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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

02/22/2022 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 1

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

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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

12/06/2021 ARCHITECTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 1

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

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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

07/01/202107/02/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

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

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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

01/19/202101/21/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

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

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ChrisWreath©DA20e5: © david.altheer@gmail.com Christmas @ Clarence Pl/Clapton Sq, Hackney London E5, 171220

🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season

12/21/202001/18/2021 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

  IF THE SANTA EMOJI in the headline looks a little downcast it could be because the wreath displays are looking a little underpowered

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thames©DA17: graffiti @ Leamouth nr East India Dock Basin on approach to Trinity Buoy Wharf by Thames Newham, London E8 060914 ©

Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in

09/25/202009/25/2020 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS

  THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming

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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

05/05/202005/29/2020 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 2

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

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

12/10/201912/19/2020 ARCHITECTURE, LATEST, NEWS

* Update 051220: The proposal to turn London’s Whitechapel legendary bell foundry into a boutique hotel has been ended by government intervention.    

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© david.altheer@gmail.com

Hackney moves swiftly, which is good news for these magnificent flying machines

06/20/201802/08/2019 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed

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hackneysubcom©DA18: Hackneycouncil planning subcom town hall Mare St E8 060718 © david.altheer[at]gmail.com

See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting

06/08/201802/21/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never

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