Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[blossie33]

Yes, I hope that's what is going to happen too.
The Turnpike House pub on Stamford Hill which closed around the same time is still all boarded up at street level but the sign says it's protected by live in guardians and I think there are people upstairs there too. Don't know anything about what's going to happen with that one.

 

[Sue]

A friend who lives in Stokey saw someone get stabbed earlier on his road. The air ambulance came out but it's a bit unclear what happened afterwards -- he wasn't sure if the guy that got stabbed even got in the helicopter. (The building it happened in has a load of bedsits apparently and there's often trouble.)

 

[klang]

horrible.

 

[klang]

similar happened bang outside my front door. Horrible stuff. It's still haunting me.

 

[klang]

I know it won't change anything in the scheme of things, but fuck, I'm glad those trouble makers moved on and don't hang out where I live anymore.

 

[blossie33]

Oops...thought I'd found article about stabbing but it was an earlier one

 

[Sue]

Oops...thought I'd found article about stabbing but it was an earlier one

Yeah, had a look but couldn't see anything.

 

[blossie33]

Further to my post about the Birdcage, I passed by today so I asked one of the men working there about it and yes, what the neighbour told me is correct, it's going to still be a pub with living accommodation for the staff upstairs

 

[Pickman's model]

Further to my post about the Birdcage, I passed by today so I asked one of the men working there about it and yes, what the neighbour told me is correct, it's going to still be a pub with living accommodation for the staff upstairs

the kingsland to be burke's warehouse, which i would be surprised to see trading in 2024

 

[blossie33]

the kingsland to be burke's warehouse, which i would be surprised to see trading in 2024

Ah right - I had to Google that as it didn't sound like the name of a pub!

 

[Sue]

the kingsland to be burke's warehouse, which i would be surprised to see trading in 2024

Saw that. Used to like The Kingsland. Guess they're going to be going for a different clientele..?

 

[Pickman's model]

Saw that. Used to like The Kingsland. Guess they're going to be going for a different clientele..?

i'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt but i don't think there'll be any rebel music on the juke box in there, nor anything more edgy than mcalpine's fusiliers, if that. if there is indeed a juke box

 

[marty21]

Also, a second hand piece of gossip about the Birdcage pub on Stamford Hill, passed to me today by the neighbour who told me the Orthodox Jewish community were after it....she has now heard that the brewery wanted too much money for it and it's listed so they can't change the use of the ground floor. Word now is that it's being taken on by a Craft Brewery.
I walked past the other day and there is a renovation company working there. It looked like they may have been putting a panel of flat entry buttons by the doorway so maybe the upstairs converted into flats?
This is all unconfirmed speculation so not to be taken as gospel yet

Provisionally good news

 

[marty21]

Saw that. Used to like The Kingsland. Guess they're going to be going for a different clientele..?

I liked it too, it was a proper pub.

 

[marty21]

Talking of proper pubs , I've just popped to The London Tavern , never been here before even though it's only a 10 minute walk from my flat. It's old school proper pub , full of old school Hackney it's not going to attract hipsters , doesn't do fancy beers, Stella, Fosters,Guinness,Strongbow , etc . This is Hackney of olden times , like the Billet before it got fancified.

 

[spitfire]

Talking of proper pubs , I've just popped to The London Tavern , never been here before even though it's only a 10 minute walk from my flat. It's old school proper pub , full of old school Hackney it's not going to attract hipsters , doesn't do fancy beers, Stella, Fosters,Guinness,Strongbow , etc . This is Hackney of olden times , like the Billet before it got fancified.

Shocktroopers of Gentrification assemble!

 

[marty21]

Shocktroopers of Gentrification assemble!

They would get chucked out of here sharpish

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Bit of a depressing one this week, but a good bit of research:

The racist killing of Ishaque Ali in Clapton, 25 June 1978

Ishaque Ali and his nephew Faruq ed-Din were walking down Urswick Road in the early hours of Sunday morning, 25th June 1978. A white youth approached the pair and asked them for a match. And then f…

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com

 

[blossie33]

So very, very sad.
I just don't understand the mentality of people who take their dislike of others to that extreme

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Birdcage is reopening Thursday it seems.

 

[marty21]

Birdcage is reopening Thursday it seems.

I'll pay a visit over the weekend probably , good excuse for a walk in the Manor.

 

[Sue]

So see there's been a fire in one of those shops turned houses in Cecilia Rd (Dalston Lane end). Police car outside, forensics there and police out doorknocking nearby so assume it's suspicious. Hope no-one was hurt.

 

[marty21]

So see there's been a fire in one of those shops turned houses in Cecilia Rd (Dalston Lane end). Police car outside, forensics there and police out doorknocking nearby so assume it's suspicious. Hope no-one was hurt.

I once stood outside a crack house on Cecilia Rd (it was a HA property ) The Police raided it , and me & a colleague had to wait there til our repairs team turned up. We had to turn away several 'customers' during the couple of hours we spent standing there. I just told them it was closed. It was on my birthday too (2004-ish) , not my best birthday tbf.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Birdcage is reopening Thursday it seems.

Literally in there now with a pint.

 

[Sue]

Literally in there now with a pint.

...and? Is it less soulless than its last incarnation..?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It’s alright actually. Staff are nice. There is ok music on and it’s pretty busy. They seem to have their act together.

But it’s the night and it’s a sunny day and Boris resigned. So time will tell!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Also, as you know Sue, I bring the party wherever I go. So it’s hard for me to be objective.

 

[Sue]

Also, as you know Sue, I bring the party wherever I go. So it’s hard for me to be objective.

That sounds like you volunteering to organise some Hackney drinks to me...

 

[Fozzie Bear]

That sounds like you volunteering to organise some Hackney drinks to me...

Hmmm. Well maybe. There are some Hackney radical history walks in the pipeline. That maybe end up in pubs?

But yes.

 

[spitfire]

Potential urban meet up, venues and dates being discussed here: https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/urban-picnic.378820/