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May 3, 2024 · After tacos at Del 74, a dance at gay bar Dalston Superstore, everyone heads to The Shacklewell Arm. This dingy pub, full of old records and band merch, draws a surprisingly Hollywood crowd: think Saoirse Ronan, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Irish heartthrob Paul Mescal, who once danced here to Depeche Mode in a white tank top.
2 days ago · Telling the one percent and trust fund babies of Chelsea that Hackney is the hot new postcode feels, at best, ridiculous and, at worst, downright problematic. I have called Hackney home for 13 years now and most of us who live here like it precisely because it is not west London. It is a vibrant, diverse, creative, down-to-earth enclave.
Apr 30, 2024 · Radical institutions outside Hackney included the Borough of Hackney club, a pioneer working men's club opened in 1863 in Shoreditch, the later Kingsland Progressive club, and Hackney 1 and Hackney 2 branches of the Reform League in Hackney Road, although the league's Homerton branch was at the Duke of Cornwall in the high street.
Apr 30, 2024 · No longer linked with Stoke Newington except in the poor-law union, Hackney was administered again by the vestry, which maintained the district board's officers and worked, as the board had done, through committees; it called itself a corporate body and was quick to seek a transfer of powers from the trustees of the poor, since many vestrymen ...
Apr 30, 2024 · New stations called Hackney Central and Hackney Wick (a resiting of Victoria Park) were opened in 1980 as part of the North London Link line, revived by British Rail with help from the G.L.C. The entire line from North Woolwich to Richmond was reopened for electric trains in 1985, with stations at Hackney Wick, Homerton, Hackney Central, and ...
6 days ago · The name originates from Old English 'Haca' and 'eg', meaning 'island of a man called Haca'. In 1198 it was recorded as Hakeneia.
Apr 18, 2024 · I live in Hackney and, to me, it’s the best borough. I’ve lived here since 2001 when I came to London from my beloved Yorkshire. I landed here because it was fun and I had friends who lived here. In 2004, I bought my first place in a little-known area called London Fields; I like that it’s creative, diverse, vibrant and really sociable ...
