During the War, Stoke Newington’s ARP Control Centre was in the basement of the Town Hall. This was reactivated after the war (about 1952) but shortly afterwards a new underground control centre was built at the rear of Stoke Newington Town Hall (rear access from Lordship Terrace). It opened in May 1953. In 1964 The Hackney Borough Control was co-located with Stoke Newington as the Hackney bunker was deemed too wet to be used. In 1965 the two boroughs merged and the bunker became the Hackney Borough Control.
