wall to prevent the cross from being seen from the south. The trust hopes to change this if a redesign can be agreed, so as to display the cross to be seen from more directions and as a vantage point and focal point overlooking both directions of the original axis from the chapel spire and its ogee arch along Dr Watts' Walk, and on to Abney House gate; the axis that commemorates the life of the Rev. Dr Isaac Watts. Slightly off this exact axial alignment, is the small Blitz memorial that records civilian deaths, closer to the south entrance (picture right). Though it suffered extensive property damage in the war, Stoke Newington's death toll was relatively low by the standards of some other Hackney districts like Shoreditch, and it would have been lower still, were it not for one incident on 13 October 1940, when a German bomb made a direct hit on a crowded shelter at Coronation Avenue, just off the high street. Most people in the shelter were killed and, as the illustration shows, the list of the dead from this one incident takes up nearly three of the four panels on the memorial. Many of the dead were Jewish and some were refugees from the Nazis. "Sweet Auburn" and woodland wildlife {| class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; width: 25em; font-size: 90%;" cellspacing="3" |- |colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-size: larger;"| "The Deserted Village" |- |colspan="2" style="padding: 1em 0; text-align:center;"| by Oliver Goldsmith |- style="vertical-align:top;" |style="font-weight:bold"|poem |Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plainWhere health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid,And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed:Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,"Seats of my youth, where every sport could please,How often have I loitered o'er your green,|- style="vertical-align:top;" |style="font-weight:bold"|link |http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/030003.htm |} As may have been implied already, Abney Park Cemetery was the only garden cemetery of its era to be influenced by New World cemetery design ideas due to the strong links between its founders and New England; in particular Boston. The Stoke Newington cemetery reflects the design style adopted for Mount Auburn, for example in its use of an Egyptian Revival entrance and arboretum. However, though its "model" lay in the New World, it drew on different romantic landscape associations. Whereas Mount Auburn Cemetery celebrated the 'Sweet Auburn' of poetry, in particular the nature and woodland associated with the Auburn village