I used Google Notebook LM’s auto-generated video feature on the full 79-page document that F. W. Baxter compiled in 1927: Stoke Newington Street Names. It’s a research tool that helps summarise material in video, audio, and text formats based on the instructions you give it. Baxter was a local historian in Stoke Newington who traced the origins of our street names, looking at past features, old routes, people linked with the area, and the changes that followed the 1864 Act of Parliament and late

Those who have followed my updates for a while will know about my interest in Victorian coalhole covers, decorative cast iron plates that were once very common outside houses and used to deliver coal into the cellar without needing to enter the home. I’ve long been fascinated by the variety of their ornate designs and the social history they preserve, particularly through the names of long gone ironmongers and foundries that are often cast into the covers themselves. The vast majority of survivi