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 history of The Four Aces Club at 12 Dalston Lane, E8 – the legendary Dalston venue that shaped reggae, lovers rock, jungle and rave culture in London from the 1960s to the 1990s.