, you can read about Jack and his new website in Issue 16 of TimeLine, and if you want to know a bit more about what it was like growing up just after World War One, or teaching in Hackney at one of London's first comprehensive schools
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 Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, was the panto at the Hackney Empire this winter. On the first night hundreds of Cubs went along. And their verdict?
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Stoke Newington Common Drinking Fountain |
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 If you get thirsty when you are at Stoke Newington Common there is good news and bad news. The good news is that there is a drinking fountain. But the bad news is that it doesn't work. TimeLine history detectives uncovered a story of Hackney citizenship.
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 Children from three primary schools worked on the Wild About Water project, finding an old City to Hackney link.
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Bagels, latkes and fishcakes |
 Andrew Wyman sent us a review of Steven Berkoff’s play Sit & Shiver, which was on at The Hackney Empire last year. It brought back memories for him of delicious treats like bagels, latkes and fishcakes.
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