Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[BillRiver]

Of course. Although it has been claimed the moored boats are a problem even when not moving.

A certain subset of the (mostly) new to the area middle classes don't like the boaters full stop. Think they're scruffy, spoiling the view, the wrong sort of person, etc. Which I think is what it's really about.

According to several people I spoke to today, suspicions are that the Canal and River Trust (CRT) want to sell more land on the river side in Hackney to property developers.

To build yet more, unaffordable to most people, flats.

So, although the CRT are claiming it's about safety, and although it's true the rowing club is on-side, it's not necessarily all as simple as rowers v boat dwellers...

 

[blossie33]

I was probably on the other side of the river at that point, saw the last of them go under the Lea Bridge Road bridge.

Yes, I guess you might have been from your photo of the green bridge, there was a man over your side flying a little drone I wondered what it was at first.
I like that little pathway, it's nice and quiet over that side and...I must confess I have a bit of a bridge phobia, I don't like crossing high bridges where the railing is open all the way down!

 

[marty21]

Yes, I guess you might have been from your photo of the green bridge, there was a man over your side flying a little drone I wondered what it was at first.
I like that little pathway, it's nice and quiet over that side and...I must confess I have a bit of a bridge phobia, I don't like crossing high bridges where the railing is open all the way down!

I love that pathway! Walked it earlier to get ahead of the marchers (so slow )

The photo was earlier so I missed drone man.

 

[BillRiver]

Next Saturday:

 

[blossie33]

From the Hackney Society web page ...
Tuesday 29th June 7pm - 8.30pm on YouTube, talk by photographer Chris Dorley Brown on changes in Hackney Wick since the 1980's - register here...

TALK: Chris Dorley Brown: Hackney Wick changes since the 1980s

One man's photographs that show how Hackney Wick has changed since the 1980s

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Could be interesting

 

[Fozzie Bear]

His photos and YouTube channel are wicked.

 

[blossie33]

Look out for Indiana Jones on the streets of Hackney this month

July 2021: London On Screen and Filming​

Currently filming​

13 years after the last feature, everyone's favourite archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is returning for a fifth instalment! The plot is currently unknown, but filming is taking place on the streets of Hackney and at Pinewood Studios, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen joining Hollywood heavyweight Harrison Ford.

 

[BillRiver]

Look out for Indiana Jones on the streets of Hackney this month

July 2021: London On Screen and Filming​

Currently filming​

13 years after the last feature, everyone's favourite archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is returning for a fifth instalment! The plot is currently unknown, but filming is taking place on the streets of Hackney and at Pinewood Studios, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen joining Hollywood heavyweight Harrison Ford.

Oh yes, my mate told me about this. She saw Harrison Ford during the filming a couple of weeks ago. She pointed out the street to me, it was just off Millfields Park near the bottom of Chatsworth Road.

 

[Sue]

Oh yes, my mate told me about this. She saw Harrison Ford during the filming a couple of weeks ago. She pointed out the street to me, it was just off Millfields Park near the bottom of Chatsworth Road.

And you're only mentioning this now??? Seriously.

 

[BillRiver]

Sorry!

 

[marty21]

Oh yes, my mate told me about this. She saw Harrison Ford during the filming a couple of weeks ago. She pointed out the street to me, it was just off Millfields Park near the bottom of Chatsworth Road.

I saw something getting filmed there , had no idea what it was .

 

[blossie33]

I saw something getting filmed there , had no idea what it was .

Wow! I'll have to make that my walking route for the rest of the month
Was it by the National Grid place?
I guess it would be on a week day?

 

[marty21]

Wow! I'll have to make that my walking route for the rest of the month
Was it by the National Grid place?
I guess it would be on a week day?

No , I think it was Mildenhall Rd , they'd blocked the road from Chatsworth Rd up. There were loads of folk there .

 

[spitfire]

So the scaffolding is down and it looks like they may be keeping a SFW version of the graffiti.

 

[blossie33]

Yes, I believe they are - heard that somewhere, maybe on the talk about Hackney Wick by Chris Dorley Brown I watched earlier this week.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Hackney Museum today for “Hackney In The 1980s”. Was great. Free but you have to book. And wear a mask obvs. Unless exempt I guess.

 

[Sue]

That does look good. Thanks Fozzie Bear.

 

[Pickman's model]

Put through the door the other day


So looks like a load of fuckwittery incoming

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Dalston Mens Group (1977)

Few figures are so universally mocked as the male feminist. Dalston Mens Group seemed too good to be true when I chanced upon it. An almost perfect artefact of “right on Hackney”, like …

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com

I honestly thought this was made up. But it ain't!

 

[marty21]

My local might be busy today , opens at midday , walked past at 10.30am

 

[Sue]

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It's going to be absolute carnage by kick-off.

 

[marty21]

It's going to be absolute carnage by kick-off.

I was thinking of getting there for 4.30 they will be 6 hours in by then & probably asleep

 

[Pickman's model]

It's going to be absolute carnage by kick-off.

It's a good day for Italians to stay indoors. Don't know if it will be worse if England win or lose

 

[BillRiver]

Hackney Museum today for “Hackney In The 1980s”. Was great. Free but you have to book. And wear a mask obvs. Unless exempt I guess.

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I'm booked to see it on Thursday, really looking forward to it. Love that museum.

 

[klang]

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Has everybody and everything finally gone completely mental?

 

[Pickman's model]

Has everybody and everything finally gone completely mental?

Wait til tomorrow to see how loony everyone has gone.

 

[spitfire]

Holy shit.

 

[klang]

Does anybody know of a good cave, ideally Hackney / NE London area? Need somewhere to hide in and seal for about 15 years.

 

[spitfire]

Hackney BMX competing in the London Youth games in Hayes today.

Mini Fire representing. (We’re actually Tower Hamlets but she’s in a Hackney school so…)

 

[Pickman's model]

Hackney BMX competing in the London Youth games in Hayes today.

Mini Fire representing. (We’re actually Tower Hamlets but she’s in a Hackney school so…)

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Good luck to her

Hayes west London or Hayes south London?