Hackney Brook
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The Hackney Brook is one of the subterranean rivers of London. Rising in Holloway, it crossed the northern parts of the current London boroughs of Islington and Hackney, before emptying into the River
The eastern lake at Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, one of two that mark the original course of the Hackney Brook. It is, however, fed by mains water from the fountain seen here. (January 2006)
Workmen culverting Hackney Brook in Mare Street (c.1900)
Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Surv
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Statue of Watts, Abney Park Cemetery
Isaac Watts
Watts's tomb in Bunhill Fields