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Hackney Downs Riot In the 1870’s, there were several popular movements to prevent the private enclosure of previously public land; many had been rumbling on for decades as London became

J. G. Ingram & Son Ltd The London India Rubber Works was founded 1847 making toy balloons in a small workshop in Hoxton. The company expanded to a 3.5 acre

The south side of the Strand, showing the new Tivoli Cinema, on the site of the Old Tivoli Music Hall 1957, the Picture Theatre was demolished to make way for

Hackney marsh (337 acres where Lammas rights were still exercised, was excluded from the M.B.W.'s scheme in 1872. The possibility that the owners might unite to convert it into building

Bethnal Green Huguenot culture, with its mathematical, history, recitation, musical, entomological, floricultural, and columbarian societies, survived into the 19th century. As the middle classes moved away, there was a decline