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lighterthief said:
Feaure (and gallery) discussing the gentrification of Chatsworth Road, impact of market etc:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/07/chatsworth-road-frontline-hackney-gentrification
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2012/jul/08/chatsworth-road-residents-in-pictures
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I haven't been down chats road for about 5 years - I was surprised at those pictures even though I'd heard that it had changed
I guess it will be like victoria park where it feels good if you have money but poorer residents are maginalised, even if everyone benefits from it looking nicer and *feeling* safer (don't know if areas get safer for everyone)
such a culture of housing haves and have nots :( ( I am lucky I am a housing 'have' who can afford to live in a nice flat now in south london btw)
 
This is probably the most middle class post I've made on Urban, but here goes...

We're having a new kitchen fitted into our Hackney Central flat and the place has obviously become a tip, and we'd like to hire a cleaner for about 2/3 hours. Obviously not actually being middle class we have no idea where to find one/which websites are not dodgy/which companies actually pay cleaners a living wage.

Does anyone have any reccomendations for a firm that would be willing to take on such a small and short-term job?
 
Lauriston Road - bit fancy round there isn't it.

Just jumped off the 277 to kill sometime between meetings. Was expecting to find a coffee in Hackney central, never knew that area was there.
 
Miss-Shelf said:
I haven't been down chats road for about 5 years - I was surprised at those pictures even though I'd heard that it had changed
I guess it will be like victoria park where it feels good if you have money but poorer residents are maginalised, even if everyone benefits from it looking nicer and *feeling* safer (don't know if areas get safer for everyone)
such a culture of housing haves and have nots :( ( I am lucky I am a housing 'have' who can afford to live in a nice flat now in south london btw)
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The whole change started 5 years ago when Venetia's opened - the others followed from that - it has been funny to watch them all piling in - the latest is a swedish cafe :D

I go down there every weekend - the green grocers (opened before all this started) is brilliant - so we get our fruit and veg from there every week - I do go to the French Deli as well, and have tried the Creperie :oops:

I have lived in the area for 15 years, moved in when no one wanted to live there.
 
Dan U said:
It resolved my coffee and workspace needs and I avoided buying 48 day aged steak so win win really
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Unless you're one of the local families who spent generations building a unique and vibrant community, but who can no longer afford to shop or live there. Then it's lose lose really.
 
toblerone3 said:
Yes I'm loving it. I'm having to do the Hackney knowledge at the moment. Learning all the names of all the street names in Hackney. But its tiring me out.
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we should have a hackney drink - I want to check out the Cock on Mare street which re-opened last week, apparently it has about 20 ales on :cool:

I did a lot of walking around our fair borough at the weekend - Saturday walked down Chatsworth Road - stopped for breakfast at the new Swedish place - Cooper and Woolf - alright - it was busy and they didn't have enough staff on - continued down Chatsworth to Homerton - where they had fenced off the road in preparation for the torch relay - then on to Hackney Wick and another breakfast at the Hackney Pearl - (we skipped lunch) and then back to Clapton.

Sunday when it was very hot - walked along the Lea to where they block the towpath :mad: there was a little protest there - with a BBQ , about 70 people there - they were also protesting about Leyton Marsh - the temporary basketball arena has been built behind the ice rink on Lea Bridge Road - apparently LOCOG have been to court against the leyton marsh group and are trying to get £20k out of them :mad:

then I walked back to Chatsworth, past the new Matchbox development - on Homerton Road/Lea - built on the site of the old Matchbox factory - massive development - on to the Market - and then home - I was a little sunburnt at the end .
 
Saw the carnival procession on Saturday.

Then later on watched the Olympic torch zoom down Church Street. Lots of waiting and then 5 seconds of "wooo!".

Depressing seeing everyone cheer anything that went past including random motorbike cops and corporate sponsor vans.

But... I was pleased to see a protestor sneak into the torch procession! An old guy on a doctored boris bike bedecked with slogans about Barclays ripping off pensioners.
 
Fozzie Bear said:
Saw the carnival procession on Saturday.

Then later on watched the Olympic torch zoom down Church Street. Lots of waiting and then 5 seconds of "wooo!".

Depressing seeing everyone cheer anything that went past including random motorbike cops and corporate sponsor vans.

But... I was pleased to see a protestor sneak into the torch procession! An old guy on a doctored boris bike bedecked with slogans about Barclays ripping off pensioners.
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so you didn't notice the buxom brazilians with nothing on.
 
marty21 said:
we should have a hackney drink - I want to check out the Cock on Mare street which re-opened last week, apparently it has about 20 ales on :cool:
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Popped into the reopened Cock tavern on Saturday evening for a pint. Don’t think they’re fully up to speed yet as about half the ales were off, but they did have five real ciders and perries on. Very different from my last visit to watch the football on a Saturday lunchtime about a year ago; the bloke next to us skinning up on the table whilst maintaining a cheery conversation with the barmaid before asking me for a light. I miss that place :(.
 
Stash said:
Popped into the reopened Cock tavern on Saturday evening for a pint. Don’t think they’re fully up to speed yet as about half the ales were off, but they did have five real ciders and perries on. Very different from my last visit to watch the football on a Saturday lunchtime about a year ago; the bloke next to us skinning up on the table whilst maintaining a cheery conversation with the barmaid before asking me for a light. I miss that place :(.
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I remember a few drunken evenings there, I was never a regular, but sometimes popped in for a late one :cool:
 
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