London Borough of Hackney
The gateway to Abney House which stood here 1700 - 1843.
Issac Watts, hymn-writer and poet, stayed here 1734 - 1748.
Oops! The plaque has 'Issac' rather than the more common 'Isaac' and we can't find any support for this odd spelling. Hope no one lost their job over it.
N16, Stoke Newington Church Street
Entrance to Abney Park Cemetery inside which stands an imposing statue of Issac Watts.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Abney House
The house was built in 1700 and we understand it was close to Stoke Newington...
Hymn-writer, poet, theologian and logician. Born Southampton. As a non-confor...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Abney House
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Greater London Council This house was built for Augustus John, 1878 - 1961, painter.
William Reeve, 1757 - 1815, composer, Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells theatres, lived and died in a house on this site. Marchmont Associ...
The Sun A public house called the Sun stood on this site from at least 1722. In September 1940 a wartime bomb landed on the pub killing 2...
Betty Westgate MBE, 1919 - 2000, a pioneer and campaigner for breast cancer support and education. Founded Breast Cancer Care from this h...
He lived here for nearly 50 years from 1936 until his death in 1983.
Genealogist, writer and broadcaster. Author of a book on Henry Jermyn.
Born Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, son of the Danish Consul and was educated in Germany and later Denmark. Civil engineer who collaborated with many modern architects on projects such as the Sydney Opera ...
Founded as the Sans Parail by John Scott, and his daughter Jane, who was an early playwright-actor-manager. 1819 it re-opened as the Adelphi Theatre, named for the Adelphi development opposite. 1...
Sheila M. Aris was born on 2 August 1937, the daughter of Algernon Aubrey Aris (1909-1940) and Violet Florence Aris née Higginbottom (1906-1940). Her birth was registered in the Islington registrat...
