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Mosquito Bikes 123 Essex Road N1 2SN, closed April 2016 270716 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Why Dalston pioneer Mosquito moved upscale to Islington but failed to ride the London cycle boom

08/01/201606/21/2017 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, SPORT

THIS MONTH or early the next the last signs of a business that blazed a trail in Dalston will be thrown into a recycler.

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Canal2013: Regent’s Canal East London summer 2013 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Free guided canal walk to Hackney Wick

10/16/201510/16/2015 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, SPORT

THE REGENT’S CANAL towpath is always a way out of the stresses of London. But why not walk it with a posse of the like-minded? Apart from meeting

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Paralympics marathon passes through City of London 090912 © DA

On your blocks! Get set for Paralympics freebie

07/17/201507/17/2015 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, SPORT

WANT TO go to the London Olympic Anniversary Games? Hackney council is giving local people a chance to win tickets to the last day,

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Hackney lido lights up as long winter approaches

09/02/201409/02/2014 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, SPORT

LONDON FIELDS Lido is to open at night. Hackney council has announced that from December  2014 the Olympic-length art-deco style facility will be, uhm,

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Lea Rowing Club in Clapton: Jennie Brotherstone, nearest, Katherine Berlie and Louise Etheridge (purple top) near club’s Springhill Boathouse Hackney N © david.altheer@gmail.com 280614

Row, row your Clapton boat, merrily to Henley

06/30/201407/25/2014 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, SPORT

A GROUP of women rowers, and some men, are paddling down the River Lea from their Clapton boathouse and up the Thames to Oxfordshire

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Dalston junction Hackney London 250913 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Fantastique! Le Tour de France vient à Hackney

03/31/201404/05/2014 COUNCIL, LATEST, NEWS, SPORT

THE TOUR de France will pass through Hackney this year. Competitors will nip along Ruckholt Road, Eastway and Waterden Road in Hackney Wick then

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Ping! London free table-tennis at the Barbican July 2013 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Twenty-one! Ping-pong bounces into the parks

07/16/201307/20/2013 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch, SPORT

PING-PONG, table tennis or even whiff-whaff… table tennis has several names but the beauty of the game… sorry, Olympic, uhm, sport… is that it’s

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Promoted Birckbeck Os leave division as champs

11/01/201210/20/2013 SPORT

Paul (“Tintin”) Pether files on his team’s latest triumph: becoming champions of the 4th division. Onward to the 3rd!   Birkbeck Orient 6, Eastway Olympia

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Birky Os feast mightily on the East

10/27/201202/02/2020 SPORT

Above: Ben Archibald gives a post-match talk Birkbeck Orient 5  East London 2 on Sunday 21 October 2012 BIRKBECK ORIENT kept up their unbeaten start to

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Under-par Birky badger Bow into submission

10/15/201210/18/2012 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, SPORT

Birkbeck Orient 4, Bow Badgers 1, at Hackney Marshes Sun 14 Oct 2012 Paul Pether reports BIRKY Os never hit top gear in this

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