Tag: E8
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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…
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Discover the lost history of 184 Mare Street, Hackney E8: from its origins as a Presbyterian chapel to the Empress cinema, Essoldo picture house and Top Rank bingo hall before its demolition
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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
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Explore the history of the Tin Tabernacle on Shrubland Road, Hackney E8, a rare surviving corrugated iron church and possibly the oldest of its kind in the UK
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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.