Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[marty21]

http://londontheinside.com/2013/12/19/cat-and-mutton-x-rubys/

Cat and Mutton on Broadway Market will re-open in March as a cocktail bar

 

[Fozzie Bear]

"London overground to get 25 new stations"

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/branching-out-london-overground-to-get-25-new-stations-9044059.html
Except they are not actually new stations but the existing Enfield/Cheshunt/Chingford -> Liverpool Street stations?

Hard to know what this will mean, apart from some new trains and signage.

 

[ska invita]

Hard to know what this will mean, apart from some new trains and signage.

even more expensive housing

 

[braindancer]

I don't use those trains at commuting times but in the evenings and at weekends the Chingford to Liverpool Street line is great - especially the 23:33 which goes from Liverpool Street to Walthamstow without stopping. It's like getting a taxi! Take me home train! Generally on time, and not too crowded - can't really see how it could be much improved...

 

[Miss-Shelf]

"London overground to get 25 new stations"

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/branching-out-london-overground-to-get-25-new-stations-9044059.html
Except they are not actually new stations but the existing Enfield/Cheshunt/Chingford -> Liverpool Street stations?

Hard to know what this will mean, apart from some new trains and signage.

perhaps more frequent trains? better linking to the existing overground?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

perhaps more frequent trains? better linking to the existing overground?

Maybe but I doubt it...

Service is pretty great from Stoke Newington. Trains every 15 mins at peak times. 15 mins to Liverpool Street..

Linking up with other bits would mean tunnelling and track building through expensive bits of London....

I guess we will wait and see.

 

[marty21]

perhaps more frequent trains? better linking to the existing overground?

They link via Liverpool St and Walthamstow anyway

 

[Fozzie Bear]

And seven sisters.

 

[Gavin Redknap]

The Stoke Newington line is fairly decent but there's massive overcrowding of the route going through Clapton, with the Chingford line, the line to Cambridge and the Stanstead express all vying for the same piece of track. Short of double tracking, to improve that service they'd have to re-route some of he longer distance lines either through the Stoke Newington branch or - as I expect them to - along the largely unused route between Tottenham Hale and Stratford. Doing that would give viability to the 'new' station currently being rebuilt at Lea Bridge as well. It probably wouldnt please some commuters up in Cambridgeshire but their numbers are significantly less than those closer in who have to deal with a totally unreliable Chingford line on a daily basis.

 

[rutabowa]

do you think this mean they will connect Northumberland Park?

 

[andysays]

"London overground to get 25 new stations"

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/branching-out-london-overground-to-get-25-new-stations-9044059.html
Except they are not actually new stations but the existing Enfield/Cheshunt/Chingford -> Liverpool Street stations?

Hard to know what this will mean, apart from some new trains and signage.

It means the trains will be run by TfL instead of the current operator, West Anglia, but as you say, apart from new (or re-vamped) trains and signage, won't necessarily mean any change to services

 

[blossie33]

Interesting article in Spitalfields Life about an artist living in the Tramsheds in Clapton

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/27/giorgione-in-clapton/

I thought the tramsheds had been saved from demolition some time ago but obviously not.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I thought the tramsheds had been saved from demolition some time ago but obviously not.

They won some battles but lost the war. A real shame - a mate of mine who is a welder had a studio there too and has recently found somewhere else after several years' stress.

 

[blossie33]

What a shame.
I noticed the cafe had closed when I passed on the bus but I just assumed it wasn't getting enough trade.

 

[marty21]

What a shame.
I noticed the cafe had closed when I passed on the bus but I just assumed it wasn't getting enough trade.

There is a sign saying they are closed for refurbishment, not sure if they will re-open. I miss the 2nd hand Jaguar dealership, nice cars

 

[Treacle Toes]

http://londontheinside.com/2013/12/19/cat-and-mutton-x-rubys/

Cat and Mutton on Broadway Market will re-open in March as a cocktail bar

Given that it has been known as The Cunt and Mutton for a long time we could just start calling it The Cunt and Mojito.

 

[boohoo]

So sad about the tramshed - the interior looks most interesting. What is going there instead? A faceless block of apartments?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

So sad about the tramshed - the interior looks most interesting. What is going there instead? A faceless block of apartments?

Definitely flats, but not sure if they will knock it all down and start again or try to keep some of the character.

It is very atmospheric - I went to a gig there yonks ago.

 

[Treacle Toes]

People....MY people!

Once in Haggerston, there were Lovelace, Pamela, Lowther and Harlowe – handsome, robustly-constructed thirties housing developments, named after characters in Samuel Richardson’s didactic novels of eighteenth century London. The literary derivation of their names offered a cultural reference in tune with the buildings’ neo-Georgian architecture and promised a future based upon ideals of social enlightenment. Now the final tenants are moving out prior to the imminent demolition of Samuel House – named after Samuel Richardson himself – the only block still standing on the Haggerston Estate, and so Contributing Photographer Colin O’Brien & I went along to meet the last residents as they said farewell to their former homes.

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/04/so-long-samuel-house/




We are saving our collective weeping for the demolition of Samuel House.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

People....MY people!



http://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/04/so-long-samuel-house/




We are saving our collective weeping for the demolition of Samuel House.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Yeah, gonna be extra weird to watch because we have our portraits up on the block.

 

[Sue]

The latest twist in the longrunning Dalston Lane saga.

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/new...se_of_a_lack_of_planning_permission_1_3285377

 

[boohoo]

The latest twist in the longrunning Dalston Lane saga.

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/new...se_of_a_lack_of_planning_permission_1_3285377

That demolition and the wrecking of Dalston is disgraceful.

 

[Sue]

That demolition and the wrecking of Dalston is disgraceful.

Yep, and the suspicious fires and the rest. Iain Sinclair talks about it at some length in his Rose Red Empire book.

 

[boohoo]

Yep, and the suspicious fires and the rest. Iain Sinclair talks about it at some length in his Rose Red Empire book.

I watched that bit of Dalston lane go from being a little run down to various states of dereliction allowed and encouraged by the council.

 

[Sue]

I watched that bit of Dalston lane go from being a little run down to various states of dereliction allowed and encouraged by the council.

As it says in the article, the guy who's been involved in the campaign from the start -- and who's interviewed by IS in his book -- is talking at the Rio on Saturday. May go along if I'm free as sounds interesting.

 

[Pickman's model]

I watched that bit of Dalston lane go from being a little run down to various states of dereliction allowed and encouraged by the council.

hackney's been shortlisted for council of the year

 

[Sue]

hackney's been shortlisted for council of the year

 

[Pickman's model]

strange but true

 

[Pickman's model]

Yep, and the suspicious fires and the rest. Iain Sinclair talks about it at some length in his Rose Red Empire book.

by no means the only suspicious fire, where ability plaza is now there was a strange fire usefully clearing the site