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Barbi©DA22Will: © david.altheer@gmail.com interactive nature game Barbi chief Will Gompertz launches Our Time on Earth show at Barbican launch 040522

Hackney’s super arts venue (the Barbican, ennit?) tells us how to save the world

Launching the eco-exhibition: above, Barbican arts boss Will Gompertz and, below, curator Luke Kemp IT IS a pleasant paradox that a world-famous arts centre funded

Three in one: a black breakthrough for a legendary East London club

Above: birthplace of the Hammers. On the right of Bow Creek / Leamouth is the site of the metal-bashing factory where a works footy

Access all areas: Hackney allows e-cars to ride through LTN gates and to do school runs

ELECTRIC VEHICLES WILL be allowed to pass through the gates of Hackney’s low traffic neighbourhoods — and to do the both the morning and

HackneyTH16: Hackney E8 010416 © David.Altheer[at]gmail.com

Whey-hey, it’s Hackney, where the town hall elite get salaries most of us only dream of

PREDICTED TO RAISE TAX by at least 4 per cent, Hackney council is warning of further tough decisions that will hit home budgets. Yet

Dalston peace mural on W wall of 15 15 Dalston Lane Lon E8 © david.altheer@gmail.com

How did these people pop up in Dalston’s landmark mural — and are you or a pal among them?

Local historian Laurie Elks tells the stories behind the mural — and seeks your help to identify its immortalised faces AS YOU RUSH ALONG

Colvestone©DA22section: david.altheer@gmail.com decaying railings at Colvestone Primary Dalston E8 2LG 090222

Hope for rare Grade 2 listed railings as Hackney council promises a makeover

COLVESTONE PRIMARY at Dalston E8 2LG is a classic Victorian school that always used to look in good shape. Until at some stage dowdiness

Rowena, Harvey, Parson Jack Russell, and Catherine nr Woodlands Cottage Nymans Estate (Nat Trust) Headcross W Sussex 040415 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Pubs opening for a Christmas Day pre-dinner pint — and now we are optimistic

UNTIL THE COVID PANIC — sorry, pandemic — Loving Dalston published an exclusive guide to Christmas Day pub openings in and around Hackney. The

StMatt©DA1121trafficA: © DavidAltheer@gmail.com St Matthias youth clunb Dalston London E8 251121

Holed: Hackney prestige flats and shops development drills down to a dramatic lift shock

THE FLATS-RETAIL-OFFICES development was beset with problems. Among them were walls that started to crack, mis-fitting windows, bits that blew away when the wind

sainsbo©DA20q:© david.altheer@gmail.com coronavirus Covid-19 queuing at Sainsbury's in Dalston, Hackney E8, 250320

Are we Covid-safe? No, not Hackney and other parts of NE London as winter nears

NOW THAT COVID is no longer a threat, your life is pretty well back to normal, right? Wrong, if you live in a northeast

trees©DA21: david.altheer@gmail.com council planting of Scots/Caledonian (?) pine trees in Martel Place, Dalston, Hackney E8. Some dying 240921

Pining for beauty: Hackney does its Dalston best but then…

HACKNEYITES ARE FORTUNATE to have a borough council that is more eco-minded than most in London. Sometimes, however, little things can go wrong, as when

VandA©DA21gus: V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford at VandA East PR event in Here East (ex Olympic 2012 media centre) in front of Kehinde Wiley's 2020 portrait of Melissa Thompso met in Ridley Rd Market, Dalston, 300621

This man could be the messiah to launch art from the East End to a rave new world

BEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced

Marie©DA20: © david.altheer@gmail.com Marie Murray, co-founder Curve Garden, Dalston Ln, Hackney, London E8 081116

Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park

WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been

GeffryeBus©DA20:© DavidAltheer@gmail.com, protesters against Robt Geffrye statue at Museum of the Home, Haggerston, Lon, 301020

Protesters fail to topple Geffrye slavery statue at Hackney museum under attack from two sides

* Update spring 2021: The museum reopening is scheduled for Saturday 12 June this year. * Update December 2020: It shall not be moved, the

Best woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it

* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos