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 ...
This Neo-Tudor block has a better-maintained twin on the other side of the road to the right. The plaque is on the bricks between the bas...
Greater London Council Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
The engraved stone is below the window on the ground floor flank wall. Interesting that the stone uses the exact same wording as the comm...
An information board, just to the right of our photo, says: "Royal Northern Gardens occupies part of the old Royal Northern Hospital sit...
Sir Alan Herbert (A.P.H.), 1890 - 1971, author, humourist and reformist M.P. lived and died here. English Heritage
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