Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[Thora]

I have a question. Why is there always police with a car parked in front of the Kingsland Shopping Centre in Dalston. At least 50% of the time I walk past it which is several times a week?

I was just discussing this with my boyfriend yesterday - often there's a police car there, but also there's very often a load of coppers and community support police and an angry/tearful motorist because they're towing their car away. At first I thought maybe they were catching people parking in the bus lane outside the shopping centre, but they seem to do it at least once a week and the other day my boyfriend saw three cars stopped and a whole van load of police. Maybe it's some kind of speeding trap, or they're pulling over people with no tax?

 

[Roadkill]

They were doing this in Greenwich earlier this week as well, pulling over cars apparently at random. I wonder what it's about.

<sidles quietly out of Hackney thread and back to south-east London where he belongs>

 

[marty21]

They were doing this in Greenwich earlier this week as well, pulling over cars apparently at random. I wonder what it's about.

<sidles quietly out of Hackney thread and back to south-east London where he belongs>

culling south londoners

 

[Roadkill]

culling south londoners

Oh well if that's what it's about then good luck to them.

<Joins Specials>

 

[boohoo]

Volcano was a fucking great festival. I went in 99, 2000 and 2001.

I went to at least one. And I watched the singing bus conductor - Duke Bassey? Where is he now? I miss the peace of a Clapton pond evening with a gentle harmonica playing in the background.

 

[Roadkill]

I've never seen so many mice as were scurrying around on the track at Old Street tube this evening. In the three or four minutes I waited for a train, I counted ten. I thought they were quite cute, although a few other people were a bit and I did hear at least one, 'that's disgusting!'

(Yes I know it's not quite Hackney but it's near as dammit Dalston and it hardly warrants a thread to itself, does it... )

 

[marty21]

i have noticed a new hackney bus 425, which seems to run from clapton to stratford

 

[marty21]

in the hackney gazette today - the yucatan has been closed for a month - the police got a closure order, claiming the pub allowed drug use on the premises...I go there occasionally and I've never noticed that sort of thing

 

[Divisive Cotton]

i have noticed a new hackney bus 425, which seems to run from clapton to stratford

oh that's good - previously the bus options from Stratford into Hackney were appalling

 

[marty21]

oh that's good - previously the bus options from Stratford into Hackney were appalling

the S2 is the magical mystery tour, takes about an hour, and seems to go down the same roads several times on it's way there

 

[goldenecitrone]

in the hackney gazette today - the yucatan has been closed for a month - the police got a closure order, claiming the pub allowed drug use on the premises...I go there occasionally and I've never noticed that sort of thing

I thought it was just full of drunks and footie fans. Not been there for ages. I guess the old bill turn a blind eye to goings on in another nearby pub as they all drink there. See they've done the Cricketers up and turned it into a French brothel.

 

[marty21]

the other cricketers in lower clapton was also in the paper, trying to keep their late licence, til 6am at the weekend, never been there so no idea if it's full of wrong uns like

 

[blossie33]

oh that's good - previously the bus options from Stratford into Hackney were appalling

Am sure the 276 (Stoke Newington to Newham Hospital) goes through Hackney and Stratford?

I find it's a good little service generally, I think they are every 15/ 20 minutes.

 

[marty21]

Am sure the 276 (Stoke Newington to Newham Hospital) goes through Hackney and Stratford?

I find it's a good little service generally, I think they are every 15/ 20 minutes.

that reminds me of a scam artist who does the old, " I need a fiver to get a taxi to newham hospital" line - he actually did my sister once when she was leaving her hackney place, I've seen him a few times, trying his scam

"get the 276 mate"

 

[Thora]

Has anyone been to that Peruvian restaurant on Kingsland Road? I only spotted it yesterday.

 

[Roadkill]

I saw that, on my way to Stokey a few days ago.

I've never been to a South American restaurant, and I wouldn't mind giving it a try - either that or the Bolivian one on the Old Kent Road.

 

[marty21]

Has anyone been to that Peruvian restaurant on Kingsland Road? I only spotted it yesterday.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=261041

yes they have

 

[hipipol]

HACKNEY: ESTATES OF PRINCIPAL LANDOWNERS c. 1830

From: 'Hackney: Manors', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney (1995), pp. 75-91. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22707. Date accessed: 16 October 2008.

Always been popular with Toffs Hackney

Round the time of the above map in had a higher proportion of Titled types than any of the other villages around London

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Has anyone been to that Peruvian restaurant on Kingsland Road? I only spotted it yesterday.

That could be interesting - isn't the guinea pig their national dish?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

the S2 is the magical mystery tour, takes about an hour, and seems to go down the same roads several times on it's way there

The S2 is bizarre - it goes in every direction but the one you want it to go

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

in the hackney gazette today - the yucatan has been closed for a month - the police got a closure order, claiming the pub allowed drug use on the premises...I go there occasionally and I've never noticed that sort of thing

you are joking? for as long as i can remember, the yucca's had some 'interesting' clientele. won't say no more, public forum and all that.

 

[marty21]

you are joking? for as long as i can remember, the yucca's had some 'interesting' clientele. won't say no more, public forum and all that.

i never noticed anything in there

 

[BarryB]

The S2 is bizarre - it goes in every direction but the one you want it to go

The S2 hasant been going in any direction for several weeks. Its been scrapped. Its been replaced by 425 between Clapton-Homerton Hospital-Mile End-Bow and Stratford and 488 between Clapton-Homerton-Hackney Wick-Old Ford-Bow-Bromley by Bow and Twelve Trees Crescent

BarryB

 

[marty21]

The S2 hasant been going in any direction for several weeks. Its been scrapped. Its been replaced by 425 between Clapton-Homerton Hospital-Mile End-Bow and Stratford and 488 between Clapton-Homerton-Hackney Wick-Old Ford-Bow-Bromley by Bow and Twelve Trees Crescent

BarryB

cheers barry

 

[MysteryGuest]

a "certain poster" who lives in clapton was seen earlier today riding an ostrich up to tottenham hale...

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

i knew bernie clifton lives in clapton but why the fuck was he going to tottenham hale?

 

[gaijingirl]

I ventured up to this fair manor for a swim in London Fields today and there was a dancer doing a dance on top of a moving JCB to classical music in the park!! We spent ages chatting to the most friendly woman in the cafe there and then we went up to the Aziziye restaurant in the mosque for a meze in one of their booths - what a fab day! - sorry a bit "me me me" - but in such a good mood after such a good day..

 

[marty21]

i knew bernie clifton lives in clapton but why the fuck was he going to tottenham hale?

because it was there

 

[HackneyE9]

Which is the Yukatan?

 

[marty21]

Which is the Yukatan?

it's on stoke newington high street, sort of near the cop shop