Tag: Hackney History
Hackney in the 1980s: 12,000 photographs found in The Rio’s basement...
Hackney Museum is set to reopen this week, with an exciting new exhibition, ‘Hackney in the 1980s’. The exhibition ...
From cinema to mosque
The story of one building’s remarkable century-long transformation 117 Stoke Newington Road stands proudly as the site of Aziziye Mosque, one of the largest Turkish-speaking...
1930s Stoke Newington by the local shopkeeper
Stoke Newington’s changing streetscape in the 1930s captured by the local shopkeeper Alexander Guttridge. By Amir Dotan Alexander Guttridge (1877-1977) was born on Barn Street in...
Alan Denney has been photographing Hackney since the Seventies
When Alan Denney moved to Hackney in the mid-1970s, he started taking photographs of Stoke Newington, Dalston and Stamford Hill. He unintentionally became an...
