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In other news, they didn't seem to be much further forward with that burst water main/pipe on Kingsland Rd when I went past earlier. Was still pumping out water. (One lane's closed between Forest and Richmond Rds and with the temporary traffic lights/lane closure at the canal, the traffic's a bit rubbish.)
 
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what an admirable sentiment. only as people get priced out of more and more places perhaps they will have to live places they don't like so well.
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I'm not quite sure what you are meaning there.
I live in Stamford Hill, the housing is not cheap here but I don't think that's anything to do with the Jewish people, none of Hackney is 'cheap' anymore.
But, yes, people are forced to live in cheaper areas.
 
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"The story of the Haggerston Estate is the story of social housing in Britain"
By Tom Overton
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The estate in 2007. Image: Edward Betts/Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel House, London E8, used to stand on the north bank of Regent’s canal to the east of Kingsland Road. On Google Street View it still does, and an anonymised woman in sandals is perpetually wheeling her anonymised child in a pram past the façade.

It’s July 2014, according to the photo’s tag, and it looks like a warm day: mum’s in a sunhat and they’re both in sandals. By this point most of the windows have been smashed out, and if you follow the canal and turn right up Clarissa Street, the fort of demolition-site hoarding continues into a grilled gate. Through it, you can see a crane looming behind the building: here it’s still May 2014 and cloudy. Click through the gate, though, and it’s suddenly September 2011 in the courtyard, with sunlight falling on cars, hanging baskets, brightly-painted bollards and a lone removals van.

The story of the Haggerston Estate is the story of social housing in Britain – a story told by James Meek in the London Review of Books – in microcosm. London County Council built it between 1935 and 1948 as a slum-clearance project, trying to plumb in the edifying qualities of English Literature by theming the building’s names round the novelist Samuel Richardson (1689–1761). In 1965, the Greater London Council took over, and by the Seventies they’d reclassified it as a “problem” estate, sacking the resident caretaker, withdrawing maintenance, withholding repairs, and prompting rounds and rounds of rent strikes.
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http://www.citymetric.com/skylines/story-haggerston-estate-story-social-housing-britain-734
 
Real Estates

Over the next six weeks Fugitive Images (Andrea Luka Zimmerman and David Roberts) have invited communities, campaigners, thinkers and engaged practitioners related to the housing crisis to bring their important work into PEER and share with us a glimpse of their own long-term projects on key sites. Together they aim to develop a deeper understanding and find strategies to resist social injustices and restore ethical imperatives.
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talking of pubs - has anyone been to the Farr's Dancing School (I think it's called) the Antic pub in Dalston - landlady of the Clapton Hart has just gone there, she is a top lass (She's from Sheffield so it's ok to say that :hmm:)
 
marty21 said:
I'm not clicking, I may have drunkenly visited some of them :oops: mrs21 mentioned it earlier
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Some of them aren't even takeaways. The Hai Ha in Mare St (which I go to reasonably regularly) gets a 0. As does the Red Art Cafe just up from the Rio. :(
 
marty21 said:
talking of pubs - has anyone been to the Farr's Dancing School (I think it's called) the Antic pub in Dalston - landlady of the Clapton Hart has just gone there, she is a top lass (She's from Sheffield so it's ok to say that :hmm:)
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It looks a bit...young. We should organise a 'raise the average age' outing. :hmm:
 
Went there for a works do about a year ago, overpriced & overcrowded. Decor was like a squatted warehouse complete with lethal concrete stairs to the loos upstairs.
 
Friday
at 18:30–20:00
Real Estates: a project by Fugitive Images from 18 Feb - 28 March 2015
Peer Gallery 97-99 Hoxton Street, London, N1 6QL London, United K


Screening of A Palace For Us followed by an in conversation with Gareth Evans and Tom Hunter.

A PALACE FOR US:
This is a magical film. It weaves the memories of people who grew up in east London and have lived on the estate since it opened into a silvery thread of meaning illuminated by dramatisations of their experiences filmed in the aged, but dignified, Woodberry Down buildings and public spaces. The estate, begun in 1946 and completed in 1963, was like a “palace” to those who remembered the East End slums, remembers one participant. But the film is also a palace of memory. Contemporary art often seems obsessed with youth: here it listens to the stories the old have to tell.

It evokes all our stories. Britain in 1945, out of the ruins of war, built the welfare state that clever rich kids are now so casually pulling apart. Estates like Woodberry Down embody an ideal of decent housing for all that was born out of the miseries of the 1930s and terror of the 1940s. A Palace for Us gently and acutely bears witness to this history that is now being dismantled.

Hunter’s film is not a rant, but a moving homage to lives and memories that today are obliterated by harsh and violent caricatures of the white working class. Everyone should go to the Serpentine to learn to see through his subjects’ eyes. The government should go.

JONATHAN JONES

http://www.tomhunter.org/a-palace-for-us/

All of the events are FREE, but space is available on a first come first served basis. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
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marty21 said:
talking of pubs - has anyone been to the Farr's Dancing School (I think it's called) the Antic pub in Dalston - landlady of the Clapton Hart has just gone there, she is a top lass (She's from Sheffield so it's ok to say that :hmm:)
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i have been past it and i would not go in it. there was, for one thing, no dancing.
 
marty21 said:
talking of pubs - has anyone been to the Farr's Dancing School (I think it's called) the Antic pub in Dalston - landlady of the Clapton Hart has just gone there, she is a top lass (She's from Sheffield so it's ok to say that :hmm:)
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I've been there once - when drunk after being somewhere else - but I wouldn't go back (unless I was drunk after being somewhere else).
 
Did a walk yesterday from Hackney Downs to Enfield Lock along the canal. Lots of bits of Hackney I'd never seen before :oops:, including my friend's allotment and the beam pump museum (must go back when they've a head of steam up). Bits further north weren't so nice but really strange to be in London and for it all to be so quiet (especially the bit north of Tottenham where there're massive roads nearby but you see pretty much no-one on the towpath). We were contemplating continuing to Waltham Abbey but seemed easier just to jump on the train back to Hackney. Next time, may start at Enfield Lock and head north from there...
 
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