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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
London - A strictly Orthodox synagogue has won a temporary reprieve from having part of its complex demolished. The Satmar Synagogue in Craven Walk, Stamford Hill, North London, won an appeal on a technicality against an enforcement notice issued by Hackney Council. The council issued the notice last September in an attempt to reverse the [...]
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
London - Charedi families are fighting plans to turn part of Stamford Hill in North London into a conservation area. The proposal by Hackney Council would restrict changes or extensions they could make to their homes — a particular problem for large families. Such familes are among some of the 400 objecting to the designation. One opponent, [...]
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Followers of Hackney political history should take a look at BBC4's programme about the Stamford Hill chassidic Jewish community shown last night but available on cable catch-up etc . It focused on the attempted rehabilitation by the community of convicted drug dealer Samuel Leibowitz but also features his brother, Isaac, a Tory Councillor jailed for six months for perpetrating the largest proxy vote...
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British Blogs (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
Lance Corporal Peter Edward Craddock of 1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment was killed in Lashkar Gah, Southern Afghanistan on Monday 27 March 2006.Link> MoD: Defence News... Crime Scene in Stamford Hill Hackney Lookout In Memoriam - Peter Craddock Aquila Victrix See 0 more posts on this topic: Southern Afghanistan, 27 March, Killed, March 2007location, Hill Aftermath...
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Scorn and Noise (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
At risk of this becoming the Hackney bog blog, it seems there has been a major movement at the abandoned Stamford Hill public conveniences. You may remember my earlier post, in which I pointed out that these loos had been left to rot since the late 1990s, just before I moved into the area. If [...]
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Scorn and Noise (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
I’ve been poring over the Booth Poverty Map for London (1898-1899), taking a close look at the areas in Hackney that I’m most familiar with. My house isn't on the chart - it stops short at the bottom of Stamford Hill, whilst I live near the top. Indeed, most of the redbrick terraces that characterise [...]
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Scorn and Noise (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
I love finding out what this area used to be like, so I’m glad to have found Eileen Perrin's recollections of a 1920s childhood in Hackney. She lived near Balls Pond Road, but used to come up to Stamford Hill to see boys sailing their model boats on the pond, and also to Stoke Newington's [...]
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Clissold Leisure Users' News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2007
"Hackney Council is planning to exclude 38 streets in Stamford Hill from normal planning protection. The Council already has an appalling record of applying its existing policies If this ‘area of exclusion’ is allowed, the unique character of our Victorian and Edwardian streets will be lost forever. With the Olympics approaching the area will be a magnet for unscrupulous ‘hit and run’ property developers...
