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Remembrance Day Hackney: Community comes together for ‘deeply emotional’ centenary service

Remembrance Day 2018 is marked in Hackney. Picture: Adam Holt

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Lucas Cumiskey

Members of all faiths and none coalesced as one Hackney community to mark the centenary of the First World War armistice on Sunday. Veterans, politicians and camouflage-clad soldiers congregated at the Town Hall, before marching to St John at...

WW1 exhibition Great Northern Central Hospital, North Library. Picture: Picasa

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Raid, Rations and Rifles: Exhibition brings “Islington’s home front” to...

Lucas Cumiskey

Remembrance Day at Islington Green on Sunday. Picture: Islington Council

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Remembrance Day in Islington Green: Armistice centenary at war memorial...

Mike Bedigan

A peace celebration party in Digby Road, Homerton, after the end of the Great War, 1919. Pic: Hackne

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Armistice 100: How peace was marked on November 11, 1918

Jon King

First World War veteran George Sleet with his wife Winifred Sleet and dog Pat in Islington. Picture:

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Armistice 100: George William Sleet, an Islington First World War hero...

Sam Volpe

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Harris Tatakis. Pic: RBL

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Armistice 100: ‘The Royal British Legion gave me back my life,’...

Jon King