Hackney Society News Today

The plan was to take old railway arches in a run-down area of east London and turn them into a high-end fashion hub. Instead, Hackney Walk ended up deserted. What went so disastrously wrong?

Hackney’s ‘second oldest house’ will come back to life after 20 years of abandonment.

Planning officers said the scheme had been “significantly refined and developed”. While the Stock Exchange is understood not to be moving into the Technico House scheme, the new block will feature over 65,000 square metres of office space, with large roof terraces alongside retail units and restaurants. Of the total floorspace, eight per cent will be let at an affordable level of less than 40 per cent of market rates – less than the 10 per cent council target but accepted by officers due...

"We have plenty of women like that who are heroic and unproblematic. But having those outlier women who make the huge breakthroughs doesnt tell you much about ordinary life, and we wanted to give snapshots that shed light on challenges faced in the past." Some of the more famous subjects include music hall singer Marie Lloyd and 18 th century businesswoman Eleanor Coade, who manufactured an artificial stone used on Buckingham Palace and the Brighton Pavilion, who was formerly a linen draper in...