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Whitechapel©DA14: Whitechapel market Muslims / Sylhetis…. London 130814 © david.altheer@gmail,com

The sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago and the supposed silences of lockdown today

CLATTERING HOOVES, clanging tram bells and the revving of motor vehicles… East London streets were a riot of sounds in the Roaring Twenties. And

A can of free beer for a hot day in one of Hackney’s biggest and prettiest parks

FANCY A FREE BEER? Pop along to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington tomorrow Saturday and with the right app you might score a can of

ZimArtShep The Good Shepherd © Livingstone Sango

Rare African artworks lost in Shoreditch find their place in a Hackney gallery

AN OLD SHOREDITCH church is the unlikely site of an extraordinary discovery: African art that has lain unseen for almost 30 years. In

Life in the lockdown: Hackney makes a session healthy for pubgoers

How safe is it to pop out for a drink? Clara Murray, right, sets off for a taste of drinking lockdown style PERSPEX

LonFieldsLido©DA18: London Fields Lido #Dalston #Hackney E8 030118 © david.altheer@gmail.com David Altheer 030118

London Fields Lido reopens — but you should put your swimming togs on before you arrive

* Update 25 July 20: the Lido reopens. Changing rooms not available for use. HACKNEY’S LIDO WILL NOT OPEN tomorrow even though

A poet pens some lines (without any rhymes) to put us all on the pavement to the pub on time

YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE a business that works out a way to capitalise on the worst crisis to hit the world since World

The Spurs star who died fighting for his country then was denied what he deserved

What is it about the British, bureaucracy and duplicity? HERBIE RUSSELL, left, tells the story of a talented footballer-turned-Army officer and a century-old wound that a government

Rio©DA0118: cinema Dalston 180118 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Blame the staff, say trustees as Riovolutionaries oust them from Dalston cinema’s board

* Update 030720: In what must be a boardroom first, the Rio trustee directors have again quit, this second time blaming the staff. In an

Rio©DA0119: cinema Kingsland Hi St, Dalston, London © David.Altheer@gmail.com 121119

Rio revolutionaries tell cinema board to quit, as they attempt a Dalston boardroom coup

CIVIL WAR has broken out at the Rio. In the heat of the Covid-19 crisis, a protest group is attempting a boardroom coup at

In the market for a buy or a rental? Hackney may be ripe for the picking

IS THIS THE TIME to try to swap the shackles of rent for the bonds of mortgage? As we ponder life after the coronavirus

A can of free beer for a hot day in one of Hackney’s biggest and prettiest parks

FANCY A FREE BEER? Pop along to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington tomorrow Saturday and with the right app you might score a can of

Life in the lockdown: Hackney makes a session healthy for pubgoers

How safe is it to pop out for a drink? Clara Murray, right, sets off for a taste of drinking lockdown style PERSPEX

Blame the staff, say trustees as Riovolutionaries oust them from Dalston cinema’s board

* Update 030720: In what must be a boardroom first, the Rio trustee directors have again quit, this second time blaming the staff. In an

In the market for a buy or a rental? Hackney may be ripe for the picking

IS THIS THE TIME to try to swap the shackles of rent for the bonds of mortgage? As we ponder life after the coronavirus

HaggSun©DA15:© david.altheer@gmail.com Haggerston Baths (1903), Whiston Road, Hackney London 260515

Locals furious as buyer of Haggerston people’s baths demands 2 more storeys

THE BATTLE to save the swimming pool in the Haggerston Baths buildings has been lost. The hall that accommodates the 15m pool will never again echo

Rio©DA0119L: cinema Dalston © David.Altheer@gmail.com 121119

Rio 3! the Dalston cinema gets to work on planning for a vital extra screen

THE RIO is to get a third screen. It will be in the attic of the Kingsland High Street movie house, so long as

Happy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre

WHEN LEYLA NAZLI and Mehmet Ergen started the Arcola in 2000 they could hardly have imagined that the venue would become a destination venue for theatre

Kingsland©DA0818: pedestrians cross traffic-jammed Kingsland Hi St Dalston Hackney E8 Sat 250818 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Switch off — or face a huge fine plans anti-idling Hackney. But there is a big delay

* Update June 2020: for reasons Hackney council is now attributing to lockdown, Loving Dalston was given information that became premature when the Covid-19

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

How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the Speaker’s chauffeured limo

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,