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Sep 21, 2018 · Community-based arts projects burgeoned in the 1970s. This film follows four projects in Hackney, at that time a predominantly working class area in London.O...
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Jul 2, 2018 · Hackney 1960s-80s. Between the 1960s and 1980s, Hackney was a world of its own. Nobody came in from outside the borough for fear of the actual violence that had to be navigated daily, even by those who lived there. Hoxton was quite a poor place in the seventies, with little money for anything other than the essentials.
Aug 17, 2020 · A lot has changed around the Kingshold Estate over the last 30 years…. So much in life is about property. So get this: when adjusted for inflation, in 1995 the average price of a home in Hackney was £102,557. It’s now £479,453. In 1995, the median income in London was £19,000. In 2012-13, the median income in London was £24,600.
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Oct 28, 2016 · Film historian Luke McKernan called it “a phase of greedy speculation in cinema building”, with 52 cinemas established in Hackney in seven years, between 1907 and 1914. Above: The Electric Picture Palace (boarded up, left) and the Hackney Picture Palace around 1914. Below: the site of the former cinemas on Mare Street today.”.
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Jun 18, 2021 · The Elephant Man. The 1980 David Lynch classic starring Anthony Hopkins was filmed in the Eastern Hospital in Lower Clapton that has since been replaced by Homerton Hospital. The setting was based on the London Hospital in Whitechapel where Joseph Merrick stayed, whose story the film is based on. Rocks. The 2019 street-cast film follows a group ...
Feb 28, 2018 · Hackney during the 70s. Hackney is a picturesque area in East London: the canal and the boats stacked with pots of flowers, the bridge that crosses over them and also the pubs and the red brick buildings which used to be factories. These aspects give the place a unique vibe. However, Hackney has also seen dark moments, especially when it was ...
Jul 23, 2015 · The Bespoke Overcoat (1955) Director: Jack Clayton. The Bespoke Overcoat (1955) This warm, witty, Oscar-winning short launched the troubled but frequently dazzling directorial career of Jack Clayton (Room at the Top, 1958; The Innocents, 1961). Adapting Nikolai Gogol’s highly influential 1842 story ‘The Overcoat’, writer Wolf Mankowitz ...
