Top Boy is a Hackney story at heart, even though its fictional Summerhouse Estate has been assembled from real estates and streets across London. Behind the drugs, violence and rivalries, the series became an unusually sharp portrait of East London, its communities, inequalities, changing streets and the pressures created when an old neighbourhood becomes desirable…
Discover the eerie history of a Martello Street house in London Fields where a murdered man was secretly buried beneath the cellar floor for seven years, and learn about the artist Andrew Aiken, his murals and his shocking confession