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Sue said:
Standard claiming the poor man was locked in. :(

www.standard.co.uk

Man dies after being ‘trapped in fire’ at suspected cannabis factory

A man has died after becoming “trapped by a locked garage door” at a fire in a suspected cannabis factory in Hackney.
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My source was pretty on the money tbf , he also said the people in the garage never saw any activity in the lock up , presumably they waited until the garage was closed before doing the farming stuff or removing the product .
 
I've been twittering with a local who lives within the cordon, she has to prove she lives there to get to her own flat. She said there was a power cut on Jan 1st , power was out for 6 hours . Possibly due to the "farm" extracting electricity illegally. Before lockdown the lock up was used as a car spraying place (which is why I thought it was owned by the garage) so there may still have been flammable stuff left over from that.
 
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Michael Ferreira's funeral took place 43 years ago today.

He was a teenager who was stabbed by National Front supporters and then neglected by officers at Stoke Newington police station:
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Who killed Michael Ferreira? Part One

Michael Ferreira (1959-1978) At about 1:30am on Saturday 10th December [1978], six black youths were walking past the Astra Cinema in Stoke Newington [117 Stoke Newington Road]. They were returning…
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In more current news there is a protest today about unsafe working conditions for delivery drivers in Dalston:

The riders will assemble on Ashwin Street E8 3DL at 4pm and from there ride their bikes/mopeds to Hackney Town Hall arriving there around 4.15 for the rally.

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London: Dalston delivery drivers to protest Hackney Mayor over lack of safe waiting areas - Freedom News

Dalston couriers working for app-based firms Deliveroo, UberEats, and JustEat are protesting tomorrow, 20th January, after being forced to wait for orders in all weather at Bentley Road car park, a current COVID testing centre with no shelter or toilets. The riders will assemble on Ashwin Street...
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Fozzie Bear said:
In more current news there is a protest today about unsafe working conditions for delivery drivers in Dalston:

The riders will assemble on Ashwin Street E8 3DL at 4pm and from there ride their bikes/mopeds to Hackney Town Hall arriving there around 4.15 for the rally.

freedomnews.org.uk

London: Dalston delivery drivers to protest Hackney Mayor over lack of safe waiting areas - Freedom News

Dalston couriers working for app-based firms Deliveroo, UberEats, and JustEat are protesting tomorrow, 20th January, after being forced to wait for orders in all weather at Bentley Road car park, a current COVID testing centre with no shelter or toilets. The riders will assemble on Ashwin Street...
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Interesting. While I have sympathy for the delivery drivers, I can't help but think it's Deliveroo etc who should be providing facilities for their 'workers'. (Are they officially classed as workers now? Not sure, though they obviously are.) It's pretty clear that Ashwin St isn't safe for anyone mind. Whenever I use it as a short cut, I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands due to the mopeds/bikes riding all over the place, including on the pavement. :(
 
Sue said:
Interesting. While I have sympathy for the delivery drivers, I can't help but think it's Deliveroo etc who should be providing facilities for their 'workers'. (Are they officially classed as workers now? Not sure, though they obviously are.) It's pretty clear that Ashwin St isn't safe for anyone mind. Whenever I use it as a short cut, I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands due to the mopeds/bikes riding all over the place, including on the pavement. :(
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They seem to be demanding that the Council provide facilities for them. Surely its down to Deliveroo, etc?
 
I agree with you there Sue, they have become a bit of a nuisance in Ashwin Street.
I do sympathise with what they are saying though - what happens in other areas of London I wonder?
 
Sue said:
Interesting. While I have sympathy for the delivery drivers, I can't help but think it's Deliveroo etc who should be providing facilities for their 'workers'. (Are they officially classed as workers now? Not sure, though they obviously are.) It's pretty clear that Ashwin St isn't safe for anyone mind. Whenever I use it as a short cut, I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands due to the mopeds/bikes riding all over the place, including on the pavement. :(
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used to be a more pleasant street to walk down
 
I agree it needs sorting out and that the current arrangement isn't good for drivers or pedestrians. Dunno who usually does this but councils do provide space for taxi ranks, so maybe it is like that?

 
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In other news, I did not know that Britain's first black TV detective show was set in the London Borough of Hackney... :cool::cool::cool:

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Wolcott – Hackney’s Black TV Cop Series (1981)

Wolcott was a four-part TV drama produced by Black Lion Films. 13 million people watched when it was broadcast – on ITV, 13th-15th of January 1981. There were no repeats. The show was shot in…
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Not Hackney as such but...

They're doing gas mains replacement work in Theobalds Rd so buses are being diverted along Grays Inn Road. Ended up in a huge traffic jam yesterday on a 38 (they didn't announce we were on diversion until after we'd gone on diversion :() and then had to wait ages till we crawled along to the next bus stop.

Apparently the work's going on for six weeks. (They're not on diversion going north.)
 
Fozzie Bear said:
In other news, I did not know that Britain's first black TV detective show was set in the London Borough of Hackney... :cool::cool::cool:

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com

Wolcott – Hackney’s Black TV Cop Series (1981)

Wolcott was a four-part TV drama produced by Black Lion Films. 13 million people watched when it was broadcast – on ITV, 13th-15th of January 1981. There were no repeats. The show was shot in…
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I don't remember it ! Would love it watch it , old Hackney scenes hopefully .
 
blossie33 said:
Haggerston Baths building finally to be restored...
www.ianvisits.co.uk

Haggerston’s derelict swimming baths building to be restored

A swimming pool in Haggerston that's been derelict for the past couple of decades is to be restored to public use again, although as a community centre and offices.
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it's really shit it's not going to be restored as baths: the plans (in hackney archives) show how beautiful the baths were when they were opened. so much of the council's leisure facilities are in the former metropolitan boroughs of hackney and stoke newington (broadly everything north of the canal) and so little in the former metropolitan borough of shoreditch.
 
Pickman's model said:
it's really shit it's not going to be restored as baths: the plans (in hackney archives) show how beautiful the baths were when they were opened. so much of the council's leisure facilities are in the former metropolitan boroughs of hackney and stoke newington (broadly everything north of the canal) and so little in the former metropolitan borough of shoreditch.
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we used to run raves in similar derelict baths in Munich. Better use than offices. And a lot louder.
 
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