Packs of 5 Greeting Cards. There are four designs to choose from:

52-55 Newington Green

The oldest surviving terrace London. Dated 1658 and Listed Grade 1, these buildings are extremely rare survivals of pre-Great Fire town houses.

No.54 was home to Dr Richard Price (1758-84), Minister to the Newington Green Meeting House (now the Unitarian Chapel). A true libertarian, he worked throughout his life to increase intellectual, political and spiritual freedom for all people when Newington Green was an important meeting place for the radical thinkers of the day.

Nearby were Samuel Rogers (banker and poet) who was born at No.52, Laetitia Barbauld (poet), John Mill (philosopher) Abraham Price (first to manufacture wallpaper commercially), Thomas Holloway (painter and engraver), Daniel Defoe (writer) and Mary Wollstonecraft (author and founder campaigner for the freedom and equality of women) for whom NGAG wishes to raise a statue in her honour 

The Snowman

 Image created by Newington Green primary school children

The Christmas Trees

Image created by Newington Green primary school children

The Unitarian Church

The Unitarian Chapel, Newington Green: built in 1708 and listed Grade 11, the Chapel is the oldest surviving non-conformist meeting house in London and the heart of the area’s reputation for radical thinkers. Here numerous dissenting clergymen preached and set up schools and academies. The Chapel’s most famous Minister, Dr Richard Price (1758-1791), a liberal intellectual, mathematician , writer and strong supporter of American and French Revolutions, cast a huge influence over the political life of post-revolutionary America. He was visited here by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, second President of the USA.

Mary Wollstonecraft, whose Chapel pew still exists, lived and founded a school in Newington Green in 1780s. Influenced by Dr Price, she published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. She remains a celebrated world-wide emblem of the feminist struggle. NGAG supports raising a statue in her honour (www.maryonthegreen.org)

Illlustration:  I McNicol

The China Inland Mission

The China Inland Mission at 44-45 Newington Green, built by James Hudson Taylor in 1872, trained Christian missionaries for evangelical work in the Far East. The life of the Mission’s most famous pupil, Gladys Aylward, inspired the 1959 film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman. In 2005, after consulting community groups, Shaftesbury Student Housing redeveloped the site, as Alliance House, in a RIBA award winning scheme.