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4 days ago · On April 24, 1993, a massive IRA truck bomb ripped through the heart of London‘s financial district, killing one, injuring 44, and causing widespread devastation. The Bishopsgate bombing was a brutal blow aimed at the historic City of London, which has been a global center of commerce since the Middle Ages.
4 days ago · Shacklewell originated in a settlement along Shacklewell Lane, a loop east of the high road between Dalston and Stoke Newington common. (fn. 1) In the 19th century the northern part of the loop was built up as Rectory Road, whereupon Shacklewell came to denote the district stretching eastward from Stoke Newington Road to where Hackney brook ...
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5 days ago · The London Orphan Asylum (fn. 3) was founded in 1813 by Andrew Reed (d. 1862), (fn. 4) who had been trained at Hackney College. The 8-a. site of Hackney school (fn. 5) off Lower Clapton Road, later reached by Linscott Road, was bought in 1820 and the children were transferred to new buildings there in 1825. The asylum included boys' and girls ...
4 days ago · The first major bombing raid on London occurred on August 24, 1940, when a group of German bombers accidentally dropped their payloads on the city while trying to target the docks. This attack marked a significant escalation in the conflict, as it was the first time that civilians had been deliberately targeted.
4 days ago · DE BEAUVOIR TOWN. De Beauvoir Town is taken to be the south-west corner of Hackney parish from Kingsland Road west to Southgate Road and from the Regent's canal north almost to Ball's Pond Road. (fn. 1) It embraces the Hackney estate of the de Beauvoir family, lords of Balmes, whose land extended farther south into Shoreditch, and excludes Ball ...
3 days ago · Beginning on September 7, London was attacked on 57 consecutive nights. The bombing of London, Coventry , Liverpool , and other cities went on for several months, but it had the immediate benefit for the RAF of relieving the pressure on Number 11 Group and also bringing more German bomber formations into the sectors of the formidable Number 12 ...
2 hours ago · A major police operation was launched following an incident on Kingsland High Street, Dalston just after 9.20pm on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police confirmed all four had suffered "gunshot ...
