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Hackney chitter-chatter &tc
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Fozzie Bear
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Clapton Hart is closing in just over a week, for a month for a refit, they will be putting in a new kitchen, expanding the size of the bar , & changing the garden area. The new manager, George , used to work at the Billet . The new owners used to own the Billet (they were silent partners of Michael who was the main owner) . They want to attract folk from the Billet #pubwars
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Starry Wisdom
That must have been a hell of a party
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Funnily enough, the day of the demolition was a bit of a party. We'd been decanted, mostly into the nearby newbuilds on Holly Street but got evacuated to a nearby school the day three of the four tower blocks were to come down. The council had food, drink, musicians, magicians and other entrtainment, as well as bouncy castles laid on for us. Fair play to the council, we were well catered for. My oldest lad, now in his early 30s, was a toddler in a pushchair back then, and when the blocks came down he burst into tears. I was very sad too. I remember getting annoyed with some posh twat nearby, telling his kids to look at the "horrible old flats coming down". I didn't say anything as he was with his kids, but I was thinking that was our fucking home, you dick.
Fozzie Bear
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Beyond The Airwaves: exploring the legendary pirate radio stations of Hackney
Image taken from “Pirate pics from the past” page on the Beyond The Airwaves site Pirate radio was all over Hackney in the eighties and nineties. Aerials illegally placed on tower block…
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I think I went to the demolition , there was a time when there was regular demolitions, went to maybe 6 of them ?
Fozzie Bear
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Did anyone get one of these amazing t-shirts though?
Fozzie Bear
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A lovely bit of direct action from 1973:
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Tenants blockade Balls Pond Road (1973)
Lollipop Lady Mrs Hubbard In 1973 a “lollipop lady” working on Balls Pond Road was knocked down by a passing vehicle. Kerridge and Hawthorne Tenants Association protested about the inci…
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
sadly I missed those
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Update on the attempted phone theft I helped to foil a few months ago, Police called me last week and said they had not been able to arrest anyone (no surprise there tbf) but that the victim wanted to thank me, so they gave me his details - I rang him, he was very pleased to hear from me, offered to buy me some trousers (they were ripped in the incident, but I got them repaired) and he insisted on sending me a gift so I gave him my address. He's about 70, and runs orchestras, used to play in them as well. Very sweet gesture from him - he also rang the others who got involved at the time.
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Fozzie Bear
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Here is the latest on HMP Mossbourne and the awful treatment of the children there.
www.theguardian.com
Teachers at top academy in Hackney ‘screamed at’ and humiliated pupils, say angry parents
Mossbourne academy accused of bullying and damaging children’s mental health as local authority asked to step in
I've met quite a few people locally who won't sent their kids to Mossbourne or Petchey amd that was before this (and the Child X) stuff.Here is the latest on HMP Mossbourne and the awful treatment of the children there.
Teachers at top academy in Hackney ‘screamed at’ and humiliated pupils, say angry parents
Mossbourne academy accused of bullying and damaging children’s mental health as local authority asked to step in
(I see Petchey became Exelsior or some such nonsense recently.
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Fozzie Bear
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Same, but they seem to have an enduring appeal to parents who are worried that their kids might go off the rails, or who come from errrrrr more "traditional" cultures in terms of strictness...I've met quite a few people locally who won't sent their kids to Mossbourne or Petchey amd that was before this (and the Child X) stuff.
(I see Petchey became Exelsior or some such nonsense recently.
There are a few black parents who are scared their sons will end up in gangs and all sorts and I guess that isn't unwarranted. But I dunno if Mossbourne is a solution- presumably it could fuel teenage rebellion too. Or give kids and appetite for sadism, I dunno.
We went to the Petchey open day when looking at secondaries and the speech from the head teacher was one of the worst presentations I have ever seen - incredibly long and rambling. And included the bizarre claim that the lunches were so good there that she didn't need an evening meal when she got home.
Fozzie Bear
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I think we can all take a guess why Petchey aligned itself with a new uber-academy body and changed its name.
It was certainly done extremely quietly. I walk past it every day and not sure when exactly it changed or how long I took to notice it.
(Assume it was down to the bad publicity round Child X..?)
Fozzie Bear
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Well the school involved with the Child Q thing was never named in the press, so that would be wild and possibly unfair speculation of course. Although people do know, of course.
But there were other Hackney schools like Tyssen that were renamed in recent years because the pupils and parents weren't happy about them being named after slave traders and that had a bit more coverage in the local press...
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