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You’ll never guess the table that Hackney now tops (almost). No, not hipsterness… Oh, you guessed

05/24/202205/27/2022 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

SOMEHOW FOUND ENOUGH MONEY to put a deposit on a flat in the northeast of our fine city? Well, before you offer on that

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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

10/13/202110/24/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

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

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Hostile-environment policy has led ethnic minorities to disdain vax clinics, says Hackney MP

02/08/202106/09/2021 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

A HACKNEY HEALTH CENTRE shut its door early because not enough people turned up for Covid-19 vaccinations.  The Cedar Practice’s John Scott Centre in Green

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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

  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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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

10/31/202006/10/2021 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

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

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Shoreditch©DA13:© davidaltheer@gmail.com BBC London dancers @ Shoreditch festival in Hoxton St Lon N1 13 July 2013

Shoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?

10/02/202010/03/2020 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

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

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

08/11/202008/12/2020 CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

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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ZimArtShep The Good Shepherd © Livingstone Sango

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

08/03/202010/02/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 1

  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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© Jeff Moore

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

07/08/202008/06/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

  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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