Tag: E9
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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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Dr Colin Franklin was one of Hackney’s pioneering black GPs, who built an extraordinary relationship with patients from his small practice in Lauriston Road and became a much-loved figure in the local community
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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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History and future plans for Marian Court in Homerton, a post-war Hackney housing estate that stood for more than 60 years. Built to tackle London’s housing shortage after the Second World War, Marian Court reflected the changing priorities of social housing in Hackney and is now being replaced as part of a major redevelopment that…