Stoke Newington Common- home to the young Marc Bolan and, in the Nineteenth Century, Freddy Demuth (Karl Marx's unacknowledged,illegitimate son) who lived at number 13.
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Alan Denney
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Dan K ™ 62 months ago | reply
Incredible, why?
Fin Fahey 61 months ago | reply
Thanks for posting this and your other excellent shots to the Stoke Newington group, Alan. Marc Bolan has a plaque now, but I didn't know about Karl Marx's son.
Dan, it's a dustmen's strike. And they didn't do those by halves in the 1970s, this would be February of the 'Winter of Discontent', the last days of Jim Callaghan's government.
(I believe I remember another since then, but with nothing like the mountain ranges of rubbish here on the common.)
LDner [deleted] 59 months ago | reply
I remember the strike. I lived in Gibson Gardens at the bottom of the High Street at the time and our communal garden was piled high with rubbish - rats were a big problem.
randomonix 44 months ago | reply
Yikes!!! :s
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