Be the first to hear the latest news, get sneaky peeks inside upcoming issues of The Cocktail Lovers magazine, receive special offers and lots more. Its not the what that matters so much as the fact that he does something with his family name (still renowned for their cars) that’s as far from the auto lot as possible. Map of Hoxton Fields – showing archery marks from Historical introduction: Hoxton, to the west of Hoxton Street, Survey of London: volume 8: Shoreditch (1922), pp.

There’s been many posts and impromptu twitter conversations that can be summed up in two words: “really? The extension of the East London Line (completed in 2010), has provided the local rail access which was lost when the line from Broad Street closed to services. By Tudor times many moated manor houses existed to provide ambassadors and courtiers country air nearby the city. Manufacturing developments in the years after the Second World War meant that many of the small industries that characterised Hoxton moved out. Main article: List of people from Hackney Sir Alfred Hitchcock sculpture at the site of Gainsborough Pictures, Poole Street, Hoxton.Redefine your mixology, surprise your friends and break the conventions with our range of six flavoured spirits. Hogesdon" is first recorded in the Domesday Book, meaning an Anglo-Saxon farm (or "fortified enclosure") belonging to Hoch, or Hocq.

British History on-line, disagrees on this point, and considers the derivation lost in the past; it is however probable that it refers to an individual.

It achieved independent ecclesiastical status in 1826 with the founding of its own parish church [5] dedicated to St John the Baptist, though civil jurisdiction was still invested in the Shoreditch vestry. Large numbers have been and are still being displaced by the encroachment of warehouses and factories. The Naked Martini might have put me off altogether if it hadn’t been for the English Daiquiri which came next.