This document summarizes various artifacts and documents related to the history of Stoke Newington that have been found on eBay. It includes a list of objects, printed materials, photos, maps, and other items that provide insights into Stoke Newington's past. Some of the items mentioned are a mineral water bottle from 1890-1920, silver spoons from the Stoke Newington Rifle Club, old maps, directories, and documents about the area's coat of arms, local government, parks, and transportation history. The document shows how eBay finds can serve as an archive of materials to uncover details about Stoke Newington's past.

1. Amir Dotan
Bidding on the Past:
Unearthing Stoke Newington’s history
through eBay finds

2. eBay is a great Stoke Newington museum and archive

3. Objects
Shaws Bryant Stoke Newington London
lemonade mineral bottle c1890-1920
Cast Iron, Iron Stand. Stone And Sons Stoke
Newington
Two solid sterling silver Stoke Newington Rifle
Club tea spoons

4. Printed content and documents
1893 Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke
Newington Benjamin Clarke
'VIEWS in STOKE NEWINGTON, 1880', Antique
1892 'Old London' Print
Stoke Newington Merchants Letter. Parsons and
Son, Broughton Works, Albion Road

5. Photos and postcards
1893 Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke
Newington Benjamin Clarke
Family History Postcard- Clement / Ford -4
Hawksley Road,Stoke Newington RF3340
Photography L. L. Christmas, London, 104, Stoke
Newington Rd., Portrait of Young M

6. 1. 1982 map of Stoke Newington
High St
2. Politi Turkish Delight tin
3. Coat of Arms postcard
4. 1910-1 Kelly’s Directory
5. 1934 Municipal Buildings
competition
6. 1959 Official Guide to Stoke
Newington
7. History of Stoke Newington
8. 1887 Clissold Park Bill
9. History of the 73 bus
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7. 1982 map of Stoke Newington High Street

10. 187 Stoke Newington High St (Built
1712, Demolished and rebuilt 1983)

11. Benjamin Chemist, 190 Stoke
Newington High Street

14. D. Politi’s Turkish Delight tin

15. 1870s-1980s

21. Proposed redevelopment

22. Postcard of Stoke Newington Borough Coat of Arms 1900-1934

23. Coat of Arms of Stoke Newington Borough 1900-1934
1. Forest of Middlesex
2. St Mary’s old Church
3. City of London Coat of Arms
4. Westminister Coat of Arms
5. Middlesex Coat of Arms
6. William Patten’s motto
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24. The Borough of Stoke Newington represented a union of two counties
County of
Middlesex
1892
County of
London
Wards of Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough
as they appeared in 1916

25. St Mary’s Old Church William Patten’s Coat of Arms

27. Silver Stoke Newington Rifle Club tea spoon

30. Clissold Leisure Centre

31. Stoke Newington Borough Coat of Arms was changed in 1934

32. 1910-1 Kelly’s Directory of Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, Upper & Lower Clapton

34. Original street name.
Renamed in 1937

35. Old Stoke Newington N
Postal District

36. The long-gone Falcon
pub

38. bit.ly/amirstokey

42. 1934 Designs in the Stoke Newington Municipal Buildings Competition

43. Stoke Newington’s first Town Hall in Milton Grove (Originally South Hornsey’s)
1881-c.1960

44. Proposed Town Hall in Church St/Clissold Road opposite Clissold Park, 1933

46. Architects:
W. Curtis Green and Partners
(His works include the Dorchester
Hotel, Wolseley House, New
Scotland Yard and the buildings,
including the former Manor House,
in Stockgrove Country Park)
Architect:
J. Reginald Truelove
(Designed WW1 cemeteries and
memorials in France including
Noyelles-sur-mer, Le Touret and
Vis-en-Artois)
Architects:
Howes and Jackman
(Designed Clissold Court and
Lordship South Estate in Stoke
Newington in 1936)

52. 1959 Official Guide to Stoke Newington

61. History Of Stoke Newington

63. MDCCLXXXIII = 1783

69. Manton House, Clissold Estate (Built 1936 by the LCC)
Millington House, Kennaway Estate (Built 1936 by the LCC)

71. 1887 Act to Authorise the Acquisition of Clissold Park

74. Joseph Beck, Chairman of the Clissold
Park Preservation Committee

77. Charity Commissioners
Metropolitan Board of Works
Stoke Newington parish
South Hornsey Local Board
Hackney Board of Works
Islington parish
£47,500
£25,000
£10,000
£6,000
£5,000
£2,500
£96,000

79. 1963, Route 73 - A Story of a London Bus Route