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It's probably something in his jeans 
Debster | Homepage | 22.06.09 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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The Anchor and Hope is very much a local's local (that means "a bit rough", in pub-guide speak, doesn't it?), but that's by no means a problem if you can grab one of the tables by the river, and watch the world go by.
martin | 22.06.09 - 4:27 p.m. | #
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They make 'em tough in Hackney. My Nan was born on Wick Road and died last year aged 99.
Johnny Topaz | 23.06.09 - 12:35 a.m. | #
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I often pass this area on the train, so it's nice to find out a little bit about it. I never knew Henry Allingham, now the world's oldest man, was born there.
Andrewh | 23.06.09 - 1:09 a.m. | #
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That's a really nice write up, and Henry sounds like a nice man who has not only reached the ripest old age, but arrived with his sense of humour intact as well.
jayne | Homepage | 23.06.09 - 7:01 a.m. | #
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Geezer
You are on to something. I've read somewhere people who live on hills are more healthy than other people for the very fact they have to exercise more walking up the hill. I'm sure Clapton was very industrial and all the houses burnt coal when Henry was a lad but the local timber indusrty probably didn't affect the locals health too badly. Maybe the nearby De Havilland factory produced a bit of pollution though.
No doubt he has a very strong constitution and good genes
Long Live Henry
Dave | 30.06.09 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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My great-grandparents lived at 39 Harrington Hill in 1911, having moved to the area from a tiny village called Radwinter in Essex sometime before 1887. The family lived in, or near, Harrington Hill from that time to at least 1930, when my great-uncle was still living at no. 39. Other members of my family also migrated from Essex, from about 1871, when Clapton at the time was a small village, just outside Hackney, and boasted just one farm. I'm running a family history project centred on Harrington Hill, so if anyone would like to read it and/or participate, visit http://web.me.com/drbabs1/Site/W...te/
Welcome.html or email me at [email protected].
Great bit of gazeteering btw - now I definitely have to revisit (I was born in the Sally Army Mothers' Hospital in 1953, as was my father before me in 1921).
Cheers
Dr Babs
Dr Babs | Homepage | 03.07.09 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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RIP Henry
sarflondondunc | 18.07.09 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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