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Alfred Charles Barker
Alfred Charles Barker (1819–1873) was a New Zealand doctor and photographer. Barker was born on 5 January 1819 at Hackney, London in England. Barker was the fifth child of Joseph Gibbs Barker and Sarah Pritchett Bousfield. He studied medicine at King's College, London. He and his wife Emma (née Bacon) arrived at Lyttelton on the ''Charlotte Jane'' on 16 December 1850 and settled in Christchurch, where they had five children. Barker died on 20 March 1873 and was buried in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery. References External links Dr Alfred Charles Barker , Cantage – Canterbury Heritage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackney Central
Hackney Central is a sub-district of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney in London, England and is four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross. The Hackney Central area is focused on Mare Street and the retail areas to the north of it including Narrow Way and surrounding local area around Hackney Downs railway station. As such it extends north from Regent's Canal (with Bethnal Green), takes in most of Broadway Market and London Fields, and follows each side of Mare Street till it terminates in the vicinity of Hackney Central railway station. The area also includes the central retail area which extends from Hackney Downs station in the west to the Hackney Walk Outlet Village, on Morning Lane and goes in between Wick Road ( Homerton) and Cassland Road ( South Hackney) till meeting Hackney Wick, to the east. Hackney Central is the area that once would have been known as Hackney Village. This was a place that flourished from the Tudor period, when principal member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
