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West Hackney history


Early history

The part of Hackney included the hamlet of Newington which lay between the Roman Road (now known as the A10) and the Common. The hamlet has now been absorbed into the wider urbanised area.

Chapel of ease

West Hackney Chapel of ease photo

The church of St. James was designed by Robert Smirke in the Greek Doric style. The 1825 creation of the ecclesiastical parish of West Hackney saw St James elevated to the status of parish church.

WWI – London’s first air raid

First bomb of the first air raid on London, a 190lb incendiary, fell on 31 May 1915. The German Army airship LZ 38 had begun the first assault on the capital by a foreign power since 1066. The householder, Albert Lovell, had just returned home from posting a letter, the bomb bounced off his chimney and went through his roof.

WWII – Blitz

West Hackney church was destroyed by enemy action in September 1940. The remains were cleared away and replaced by a modern building, rededicated to St Paul, in 1960.

Post-war

Jack ‘the Hat’ McVitie was killed at Evering Road by gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The murder was a significant factor in their downfall and imprisonment.

  

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