AS IT TRIES TO shrug off its Geffrye skin, the Museum of the Home is showing signs of desperation as it tries to appeal
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Shoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?
WHAT, TWO DISTRICTS in London are more enterprising than Shoreditch and Hoxton? Yep, Holborn-St Pancras, and Islington South-Finsbury have more small businesses per person
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The sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago v 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hackney council is splashing out £4.5 million on a new pool for its popular lido
SPLASH! AN EMAIL PLOPS into Loving Dalston’s email tank from Hackney council: London Fields Lido is to get a new, separate learner pool. If
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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
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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
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