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Grade 2* listed (June 1972) Theatre Mare Street Hackney London
Date: 1901
Architect: Frank Matcham
Restored: 1986 & 2004
Land purchased 1906 on Park St, now Richmond St, 4 foundation stones 27 Feb 1906 by Mrs E Spicer, Mrs James Gartrell, Mrs A W Marshall & Mrs J H Weidenhofer, closed. First services had been in weatherboard church in Torrens St, Hackney, until it was transported to Fourth Ave, East Adelaide & re-opened 15 Jul 1883 as East Adelaide Wesleyan church. A bell given c1905 to Hackney church was returned to Spicer Uniting church 6 May 2012.
“They had been successfully launching out in the direction of a Mission Church in Hackney, which he had no doubt would become a great credit to the body.” [Observer 2 Nov 1878]
“For some time a Methodist Mission has been conducted at Hackney, and now land has been purchased in Park street with the intention of building a new edifice.” [Register 27 Nov 1905]
“The Rev. W. Jeffries, superintendent of the Kent Town circuit (with which the mission is connected), presided, and introduced the ladies, who were each presented with a suitably-inscribed copy of the New Methodist Hymn-book . . . services had been held in a cottage for a considerable time. . . The building, when completed, will be a neat brick edifice, capable of accommodating 150 people in the main hall, and there will be in addition two classrooms.” [Advertiser 29 Jan 1906]
“The Hackney Mission was in a thriving condition, being now in a hall of its own, which cost some £500.” [Advertiser 11 Oct 1906]
The Sonic Manipulator performs & seeks donations towards his spaceship repair fund. Hackney WickED. Hackney, London. Sunday 31 July 2011
these good lads volunteer at the weekend. they go to the local market and ask for leftovers, then they bring them to the farm to feed the animals. proper little working class cockney kids "awwwww that pig is adoraaabawl!" etc. really made me happy :)