Category: Hackney Wick
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Stik, Milo Tchais and Prozak’s street art collaboration, painted in Hackney Wick as the area braced for the 2012 Olympics.
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With the decline of certain industries – particularly the chemical and dye works, rubber and plastics manufacturing, food processing and the network of small-scale workshops that once defined the area – Hackney Wick experienced a significant loss of population. Firms such as E. W. Cook & Company (a 19th-century chemical manufacturer) had historically capitalised on…