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Austerity, what austerity? Hackney lays on £100k luxury as councillors take their turn

AS HACKNEY MAYOR Philip Glanville blames the Government for wrecking council budgets, the borough continues to fund a luxury imported limousine for a senior

ChrisWreath©DA: Christmas @ Hackney London © david,altheer@gmail,com

Merry Christmas to all — and here’s how Dalston doorsteps into the 2019 festive season

HOW DID THE IDEA OF WREATHS at Christmas happen? Who can say, is the admitedly inadequate answer of Loving Dalston. Various explanations are

VirginQueen©DA19: Remarkable Pubs MD Elton Mouna and VQ manager Heloise in the Virgin Queen ©david.altheer@gmail.com 080319

Christmas Day pubs 2019: a great year for a relaxed amble to the alehouse

A WEE CHRISSIE PRESENT for Hackneyites who like to go on a healthy walk before Christmas lunch: the Prince George is joining the barrel

Instagrammers, the Wonder Factory is coming to Dalston to wow you with selfie opps

* Update 211219: the Wonder Factory is open. Booking A PRESS RELEASE announcing “the ultimate Instagram experience” and “marshmallow swimming pools, confetti cyclones, mirrors that

Whitechapel Foundry can survive — and we’ll show how, say campaigners for ancient bell-maker

THE WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY, above, can continue to do what it has done for more than 400 years: make the kind of bells

A Walthamstow revelation: what William Morris brought to Bauhaus

WILLIAM MORRIS and Bauhaus are not names that easily go together. The great Victorian-era English designer was in love with not just craft

HackDns©DA16: Hackney Downs London E8 spring 2016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the American saloon specially for the Speaker

HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,

Shanghai©da19Draughts: staff collating games sets, Draughts Café , ex Shanghai, Kingsland Hi St Dalston E8 © davidaltheer@gmail.com 1019 Hackney

The Hackney café scene heats up: as Dalston venues crash, indies and chains cook up new ventures

* Update November 2019: not long since the F Cooke sign, top, was reinstated, the virtually vegetarian Dudleys at 123 Kingsland High Street E8

Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in

vegan©DA18: Mildreds in Dalston London E8 240218 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Hopes for 3 Dalston restos to be in the final serve for a tasty handout from Deliveroo

DELIVEROO, standby of many a time-pressed Londoner, has come up with a neat promotion: restaurant awards. What’s new about that? Little, it’s true, but

How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the American saloon specially for the Speaker

HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,

The Hackney café scene heats up: as Dalston venues crash, indies and chains cook up new ventures

* Update November 2019: not long since the F Cooke sign, top, was reinstated, the virtually vegetarian Dudleys at 123 Kingsland High Street E8

Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in

Hopes for 3 Dalston restos to be in the final serve for a tasty handout from Deliveroo

DELIVEROO, standby of many a time-pressed Londoner, has come up with a neat promotion: restaurant awards. What’s new about that? Little, it’s true, but

EUParly©DA15: European Parliament, Strasbourg, France. Hearts On Fire cycle tour (Rhine source to sea-mouth): 200915 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Euro elections? How to use the vote in perhaps your last chance to influence the EU

EVERY FIVE YEARS we citizens of European Union countries get the chance to vote people into the European Parliament. Sadly, few Londoners know

stress©DA19: stressbuster in foyer of Uncommon Liverpool Street, Liverpool Street, City.The artwork-stressbuster measures a user’s stress © david.altheer@gmail.com 160519

Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City

THIS STUNNING MOVING SCULPTURE is more than a lightshow, it’s a stressbuster. Workers in the City or in nearby Shoreditch are invited to

Pret©DA19: planning-permitted for Pret a Manger (?), Kingsland Hi St Dalston © david.altheer@gmail.com 190419

Gentrification advances as Pret a Manger lines up a big site in the heart of Dalston

ANYONE WORRIED about the creeping corporatisation of Dalston should stop reading now. Pret a Manger is opening a huge shop on the site, above, in

Olympic©DA12: Mo Farah and other Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the City of London at the start of the public celebration 10Sep12 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event

HURRAH, CYCLING IS TO BE BOOSTED by the people delivering the Olympics legacy to us northeast Londoners. Proposals to narrow Westfield Avenueand Montfichet Road