Resources
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Environment
- Air Quality in London's Parks
- GIGI (Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC)
- To report a problem such as fly tipping, damage to public furniture, overflowing bins or download the fixmystreet app for Android or Apple
- Health and Exposure to Pollution
- London Borough of Hackney Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
- London Borough of Hackney Tree Department
- London Borough of Hackney Report a Problem in your Neighbourhood (e.g. fly tipping)
- London Wildlife Trust
- Tree Map
- Tree Musketeers
Local Community Centres
Local History
- Abney Park Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries
- (Former) Agapemonite Church of the Ark of the Covenant, Upper Clapton, London (Exterior)
- Alan Denney - local photographer - includes fascinating photos from the 1970's and 1980's
- A Visual History of Stoke Newington Church Street - By Amir Dotan
- Bombsight - allows you to look up where bombs fell in your area / street during World War 2
- British History Online - Stoke Newington: Protestant Nonconformity
- British Museum
- Daniel Defoe - writer and local resident
- Diamond Geezer - Description of first bomb of World War 1, a Zeppelin falling on Alkham Road
- Florence du Vergier - the first female mayor of Hackney and someone who campaigned for better housing, education and health services. Watch a film of the fountain opened to commemorate her
- George Loddiges - famous Hackney horticulturist / botanist popular with nonconformists
- Hackney Archives
- The Hackney Society
- Joanna Vassa the only surviving adult child of the former slave and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano
- Layers of London Website - allows you to search different areas and themes
- London
- Mark Bolan of the Glam Rock band T-Rex - lived at 25 Stoke Newington Common
- Museum of London
- Stoke Newington History
- Walk Hackney
- Women from Hackney History