The Stoke Newington Heritage Mural Project is a community arts and heritage project funded by awards from the Arts Council England, The Heritage Lottery Fund and William Patten PTFA.

Inspired by Stoke Newington’s radical and literary history, and its long standing reputation for tolerance, this exciting project was made up of several different phases.

We began in Autumn 2015 with a series of workshops, class visits and other educational events for the children of William Patten Primary School that celebrated and explored certain aspects of local history.  These were followed by sessions with poets John Hegley, Aoife Mannix and Francesca Beard where the children produced their own original poetry. 

Following this, the poets worked with award winning design collective Bread Collective, to conceptualise and design an original text based artwork inspired both by the children’s poetry as well as the 'Ghostsigns' (faded traces of late Victorian advertising signage painted onto the brickwork of buildings) that remain as a feature in the local area.

The artwork was scaled up, and, in Spring 2016, the mural was painted on the east facing wall that over-looks the William Patten Primary School playground.